Whats everyone reading?

[evergrey1968]

Started The Damned United last night, loving it so far...really good.

[StonedSince67]

just finished I Chose To Climb by Chris Bonnington

he is a british mountaineer and the book is the first part of his multi-volume autobiography

my favorite photo in the book is of bonnington and don whillans another british climber with a huge backpack and climbing ropes sitting on a motorbike on their way to try to climb the north face of the eiger

think i might re-read the white spider next, the account of the first climb of the eiger

[stonerdave79]

Im just about finished Ten-Thirty three by Nicholas Davies.

This is the inside story of britain's killing machine in northern ireland.
This book reveals the conspricay between british military and the gunmen of the UDA(ulster defence association) who targeted and killed republican terrorists and catholics.

The government tryed to get this booked banned.I must say i really am enjoying this book after reading a few books about Ulster during the troubles,This is my favorite book.Just shows you what a government will do during war.

[CHELSEA_SMOKERS_SOCIETY]

Im just about finished Ten-Thirty three by Nicholas Davies.

This is the inside story of britain's killing machine in northern ireland.
This book reveals the conspricay between british military and the gunmen of the UDA(ulster defence association) who targeted and killed republican terrorists and catholics.

The government tryed to get this booked banned.I must say i really am enjoying this book after reading a few books about Ulster during the troubles,This is my favorite book.Just shows you what a government will do during war.

that sounds really interesting,

ive read a few books on the troubles, and whilst my youtube user name shows im opinionated about the situation there, being half irish (but totally british ) i have heard both sides for my whole life and have come to my own views.

my mother is catholic and from cork, where all her family still are. she was near cut off by her family for marrying an english protestant divorcee (my dad) in 1980. she was discommunicated from the curch.
my dads, english born and bred is form wilsden west london, and his family, although more welcoming viewed my mum as pretty low down too.

my dad has never denied the crisis of concious he had about falling in love with an irish catholic at the time. but he did. although he is protestant (in my irish familys eyes) he is deeply atheist (like myself) but a strong nationalist (like myself), so when necessary he is happy to fall into the collective of 'protestant'.

they still occasionally argue about ireland today, my mum who calls england her home now 1000%, but is allways irish.

its really hard to find a book that is genuinly down the middle about ulster. i guess its human nature, if you are gonna write well, you cant help put some of your opinions in there even if you try not too. the choice of adjectives is often pre-concious.

also its such recent/living history that people cant help have an opinion even when they are just trying to document.

cheers for the mention, im gonna look it up.

[HasAnyoneSeenMyPipe]

Currently reading, Parachute Infantry, An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich by David Kenyon Webster. A fantastic insight into the most destructive war mankind has ever seen, written by a great writer who paid amazing attention to detail. He was also one of the soldiers of the famous E company in Band of Brothers, another good book but this is a lot better.
Just finished When Giants Walked the Earth by Mick Walls about Led Zeppelin, I need say no more another brilliant book.

[dogstar]

The book with no name by anonymous.

Right rollickin' good read, plenty of bizarre action. Thoroughly recommend it if you want to go on a book trip for a couple of days.

[Trichome_Dense]

Love reading. Years back, a friend passed me a book - and said "trust me, you'll thank me for this!"

The book was "The Alchemist" and the author - Paulo Coelho

interesting to note that in its 1st run, only 50,000 copies were published but in that year 1million people had read it. This means each book had exchanged hands 20 times in that first year of print. I believe it, the book was passed to me, and I passed it on too. it really is such a charming story, one which finds a special place in your heart!

[DC]

Im just about finished Ten-Thirty three by Nicholas Davies.

This is the inside story of britain's killing machine in northern ireland.
This book reveals the conspricay between british military and the gunmen of the UDA(ulster defence association) who targeted and killed republican terrorists and catholics.

The government tryed to get this booked banned.I must say i really am enjoying this book after reading a few books about Ulster during the troubles,This is my favorite book.Just shows you what a government will do during war.

The 'troubles' isn't a war.

Alien small novels. As in Alien from the movie.

[HasAnyoneSeenMyPipe]

The thing about books on the troubles is that you will find very few will not be biased towards one side, being a Northern ireland Catholic myself I have read a few on each side and found them to be very biased, thank God I have never took anything to do with that sectarianism in NI ( I marry a lovely Presbyterian girl next July) as IMO people who are sectarian are the lowest common denominator, total non-entities who do society no good at all. And the sooner it is rubbed out the better for all Ireland and The UK.
Well said DC, the troubles were never a war, just a shitty killing spree by psychos.

[Sir Niall of Essex-sire]

The thing about books on the troubles is that you will find very few will not be biased towards one side, being a Northern ireland Catholic myself I have read a few on each side and found them to be very biased, thank God I have never took anything to do with that sectarianism in NI ( I marry a lovely Presbyterian girl next July) as IMO people who are sectarian are the lowest common denominator, total non-entities who do society no good at all. And the sooner it is rubbed out the better for all Ireland and The UK.
Well said DC, the troubles were never a war, just a shitty killing spree by psychos.

My Great Grandad was involed in the struggle in the South, while my Grandad was a Sinn Fein supporter all his life. I am currently with a Northern Irish girl from near Strabane, when i went to Strabane i was shocked and disappointed how some of the people treat the county as if it was the 70's. Its a beautiful place N.I, i hope it finds peace.

[HasAnyoneSeenMyPipe]

The thing about books on the troubles is that you will find very few will not be biased towards one side, being a Northern ireland Catholic myself I have read a few on each side and found them to be very biased, thank God I have never took anything to do with that sectarianism in NI ( I marry a lovely Presbyterian girl next July) as IMO people who are sectarian are the lowest common denominator, total non-entities who do society no good at all. And the sooner it is rubbed out the better for all Ireland and The UK.
Well said DC, the troubles were never a war, just a shitty killing spree by psychos.

when i went to Strabane i was shocked and disappointed how some of the people treat the county as if it was the 70's. Its a beautiful place N.I, i hope it finds peace.

Very, very true words sir niall, some people seem to want to go back to the old days of the 70s when no-one was safe, usually its people with very low iqs or no jobs and have to blame someone, who better than the Prods or fenians eh.
We will find true peace when all the "dinosaurs" die out.

[Sir Niall of Essex-sire]

Hopefully man. The only thing i think is that the younger generations wont remember whats it like to live with the troubles. So all these new dissidents will get these kids thinking it will be better with the ways the dissident groups promote rather than the way it is atm, theyll have nothing to compare it to, so will believe them and it could go downhill again.

But the older members of both communities, on the whole, seem to promote a very good message, so hopefully it wont go that wat. The youth groups in Northern Ireland also do an amazing, and under appreciated, job.

[d3lt4-9]

Just finished "Londonistan" by Melanie Phillips. Eloquent, if not a bit paranoid. Moving onto "While Europe Slept" by Bruce Bawer, and I have "Religion On the Rise" by Murad Wilfried Hofmann lined up for after that just so I can get a balanced view. Before "Londinistan" I burned through "Murder In Amsterdam" by Ian Buruma. In it, Buruma details the events leading up to and surrounding the murder of Theo Van Gogh a few years ago. I've sort of been on this "Islam in Europe" kick these days. Another year of research, and I may find myself a minor authority on that little subject.

I'm not necessarily interested in Islam in Europe exclusively, more like I'm just interested in Europe in general as I've wanted to live there ever since seeing Amsterdam for the first time. But Islam seems to be playing a major role in Europe's current zeitgeist.

[Trichome_Dense]

You've read and are in the process of reading some remarkably interesting books d3lt4-9, Books that relate to massive cultural/religious movements within mainstream societies; their impact on these societies are realised in a manner which largely goes unnoticed because of the subtle way in which these shifts happen... Remarkably interesting - very "now" - and I appreciate the interest...

You see D3lt4-9, I am of Indian (South-Asian) Origin and have been balancing the East and the West in me in equal proportions, Some portions being more equal than others in some cases...

The conclusions which you can draw from your research may probably be the least biased of all. You aint from Europe. Perfect...

[Sir Niall of Essex-sire]

Interesting book on a side of Islam that isnt usually reported.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sufism-Account- ... 419&sr=1-2
A very good book on europe.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Immigration-Tra ... 839&sr=1-8