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Advantages: Heartwarmingly honest
Disadvantages: None

Having just finished this book i have to tell you how superbly written it is. Paul McGrath and established sports journalist Vincent Hogan put together a great insight into McGraths emotionally charged life. All I remembered of McGrath from his footballing career was his Aston Villa heyday and subsequent clubs Derby and Sheffield United. This book offers a great side of McGrath that the press were kept away from including ; suicide attempts and his ...
...about his alcoholism and his tough upbringing in different orphanages in Dublin. He moved to Ireland aged 6weeks and placed into the orphanage; not that he was unwanted by his mother but he was born at the wrong place and wrong time and couldn't be looked after. The story of McGrath also tells of his struggle re-structure his life after he left the orphanage system. This led him to 'crash' as he put it, this meant that he could barely function. the ... Read review

Advantages: Difficult to determine
Disadvantages: Disturbing

Becoming Anna is an autobiographical account of a sixteen year old girl, born as Tiffany Blake in America’s Midwest. Tiffany’s Father physically abused her or showed her no love whatsoever, while her Mother and Grandmother who lived next doorwere emotionally cruel to her, and blamed her for all the family problems including her mother’s own illnesses and diabetes which had started after her younger brother was born. Her mother and grandmother labelled ...
...kids tried to cope by becoming friends with each other and becoming involved as girlfriends/boyfriends although they could not even enjoy physical comfort with one another in friendship as touching other patients was “against the rules” as was passing notes to one another, although sometimes these things went on. Being committed to a mental institution when you are not ill is bad enough for any child to endure but Tiffany’s parents went one step ... Read review

Advantages: Epic Story
Disadvantages: How Much Is True?

...plan. The members of Bravo Two Zero were Andy McNab, Dinger, Chris, Stan, Mark, Vince Phillips, Bob Consiglio, and Legs Lane. On January 22 McNab and his men were taken by helicopter from a base in Saudi Arabia and dropped into enemy territory in Iraq, and encountered problems from the start. The patrol was dropped into the middle of open desert and had to cross 20km with all their kit before finding a dry riverbed (wadi) to hide out in during ...
...equipment as they were given the wrong frequencies to use, so the entire mission was a virtual write-off before it had even started. The true ordeal began after the group was spotted by a young goat herder as they hid in the wadi, and knowing their position had been compromised they were forced to dump most of their kit and leave. They were soon confronted by what McNab describes as an enemy force of 200 to 250 enemy soldiers and an armoured personnel ... Read review

Advantages: Hilarious insight to Rik Mayall's life as a comedy god!
Disadvantages: Can be a bit slow/boring in places - only for a serious Rik fan.

"Bigger than Hitler better than Christ" - couldn't have put it better myself!! First off I would like to say: "If you are not a serious Rik Mayall fan but have seen or enjoyed some of his work this may not be the book you were looking for or expecting!" Anyway read on and see if you might enjoy this book... Rik Mayall is very well known in comedy entertainment for The Young Ones, Filthy, Rich and Catflap, The New Statesman and Bottom. Rik mayall ...
...to some extents have annoyed a few people over the years, but personally, I love him (figure of speech). Throughout the book Rik's personality is thrown in your face, even from the start with rude remarks about you "the reader", work colleagues from over the years and of course the most noticeable remark is of himself - "The Rik Mayall". He adamantly believes that he is the best, and that he is solely to blame for the start of great British television. ... Read review

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...am one of the biggest Boyzone fans out there. I can across this book when I was surfing the net. This is an absolutely brilliant biography of Boyzone the star’s of Irish pop music from 1995 to 1998. The book that I am doing this opinion on has to be the one of best ever Biographies of Boyzone ever written. This book is aimed at people who have brief or very little knowledge about Boyzone I bought this book because it is very detailed but it ...
...is adored by thousands of Boyzone fans. This book about Boyzone is spilt up into nine sections which are as follows:- Shane Lynch, Ronan Keating, Steve Gately, Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Girls will be girls, Fans will be fans, Mum is the word, Tell me… Louis Walsh – Boyzone Creator. Lets go into each of these chapters in more detail. Shane Lynch All of this chapter is dedicated to Shane Lynch who is a member of Boyzone. This ... Read review