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Title: Really bad writing and just plain boring
Review: McCarthy's Bar was recommended by a friend who is very British. Unfortunately, and somebody please tell him, so is Pete McCarthy. I never read an author who seemed as pathetically desperate to be Irish. Expecting good humor, interesting tales, and at the least well written prose, I was dissappointed to discover in the pages of this book perhaps the worst travel prose I have ever come across. It is completely lacking in depth, humor (it is touted as a humorous peice), insight, or even decent observation. It is one of the worst books I have read in years. Pete McCarthy, congrats on landing a book deal, as you certainly did not deserve it. Sorry Pete, spendng summers there as a kid makes you about as Irish as the typical fat American tourist. Not at all.
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