Roddy Doyle

The Commitments is a band with a mission: bringing soul to Dublin. Led by Jimmy Rabitte, a young man with ambition, coached by Joey "The Lips" Fagan, an old man with a trumpet, protected by Mickah Wallace, owner of the most feared forehead in Barrytown. -- Publisher details.

The Commitments

Sian Wadey

The Commitments by Roddy Doyle

First of all, I was not aware that The Commitments was based on a book. It's one of my all time favourite films, I love the characters, the music, the story. So, I was very intrigued to see how Roddy Doyle had written singing. 
It's a thin book, but I really loved it. It carries the same charm as the film and you're left smiling throughout. The dialogue is impeccable, and you can tell that some parts of the book have been put directly into the screenplay.
There were a few reasons I didn't give it five stars. The first is that sometimes, I didn't understand fully what everybody said, and who said it. There are no speech marks and the author has written everything in an Irish accent, which is brilliant but sometimes confusing. The only other problem was the singing. If you didn't know the songs, it was hard to follow them. However, I did go and search for them afterwards.
Brilliant book! Highly recommended.

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Delord-Philippe

Roddy Doyle s'est d'abord fait connaître en France par la publication d'un roman, Paddy Clarke ha ha ha (10/18, n° 2784), récit d'une enfance dublinoise qui lui valut le Booker Prize. Voici maintenant sa fameuse trilogie de Barrytown - The Commitments, The Snapper et The Van -, saga joyeusement animée par les membres de la famille Rabitte que le succès des films d'Alan Parker et de Stephen Frears a déjà rendue célèbre. Pour Robert Louit (Magazine littéraire), " on prendra grand plaisir à découvrir les romans de Doyle, car leur qualité principale tient à ce trait permanent de la littérature irlandaise : un don inépuisable de la conversation qui saisit la première occasion pour surenchérir jusqu'à prendre des proportions épiques. La trilogie de Barrytown, c'est comme une soirée bien arrosée au pub : on s'y croirait, et on en commanderait bien une autre ".

The Commitments

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