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

by Frederick Bodmer

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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 liked X's review of Girl on the Motorcycle: " "Without a doubt, he will not restrain himself, and soon she will become a leaf abandoned to the marvellous storm which will bend her and carry her away with such authority that nothing will be left but submission. The motorcycle too is a storm, brin" Read more of this review »
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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 and 4 other people liked Mijo Stumpf's review of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike: "Quite funny if you like Chekhov, but really really gets let down at the end with a liberal boomer-esque “WHAT IS HAPPENING TO YOUNG PEOPLE - WE ALL USED TO BE HAPPY IN THE 50s!!!!” nonsense. "
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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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An utterly brilliant, hilarious farce that brings the 1970s Italian original to 2020s Britain without losing a scrap of the wit and craziness. It requires a huge effort on the part of the leading man (the Maniac) and perfect timing by all the cast. T ...more
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It's as funny and opinionated as you'd expect. But it's infuriating that the British publisher of my edition has used the American 'translation', even changing the author's own words as well as the spellings, which is jarring for such a quintessentia ...more
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Much though I like 19th century literature, I found S&S a bit of a slog. It's not as witty as Pride & Prejudice, though it does have some funny moments. The intertwined family relationships detailed in the first chapter are hard to keep in one's head ...more
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Patrick’s Quotes

“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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