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I'm reading The Lost Revolution - The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party by Brian Hanley and Scott Millar. It's a great read, bashing through it at a rate of knots. Didn't know Charlie Bird was a young Sticky. Next up: Claire Keegan's Antarctica. Edit: the Charlie Bird thing...

I didn't know that was on the old LC syllabus. Well I never.

Ordered. I want to do everyone else's masters.

Reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Have just read The Mayor of Casterbridge. Enjoyed it thoroughly. A lot more happens in nineteenth century novels, doesn't it? The customary serialisation enforced that I suppose. Anyway, here we go.

Replying now: I was briefly in a shop and they didn't have Jude the Obscure so I picked up The Trumpet-Major, as they did have that. So that's where I'll start, against the undoubtedly valuable instructions above. Thanks, IIJ.

I did Silas Marner for the Leaving Cert too. Hard to disassociate it from that in my mind, even though I didn't hate it as almost everyone else did. Hey MDR, if a fella was going to start reading Thomas Hardy, where would you recommend he start? I'm going to do that, and was going to begin with...

Finished Death in the Afternoon by Hemmingway last week. It was thoroughly enjoyable and has left me with a blood lust that can only be sated by involvement in violence at all levels. Then, after a break due to lack of free time, I started A Season with Verona by Tim Parks, which is a football...

I'm too late but I'd advocate reading very slowly, never more than 20 pages a day.

I'm a respected craftsman, known for my sturdy jaw.

Just to focus on a small part of this seismic row: to dismiss the importance of subject matter so thoroughly is extremely decadent. Enjoy the temptations of style, St. Fechin. I hope they console you in hell.

I read that when I was over at Primavera there a few weeks ago. So there.

I've liked everything I've read by Vonnegut, having been reluctant to read his books at first cos I thought they were silly.

I'm just finishing Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala. Good African child soldier craic.

Orwell never renounced Richey.

Ah no, that's a great read. To understand the acronyms etc., either look them up on the internet or, more enjoyably, read Hugh Thomas' The Spanish Civil War, which is brilliant, especially on the background. George Orwell reminds me of being 17 or so. :(

I really liked that book. Agreed.

Jonathan Wilson: Inverting the Pyramid - A History of Football Tactics. Oh yeah. High five, Red (Tape) Menace. This is the kind of thing that should be on the Junior Cert syllabus. The only bad things about this book are the couple of times he quotes awful modern day English football...

Reading new books is nothing to be proud of.

One of my favourite all-time books. Top 5, like.

I'm still reading Howard Zinn's A People's History of the US. One atrocity after another. Can't wait until it gets to the section on chillwave.