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No idea why this is on hn, but it's a great book, if you enjoy reading definitely find time for this one

• olddustytrail 3y ago
  No idea either. Alasdair Gray is definitely a great writer. Is it a Hogmanay thing?
  • andyjohnson0 3y ago
    > Alasdair Gray is definitely a great writer. Was, unfortunately. He died in 2019.
• ggm 3y ago
  Because of "poor thing" which he wrote, set in Glasgow. I remember seeing him in the late 80s (puff) at a poetry reading (puff puff) in Balham (puff) where he consumed (puff puff puff) a ventolin inhaler (puff) the entire night. Based on my SOs reasoning (she is also asthmatic) he must have been totally wired, jittery as all hell. It doesn't just stimulate the lung lining.
• somishere 3y ago
  What a mind bend. I picked it up as a foreigner in Glasgow when I found out I was living downstairs from one of AG's friends and also muse / basis for a character in the book. Found myself regularly lost, re-reading large sections of it with different contexts / interpretations each time. Have held onto it the last 16 years and lent it to many. Not too many have finished it!
• wscourge 3y ago
  Hey, kindly explain why does it not belong here? I'm new.