I just bought a Michael Connelly and a John Grisham book for my holidays.
Where are you off to on the holiday, the past?
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Apparently so, yes. It’s very rustic.
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Leitrim?
You called….
This seems like it would be a great read
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This is a very very good book. Easily the best book I have read this year and probably for a number of years. Not just the subject matter - which is compelling - but also the way it is written and laid out.
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I’ve just ordered it based on your recommendation
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I hope you are not disappointed
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Ill give it a go too.
In truth there’s not many recommendations on here I’ve actually enjoyed (or finished)
I’ll post it to you if you like. I don’t keep books anymore so it’ll be you or the charity shop.
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I’ve just bought it.
Thanks very much for your very kind offer though. I appreciate it greatly.
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Anyone else want the book?
I’m greatly enjoying it @Fagan_ODowd
It should be a stark lesson to all just how quickly the world’s most inclusive and open democracy could be subverted legally to a dictatorship. Six months.
There are alarming shades of the current UK govt.
It’s interesting and informative.
I’ll get it for a few people for the Christmas.
I’m looking forward to the Christmas.
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Great to hear. Books are a very personal taste and I’m slow to recommend them to people so I’m glad this one worked out.
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I’m currently reading this from Declan O’Rourke
It’s no surprise to me that he’s a very fine writer, and while I obviously don’t know what it was like, as a semi fictional account of the realities of life for various social strata during the famine it’s probably as good as I’ve ever read, a tough read emotionally but a fine book
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Read the 2 sample chapters of the book “Scally”, about football hooligans. Shite.
It was a really good book. Shocking and informative in equal measure.
Not a great advert for humanity as a whole.
The speed of the whole thing is mental.
If the Nazis took over after the credit crunch, they’d have dismantled the most open and fair democracy in the world, started and lost a world war, committing mass slaughter and genocide by now.
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It didn’t take you long to finish it.
It takes me ages to finish books now - mainly because I find it hard to set time aside to read each day. It’s times like this you miss the daily commute.
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