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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.

  1. cidermaster Gold Member Gold Member

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    Second World War by Martin Gilbert,from my late dad's Book Collection.I read several pages or more most nights in bed.
     
  2. TimFloyd Gold Member

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    Anyone recommend a book for reading by the pool etc? not in to fiction *, self help or interesting stuff or good biographies?
     
  3. celts67

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    Top 5 I can think of don't like fiction either .

    Rebels heart a journey into the iras soul
    ElNarco the * rise of Mexican drug cartels
    Murder rap the untold story of the Biggie and Tupac murder investigations
    Prison secrets the lapds notorious cover up of Biggies murder
    Those are real bullets aren't they * sunday Derry
     
  4. neilly1987 Do I look happy? Do I look settled? Gold Member

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    El Narco is a good read, also been directed to loads of good books in the same genre in my Kindle recommendations. Anything about cartels, prison, mafia etc is really interesting and hard to put down.
     
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    i always thought biggie and tupac were victims of COINTELPRO.tupacs mother afeni shakur was part of the panther 21 trial,and assatta shakur tupacs godmother was shot in the back while her hands were up.bit of background on it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_21
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata_Shakur
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afeni_Shakur
     
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  6. celts67

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    They 2 books contradict themselves a bit but both are good reads .One is about an lapd cover up of Biggies murder (prison secrets) the other is wrote off a head lapd police who got reasigned to the Biggie case .2 of them well worth a read you ever hear of David Mack the corrupt lapd screw.

    In April 2007 the estate of Christopher George Latore Wallace, a rapper who performed under the name The Notorious B.I.G., filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles, which also named officers Nino Durden, Pérez, and Mack as defendants. The lawsuit alleged that the officers conspired to murder Wallace, and that Pérez and Mack were present the night of the murder on March 9, 1997.[11] In 2010, the Wallace family voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit and their claims against the city and the officers.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mack_(police_officer)
     
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  7. TimFloyd Gold Member

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    Thanks mate will have a look at them
     
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  8. StPauli1916 Gold Member Gold Member

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    I'd recommend Rebel Hearts mate. Probably the best book I have read about the IRA.
     
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    Bobby Sands recorded his diary for the first seventeen days of his hunger strike in which he detailed his thoughts and feelings on the momentous task that lay ahead of him.

    In order to secure his status as Irish political prisoner he was willing to fast til death, an event that would earn him a place in the annals of Irish history and in the hearts and minds of Irish republicans world wide.
    http://www.bobbysandstrust.com/writings/prison-diary
     
  10. Gyp Rosetti Gold Member

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    Emotionally Celtic by Matt McGlone, really good read.
     
  11. Drakhan Nac Mac Feegle Gold Member

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  12. Drakhan Nac Mac Feegle Gold Member

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  13. Vinnie BBQ Justice is lost Justice is raped Justice is gone.

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  14. Vinnie BBQ Justice is lost Justice is raped Justice is gone.

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    My favourite fantasy author.
     
  15. Drakhan Nac Mac Feegle Gold Member

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    My favourite is Robert Jordan and his Wheel Of Time series of books.
    I'm getting back into writing some more chapters of my novels.
    Couldn't do it with the upheaval of my house move then me ending up in hospital for a week.
     
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    Reading The Sicilian at the moment.

    Really liking it so far.
     
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    Lenny McLean: The Guv'nor.

    Funking quality.
     
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    reading this

    The Killer Inside Me
    by Jim Thompson

    Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. The worst thing most people can say against him is that he's a little slow and a little boring. But, then, most people don't know about the sickness--the sickness that almost got Lou put away when he was younger. The sickness that is about to surface again.

    An underground classic since its publication in 1952, The Killer Inside Me is the book that made Jim Thompson's name synonymous with the roman noir.
     
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    The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft