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Just went to get tickets for Dublin and the bastard thing is sold out. If anyone has a pair going, give us a shout.

I'm really looking forward to Eddie Lenihan with From The Bogs Of Aughiska. His story time tales of Cúchulainn on RTE 2 were enthralling when I was a young lad.

Hearing it rescheduled for 13 Sept!

Any word on this being rescheduled?

It's been a good long while since I read the book. Was the two lads' alibi really that they were watching  'Die Hard 2' on video?  😂

I watched 80's shlocky cult horrors/daft comedies 'street thrash' and 'microwave massacre' recently. Bonkers films. Can anybody recommend similar films from the same era?

Oh no doubt. I think I'll be following you down the Dickens road quite soon. I'm trying to read as many classics as possible and I have yet to be dissapointed so really looking forward to that.

I've been trying to read more classics myself in recent times.  'Crime and Punishment' by Dostoyevsky really knocked me for six. I thought it'd be a chore to read but I loved it.

For breezier reading, 'The Mars Room' by Rachel Kushner is funny/fucked up fiction, set inside a women's prison and "Bobby Fischer Goes to War", the methodically researched story of one of the most legendary chess matches of all time. I'm not the biggest the chess fan of all time but it's worth reading for the stories about Fisher - the Axl Rose of the chess board.

Iv been re-reading the Discworld novels in sequence for a couple of months. Up to Soul Music now.

I read a book of Terry Pratchett short stories recently after not reading him for ages. It put me in mind to do this. Do you have all the books or are you kindling it?