Reread this for the first time since I was a teenager. A very good book. A classic perhaps. Better than At Swim Two Birds (possibly one for the unpopular opinions thread).
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I’d guess it’s a book that probably does improve for re-reading and being a bit older.
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At Swim Two Birds is my favourite ever novel.
I thought The Third Policeman wasn’t as good but I can see why folk might think differently,
What a mind to come up with those though!
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Reading a book called Lonesome Dove . It’s about a bunch of cowboys driving a herd of cattle from Texas to Montana in the late 1800s. It’s long but easy reading. Enjoyable so far.
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I’ve read it years ago and about 2 years ago watched a mini-series of it, it may have been on Netflix. Further research indicates it’s on Amazon Prime currently.
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She was a girl on a wagon train
Headed west across the plains
The train got lost in a summer storm
They couldn’t move west and they couldn’t go home
Then she saw him ridin’ through the rain
He took charge of the wagons and he saved the train
And she looked down and her heart was gone
The train went west but she stayed on
In Lonesome Dove
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Took a break from Les Miserable - about 100 pages to go - to read Follett’s Pillars of the Earth. Difficult to from Hugo’s prose to this, but the definition of a historical fiction page turner.
Got it on a £1 Kindle deal a few weeks ago. Still remember the Irish lad getting killed by the snakes in the TV adaptation many years ago 
I’d never heard of it before i started reading bar seeing it on a list of good books of the genre, but now it seems like it’s actually a really well known book with multiple tv versions 
It’s like going to Lourve and telling people you saw this great painting called the Mona Lisa
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I’ve read seven of these.
I was thinking to myself what a thick cunt you must be then I looked at the list 
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Not much better. 13
Good holiday read. Not the best Liz Nugent book I’ve read (Strange Sally Diamond is) but she is very adept at writing main characters who are flawed and in this case downright cuntish.
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I’ve listened to all her books, I wasn’t that gone on Ruby Cooper either but she’s a very good writer of easy fiction
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Just read Stephen Roches autobiography.
Some good stories about his Triple Crown success in 1987.
Overall, the main takeaway I get from the book is Stephen loves himself. The latter part of the book seems to be having digs at his rivals and the modern peleton.
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He’d also argue with himself.
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Reading Tim Parks book “Hero’s Way - Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna”, where he retraces the journeys taken by Garibaldi funnily enough. An enjoyable read.
It would probably be more enjoyable if I were smug and on a rural retreat in Italy, and would nod and say “marvellous” to myself while sipping wine in the evening after each page turn.
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Before heading to the toilette for a good merda…
Not sure what it is like now, but some of those toilets in rural restaurants are lethal. Just a hole in the ground, and two footprint yolks to keep you in place. You would want to have a good aim.