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Books you've read or are reading

Discussion in 'TC Media' started by Kayal, May 28, 2011.

Discuss Books you've read or are reading in the TC Media area at TalkCeltic.net.

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  1. eire4

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    Recently finished a re read of Tim Pat Coogan's The IRA.
     
    eire4, Sep 17, 2013
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  2. Buster Gold Member Gold Member

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    Reading Jim Baxter's book cos l got it free with the paper a few months back. A talented player who threw it all away and * a lot of people off with his drinking and off field behaviour.
     
    Buster, Sep 17, 2013
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    Currently re-reading child 44. Will then re-read the secret speech & then try to get a copy of agent 6
     
    oxfordcelt, Sep 17, 2013
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  4. Vinnie BBQ Justice is lost Justice is raped Justice is gone.

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    Vinnie BBQ, Sep 17, 2013
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    Reading 2 books at the mo..Stalingrad and Phill Mac's Downfall which i decided to start tonight.
     
    Joemcl, Sep 17, 2013
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  6. md1981

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    Last few have been good:

    Maajid Nawaz - Radical. Brilliant. True story about a him growing up in Essex, being subjected to institutionalised racism and becoming a leader in Hizb ut-Tahrir - a Islamist party. He goes to Egypt where the party is banned, get imprisoned in Mubareks jails and eventually realises what he has gave up to achieve his "goal". He renounces his beliefs and starts up an global anti-Islamist thinktank. Couldn't put it down.

    Miguel De Cervantes - Don Quixote. Classic

    Machiavelli - The Prince.


    Reading 'The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime' just now. Enjoying it. It's about a 15 y.o boy with Aspergers/Autism who finds out his neighbours dog has been killed and starts to investigate why. It's written from his point of view, detailing his condition etc. It's quite an interesting way of writing.
     
    md1981, Sep 18, 2013
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  7. KRS-1888 Scott La Rock

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    Get yourselves over to Calton Books next time you're at a home game or in Glasgow :50:
     
    KRS-1888, Sep 18, 2013
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  8. StPauli1916 Gold Member Gold Member

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    Just read. The Greatest Traitor. The secret lives of George Blake. Enjoyed that a good read.
    Also just read Running with the firm by James Bannon about copper who went undercover as a Millwall Bushwacker in the late 80's and The Brothers Bulger about Whitey and Billy Bulger.
     
    StPauli1916, Sep 18, 2013
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    Read that years ago. I really enjoyed it as a novel, but I have to say, having Asperger's myself, I found the central character a bit of a one-dimensional stereotype. It's a good read, but it shouldn't be regarded as a definitive cultural reference point on people with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (as it and 'Rain Man' sometimes are portrayed to be).
     
    martin_d, Sep 18, 2013
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  10. AnnoniOnAnawNoo

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    Just finished reading this, really enjoyed it. It sat in my drawer for ages totally forgot I had started it then when I re-discovered it I blasted the last 2 hundred pages in a day and a half.

    Seriously recommend James Beckers "Chris Bronson" series (of which this is the latest).
     
    AnnoniOnAnawNoo, Sep 18, 2013
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  11. md1981

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    Completely agree. I'm enjoying as a novel, but I know what you mean about the main character. My little cousin has autism and while I can see similar traits, it in no way truely reflective of someone who has aspergers or autism and shouldn't be used as reading material on the subject. I think that's why the author doesn't directly say that Christopher is on the Autistic Spectrum. The descriptions of Christophers inner state are only there to drive the novel forward, not to represent the autisic mind.

    Enjoyable as a novel, but in no way should be used as a definitive guide to understand Autism or Aspergers.
     
    md1981, Sep 18, 2013
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  12. MacEwan MV3 Gold Member

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    I only really read autobiographies, but right now I'm reading Karl Pilkingtons latest... hilarious.
     
    MacEwan, Sep 21, 2013
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    Boy - Roald Dahl

    Somehow i never read this when i was younger. It's an autobiography.
     
    muffitO'tea, Sep 21, 2013
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  14. Bonobhoy

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    scary book:

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    Bonobhoy, Sep 21, 2013
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  15. eire4

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    Finished a re read of Tim Pat Coogan's book The Troubles. Really good chronology of the 1966-96 period in the 6 counties. Some interesting anecdotes as well from Coogan involving some of the major players on both sides.
     
    eire4, Sep 23, 2013
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    I have just been given "I Have America Surrounded" & "The Psychedelic Experience" By Timothy Leary. Going to get blasted into them. Not read a book in about 4 years mind. :52:
     
    greengrocer, Sep 23, 2013
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  17. Drakhan Nac Mac Feegle Gold Member

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    Read the Satanic Bible. Interesting read.
    Brian Lumleys Necroscope Series
    Robert Jordan Wheel of Time series
    Every Forgotten realms book
    All Dragonlance books
    James Herbert books

    Started to write a couple of Sci fantasy books myself.
     
    Drakhan, Sep 23, 2013
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  18. TESLA Gold Member Gold Member

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    Read the guts by Roddy Doyle a weeks ago its a followup to the commitments set in this day and age, only book I've ever read in a day its funny as * I'd love to see it made into a decent film.

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    Reading the Story of Johnny Maratano at the minute, * * Boston was rough back in the day.

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    TESLA, Sep 23, 2013
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    Bump.

    Want a book to read badly. Thinking the Game of Thrones books but I've heard they're badly written, any truth in that?
     
    Cathairbhoy, Oct 14, 2013
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  20. Jack Torrance Heeeeeere's Johnny! Gold Member

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    Just started reading Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States.
     
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