The small book contains a wealth of information on that geological wonder, the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The author covers everything from the history of people's interest in it, through the flora and fauna of the area. The book is quite interesting, and my one (and only) complaint is that the book does not contain a comprehensive map of the Causeway.

This little book is a facinating verbatum collection of personal accounts of a common foot soldiers experiences as a soldier enlisted with 3 brothers and a cousin to fighrt for the North. The insight expressed by this uneducated but observant man,his candor in exposing his doubts and fears during this horribly intense time makes informativem heartwarming reading that even young student will benefit from.
Ken Burns of P.B.S fame and Former President Wm. Clintom were also interested in reading this book.

This book is almost startling to read and browse through. Lousia Antrim was a Lady in Waiting to Queens Victoria and Alexandra of England and accompnied them on most of the state events and overseas trips they went on.

This book is just packed with inside royal information and ancedotes. It also has an amazing collection of royal photos and odds and ends. Things like signed photos of various royalties, meunu's from various occasions, personal snapshots, postcards etc that Louise retained from her various royal jaunts.

This is a lovely, and in some ways very personal book. You get to see the floatsom and jestom of royal living (eg menus etc) that mostly don't appear in other books. It gives you a great feel for the period and lifestyle Lousia lived.

If you are intersted in the royal heyday of the 19th century and early 20th century this is highly reccomended.

If you have ancestors who lived in Northern Ireland in the early 1800's, relevant volumes in this series are a must-read. This collection of field reports, written in the 1830's, will give real insight into how people worked and lived. Twenty to thirty pages on each parish provide enormous social and geographical detail, including lists of the most common surnames on each cemetery's gravestones. The series is most useful if you know the part of the Ulster county where your folks lived, but will be meaningful even if you can't pinpoint their location.

Step by step the planned revolution unfolds. The Irish, preparing pikes, organizing, and plotting betrayal against themselves.

Treachery and battle. Summer soldiers is a sometines exausting account of the failed rebellion against the Ascendancy.

This really is a minute to minute account of what happened.

That is this books best quality. It's so detailed it's hard to really accept. But the footnotes are there, and they reveal not only a failed rebellion (that is still relevant to the IRA and the RUC) but the details of how mass planning under duress comes together....and falls apart.

Essential for any student of Irish HIstory. Essential for anyone who needs to understand the rebelious masses. Essential to anyone interested in contemporary Irish politics.

This was the event that created todays nightmare in Ireland.

Wow, i just couldn't put it down......the plotting of the book was super....Kathleen Antrim has a way with making her people come alive....i could see the adventure onfolding with each page and would love to see it as a film.....days after i had finished the novel i pictured in my mind what actor/actress i saw as each character....then i realized that i could not picture what actress would do justice to the first lady, Carolyn.....Ms. Antrim created an original, a character solely onto herself...still in all, i would be curious to see the novel as a film.....Can't wait to read Ms.Antrim's next endeavor....k.k.barto

This book is a great, fun read. It starts out fast and only gets faster. I couldn't wait to find out how it all turns out and I wasn't disappointed. A great first book by a promising author. Her style and story line reminds me of Robert Ludlum.

I am a retired CEO of a regional bank and an avid reader of books. It has been many many years since I devoted one whole day to reading an entire novel from cover to cover. Your book Capital Offense compelled me to do just that. I literally could not put it down and turned each page with great anticipation of what was to come. Your ability to not only make the reader become involved in the story, but almost to feel as if they were one of the characters is truly exceptional.

I look forward to any of your future novels and hope you accept my thanks for a really exciting day of outstanding reading enjoyment.

If this is what post-modern lit is all about, I'd rather be a pre-classicist. This book is essentially one big chapter about a hundred brothers reuniting for a dinner. What follows is a series of squabbling between brothers that is at most incoherent. The prose is really bad, with exaggerations and flowery words (more like a Venus flytrap). Donald Antrim seems to have written the book in one night, because the events don't make sense. My advice is start with one brother, and go up from there. Leave this bin of mumbo jumbo for graduate students and intellectual snobs. Post-modernism is reserved for you after you're dead.

Donald Antrim is profoundly original, as he continues to take the novel to a new place in literature. Not always a easy read but always fun and full of insights. I do like 'The Verificationist' and 'The Elect Mr. Robinson' better, but as in all his books it is unlike any book one has ever read.Each brother gave me thoughts on myself my family and the world.I love his dark humor. I'm looking forward to his next book.

In the post colonial imagination, Donald Antrim's phenomologically astute and wonderfully presumptuous masterpiece, The Hundred Brothers, shifts the mode of discourse and the construction of subjectivity. As Freud has said, "Repetition is the mother of invention." We will never look at the "eye" in the "I" or the "I" in the "eye" the same way again. Indeed, in Antrim's (re)reading of the intertextual interstices of familiar familial patterns, it is possible to detect a devout, entymological humanism. In a world where the anxiety of influence can lead to the paradise of delirium, the best one can hope for is voyeuristic narrative pleasure. In all his novels Antrim is clearly determined to unlock the poststructuralist connundrum/enigma. Because Antrim so successfully navigates the narrative of despair the reader is left with not only metaphorical satiation, but the full realization of the global nature of narrative promise. As Freud has said, "repetition is the mother of invention."

I wasn't sure what to expect, being a devoted fan of Billy I can get very sensitive about material on him which I believe is false or slanderous. I know a good book when I read one, and this was a fabulous one. This did not claim, as so many articles , books and films do, that Billy killed 21 men,(he didn't, although he probably shot that many)or that he was a vicious psycho (he wasn't, he was a gentle, kind, likeable person). this book also dispelled some of the many lies and untruths told about Billy's reputation. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone with an interest in Billy the Kid or anyone who wants to read a real story without historical hearsay.

This book examines the problems confronting the Irish immigrants to Europe by concentrating on the lives of a series of emigrants from one Irish family, the MacDonnells of Antrim. A continuous succession of MacDonnells served in the armies of Spain, France and Austria between 1600 and 1820. One of them kept a diary of his experiences with Bonnie Prince Charlie in the '45 rebellion, another was a Spanish admiral at Trafalgar. Other Irish families covered by the book include the O'Neills, Magennises, O'Briens, Maguires, Butlers, Wogans and Sarsfields.

Somehow I think the definitive novel is one that is free to say anything about anything as Antrim does here and in his other novels. The trick is( or the art is) if its enjoyable and interesting. Antrim 'Verificationist' takes writing freedom to it's limits in a wonderful spell-binding way.Strange, beautiful, very funny masterpiece. It seems perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read.

Having read some of the reviews posted here, I felt compelledto write something about this book... The Verificationist is a trulyrefreshing book to read, and it lives up to the high praise it has received. I am particularly struck by the author's ability to unravel complicated states of being in a manner that is believable and at the same time representative of the symbolic blockages we experience in daily life; predicated by the non-communication of the spiritual (for lack of a better term) and the material, the essential and the supefluous (e.g., the conquest of the former by the latter). Antrim understands neurosis (or is it normalcy?)--and he's composed a tableau of what has become so prevalent in the contemporary, late-babyboomer--a state of hobbled, quotidian psychosis. So, yes, this book is not for the phlegm-headed--nor is it for those who limit their diet to the (mostly) 19th-century novel (although it continues down the same road established by the likes of Sterne, Fielding, and, indeed, even as Eliot would have it later on)--but The Verificationist is most certainly for anyone who wants to take the time to learn about the state of the novel today...This is one of the better examples of what can happen when everything goes right.

I loved this little book so much I read it twice back to back. It is rich, funny, sympathetic, ferociously intelligent and -- despite what some reviewers have said -- does not trail off at the end. In fact, it ends perfectly and logically, a fact that becomes more and more obvious as you re-read it. A dazzling brainy delight.