Customer Reviews
Not worth reading - By: Matthew Harrison, 20 Jul 2008 
According to Kevin the conflict had nothing to do with beliefs or politics or discrimination. It seems the British press had it right alll those years & the real problem was two awful tribes that just hated each other. It seems the people I thought were brave men & women who stood up against oppression & imperialism were actuallly just idiots.
Barely believable - By: Roger Odoherty, 02 Jun 2008 This is a well constructed & fascinating story. It is only when you consider the likelihood of anyone having been so close to so many deaths & remembering the fine detail of each that you appreciate that it is indeed a story.
Virtuallly 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.
Amazing! - By: Dan osbourne, 29 Apr 2008 
This is very easy to read but certainlly not void of information & fasinating facts. Terrifying violence & written with amazing passion, it's fantastic.
Not for serious readers of Northern Ireland's recent past. - By: John Johnson, 15 Apr 2008 I do wish that I hadn't bought this book. I read only half of it & found that I couldn't continue. It was pure tat, self-promoting & so shalllow. I shalll give this book to someone I don't like!
"That was Belfast." - By: W. H. Keery, 10 Apr 2008 I have read countless books which have used the events of this era as their focus & 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" & the blinkered tribalism that fuelled them. Even though by the final chapter when Myers writes of "...the darkness of my time there" - & by then we know he means the despair of guilt at possible wrong decisions, a failed love affair which still haunts him, lost friends & 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, say, a Swedish prostitute ("...how I learnt the "Excuse me" is whorish for goodbye forever...") there are several encounters with terrifying characters such as Rab Brown, the UVF psycopath, & the odious John McGuffin, the bar-room socialist & parasite. This is powerful writing. One gets the feeling that Myers has set out to exorcise his own ghosts. I hope he has succeeded.
