They are both life changing books that get better every time you read them. Don’t read them just the once, you’re life will be incomplete.
Got Matt Cooper’s book today. He got lost half-way through the introduction which doesn’t bode particularly well but introductions can be like that.
He seems to be taking the right approach so I remain optimistic.
I read a great review of John Krakaurs new Book, Where men win glory about Pat Tillman. Has anyone read it?
Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess, good enough read.
Has anyone read “Blood’s a Rover” by James Elroy? Its the sequel/follow up to “American Tabloid” and “The Cold Six Thousand”. Loved the first book, underwhelned by the second one. Hoping this recaptures the first books brilliance.
reading “the terror” at the moment - all francophiles will love it
Brown Gold by Donal Clarke,
A History of Bord na Mona and the Irish Peat
‘Sold! The inside story of how Ireland got bitten by the art bug’ by John Burns is a cracking read. Some really crazy things went on in Irish art over the last 20 years.
Anyone read that Pillars of the Earth that’s been made into a telly series? Fooking awesome book.
Anyone ever heard of the book Trainspotting? I read it recently and enjoyed it very much. I’m now reading the sequel Porno because I liked Trainspotting. I think Porno is better than Trainspotting.
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Yup, it’s a great read alright. Haven’t read the sequel but it’s on the agenda at some stage, think it’s called World Without End and set a couple of hundred years later.
gerry conlon’s book - in the name of the father - any good?
also blanketmen by richie o rawe?
maybe something on the 1913 lockout or james connolly either?
need to get my irish history fix in so recommendations please
Diarmuid Ferriter’s The Transformation Of Ireland: 1900-2000 . Excellent stuff.
Bored so here’s all the books I’ve read since the start of 2009
Who really runs Ireland by Matt Cooper – 3/4 through this, excellent, required reading
Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson – good if you’re into tactics which I found myself becoming less into towards the end and took me ages to finish, it is a good book though
Morbo by Phil Ball – put it down halfway though after the chapter about Barcelona – will come back to it however, quite historical in nature
Irish Apartheid by Sara Burke – about the Irish health service - quite tedious subject matter and don’t really know why I finished it, very tedious towards the end
Ship of Fools by Fintan O’Toole – excellent, recommended
Hand Of God by Jimmy Burns – biography of you know who so I recommend it by definition of its subject matter, good read
The Ginger Man by JP Donleavy – took me a while to finish, writing style is an acquired taste – not as funny as they say
Friday Night Lights by HG Bissinger – cracking book, great insight into small town America and high school football
Hurling the Revolution Years by Denis Walsh – decent but won’t tell many people that much new information
Bad Blood by Jeremy Whittle –decent book about Cycling, drugs, Lance Armstrong and all that
Flat Earth News by Nick Davies – excellent expose into how the media works
The Road by Cormac McCarthy – best read while eating a three year old tin of cold beans you found in the garage – tedious
Forza Italia – reasonable book about Italian football – some good insights into Italian culture
Watching the Door by Kevin Myers – fine page turner and captures the bleakness of the North 1972-1978 – Myers has undeniable cuntish tendencies but he is an excellent writer
Had E60 worth of book tokens lying around last week so picked up the following:
Why England lose – by Stefan Szymanski and Simon Kuper – 65 pages into this, bit too smart for its own good so far
Foul! by Andrew Jennings – about corruption in FIFA – looking forward to reading this
Bad Day in Blackrock by Kevin Power – fiction based on the Anabel’s murder - met this lad a couple of times through friends, and its supposed to be good so thought I might as well get it
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein – topical given the economic climate – wasn’t overly impressed with her book No Logo when I read it seven or eight years back though, got very boring towards the end
The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk – I’ll get back to you in 10 years when I eventually finish this
Have a few other books lying around that I’m tenuously planning to read at some stage
Unlimited Heartbreak – Henry Martin – might leave this until next summer, not that Limerick will still be involved after the first weekend in July
Follow the Money by David McWilliams - anything about decking in this one?
The Dark Heart of Italy- can’t remember the author – Tobias something or other
Anybody read any of these?
Reading great war for civilisation, where would you like to meet up and discuss in ten years did…
‘The Dark Heart Of Italy’ was very good from I remember of it Sid.
I got through that book very quickly purely because of when I bought it. Pity the Nation on the Lebanese civil war is also pretty good, not as good as civilisation though.
Just finished God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens. It was a good read although I found it tough going towards the end. Very witty though and takes religion apart piece by piece. Not as good as The God Delusion but would recommend it nonetheless.
Next on the agenda is Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon. Quite looking forward to it.
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