Common Fleshy Fungi

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Common Fleshy Fungi
Clyde M. Christensen
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Common fleshy fungi
Clyde Martin Christensen
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Common fleshy fungi / by Clyde M. Christensen
Clyde Martin Christensen
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Keys to the common fleshy fungi
Clyde Martin Christensen
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Travel to Alaska is soaring; Alaska's 15 national parks set a record for visits in 2004, with just under 2.3 million
Tourism in Alaska overall was up an estimated 11 percent in 2004
Alaskan cruises are increasingly popular; in 2004, there were 876,000 passengers from May to September
Unlike traditional guides, this book focuses on outdoor adventures for the general traveler who wants to explore and perhaps even venture off the beaten path
The book is organized not by destination but by interests (driving tours, wildlife viewing, hiking, camping, etc.)

The Unofficial Guide to Adventure Travel in Alaska (Unofficial Guides)

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The Unofficial Guide to Adventure Travel in Alaska (Unofficial Guides)
Menasha Ridge Press
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ASIN: 0470228997

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The most complete guide to planning your outdoor adventure, with coverage of: Hiking, Cycling, Skiing, Canoeing, Fishing, Dog Mushing, Birding, Climbing, Kayaking, Mountaineering, River Running, and Off-roading.
Plus: Lodging and dining rated for quality and value
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UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO ADVENTURE TRAVEL IN ALASKA

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UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO ADVENTURE TRAVEL IN ALASKA
MENASHA RIDGE PRESS
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ASIN: B000KITHFG

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Great Work.......2007-09-26

This is a terrific look at this artist's use of line especially. If you're interested in his color work, pick up one of the more expensive books offered on this man, but if you're wanting a cheap, quick, intro to this man's work and especially his use of gesture, this is an awesome book.

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Daumier Drawings
Colta Ives , Margaret Stuffmann , and Martin Sonnabend
Manufacturer: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Artist H. Daumier: Interpreter of History.

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Ynez, Ghirardelli
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Daumier
Jean Adhemar
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DAUMIER : DRAWINGS.
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Daumier Drawings
Colta Ives; Martin Sonnabend Margret , and Margret Stuffman
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Best hamster book I ever read.......2000-05-23

This is definitely the best book, or other information source, on hamsters that I've ever encountered. It has everything you need to know if you plan to keep hamsters, whether you interest is in having one as a pet or if you plan to breed and show. The author has years of experience as a breeder and hamster show judge, and he uses all of it to provide the reader with as much knowledge and information as possible. If you can find a copy of this book, it's worth whatever you have to pay.

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With an introduction by May Morris. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1914 edition by Longmans, Green, and Company, London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta.

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Hopes & Fears/Signs
William Morris
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ASIN: 1855062542

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For your teachers, they must be Nature and History: as for the first, that you must learn of it is so obvious that I need not dwell upon that now: hereafter, when I have to speak more of matters of detail, I may have to speak of the manner in which you must learn of Nature. As to the second, I do not think that any man but one of the highest genius, could do anything in these days without much study of ancient art, and even he would be much hindered if he lacked it.

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Hereafter I hope in another lecture to have the pleasure of laying before you an historical survey of the lesser, or as they are called the Decorative Arts, and I must confess it would have been pleasanter to me to have begun my talk with you by entering at once upon the subject of the history of this great industry; but, as I have something to say in a third lecture about various matters connected with the practice of Decoration among ourselves in these days, I feel that I should be in a false position before you, and one that might lead to confusion, or overmuch explanation, if I did not let you know what I think on the nature and scope of these arts, on their condition at the present time, and their outlook in times to come.

Hopes and Fears For Art, Lectures On Art and Industry (The Collected Works of William Morris - Volume 22)

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Hopes and Fears For Art, Lectures On Art and Industry (The Collected Works of William Morris - Volume 22)
William Morris
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Hopes and fears for art: Five lectures delivered in Birmingham, London & Nottingham

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William Morris
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Hopes and fears for art: Five lectures delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, 1878-1881

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William Morris
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Esperanza y miedo con la dolarización en Ecuador.(TT: Hopes and fear from the dollar-based economy of Ecuador.): An article from: Proceso

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Esperanza y miedo con la dolarización en Ecuador.(TT: Hopes and fear from the dollar-based economy of Ecuador.): An article from: Proceso
Orlando Pérez
Manufacturer: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
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ASIN: B0008HA56E
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on April 23, 2000. The length of the article is 2032 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Esperanza y miedo con la dolarización en Ecuador.(TT: Hopes and fear from the dollar-based economy of Ecuador.)
Author: Orlando Pérez
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 23, 2000
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
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Irlanda del Norte: del miedo a la esperanza. (historia sobre Irlanda del Norte, Reino Unido)(TT: Northern Ireland: from fear to hope) (TA: history about ... United Kingdom): An article from: Proceso

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Irlanda del Norte: del miedo a la esperanza. (historia sobre Irlanda del Norte, Reino Unido)(TT: Northern Ireland: from fear to hope) (TA: history about ... United Kingdom): An article from: Proceso
Anne Marie Mergier
Manufacturer: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
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ASIN: B000989RXE
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on March 1, 1998. The length of the article is 4201 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Irlanda del Norte: del miedo a la esperanza. (historia sobre Irlanda del Norte, Reino Unido)(TT: Northern Ireland: from fear to hope) (TA: history about Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)
Author: Anne Marie Mergier
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 1998
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: n1113 Page: p46(8)

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Temores y esperanzas científicos. (El reto de la Biotecnología).(TT: Scientific hopes and fear. (The challenge of biotechnology).)(Artículo Breve): An article from: Epoca

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Temores y esperanzas científicos. (El reto de la Biotecnología).(TT: Scientific hopes and fear. (The challenge of biotechnology).)(Artículo Breve): An article from: Epoca
Juan-Ramón Lacadena
Manufacturer: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
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ASIN: B0008FMVY0
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on October 4, 2002. The length of the article is 673 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Temores y esperanzas científicos. (El reto de la Biotecnología).(TT: Scientific hopes and fear. (The challenge of biotechnology).)(Artículo Breve)
Author: Juan-Ramón Lacadena
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 4, 2002
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Carl von Clausewitz: Hope and fear
Evan J Hoapili
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ASIN: B0006QTAU4

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Alfred Hitchcock's films are a testament to his autonomy-but there was one person whose ideas and advice he valued above all others: his wife, Alma.

Who was the woman behind the most famous film director in the world?

Pat Hitchcock O'Connell offers rare insight into the life and career of her mother and father, and finally reveals Alma's extraordinary contribution to the Hitchcock legacy. Filled with fascinating personal anecdotes, Alma Hitchcock is also Pat Hitchcock's story-that of a young girl growing up in Hollywood, and her own on-set experiences in such films as Psycho and Strangers on a Train. With behind-the-scenes stories, moving testimonies from friends and family, and never-before-seen personal photos from the Hitchcock family album-as well as some of her mother's favorite recipes-Pat Hitchcock O'Connell illuminates the lives and careers of her parents as only a daughter could.

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There's No Substitute for Writing Skills.......2007-07-25

I feel bad saying anything critical about this book, since it's obviously written with love and care. But. . .it's also a testament to an important truth: even if you have a fascinating family, even if you have good stories to tell about them, even if you have an interesting (though not fully convincing) premise -- it's all for naught if you can't write.

(And why do so few of the photos have captions? It would be helpful to have some names, dates, places, contexts.)

a worthwhile addition, but nothing special.......2004-11-24

In skmming through the other customer reveiews for this book, it seems that they split between the typically gushing five-star reviews and the typicallly dismissive one-star reviews that are the bane of this website. Folks in both camps... please learn how to be sensible. You're not helping anybody by being shutter-eyed.

That said, maybe this review will provide some actual perspective on the book. Pat Hitchcock O'Connell's aims with her memoir are to chronicle her mother's contributions not only to Alfred Hitchcock's films, but to the emerging medium of film itself.

Is she successful in these aims? Well, not, not really. The book is not insightful enough to become truly noteworthy; too many of the passages are merely reflections, as opposed to examinations. But neither does she totally fail. After reaing the book, it is impossible to not feel as though Alma was, indeed, a tremendous part of what we now think of as the Hitchcock legacy. We may not find out as much about her contributions as we would like, but this book does seem once and for all the establish Alma as a vital element in Alfred's films.

Another problem: the book is way too breezy. When the making of a seminal masterpiece like "Rear Window" is covered in a mere page or two, something has gone wrong. I suspect that much of this is due to O'Connel's lack of any real knowledge of what went on collaboratively between alma and Alfred.

This breeziness is also something of a virtue, as well. It makes a relatively swift journey from the beginning of the Hitchcocks' careers through to their deaths, and that approach may not be terribly detailed, but it is easy to digest, in the same way that a suite from a musical is easy to digest when compared to the whole score. It cannot, and never should be, a replacement for the whole score; but it's satisfying enough in and of itself.

I also rather enjoyed the section in which many of Alma's recipes and dinner menus are reprinted. This may actually be the book's most significant contribution to the Hitchcock mythos, as it provides a peek into the inner workings of the family that no other writer has yet offered. I can't make much of an analysis of the recipes, since I am anything but a good cook; but they made me hungry as I read through them, and seemed sufficiently challenging to a culinary doofus like myself to make them seem to be genuinely good recipes.

Final thoughts: if you're a serious Hitchcock fan, then this book ought to be on your shelf. Don't expect any sort of a masterpiece, but it is certainly well worth reading.

Save your money.......2004-08-16

As a great Hitchcock fan, I really looked forward to this book. However, it reads like a high school freshman's term paper and the only really interesting thing you learn about Alma is that she was petite. If you want a list of all his movies by date, release date, foreign distribution date, etc., etc., then you'll enjoy this. I would have rather spent my time reading a calendar.

A daughter's tribute to her mother.......2003-09-30

I really enjoyed reading this biography because I have been a huge fan of Alfred Hitchcock for years and have always wondered what his family life was like. Who better to tell us than his and Alma's one and only daughter. While it was interesting to read about the film stuff in this book, I am so happy she did not go into analyzing them because ultimately I don't see this as a critical film book. As a family memoir and biography, this worked for me. While I would never try them, I loved reading through the menus and recipes in the back of the book because it gives you and extra special peek into the Hitchcock daily life. Alma was a wonderful woman, feisty like nothing else, a huge contributor to his films and others, and obviously a wonderful mother. Pat Hitchcock did a great job bringing us into her childhood and family life.

Disappointed.......2003-08-23

I have been waiting for someone to write a book that would recount the huge contribution that Alma Reville Hitchcock made to the films for which she received little or no credit. Unfortunately Pat's book does not do this in any depth.

The book is poorly written and disorganized skipping from one time period to another without transition. At times it is difficult to know who the speaker is with the use of many long quotes.

She is obviously uncomfortable calling her parents Alma and Hitch and so switches back and forth between those names and Mama and Daddy.

The book is not a bio of Alma but rather a blend of the work of Alma, Hitch, and Pat. There is little fleshing out of characters and aside from mentioning that Hitch listened to Pat or that Pat codirected or wrote a film script there is little detail of what Alma did.

Alma is portrayed as a mother of her time who was content largely to stay at home and cook. Pat portrays an idyllic family with a "daddy knows best" philosophy. If this book is intedned to document Alma's huge contribution to Hitch's films, it falls short.

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Lawrence Donegan's dream is a modest one, really. The intrepid journalist longs for a quiet, simple life far from the filth and noise of the big city.

And he thinks he'll find it in Creeslough.

No News at Throat Lake

From the moment Donegan arrives in the quaint Irish village, he is plunged into the problems and pitfalls of rural living. First, he needs to drain his home of water. Then he needs to find a job. After a brief and bloody stint as a Creeslough farmer -- dubbed "Quentin Tarantino's All Creatures Great and Small" -- Donegan decides to go back to his writing roots. He takes a job at the Tirconaill Tribune, a blindly idealistic, libel-slinging tabloid run by two men and a dog. Thus begins a passionate love affair between a big-city hack and a small-town rag.

Sublimely funny and effortlessly hip, No News at Throat Lake is a refreshing memoir of Irish life and times. Filled with unexpected curiosities and predicaments, it's a hilarious, sharp-edged portrayal that ponders what every foreigner wants to know about Ireland -- what's it like to live there, anyway?

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Not as good as it sounds.......2003-05-10

In an attempt to escape the artificial and crazy life of modern life for a more simple way of living, Lawrence Donegan moves from Glasgow, Scotland to Creeslough, Ireland, a small rural community. The book details the year he spent living there, working for the small community newspaper and playing for the local Gaelic football team. Though it sounds like this might be an amusing book about a fish out of water, about a big-city guy adapting to small-town life, it's not really as amusing as it sounds. The author adjusts to his new life and learns the ways of small-town life. Period. And it's not really that entertaining or amusing. There's some funny anecdotes here and there, but not as many as you'd think, and it ultimately took me quite awhile to get through this book.

a man who can laugh at himself.......2001-07-30

This is a fun, enjoyable book. Donegan is a self effacing man, but one who has an an ecclectic, and noteworthy series of achievements for a young man -- rock musician, golf writer, and journalist for a internationally known newspaper. Having visited Donegal and been charmed, he decides to abandon his mainstream life in Britain and embrace bucolic rural Ireland.

Of Irish extraction, in typical Irish fashion, he mocks his own inadequacies and pitfalls. As his Irish period proceeds, he recognizes his naiviete in assuming that he would be embraced by and acclimate to Donegal society. He is such a likeable guy that you can't help smiling while reading of his daily struggle to make friends and to be seen as professionally credible. His descriptions of striving to make the team in Irish football are hysterical and endearing -- you both admire his persistence and his brutal honesty in sharing his mediocre performance. After a long period during which he is beginning to break into the local culture he recognizes that he is lonely -- not only for a companion, but also for the life he sought to escape.

Great descriptions of the laconic, iconoclastic locals. Having myself lived in a rural area where we only began to be accepted by the locals after seven years, I could identify with Donegan. However, he is kind spirited and not resentful -- he recognizes and appreciates the cohesiveness of Donegal society. Good stuff, with a solid underlying message.

Goods News for Lawrence Donegan.......2001-04-26

Rural Ireland has never been funnier! This is a gem. Donegan captures Irish country life and the quirky Irish themselves. It's not a book that says, "READ ME," but you'll be awfully glad you did.

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Had me laughing out loud
Honest, disarming look beyond the film sets & postcards
Witty and Fun----A glimpse of rural Irish life
Rivetting. Makes me long to return to Donegal.
Everyday life in Ireland

No News at Throat Lake
Lawrence Donegan
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McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland

ASIN: 0671785400

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Despite talk of the economic "Celtic Tiger" and Dublin's growing clout as a high-tech center, the Ireland of the imagination is still the Ireland of village and bog, with 40 shades of green and pints of creamy Guinness for young and old alike. In No News at Trout Lake, Lawrence Donegan first journeys to the village of Creeslough in search of such stereotypes, but his book succeeds not by celebrating clichés but by exploring the complexity and contradictions beneath them.

Caught in the throes of a premature midlife crisis, Donegan, a London journalist, pulls up stakes and moves to an Irish village he once visited on holiday. The book chronicles his (mis)adventures there, from an abortive attempt at cattle farming (described here as "Quentin Tarantino's All Creatures Great and Small") through a series of exploits with the rambunctious editors of the Tirconaill Tribune, a feisty local paper. Donegan relates his experiences, which include a hunt for a whale tooth and a visit from Newt Gingrinch, and describes his companions in Creeslough with great intimacy and wit. This is certainly not the final word on "the Irish character," if such a thing even exists, but Donegan's story abounds with charming characters, Irish and otherwise, providing a meditation on small-town life that is at once universal and as unique as the Irish village it describes. --Andrew Nieland

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Lawrence Donegan's dream is a modest one, really. An intrepid journalist, acclaimed author, erstwhile pop-music star, and drolly anthropological social critic, Donegan longs for the quiet life, far from the crowds, filth, and all-around dreariness of big-city life. Here, then, is the hilarious, sharp-edged, and oddly touching account of one man's pursuit of his own private, seemingly simple escape to a tiny Irish town.

Once he has carefully selected a wardrobe to suit such an ambitious urban exodus (boxer shorts or Y-fronts?), anguished over the perfect soundtrack for his sabbatical (Duran Duran or Blonde on Blonde?), and bidden extended farewells to fond friends (total time elapsed: six minutes), our hero is unmoored at last, faced with a seemingly limitless array of possible destinations. His choice? Where else but the exceedingly rural, and reputedly quaint, Irish village of Creeslough?

After dabbling briefly-and bloodily-in the exotic world of Creeslough-style farming (he dubs his experience "Quentin Tarantino's All Creatures Great and Small"), Donegan decides to flex his bigcity writing chops. He lands a job at the Tirconaill Tribune, a blindly idealistic, libel-slinging tabloid run by two men and a dog. No News At Throat Lake is the charming story of a passionate love affair between the big-city hack and the small-time rag. It ponders the question that every foreigner wants to know about Ireland -- what's it like to live there, anyway? -- as well as some unexpected curiosities: Does Meryl Streep drink Guinness? What's it like to produce a newspaper with a dead body in the house? And what's the story behind Stinky, the dead whale?

Sublimely funny and effortlessly hip, No News At Throat Lake is an altogether refreshing memoir of Irish life and times -- from one of the most wickedly observant talents writing today.

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Had me laughing out loud.......2007-01-27

Not since "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Post Office" have I read a book that's made me laugh like this one. Donegan's witty observations are funny and incisive without being overly smug or condescending. He has a way of couching his opinions in a way that I could relate to(referring to his grandmother's musical taste as "aural carnage" was especially sharp).

Bukowski has nothing on Donegan in the dry, witty social observations department. I look forward to future works from this talented writer.

Honest, disarming look beyond the film sets & postcards.......2004-09-25

As others have agreed, I liked Donegan's straightforward style. Adding to the list of favorite bon mots below, I'm chuckling over his reaction to seeing his picture on the cover of the newspaper's he's joined: Narcissus' bedroom wall. And summing up some fearsome portraits in some Anglo-Irish manse as having the hair of Barbara Stanwyck and the face of Fred MacMurray.

The end of the account does hit rather suddenly, as if Donegan wanted to duck out with as little damage as possible--again, not surprising in an Irish rural context to which he has, if imperfectly, adapted over his stint. I would have liked some nuts and bolts knowledge: how did he survive on what the paper paid him? Did he play any more golf, being a Scotsman who's written previously about the sport? Was he living rent-free in his (former? on-and-off?) girlfriend's family's shack? Wouldn't more of his London and Glaswegian pals look him up, or call him, or e-mail him? How did the Tribune fill its pages and meet its bills? Still, the charm of Donegan's year of discovery lies more in his admittedly artful arrangement of a slew of witticisms, anecdotes, and set-pieces. Newt Gingrich gets his deserved comeuppance, by the way.

A light read, sure, but not without it worthwhile insights into Derry, Dublin, the memories of a former pop star, a funeral, and the realization into what opting out ultimately leads one to understand.

Witty and Fun----A glimpse of rural Irish life.......2002-06-05

Donegan gives the reader a fun but narrow inside view to the charms and tribulations of rural Irish life. Great characters and interesting stories create the fuel for intense laughter as the city slicker to rural farmer/journalist adjusts and takes a liking to his new surroundings. Unfortunately, in the end, the writer finds himself lonely without discovering the underlying concern for humankind that is present in rural Ireland. A concern that does not exist in the world in which he decides to reenter. Definitely worth purchasing.

Rivetting. Makes me long to return to Donegal........2002-03-14

Lawrence Donegan's book is one of the funniest I have read all year. He takes an everyday existence, so ordinary to the people he is writing about, and makes it interesting, enjoyable and comforting.
Having spent many summers in this part of Donegal, I was instantly captivated by his affable style and innate journalistic inquisitions.
Throw in a little Newt Gingrich, some decrepit, rain gathering cows and a vist from Meryl Streep and you have all the ingredients of a right rivetting read.

Everyday life in Ireland.......2001-09-26

Written in a spare, journalistic style, "No News" is easy to read and fun. What do Newt Gingrich, Meryl Streep and gypsies have in common? and what are they doing in a tiny Irish town? A refreshing change from the current "I bought a really great house in another country" genre, its more real-"I rented a dump because it seemed like a good idea". The ending will surprise you.

A great companion to: "Round Ireland with a Fridge" and "Oh Come Ye Back to Ireland-Our First Year in County Clare".

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No news at Throat Lake
Lawrence Donegan
Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJ88QU

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Lawrence Donegan
Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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ASIN: 0149028806

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