John Sweeney
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Sorry to hear that the great man has died. Brilliant journalist and big Celtic sympathiser
Hugh McIlvanney
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boab1916
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Sad day , indeed !
He was a great friend of Big Jock and had some marvellous tales to tell of him and his time at Celtic .
Above all he was an awesome writer - a true sports journalist , unlike the cretins and sycophants who scribble for the Scottish Press today . A man who will be truly missed .
He was a great friend of Big Jock and had some marvellous tales to tell of him and his time at Celtic .
Above all he was an awesome writer - a true sports journalist , unlike the cretins and sycophants who scribble for the Scottish Press today . A man who will be truly missed .
boab1916
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kelly
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Great Journalist and told it is it was ,remeber he did the voiceover on the centenary video RIP Hugh
Spherical Planet
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My Da introduced me to the work of William McIlvanney in the 1980's.
That man painted pictures with words and remains the most underrated crime novelist in literature.
His brother also had the art of storytelling in his gift and his own written portraits will be sadly missed.
Gus and Shug (Rip)
That man painted pictures with words and remains the most underrated crime novelist in literature.
His brother also had the art of storytelling in his gift and his own written portraits will be sadly missed.
Gus and Shug (Rip)
boab1916
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Spherical Planet
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I believe that both knew that people WERE the story.
The events they wrote about were incidental, it was the protagonists/antagonists that were the fascination.
Ali, Stein, Laidlaw, Doherty...........The "real" folk had all the mythos of fictional characters and the fictional characters had all the relatable traits of fully-fleshed "real" folk.
I love the atmosphere of Mario Puzo's: The Godfather, but there is still a glitz and glamour there that might belie the genuine struggles of young Sicilian immigrants.
You can almost smell the smoke and stale pish in Gus' novels and in among the prose and verbosity, you can almost smell the sweat and liniment in Shug's pieces.
Spherical Planet
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Required reading, Boab.
Probably more so, as it is written from the perspective of an "American"
Steinbeck also managed to capture the nuances of an immigrants experiences of America in "Cannery Row" and "Tortilla Flat"
boab1916
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Mc Carthy witchunt period interesting period.
Spherical Planet
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Can you imagine what Joe would have thought about Trump and his "no collusion" with the biggest identified threat to the American way of life?
You couldn't have descibed them any better SP, The mould was well broken, irreplaceable men.
