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    Posted: 08 Dec 2012 at 6:18pm
Curently half way through 'Through Hell for Hitler'  memories of a german soldier on the Eastern Front
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Any use? Does he go into his ideological thoughts about what he was fighting for?

Last book I read was aquariums of pyongyang, an account of life in North Korea and its prison camps and how the author escaped, was a very good read
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Lucky Luciano by Tim Newark .Very good so far.


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really want to read Robin Friday - the greatest footballer you never saw. Anyone read it?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Newryrep Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 Dec 2012 at 6:39pm
Originally posted by nvidic nvidic wrote:

Any use? Does he go into his ideological thoughts about what he was fighting for?

Last book I read was aquariums of pyongyang, an account of life in North Korea and its prison camps and how the author escaped, was a very good read
 
Yes pretty good, and a bit more honest than some accounts
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Originally posted by thebronze14 thebronze14 wrote:

really want to read Robin Friday - the greatest footballer you never saw. Anyone read it?

Yeah, interesting read.
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dont read books very often. Cant remember the last time I read one. Hard to get recommendations off ppl as well cos everyone has different interests.
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Don't read half as much as I did years ago but I'm currently reading The Munsters: A Trip Down Mockingbird Lane. 
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Originally posted by Metal Paul Metal Paul wrote:

Don't read half as much as I did years ago but I'm currently reading The Munsters: A Trip Down Mockingbird Lane. 

Dame i used to love that show!

Is the book any good?
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Fenian Fire by Christy Campbell. I have Newryrep to thank for that one.
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Originally posted by Green Devil Green Devil wrote:

Originally posted by Metal Paul Metal Paul wrote:

Don't read half as much as I did years ago but I'm currently reading The Munsters: A Trip Down Mockingbird Lane. 

Dame i used to love that show!

Is the book any good?
I haven't even got half way through it yet (I've had it for a few years at this stage! ) but what I've read so far is very interesting. 
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Gideon Levy ' The punishment of Gaza´

Israeli ex soldier Jewish writer, hated in Israel but he seems to know what's actually going on there.
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As Eire 32 is currently out of the country he has asked me to replyWink

"I am currently reading the Oxford English Dictionary, Dont get the storyline but i do like the way each word is explained as you go along."

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Ian Rankin,  Standing in Another Man's Grave

Eamon Dunphy  Only a game


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Originally posted by Baldrick Baldrick wrote:

Ian Rankin,  Standing in Another Man's Grave

Eamon Dunphy  Only a game



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Just finished soccernomics, quite an interesting read and chavs by Owen Jones which is a great look at how the English media. Just started the great shark hunt, an anthology of articles and pieces by Hunter S. Thompson.
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Originally posted by brianie brianie wrote:

Originally posted by Baldrick Baldrick wrote:

Ian Rankin,  Standing in Another Man's Grave

Eamon Dunphy  Only a game



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one of the best football books around.
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Originally posted by brianie brianie wrote:

As Eire 32 is currently out of the country he has asked me to replyWink

"I am currently reading the Oxford English Dictionary, Dont get the storyline but i do like the way each word is explained as you go along."

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