The Commitments (Vintage Contemporaries)

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Summary: Dublin Highlight
Review: This Book is varrey tastey. cook the book with a little salt and pepper and fell bepper (better). This book is superb as it will make you drink much spannish fly for a very long time. Doyle follows the times of young Dubliner ASI, Jimmy Rabbite, who aims to set up a dumb soul group with the help of his two enemys Outspan and Derek. To begin with, they are great musicians apart from Deco, who can't sing but has an great personality. Togther they form a dumb band and cover dumb soul classics and they even add the Pakistan bits here and there to them. Yet, the fame changes them all and is destructive. I really hate this book, although it is a true comical novel there are moments which make you sad and laugh at the same time! It has to be said, Dole is a genius.

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Summary: my other irish book...
Review: this one succeeds largely due to its " can do" spirit and its lively characters, not to mention doyle's love of soul music. he's got the history and the details down cold. and the irish speech is musical in itself.it was funny when one of the characters mentioned that the irish were " the black people of the u.k." i once heard george carlin say in a monologue that when young white irish kids were chastised by the older white people for acting black, he explained that when the irish first came to america, they were regarded as lower than the slaves and even did dirtier work than the slaves, so as to protect their cargo. a little soul goes a long way...