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**Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:02 pm**

AINEEN : I also read two of Malachy McCourts books(Franks brother) "A Monk Swimming" and "Singing my him song"--both which i really didnt enjoy much. his life was much different than Franks here in America

**Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:04 pm**

welsh rover wrote:
Eric V wrote:Borstal Boy -- Behan

moi aussi! A New Year's resolution (again) to be more well read (and seeing as I dreamt I met with him, I thought I'd better read some of his stuff)!

Yeah... believe it or not, I figured if he gave Shane such great advice :wink:

in his sleep, and if Philip has inspired me to dance up and down the streets of New York

, I'd better read some as well. And though I'm only a hundred pages in, it has reminded me what good writing is and why I enjoyed reading so much before my kid was born and I stopped.

**Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:11 pm**

carmens827 wrote:AINEEN : I also read two of Malachy McCourts books(Franks brother) "A Monk Swimming" and "Singing my him song"--both which i really didnt enjoy much. his life was much different than Franks here in America

I find all the McCourts insufferably smug. All the same, everything I've read about Teacher Man suggests that Frank's real vocation was/is as an educator in the realm of Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society, so that looks like it's worth a read.

**Mon Jan 16, 2006 6:24 pm**

Lazarus Syndrome: Burial Alive and Other Horrors of the Undead
aside from pages and pages of medical information its ok.

**Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:39 pm**

DaveG wrote:George Best and 21 others - Colin Schindler

That's a terrific book. I've enjoyed his other books too in spite / because of his United hating. I never thought I'd read and enjoy a book about the Summerbee family :roll:

**Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:28 pm**

Currently reading "Skels " by Maggie Dubris
It a book about a Paramedic in NY . a supriseingly good read.

My brother bought me "Teacher Man " for Christmas so that is likely to be next. (He is a teacher himself ). I have read the two McCourts brothers previous books , but enjoyed Malachys best.

**Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:55 pm**

soulfinger wrote:
DaveG wrote:George Best and 21 others - Colin Schindler

That's a terrific book. I've enjoyed his other books too in spite / because of his United hating. I never thought I'd read and enjoy a book about the Summerbee family

got that one for Christmas - I was initially attracted because of the United hating :wink:

but the second book on the Summerbees is excellent (though shame he didn't have a bit more inside information about Nicky to really bring home the contrast between the generations).

(Up the 'Pool!)

**Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:56 pm**

Eric V wrote:
welsh rover wrote:
Eric V wrote:Borstal Boy -- Behan

moi aussi! A New Year's resolution (again) to be more well read (and seeing as I dreamt I met with him, I thought I'd better read some of his stuff)!

Yeah... believe it or not, I figured if he gave Shane such great advice in his sleep, and if Philip has inspired me to dance up and down the streets of New York , I'd better read some as well. And though I'm only a hundred pages in, it has reminded me what good writing is and why I enjoyed reading so much before my kid was born and I stopped.

I agree that it is very captivating. Do you or anyone else have any recommendations for which Behan work(s) to go on to next?

**Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:52 pm**

Confessions of an Irish Rebel, Welsh Rover. :!:

The Public World of Parable Jones - Dominic Behan

Memoirs of an Irish Troubador - Liam Clancy

**Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:05 pm**

Paddy Rolling Clone wrote:Confessions of an Irish Rebel, Welsh Rover.

The Public World of Parable Jones - Dominic Behan

Memoirs of an Irish Troubador - Liam Clancy

cheers PRC

the sequel that he dictated!

**Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:06 pm**

The Big Fellow - Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution by Frank O'Connor

**Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:28 pm**

carmens827 wrote:AINEEN : I also read two of Malachy McCourts books(Franks brother) "A Monk Swimming" and "Singing my him song"--both which i really didnt enjoy much. his life was much different than Franks here in America

I agree. I read A Monk Swimming, and apart from enjoying the title, I thought the rest was merely riding on his big brother's coat tails.. :roll:

**Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:31 pm**

Now rotating from "The Da Vinci Code," to "Zagat Survey Of Times Square."

**Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:50 pm**

Scoring at Half time by George Best

and

I am about 2/3 of the way throught the Sharpe series of books. Not bad for pulp

**Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:22 pm**

Just finished Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World by Mikhail Gorbachev. This book was interesting, makes you wonder what would have happened if Gorbachevs politics and theories had gotten a chance.

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