Love

Roddy Doyle is amazing. He can write a whole book that consists mostly of dialogue, and still manage to be intersting, funny, and touching. In this book, nothing happens. Two pals are talking, in a pub, in front of a guiness, the way they often do. They talk. That's it, the whole book: two people talking. And yet, it is so vivid you feel like you are in the pub with them, hearing them talk in their irish accents, laughing, telling stories, not remembering how many beer they've had. It is impossible to put down without hearing the whole conversation, and it's genius.