Lionel Shriver Interview

[martinezgerard]

I laughed hard at 3:17 where the video cuts away to the flowers outside while Shriver is talking, as if she is too boring to listen to! It's a bad cut!

[shabadingdongrose]

nice shot of the flowers??

[pennydesouza]

Lionel Shriver is really hot.

The interviewer is awful though!?!

[serendipityify]

@pennydesouza creep

[pennydesouza]

@serendipityify Why does finding another human being attractive make me a creep?

I also think it is difficult to achieve 'creep' status as a 25-year-old girl.

[serendipityify]

@pennydesouza Ultimate creep.

[pennydesouza]

@serendipityify Then by your standards all humans are creeps! Jeez.

[sparkyinbath]

How do such idiots get jobs interviewing such intelligent people.

[bammybams]

this is a pretty good interview, i do agree though, the woman interviewing is pretty fake, like she doesn't actually give a crap and she hasn't read the book. ha.

[Noodlehorn]

Everyone should really listen to the BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour audio version of We Need To Talk About Kevin. It is awesome. I don't think you can actually get it from the BBC site now, but you can download it.....if you know where to go. It is in about 10 parts and each is about 13mins long.

You can hear Kevin talk!

[sarahplum87]

Lionel Shriver seems cool.... the woman interviewing her is so fake though. 

[MandaOwl]

It's one of the most interesting books I have ever read. It's dark, it's complicated and it's obesessive. I think it really shows what books and writing really are for; showing things that nobody talks about, and lets us discover other people that aren't like us.

[teuborella]

We need to talk about Kevin, the best book who I read... Perfect. (Tadeu Borella, Brazil)

[sundada34]

fuck this book this book is so borring this bitch eva need to get a life and she needst to learn that frankling tdoesnt love u bitch and ur son is a demon fuck this book the only reason i read it it was because i had to for my english class

[jbjaguar]

You probably didn't understand it, if your writing is anything to go by.

[MandaOwl]

You really didn't get the point of the book, did you..?

[kariannh]

frankling? :)

English isn't really your strongest subject in school is it?

Try starting with "Anne and Barry"

[BenjiMan200]

Please don't assume Sundada34 is the voice of all teenagers who read this novel, I myself am a teenager and I thought We Need to Talk Kevin and thought it was marvellous, disturbing and harrowing, but marvellous nonetheless.

[Al4338]

@kariannh Anne and Barry!! Only someone who went to primary school in Ireland in the early 90s would get that reference!

[MissEmmaDwyer]

@Al4338 Excuse me, i went to an Irish primary school in the early 90's, and I do believe the alphabet began with Annie Apple, Bouncing Ben and so forth..

Anne and Barry my eye! :P

[Al4338]

@MissEmmaDwyer No, you're a bit younger than me. I meant 1989-1992ish whereas you really mean 92-95. You young 'uns!

[sundada34]

fuck this book this shit is really boring that bitch eva needs to learn that frankling doesnt love you bitch and ur son is a demon fuck this book

[jbjaguar]

Surprised to are reading it at all. Its not realyl suitable for 12 year olds.

[cedarjet707]

Finished Kevin today, and like Cormac McCarthy's The Road, I would really categorise it as 'horror' - The Road is about a father and son (aged ~10), about ~10 years after The Apocalypse, where everyone is dead except a few cannibals and ash rains out of the sky; and Kevin is a horrific spiral of a family coming apart ending in mass murder. Both are literary triumphs and by every standard, great books - but with Stephen King's name on the cover, there would be no mistaking their true genre.

[hhhannahhh]

I loved the book, really enjoyed it

[littlest99]

Nice to see and hear the writer. Good interview, interesting answers.

[millybliss]

amazing book.

[Jayde2X8]

I reeeeally reeeeeeeeally don't like We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Not one bit.

[jayeevee]

A great book - ya gotta read it. surely soon to be a film???

[krYptIkVz917]

il miglior libro che io abbia mai letto

[ReekingRose]

does anyone know how to contact her?

her email perhaps?

[ikvoria]

that interviewer is one of the most awkward people i've ever seen. painful to watch.

[9enam8]

i've read Kevin and Double Fault (its available now in the UK) and they are both fantastic. Although dark, fascinating, gripping, ironic, and tortuous are more accurate! it's a little strange that she is called Lionel...but i'd recommend both books. Kevin is by far my favourite book of the last few years. Lol also she is b*tch-slapp*ng that interviewer. :S

[iluvmanu123]

She was born Margaret Ann, but changed her name when she was 15

[Netalies]

"We Need to talk about Kevin" is one of the best novelles I read in the past years. indeed, it's dark and not easy at all to read (because of the subject, the writing itself is fluent and most interesting). but it's so well writen and so intellegent that I just can't help recommending it.