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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Pogue Mahoney Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-May-2016 at 18:59
Sheesh!...What are the chances that someone with the name Lou Gehrig would actually catch Lou Gehrig's disease?
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"Born Fearless" - Phil Campion

True life experiences of an ex British Army soldier now working as a private military operator in some of the world's war hot spots.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote monarch Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23-May-2016 at 13:38
Originally posted by Pogue Mahoney Pogue Mahoney wrote:

Sheesh!...What are the chances that someone with the name Lou Gehrig would actually catch Lou Gehrig's disease?



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Just finished reading

Wilbour Smith   Vicious Circle
Wilbour Smith   Golden Lion
C.J. Box            Back of Beyond

Picked up a couple of Jo Nesbo's at the market here, The Snowman and The Redeemer
Started the Snowman, not bad reading
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[QUOTE=Biker Pat] "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest - Steig Larsson

Super crime fiction thriller.


Pat,  I hope you read the rest of the Trilogy,

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who played with fire

Great books, I got the three DVD's on the internet ( Sweedish version ) brilliant
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Hi Dayo, have read the whole lot. Excellent books. 
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Just finished 2 books :

"The Mark Of Cain" - Lindsey Barraclough

The ancient spirit of a dark and powerful witch is reawakened when restoration work is carried out on an old manor house.

"Whitewash" - Alex Kava

A sinister plot is unveiled that puts corporate greed and corruption ahead of human life.

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Just finished these 2 books :

"Rule Of Law" - Dexter Dias.

"When The Devil Drives" - Chris Brookmyre
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Just read "Darkline" - Patrick Bentley

Set in and around Skerries. Story of drug and alcohol abuse amongst the younger generation as well as gangland related violence due to drug dealing. Very vivid and a stark reminder of the drug underground that's going on.


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Just read "Mc Carthy's Bar" - Pete Mc Carthy

Super witty and entertaining book, as the author travels around the South and West of Ireland.

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Reading the third of the "Peter Grant" detective series, the first of which is "Rivers of London" by Ben Aaronovitch.  Well worth a read.  
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Currently reading "The Famine Plot" - Tim Pat Coogan.

About England's role in Ireland's greatest tragedy.

One can't help but feel angry about how we Irish suffered during those terrible famine years and England's indifference to our plight.

It was nothing short of genocide Angry
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Just finished "The Help" - Kathryn Stockett.

Superb book about what life was lile for negro maids in the white people homes.
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Finished "The Martian" - Andy Weir.

Fictional account of an astronaut marooned on Mars when a mission goes wrong and his struggle to survive while attempts to rescue him are made.
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Finished "Pol Pot" - Philip Short.

"A gripping and definite portrait of the man who headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times" The headline on the back of the book.

However much of this man's policy for "independence mastery", basically to make Cambodia independent and masters of their own destiny, harked back to the great Angkor days (Angkor Wat being one of their great achievements and recognised today as a UNESCO world heritage site) and which was a great time in their history. Pol Pot wanted to recreate this.

Alas constant colonisation, particularly French, Pol Pot's stay in Paris where he went to be a student and took French Revolutionary practices to heart, the corruption of the Cambodian monarchy, the American's indiscriminate bombing of Cambodia during the Viet Nam war, Cambodia's constant mistrust and longstanding wars against with neighbour's Viet Nam and Thailand, China and Soviet Union involvment protecting their interests in the region, left things ripe for a determined leader with fanatical communist views (he took Stalin's and Mao's idea of communism to the absolute extreme). And when it all imploded nobody wanted to know. As usual when the major powers of the world battle for control and supremecy in a region (look at Syria today) the ordinary populace suffer, in Cambodia to the worst extremity. Today Cambodia is..............well I cannot say because who knows who reads this and I visit there a lot but suffice Cry
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"The Nighingale" - Kristin Hannah

Excellent book about describing vividly the life of two sisters and events that occured during the German occupation of France during WW2.

Great tribute to the steadfastness and heroism of two French sisters and other women during a terrible time in modern history.

Great few lines "During war men make stories, women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in the history
books".

So true, women seldom wage war but are the unspoken heroes during wartimes (that's my own view).
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"Star Of The Sea" - Joseph O'Connor.

Set in 1847 on board the famine ship Star Of The Sea.

Wonderful book outlining the background to characters on the ship and giving a vivid description of the horrendous famine years.
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"The Goldfinch" - Donna Tarrt.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014.

Superb book.
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"The Storyteller" - Jodi Picoult.

Sage Singer is a baker, a loner, until she befriends an old man who's particularly beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses—and then he confesses his darkest secret – he deserves to die because he had been a Nazi SS guard. And Sage's grandmother is a Holocaust survivor.

Excellent read with vivid descriptions about happenings at Nazi concentration camps.
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Holliday reading, heading home on Tuesday

NYPD RED James Patterson
NEVER GO BACK Lee Child
THE REDEEMER Joe Nesbo
THE FORGOTTEN David Baldacci
WHEN THE LOIN FEEDS Wilbur Smith
THE FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST Scott Mariani
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