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“ Anatoli Boukreev was a guide on one of the ill-fated 1996 Everest expeditions. He wrote this book in response to John... ”
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“ Matt Dickinson was and still is a struggling adventure documentary film maker. In 1996 he was commissioned by Channel 4 to... ”
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“ A coming of age story against a backdrop of the black civil rights scene of the 1960s. While I enjoyed the tale and its... ”
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Paul B reviewed Jack the Ripper: The Final Chapter (Virgin True Crime) 1 month ago.
“ I quite liked this deep debate into the Maybrick diary. It virtually picks up where Shirley Harrison left off and puts a case... ”
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Rated 4 stars
Funny that two of your gandparents wereIrish. My pysuedonym is Duffy (an Irish surname) and was my Great Grandmothers and my mothers surname is also Irish. Her cousins being the Murphy's, The Doyle's and the Prigan's. How odd we even share that similarity. Your Mum didn't have any bastard offspring did she? I am adopted (not really - only joking!)
The thing that I also found so rivetting about Steven King is the way he uses, with such a deft hand, the American family. All of his books seem to use this natural device to 'anchor' the reader into reality. You identify with the characters only to see members suffer horribly.
that should read WHILE and not WITH!!!
Paul,I read Angela's Ashes a couple of years back with on holiday. A terrfic read. The lasting impression I got though was the cloying, smothering force of catholicism that was so evident in Ireland then. I see you like Steven King! Me too (but of course we should have known that) Also, the Excorcist which, novel to one side, has to be one of my favourite films ever.All good stuff.
