darragh murray

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Zigzag Street

Monday, December 17th, 2007

I noticed my sister had started reading Nick Earl’s “Zigzag Street”, a book I had long been intending to read, but never really had the time. Having not a huge amount of things to do on Sunday evening, apart from dodging the large amount of work I have to do, I took to the novel [...]

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The Great Gatsby

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 7
I finished the ‘great American novel’ last night, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”. Without going into great length about the whole story, my initial view is that it would probably take an analytical literature class to [...]

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