Finn McCool's Football Club: The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead Review

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Finn McCool's Football Club: The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead ReviewI was very excited when I ordered this book from Amazon as it promised a combination of things I love- an Irish pub, soccer, history, and a comeback against overwhelming odds. With the sort of reviews I had never seen on Amazon- 73 out of 74 rated it as 5 stars- I knew I had a 'can't miss" book in "Finn McCool's".
Sadly, I was very disappointed. I really tried hard to like this book but it never clicked. I found the story disjointed and meandering. I never got a real feel for the characters who frequented Finn's and so it was hard to get attached to them. You really need a scorecard to tell who is who. The author will briefly introduce a Finn's regular/team member and then 60 pages later bring up the person again by first name like he's an old friend of ours (the reader's). Actually, you have to go back and remind yourself just who this person is.
A few other irritating things:
1. Rea frequently identifies- correctly- what he sees as racism, particularly against African Americans, and then becomes Exh B by himself stereotyping Hispanics at several points in the book.
2. His exasperation as he describes trying to get sports bars in the U.S to put on Premier League soccer matches gets tiring. An American trying to do the same in England- prodding a bartender in a London pub to switch one of the TVs to a New Orleans Saints game when Manchester United is playing Chelsea- would be labelled an Ugly American.
3. His comments on the United States in general I found very sophomoric. I have no problem with a writer making observations on his adopted country- I just found that Rea was not very perceptive or insightful.
4. And, yes, I get it that his wife is always cold but do you have to beat us over the head with that little tidbit?
5. and, finally, we can handle the F word. You can spell it out instead of using the F_ _ k.
I am obviously am in the minority as 99% of the readers loved the book.
I did enjoy the first hand accounts by the survivors of Katrina.
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Behind Palace Doors: My Service As the Queen Mother's Equerry Review

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Behind Palace Doors: My Service As the Queen Mother's Equerry ReviewNot quite below-stairs gossip nor entirely unbiased, either, this account of two years spent as an equerry to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, gives only a glimpse of her life and activities during the years when Prince Charles and Princess Diana were making headlines with their marital problems. The ghost writer who helped the equerry to write this book said, in his preface, that there were so many other interesting stories that could have been shared but, for a number of reasons, were not. I wish they had been, since several chapters chat about difficulties that staff members of other royal households face rather than staying on point. I'm sure the author was very relieved not to have worked for either Prince Charles or Princess Diana while their marriage was breaking down, but the key bits of intelligence that those chapters provided were that the Queen Mother removed herself from the battle lines early on and that Prince Charles has a nasty temper. The overall focus of this book is more about the duties an equerry to a member of the British royal family is expected to fulfill and less about the Queen Mother. Still, it's a good, fast read and provides an interesting view of the other members of the Queen Mother's senior staff and their little foibles.Behind Palace Doors: My Service As the Queen Mother's Equerry OverviewThe Queen Mother did not give one media interview in her 101 years. This is a brief glimpse into that wonderful world by a man who spent two years constantly at her side from 1994 to 1996 and then as a close friend until her death in 2002. In this sharp, funny, and evocative memoir, Major Colin Burgess draws on his years as her right-hand man to recount numerous stories of an extraordinarily long and eventful life. From dancing with Fred Astaire to living through the Blitz; from the time Princess Margaret caught fire at a dinner party to when Prince Charles sought solace in his grandmother as his marriage collapsed; each anecdote and observation provides an historic insight into one of our longest-surviving institutions. Constantly fascinating and packed from start to finish with previously untold stories that lift the lid on the idiosyncrasies of royal protocol, this is warmly remembered celebration of a life gone-and a way of life fast disappearing.

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