What book are you reading?

**Sun Nov 12, 2006 2:42 pm**

Shaz wrote:Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (no, not that one!) It's fairly dire, and I'd have chucked it aside long ago if it wasn't for the fact I have to review the damn thing. I blame Dan Brown for all these Da Vinci Code copyists (and don't even get me started on the DVC!)

I read that some time back, there seems to be a run of Da Vinci Code type ones. I've decided personally not to read any more.

**Mon Nov 13, 2006 12:49 pm**

philipchevron wrote:...But is that really in the book? Jesus, if I'd known it was going to be my only claim to fame in future years I'd've studied harder instead of gallivanting around with the pop music.

Well, I've finished it Sensei. The Planxty school gig is NOT mentioned in Leagues' tome, however your songwriting skills vis-a-vis the early Moving Hearts repertoire ARE mentioned.

**Mon Nov 13, 2006 12:52 pm**

Fintan wrote:
philipchevron wrote:...But is that really in the book? Jesus, if I'd known it was going to be my only claim to fame in future years I'd've studied harder instead of gallivanting around with the pop music.

Well, I've finished it Sensei. The Planxty school gig is NOT mentioned in Leagues' tome, however your songwriting skills vis-a-vis the early Moving Hearts repertoire ARE mentioned.

I call that Progress.

**Mon Nov 13, 2006 12:57 pm**

philipchevron wrote:I call that Progress.

It was a nice read too. To quote:

p.290

"... On their self-titled debut album, Moving Hearts spoke with a free poetry, with the songs of Philip Chevron, Joe Gibbs, Jim Page, Jack Warshaw and Jackson Browne. The songs are universal protest songs and Irish songs that lamented a bloody, brooding history, yet also celebrate the common people who struggled, fought and evolved throughout..."

**Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:29 pm**

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. I'm dipping my toe into the graphic novel (not as in sex and violence!) market.

**Thu Nov 16, 2006 8:24 am**

from gangland to promised land, by jon pridmore

**Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:00 am**

Just finished:
Hunters Of Dune - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson. Cracking. Can't wait for the next one...

oh, and I polished off

Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett last week as well. As always a beautiful and moving, yet simultaneously side-splittingly funny work. A tour-de-farce as always.

**Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:42 am**

"League of extraordinary Gentlemen - Vol. II" - I know, I know, it's a comic book - but I still enjoy it.

**Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:54 am**

Gåtornas Palats - Dan Brown (Don´t know the english title)

**Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:57 am**

Johan From Sweden wrote:Gåtornas Palats - Dan Brown (Don´t know the english title)

Digital Fortress? I think...

**Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:16 pm**

Fintan wrote:
Johan From Sweden wrote:Gåtornas Palats - Dan Brown (Don´t know the english title)

Digital Fortress? I think...

yes

"Crypto" in italian :lol:

**Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:15 pm**

left wrote:
Fintan wrote:
Johan From Sweden wrote:Gåtornas Palats - Dan Brown (Don´t know the english title)

Digital Fortress? I think...

yes "Crypto" in italian

Thanks Fintan and Left.

Thats the correct Title, now i remember :roll:

I don´t think that Digital Fortress is as good as The rest off his books but i´m just half way thru it yet. Hope it get´s better since i realy love the rest off his books.

Johan

**Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:10 pm**

Not reading it, but heard about it on NPR.

Fish: A Memoir Of A Boy In A Man's Prison
http://www.akpress.org/2006/items/fisha ... mansprison
Sounds difficult...

"ITEM OVERVIEW
When seventeen-year-old T.J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him. When they were through, they flipped a coin to decide who would "own" him. Forced to remain silent about his rape by a convict code among inmates (one in which informers are murdered), Parsell's experience that first night haunted him throughout the rest of his sentence. In an effort to silence the guilt and pain of its victims, the issue of prisoner rape is a story that has not been told. For the first time Parsell, one of America's leading spokespeople for prison reform and current President of Stop Prisoner Rape, shares the story of his coming of age behind bars. He gives voice to countless others who have been exposed to an incarceration system that turns a blind eye to the abuse of the prisoners in its charge. Since life behind bars is so often exploited by television and movie re-enactments, the real story has yet to be told. Fish is the first breakout story to do that."

(related)
Stop Prisoner Rape
http://www.spr.org/

**Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:27 pm**

Pogue Mahone (The Story of The Pogues) - Carol Clerk

Just got it this evening.

**Sat Nov 18, 2006 10:28 am**

Paddy Rolling Clone wrote:Pogue Mahone (The Story of The Pogues) - Carol Clerk

Just got it this evening.

Hope you enjoy it, Paddy.

It's a really good read.

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