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Watching the Door by: Kevin Myers List Price: £14.99 City Travel Guides Price: £8.99 You Save: £6.00 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9781843547280 ISBN: 1843547287 Label: Atlantic Books Manufacturer: Atlantic Books Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: March 01, 2008 Publisher: Atlantic Books Studio: Atlantic Books Sales Rank: 18879 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Not worth readingAccording to Kevin the conflict had nothing to do with beliefs or politics or discrimination. It seems the British press had it right all those years and the real problem was two awful tribes that just hated each other. It seems the people I thought were brave men and women who stood up against oppression and imperialism were actually just idiots. Rating: - Barely believableThis is a well constructed and fascinating story. It is only when you consider the likelihood of anyone having been so close to so many deaths and remembering the fine detail of each that you appreciate that it is indeed a story. Virtually none of these dramatic episodes can be confirmed by a living witness. The book presents no analysis of events beyond the madness of the Irish. There is no book I more regret buying on the stregth of reviews. I don't believe one word of it. Rating:  - Amazing!This is very easy to read but certainlly not void of information and fasinating facts. Terrifying violence and written with amazing passion, it's fantastic. Rating: - Not for serious readers of Northern Ireland's recent past.I do wish that I hadn't bought this book. I read only half of it and found that I couldn't continue. It was pure tat, self-promoting and so shallow. I shall give this book to someone I don't like! Rating: - "That was Belfast."I have read countless books which have used the events of this era as their focus and theme. Having grown up on the fringes of south Belfast myself during the early to late-seventies, I don't think I have ever read such a balanced narrative on "the troubles" and the blinkered tribalism that fuelled them. Even though by the final chapter when Myers writes of "...the darkness of my time there" - and by then we know he means the despair of guilt at possible wrong decisions, a failed love affair which still haunts him, lost friends and general disillusionment at suddenly discovering your twenties are gone - this is nonetheless an uplifting narrative where the writer's appetite for life remains strong. True, for every humorous encounter with, ... Read More: |
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