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    <body><![CDATA[This book was hard at times with the cockney rhyming slang.  But it was well worth it, because Behan changes from an idealistic IRA initiate to someone who realizes that it is impossible to live for an ideal.  Borstal Boy is a good read for anyone who is conflicted about the disjunction between idea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32789000">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Period piece that's a less disturbing read than its reputation would predict.  Young loose cannon Behan of the IRA gets caught redhanded in England, and learns the system -- and the country that founded it-  via its correctional institutions.  Banned in Ireland as obscene, this took a while getting ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53024719">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book changed my life. I have no idea why. I guess I should re-read it. Lots of swearing, which I enjoy, and lots of dialect, which I also enjoy. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a lovely book, despite the setting and the story. Behan has a real insightfulness into human nature and a generosity to see the best in others. The language is choice but it sounds like a lullaby.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Erin go Bragh. There's anew movie out which looks interesting: Hunger.<br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/453761/Hunger/trailers" title="http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/453761/Hunger/trailers">http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/453761/H...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot more light hearted than I expected.  One could learn a lot about diplomacy and getting along with people from Mr. Behan.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[re-read last week. Marvelous insite into the IRA from the perspective of a young Irish lad.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the life and blarney of a very interesting irishman]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a surprisingly funny autobiography of a teenage IRA member who ends up briefly in prison, then a juvenile institution. Behan's voice reminds me of Jonathan Lethem in Motherless Brooklyn - self-deprecating, funny, and endearingly upbeat despite his unfortunate circumstances. <br/><br/>For n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4868571">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love what a smart-ass Behan is.  This book is an autobiographical account of his arrest in England for an attempted IRA bombing an subsequent incarceration in Borstal.  The cliches apply: sharp, witty, sweet, biting, etc.  Behan's booked is marked by his playfulness with language and dialects, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51580527">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Behan somehow manages to combine the prison memoir with one of his adolescence and feelings of alienation of being a foreigner abroad (an IRA man in a British prison, no less).  I thought the first half of the book, while he's awaiting adjudication before seing sent to a proper Borstal, was more com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1282030">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[WHOA! You mean you aint read this?  In the immortal words of Flavor Flav, &quot;Read a book! Learn about ya-self! Learn ya culture, BOYYYYEEE!&quot; So do like my man Flav says and go get some Guinness, put on Red Roses for Me, and school yerself! NOW!<br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, juvenile prisons have really changed...I bet no one sings while they work there anymore.  Excellent autobiographic story of Behan's time in a British borstal after he tried to blow up...you know, some stuff, in the name of Irish freedom.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Kind of a sweet book, actually, about the author's time in a boy's prison for conspiring with the IRA in the 30s. <br/><br/>They made a movie out of this later suggesting a strong undercurrent of homosexuality. This was not the case in the book. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Who would have though that the life of a naughty, criminal, young Irish lad locked up in a filthy prison could be so....uninteresting? Again, I'm a complete cultural illiterate. Make it a reality show and maybe I'll watch it. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book. . . not as good as some other prison memoirs. . . ]]></body>
    
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