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I found this book at the public library and loved it so much, I bought the trilogy. And devoured them. Joseph Caldwell is a talented author, and, guess what, he has a fantastic command of English. I read this book and the following two with much relish, as entertained by the story as I was by the author's ability to communicate. What a joy to read! One of those series of books you wish would never end.


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The Pig Did It Joseph Caldwell 9781883285296 Books Reviews

A very odd and almost pointless story. Hard to tell what was real and what was imagined. I will not read the rest of the trilogy.
Respected readerly friends recommended "The Pig Did It" by Joseph Caldwell. I'm halfway through it and having the finest old time you can imagine. The dialogue, repartee, Irish lilt and la in the language combined with the beautifully invoked setting is marvelous. Loving this book.

Here's the first paragraph

"Aaron McCloud had come to Ireland, to County Kerry, to the shores of the Western Sea, so he could, in solitary majesty, feel sorry for himself. The domesticated hills would be his comfort, the implacable sea his witness. Soon he would arrive at the house of his aunt, high on a headland fronting the west, and his anguish could begin in earnest."

I'm having such fun so.
This book is so much fun to someone with the quirky sense of the absurd. What the pig did was to dig up a skeleton from Aunt Kitty's cabbages. What follows is how these crazy characters deal with the find. It's enough to interfere with Aaron's attempts to get away to properly feel self pity for the romance that never was and to change the course of a historic feud. The macabre zaniness that marks Arsenic and Old Lace is the beginning of the silliness and absurdity of The Pig Did It. It was great fun to read with my husband on our drives. We are excited to continue with the rest of the trilogy. Just know that the pig only starts the trouble; everyone else just makes it worse. We have it on .
A fun book, but I almost abandoned it in disgust in the second chapter. He kept saying that his aunt's mother was his great-aunt. That is impossible. His aunt's mother would be his grandmother.
This book carries on the tradition of great pigs in literature. But which other tales had a pig that was able to bring two warring people together, or a pig that helps uncover dead bodies? This tale, set in a small village in County Kerry, Ireland, this wonderful novel revolves around the lives of five main characters Aaron, a writer who has returned to Ireland from the States his aunt Kitty, also a writer, but of very unusual tales which are so funny I don't want to give anything away by telling you about them. Then there is Lolly, a local sheep herder who catches Aaron's eye; Sweeney, a local trades person, and sworn enemy of all-things Kitty; then there is the pig, who at times seems to know the destiny of each character. Well, there is also the skeleton....but that is a different story. Anyway, this is a wonderful, rich, big-hearted, funny Irish tale. I am DELIGHTED that there are two more books in the series, because the pig is too big a character for just one book.
My book club's selection for February, this little novel (if it can be called such) captures the romantic & poetic character of the Irish and presents it as a delicious relic that co-exists only uneasily with the sterility of the modern world (which is represented only through the memories of the Irish-American protagonist's life in New York). The portrayal is satirical, yes, but affectionate as well. Whether to story will give the reader a belly-laugh or a bellyache depends largely upon the individual's sympathy for the romantic temperament of its Irish characters, the capacity to follow a narrative that makes frequent and unannounced swerves between the protagonist's interior fantasies and the external action, and the ability to distinguish between the two. Don't be deceived into thinking this is a murder mystery -- although a dead man lies at the center of the tale, the story is not about discovering his murderer (it seems that everybody claims to have done it, and none of them is to be believed). The circumstances of the dead man's demise are almost entirely beside the point.
Laugh-out-loud funny, quirky and more than a little strange, The Pig Did It is definitely worth your time. Some characters are introduced then dropped, but since this is volume 1 of a trilogy they may return in the later volumes. I got Volume 1 as a reduced price special, but then I found the subsequent volumes are full price. I would recommend buying the trilogy instead and saving $10 or more over the single book price. That being said, I did enjoy it and recommend it. [Why would someone punish an author with a bad review because of problems with their kindle?]
I found this book at the public library and loved it so much, I bought the trilogy. And devoured them. Joseph Caldwell is a talented author, and, guess what, he has a fantastic command of English. I read this book and the following two with much relish, as entertained by the story as I was by the author's ability to communicate. What a joy to read! One of those series of books you wish would never end.