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Dantastic Book Reviews rated it 10 years ago
When a little girl goes missing, crime reporter Eddie Dunford is on the case. Eddie finds a pattern between the girl's disappearance and others. Where will the trail lead and will Eddie have anything left when he gets there?There's a greasy spoon close to my house that serves something called The Me...
payamtameh
payamtameh rated it 10 years ago
You chose the right book, if you're interested in football history mixed with fiction."Damned United" is about Brain Clough management in English football leagues accompanied with his friend/assistant Peter Taylor. it's written from Clough's point of view, started with commence of his career in Lee...
O! what Man will do fore a Rime!
O! what Man will do fore a Rime! rated it 11 years ago
Note: The review below was taken directly from my Goodreads account. Nineteen Eighty is, like its predecessor Nineteen Seventy-Seven, about the Yorkshire Ripper case. This time, our protagonist is Det. Peter Hunter from Manchester who is assigned to investigate the investigation while at the sam...
O! what Man will do fore a Rime!
O! what Man will do fore a Rime! rated it 11 years ago
Note: The review below was taken directly from my Goodreads account. Nineteen Seventy-Seven is about the beginning of the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry and it's told from the perspective of two people involved with the case: Det. Bob Fraser and reporter Jack Whitehead.Peace continues with the same fi...
O! what Man will do fore a Rime!
O! what Man will do fore a Rime! rated it 11 years ago
Note: The review below was taken directly from my Goodreads account. Nineteen Seventy-Four is about Edward Dunford, a crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Post, covering the murder of a young girl. His search for the truth gets him in a lot of trouble, and I'm really not saying that lightly, ho...
runner
runner rated it 11 years ago
You are either going to love or hate this book...I loved it. For those of a certain age and for those who enjoyed a certain period in English football (before the real big money got a hold) Clough stands as a controversial legend. This book looks at his time as Leeds United Manager in 1974 a reign ...
The Boat Was My Friend
The Boat Was My Friend rated it 12 years ago
That the story would read as brilliant as it is to a stubbornly romantic football fan like me, was expected. That Peace's writing would go all the way down a dark, haunting, decadent poetic road with such elegance and soul, such music, was not. Apparently, Brian Clough was an impossible person. He w...
Musings of a Book Addict
Musings of a Book Addict rated it 12 years ago
Gene Gregorits is a really great writer, which is the only reason I made it through this compilation of interviews with "underground artists of the No Wave." Gene has a passion for the dark, disturbing, creepy underground and his interviewees reflect that. He also skates a thin line between blatant ...
Nigeyb
Nigeyb rated it 13 years ago
GB84 is dramatisation of the miners' strike in which real events (Orgreave, the Brighton bomb) and real people (Arthur Scargill, Margaret Thatcher, Ian MacGregor) mingle imperceptibly with Dave's creations. "This novel", he notes in the acknowledgements, "is a fiction, based on fact" and Dave does n...
Nigeyb
Nigeyb rated it 13 years ago
I don't think it's as good as the other David Peace books but it's still pretty good. I like his visceral style and I reckon he creates a credible Cloughie. The Clough/Leeds culture clash is well handled and the flashbacks to Clough's playing and early managerial career work well.
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