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Post Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:48 am

The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell.
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Post Tue Jan 17, 2006 9:14 am

Keane the biography
It's not the creed nor nationality that counts, it's the man himself
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Post Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:08 am

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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:


Yeah I read that too and enjoyed it. Nice to see Nicky's a Utd fan!
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Post Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:12 pm

just started hangmans Beach by thomas h. raddall
Life has often tried to stretch me
But the rope always went slack
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Post Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:49 pm

I just finished A Secret histoy of the I.R.A by a one Ed Moloney.

To further disgrace my abhorent spelling and punctuation, a book entitled Eats,shoots and leaves. (the author's name escapes me). It's a hilarious book of about all things proper punctuation and grammar.
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Post Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:56 am

Paulie wrote:I just finished A Secret histoy of the I.R.A by a one Ed Moloney.


read that book this past summer, very informative account of the IRA, how do you enjoy it??
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Post Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:53 am

I had really enjoyed it. I thought it was fairly non-partisan as far as the power struggles. It read like a text book however and I secretly enjoyed that I think.I felt it thrilling that they published some of the things that were up till then yet unpublished (the constitution,etc) It kinda put me on the lookout for a historical American account/view of the gun-running and money funnel from here. I thought it highly interesting that Adams ended up doing the very thing that was the cause of so much internal unrest in the late 60s early 70s and accomplished something with it in the late 90s.Makes me wanna go play chess.What was your thoughts on the book?
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Post Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:23 pm

Just finished Ken Bruen's Vixen
Just started Tim Harford's Undercover Economist

Scored way too much reading material @ Easons in December.
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Post Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:54 am

i have like, 10 books laying around which i read from when i feel like it (which isn't so much 'cause i'm in school right now). i just got penny rimbaud's "the diamond signature/the death of imagination"
"I don't want to change the world
Just my own
But sometimes I feel so alone"
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Post Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:29 pm

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Post Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:37 pm

i just bought Patrick McCabes "Call me the Breeze"--hope to start on that one in a few days. anyone read that one yet?
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Post Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:41 am

I'm reading 'Labyrinth' by Kate Mosse.
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Post Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:46 am

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?


I loved: After the wake!

currently reading: Cash, the autobiography (3th time)
Dear boy: the life of keith moon by tony fletcher

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Post Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:37 am

today i bought a very silly laugh-out-loud book called '1966 and all that' by Private Eye journalist Craig Brown. Synopsis: 'All the modern history that you can't remember, narrated in a way you can't begin to understand'.
Lots of bad puns and send-ups about stuff like the Serviette Union, Samuel Pepys Dairy & Acker Bilko (the bowler hatted American sergeant thrilled TV audiences with his outrageous humour & haunting clarinet).
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Post Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:12 am

Finally finished Teacher Man.
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