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Non-Fiction
Related: About this forumHas anyone read, "Say Nothing"?
If you have, would you recommend it?
https://www.amazon.com/Say-Nothing-Murder-Northern-Ireland/dp/0385521316
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Has anyone read, "Say Nothing"? (Original Post)
Yavin4
Jul 2019
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Polly Hennessey
(7,495 posts)1. I have not read the book but it
is probably worth the $. I was always confused and troubled by the violence between the two Irelands hatred of one another. Your question was enough to intrigue me. I am forever perplexed as to why emotions lead humans to violence. Guess I am naive. Scares me to think it could be happening here. Yes, I know we had a Civil War. Told you I was naive.
I barely got through it. If my daughter hadnt given it to me for Christmas, I would have never picked it up. So terribly, terribly sad.
However, I was determined to finish it. Discovered that we were visiting County Monaghan, where they brought the informers to be executed, a month before they arrived. My mother was born there. And I have a first cousin on my dads side who was involved with the Good Friday agreement.
I made an exception for this one, but I just cant read books about atrocities anymore.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,773 posts)3. I have it on reserve at the library, although
at the moment I have it frozen, and I'm not sure when I'll lift the freeze.
So many books, so little time.