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Patrick Neylan writes about the maritime industry and occasionally medieval history and music. He is also an editorial consultant.

He was editor of Fairplay Shipping Weekly and editorial director of Drewry Maritime Research.

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	Ship Sale and Purchase by Patrick Neylan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Simon Ward (Contributor), Edmund Woollam (Peer Reviwer) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Port and Terminal Management by Patrick Neylan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christopher Atwell (Contributor), Neil Davidson (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understanding Shipping Module 9: Global Maritime Centres 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tanker Chartering 2021 by Patrick Neylan (Goodreads Author), Fiona Palmer (Contributor), Philip Wood (Original author) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Offshore Support Industry by Patrick Neylan (Goodreads Author), John Halcrow (Contributor), Michael Robards (Peer Reviewer) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shipping Business by Patrick Neylan (Goodreads Author), William Simper (Contributor), Graeme Nimmo (Peer Reviewer) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understanding Shipping Module 4: The Role of Ports 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understanding Shipping Module 6: The Charter Markets & Shipbroking 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

by Mark Forsyth (Goodreads Author)

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The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages

by Frederick Bodmer

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Patrick Neylan rated a book liked it Christmas Carol by Piers Torday (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Torday's take is an innovative one. Great literature, like Dickens, Shakespeare and others, is supremely adaptable and Torday gives it a good go with the feminist take. Scrooge has died and his sister Fan (who dies young in the original) marries Marl ...more
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Patrick Neylan rated a book liked it My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It's a light, fun read, but the middle section descends into a repetitive litany of carnal escapades. The ending rescues it a bit. ...more
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Patrick Neylan made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Book wrongly merged topic " I've added the play script of "The Girl On The Train" (ISBN 9780573132131) to my books and noticed that nearly all the reviews refer to the novel, not ...more "
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Patrick Neylan and 89 other people liked Mir's review of Storm of Steel: "This is probably the cheeriest war memoir ever. While Jünger occasionally remembers to throw in the the requisite "oh the horrors of war" comment, most of the time it is clear he is having a blast. Based on his other hobbies (travel, hunting, joining" Read more of this review »
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Patrick Neylan and 35 other people liked Kenny's review of Present Laughter (Modern Classics): "My worst defect is that I am apt to worry too much about what people think of me when I'm alive. But I'm not going to do that anymore. I'm changing my methods and you're my first experiment. As a rule, when insufferable young beginners have he impert" Read more of this review »
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Patrick Neylan liked Christophe's review of The Motorcycle: "Repetitive and predictable. This so-called masterpiece of erotic literature is very sloppy indeed."
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Patrick Neylan made a comment on Warwick’s review of Six Weeks: The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War " I don't often agree with Michael Gove, but his comment about the Blackadderisation of WWI had some merit. Other narratives seem to have been forgotten ...more "
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Patrick Neylan rated a book did not like it Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful by Jolyon Maugham	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Maugham's failure can be summed up in the pompous blurb for this very book: "Jolyon Maugham QC founded The Good Law Project with the belief that the law can also put power in the hands of ordinary people." And yet he founded The Good Law Project with ...more
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Patrick Neylan rated a book did not like it The Way by Swann's (In Search of Lost Time #1) by Marcel Proust	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Is this the most tedious book ever written? Not only is it dull, it's relentlessly, sadistically dull. The narrative is: "When I was a child, I walked around and looked at things. My parents also had friends who were moderately interesting. I thought ...more
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“I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.”
― Katherine Mansfield, Selected Letters

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“Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say.”
― Raymond Chandler

tags: writing

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“I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.”
― Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe's Guide to Life

tags: dicks

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“On the smooth brown hair was a hat that had been taken from its mother too young.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister

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“Let love therefore be what it will, my Uncle Toby fell into it—And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst thou: For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman.”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

tags: concupiscence, love

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