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*At Swim-Two-Birds *is good, if a bit relentless. How are you on Gaelic myth? The rest of his novels are gently disapointing - flashes of greatness, but not sustained I fear. *The Dalkey Archive *is tragic, a re-writing of TTP (which was originally rejected, and wasn't publsihed in his lifetime) he did late in life and it is poor. The Poor Mouth, originally in Gaelic, is probably amazing in that language, and is still fun in English (there's a fine trans. by Patrick Power). Having said that everything he wrote is very very good, and even bad Flann is better than much.
But for perfect bedtime dipping into you can't beat extracts from 'Cruiskeen Lawn', the daily column he wrote for the Irish Times for thirty years or so as 'Myles na gCopaleen'. Get *The Best of Myles, *or Further Cuttings From Cruiskeen Lawn, edited by his brother. They're bibliographically shonky, but the easiest way to get hold of this stuff.