Sara's Reviews > A Pint of Plain: Tradition, Change, and the Fate of the Irish Pub

DNF: when I realized I was speed reading just to get through it I decided to stop. This man is insufferable. He tries to set himself apart from other riff raft tourists while doing exactly the same thing they are, namely trying to find an ‘authentic’ pub aka a pub that’s meets my imagined ideal from all the hundred year old descriptions I’ve read in literature of pub life. He’s searching for a museum piece and seems utterly uninterested in contemporary reality and completely not self aware of his own ridiculous tourist yearnings bc of course he can pepper his writing with Irish turns of phrase so clearly he is far superior - ah! So annoying. On top of that all the anecdotes are boring and the chapter where I stopped reading it seems like he was lamenting drunk driving laws bc of their role in the demise of country pubs. Seriously? Sorry Ireland is not drunk, depressed, and run down enough for you Bill.