Books

[lurganblue]

on recommendation from this thread (i think), i've got a couple of Discword novels to start reading.  Think i'm gonna start with Reaper Man because of the whole halloween craic.  Hoping its gonna be good.

[muppet]

how does a dog write a book

Ask Hound.

[5 Sams]

Just finished John Daly's book "My Life in and out of the Rough".

Great read and only £2 in Bargain Books.

He has had some life to date.....2 majors before he was 30, 4 wives, blew millions in casinos, nearly killed himself on the Jack Daniels.....he doesnt do things by half.

[Puckoon]

Just re-read fantastic Mr FOX ahead of the movie release date.

Still as good as ever - just a shame it only takes a week to finish it now compared to the 3 weeks as a chisler.

[redhugh]

Just about to finnish Moby Dick,hard enough work but well worth it.About 20 pages in I was asking myself why I'd never read it before- classic.

[The Iceman]

Flags of Our Fathers
Best War book i have ever read.  27000 marines die to kill 22000 Japanese holed up in one maze of tunnels on a volcanic island that is Iwo Jima.
Must read!

[Zapatista]

Just finished 'Lord of the Flies'. I wasn't to keen on the start of if but about half way through it started to heat up and I loved it.

[ONeill]

Half way through a book that is a tremendous read for anyone with an interest in the rural Irish lifestyle circa 1800-1930. A fella called Charles McGlinchey told his life story to a headmaster, Patrick Kavanagh, over the 1940s and 1950s. Kavanagh wrote it down but nothing was done with it. Kavanagh's son came across the documents and passed then on to Brian Friel who edited them and produced 'The Last of The Name'.

A true-life jaw-dropping account of life in Ireland in Donegal in the 1800s.

[The Iceman]

Good call O'Neill. I just found it there on a site I use to track books to read and that I have read etc. (www.goodreads.com) It has gotten rave reviews already. 
If you liked them you might like "Ireland" or "tipperary" by Frank Delaney

[Tony Baloney]

Half way through a book that is a tremendous read for anyone with an interest in the rural Irish lifestyle circa 1800-1930. A fella called Charles McGlinchey told his life story to a headmaster, Patrick Kavanagh, over the 1940s and 1950s. Kavanagh wrote it down but nothing was done with it. Kavanagh's son came across the documents and passed then on to Brian Friel who edited them and produced 'The Last of The Name'.

A true-life jaw-dropping account of life in Ireland in Donegal in the 1800s.

Has it changed?

[ONeill]

I'd say it has. The practice of rape-marriages was astounding.

[ONeill]

Good call O'Neill. I just found it there on a site I use to track books to read and that I have read etc. (www.goodreads.com) It has gotten rave reviews already. 
If you liked them you might like "Ireland" or "tipperary" by Frank Delaney

Read more today - it's possibly the best real-life account I've set eyes on. Short enough (bout 150 pages) but tremendous detail of the simple life.

[Tony Baloney]

Good call O'Neill. I just found it there on a site I use to track books to read and that I have read etc. (www.goodreads.com) It has gotten rave reviews already. 
If you liked them you might like "Ireland" or "tipperary" by Frank Delaney

Read more today - it's possibly the best real-life account I've set eyes on. Short enough (bout 150 pages) but tremendous detail of the simple life.

Stories like that have been lost. An entire village lies deserted in N. Antrim where my granny grew up and I believe she was the last surviving person from there when she died a few years back. Stories from that area were never committed to paper and I'm sure only my uncle knows the names of the various small townlands in the area. When he goes that's it.

[Hurler on the Bitch]

Soldiers of Folly - The IRA Border Campaign 1956-1962.

Jaw-dropping romanticism and right-wing attitudes to the freedom of Ireland. 

[Aerlik]

Can anyone tell me the full name of a book i read in school about life on the Blaskets in the early years of the last century...20 years a growing...or something like that?  Was written by Maurice o'Sullivan?  I'd love to read it again.  Thanks.

I'm reading "spies among us" by Ira Winkler.  Great stuff.  I've also got "turlough" on the go (albeit slowly) by Brian Keenan.