Enchanted Life
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THIS MAY PROVE THE WEIRDEST BOOK YOU’LL READ OUTSIDE THE WORKS OF STEPHEN KING*
Memoirs can be boring, covering the same old ground, telling essentially the same old stories. Not this one.
Herbie Brennan began a lifelong career as a writer at the age of 18. He worked as a…
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1 author picked Enchanted Life as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is the biography of Irish novelist the late Herbie Brennan, one of Ireland's most successful authors, yet he is not exactly a household name. Herbie was incredibly prolific writing over 100 books, mostly fiction, but he also wrote about history and esoteric matters.
His biography is incredibly candid, often funny but most of all riveting. He had an absolutely amazingly interesting life, at least it seems that way from the way this book is written. So the title 'Enchanted Life' seems entirely appropriate, given the breadth of experiences he had. If you like biography you'll enjoy this even if…
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