What book are you reading?

[Mick Molloy]

Just wondering what that is about. I always thought socialism started much later

The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848. The 1840s were when socialist ideas really started to solidify and gain broad exposure throughout Europe. A group in England called the Communist League commissioned the Communist Manifesto, and they were started as an organization of "radical" German emigrees.

Incidentally, red is the color of choice of Communist and Socialist groups, and May Day the holiday, because of Socialist history in, .......of all places, the United States. Yup, we're to blame for providing the holiday and color motiff for our Cold War enemies. The red of the various flags originates from the blood of american workers in Chicago in 1886.

Thanks

[Caukill]

have just seen this on t'innernet but didn't know anything about it , did it actually make it into print?
http://internetmegastores.co.uk/product ... image.html

[MissWalshy]

Still reading..

McCathys Bar!

[Michaelo]

Still reading..

McCathys Bar!

I loved that book. I read In Search Of The Craic by Colin Irwin at around the same time and really enjoyed both.

[MissWalshy]

I'm in the middle and I've kinda stopped. Not sure if thats a good sign.

They say if you like that book you'll like around Ireland with a fridge (not sure who its wrote by)

[Michaelo]

I'm in the middle and I've kinda stopped. Not sure if thats a good sign.

They say if you like that book you'll like around Ireland with a fridge (not sure who its wrote by)

I stopped Round Ireland With A Fridge when I got half way through! I didn't think it was that funny. Another one I did enjoy was Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive? by Tim Bradford.

[MissWalshy]

Who was it that wrote Around Ireland With a Fridge? He writes another, playing the maldovians at tennis or something similar.. Is that worth a try?

i like your style of reading Michaelo.. be sure to update this thread of what your reading... Cheers

[Christine]

Caukill, I think that's the book that eventually came out as A Drink With... It was advertised a couple of times before but then changed.

I just started Joseph O'Connor, The Star of the Sea, has a good beginning.

[Michaelo]

Thanks MissWalshy. Will do.
Round Ireland... was written by Tony Hawks. As well as Playing The Moldovans At Tennis, he did another one about trying to get a hit single in Europe, which was called One Hit Wonderland or something similar. I've not read any of the others though.

In Search Of The Craic is the book I recommend- it's a journey round Ireland searching for Irish music sessions. It's the only book I know that has a list of albums in the back called the "recommended soundtrack", to listen to while you read it!

[MissWalshy]

Wayhey that sounds good..

Really good infact. Thanks a million.

[Eckhard]

I have to admit that I just finished the third Harry Potter

For years I decided to ignore it. Than my 18year old intern that I convinced of the greatness of the Pogues' oeuvre gave me the first Potter book. I read it and to my own surprise liked it.

[Tiny Tartanella]

Thanks MissWalshy. Will do.
Round Ireland... was written by Tony Hawks. As well as Playing The Moldovans At Tennis, he did another one about trying to get a hit single in Europe, which was called One Hit Wonderland or something similar. I've not read any of the others though.

In Search Of The Craic is the book I recommend- it's a journey round Ireland searching for Irish music sessions. It's the only book I know that has a list of albums in the back called the "recommended soundtrack", to listen to while you read it!

Am in the middle of reading this book at the mo, and it has made me laugh out loud a few times, There is a lot of great stories about Shane and the rest of the boys. I love the fact he thinks Shane is a genius, way ahead of Elvis, Sinatra etc.... I always thought that, but thought no one else did

[TheJackOfHearts]

Got done with a bio ofNapoleon. Now I am working on "On The Road" Jack Kerouac

[firehazard]

"On The Road" Jack Kerouac

Great book, JackOfHearts. Everyone should read it.

[Aineen]

Just finished Teacher Man, and while I adore Mr. McCourt, I was just as disappointed in this book as I was with 'Tis... Perhaps Angela's Ashes is just too great a novel to compete with. (Although I did enjoy the parts of the book where he taught in Seward Park Annex since I went there right about that time, and Stuyvesant High School was just two blocks from my apartment, so area references were very familiar...)