Good Books

[anon78624367]

Awful

[flattythehurdler]

Thanks mate. Saved me wasting another bit of my life

[anon78624367]

Read the book. Its brilliant

[flattythehurdler]

I read it when it first came out. Enjoyed it. He won the booker with another book also, Oscar and Lucinda maybe recalling from my dim memory. Meh.

[maroonandwhite]

Good to know. Ill rade the buke

[Crutches]

Any recommendations for books on Irish history which deals with home rule up to declaration of the Republic?

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Crutches

Any recommendations for books on Irish history which deals with home rule up to declaration of the Republic?

The fatal path Ronan Fanning

[tallback]

@binkybarnes

Half way through “Where the crawdads sing”. Brilliant stuff. Part Coming of age story, part murder mystery and part ode to nature. I’m not sure if it’s because I am a little emotionally overwrought in the current climate but this book is moving me greatly.

How did you find it having read it all?

I thought it started superbly and the language etc was great but I thought it became a bit cliched and rom-com towards the end

cc @backinatracksuit

[binkybarnes]

@tallback

How did you find it having read it all?

I thought it started superbly and the language etc was great but I thought it became a bit cliched and rom-com towards the end

cc @backinatracksuit

Yeah. Id agree with that. Second half was not as good as the first half. Overall I still really enjoyed it though

[backinatracksuit]

I loved it, listened to it on audible so don’t know if that makes a difference
The Nickel boys is another really good recent book, not sure if I mentioned it here before.

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

Reading this at the moment - very enjoyable read. Covid 19 not withstanding we don’t know we are born compared to what life was like four or five generations ago.

The Ghost Map

[flattythehurdler]

He found the cholera pump, or typhoid or somesuch and smashed it with a sledge iirc?

[backinatracksuit]

@flattythehurdler

I read The Underground Railroad recently. I found it extremely grim, but the analogy/allegory was a bit clunky and predictable, and it fell short of the classic book it threatened to be at times. Humans are a thoroughly unpleasant species by and large.
I’ll start the new Michael Connolly book later.

I’m about two thirds way through this at the moment and I think it’s an incredible piece of work, I also enjoyed his recent book ‘The Nickel Boys’

I admit to knowing very little about the Underground Railroad but I’m planning on rectifying that’s soon, an incredible operation, but the book, my God it’s just brilliant

[Fagan_ODowd]

Finished this tonight for the second time. Read it when it came out first in 1993. Not particularly well written but the INLA were some story. Nutters. Many years ago I was woken up by the sound of gunfire due to an assassination attempt on Seamus Costello founder of the IRSP and INLA in Waterford

[Ashman]

Very good read that . Some pretty dangerous hombres in the organisation . The splits were pretty savage . Some ghastly details

[PhattPike]

Gene Kerrigan had a book a good few years back about crime cases and the first chapter was a lengthy one about Dessie O’Hare and the INLA. Unhinged.

[flattythehurdler]

Is it a good read?

[balbec]

It’s in the good books thread pal.

[farmerinthecity]

The INLA was founded in The Spa Hotel in Lucan. I only found out that recently.

[Corksfinedtboy]

Not all nutters, strategist and thinkers first