If you only read one book this year about getting a kicking outside a disco or getting your schoolbag shot to pieces by the army, make it this one. Some things just don't age.I had a blast during the Troubles in Belfast.You probably think that life in Belfast during the Troubles for kids was terrible but I can tell you that me and my mates had a laugh. It wasn't all fun of course; people got killed, others got damaged, and then there's the mental damage we all probably got, but what can you do?Try to have a laugh, that's what.Why are the RUC bastards? Because they are you see. That's the joke we had as kids.We had pointy headed bastards (Protestants) and soap dodging bastards (Catholics).The bonfire chant was a ♫Build a Bony, build a Bony, put the Popey on the top, put the Fenians in the middle and burn the fuckin' lot♫ and some of our friends who lived in West Belfast had never heard that until we sang it at a party.Read the book. All of these things really happened; kickings, beatings up, disappearances, thuggery, goat fartery, drinking and dancing and there's more to come; this is just the start; book 1. Thanks for reading

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