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What book are you reading atm??

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    #4262
    KH25
    Registered Users Posts: 5,833 ✭✭✭KH25


    The Shining.


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    #4263
    Barna77
    Registered Users Posts: 3,271 ✭✭✭Barna77


    KH25 wrote: »
    The Shining.
    That's my next one.


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    #4264
    Vojera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    Rereading Northern lights - Philip Pullman
    I love those books. I've re-read them a good few times now and I still cry more than is probably acceptable every time.


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    #4265
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    All crying is acceptable ;_;


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    #4266
    whitewave
    Registered Users Posts: 397 ✭✭whitewave


    Vojera wrote: »
    I love those books. I've re-read them a good few times now and I still cry more than is probably acceptable every time.

    I'm not sure why, but I only enjoyed the first one in the trilogy. Ended up putting down the third and not even bothering finishing it, which isn't like me at all. Might try get back to it again, it just didn't keep me interested first time round.

    Needed something light to read at the moment, so reading Cat&Mouse by James Patterson, one of the Alex Cross books. Bit meh, nice and easy reading though!


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    #4267
    py2006
    Registered Users Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭py2006


    Barna77 wrote: »
    That's my next one.

    I loved it when I first read it over 15 years ago. I'm afraid to read it again in case an older me doesn't enjoy it :(


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    #4268
    AndyBoBandy
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Pete Goss - Close To The wind


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    #4269
    boobar
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    Just started reading Personal by Lee Child...big fan of the Jack Reacher series.


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    #4270
    astonaidan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭astonaidan


    Reading the Jungle Book at the moment, nice little read moving through it quickly. Going on to re-reading forth Song of Ice & Fire book, previously read it on laptop, have a rule about putting books on my shelf that havent been read :o


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    #4271
    Vojera
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    whitewave wrote: »
    I'm not sure why, but I only enjoyed the first one in the trilogy. Ended up putting down the third and not even bothering finishing it, which isn't like me at all. Might try get back to it again, it just didn't keep me interested first time round.!
    Do give it another go if you still have it. It might not be your thing, and that's okay, but the trilogy is easily one of my favourites.

    I'm currently reading Shade's Children by Garth Nix. I loved his Old Kingdom books, but this is a totally different direction - YA dystopia before it got popular in the past few years. I've had it on my shelf for years (!!!) and I'm only getting around to it now.


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    #4272
    Miss Lizzie Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭Miss Lizzie Jones


    Eat vegan on $4.00 a day.


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    #4273
    thejaguar
    Registered Users Posts: 730 ✭✭✭thejaguar


    The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene


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    #4274
    KH25
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    Sticking with Stephen King at the minute. Just about to begin 'The Stand'.


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    #4275
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    I read the new Ross O'Carroll Kelly book over the past few days, Keeping Up with the Kalashnikovs. A bit of light-hearted humour, I enjoyed it!


    Back reading a lot of Stephen King at the moment. Have his entire back catalogue downloaded so transfer them to my Kindle as the mood takes me :) Enjoying the Bachman books at the moment. Read The Long Walk a few months back and really enjoyed it. Read The Running Man last week, both books have similar enough concepts, set in dystopian America, very Battle Royale-esque.

    Currently reading Rage, which SK actually let go out of print as it was associated with some high school shootings in the 80s and 90s. Next on the list is Roadwork.


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    #4276
    KH25
    Registered Users Posts: 5,833 ✭✭✭KH25


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    I read the new Ross O'Carroll Kelly book over the past few days, Keeping Up with the Kalashnikovs. A bit of light-hearted humour, I enjoyed it!


    Back reading a lot of Stephen King at the moment. Have his entire back catalogue downloaded so transfer them to my Kindle as the mood takes me :) Enjoying the Bachman books at the moment. Read The Long Walk a few months back and really enjoyed it. Read The Running Man last week, both books have similar enough concepts, set in dystopian America, very Battle Royale-esque.

    Currently reading Rage, which SK actually let go out of print as it was associated with some high school shootings in the 80s and 90s. Next on the list is Roadwork.

    Read the running man a while back and I really enjoyed it. I would like to get my hands on a copy of rage at some point. Is yours in the Bachman Books?


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    #4277
    Pumpkinseeds
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    Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel. It's an interesting look at the Henry the VIII/Anne Bolyen/Thomas Cromwell/Bishop of York story.


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    #4278
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    KH25 wrote: »
    Read the running man a while back and I really enjoyed it. I would like to get my hands on a copy of rage at some point. Is yours in the Bachman Books?

    I downloaded them
    totally legally <_<
    . It was one big folder of most of SK's titles and the Bachman ones were amongst them, each as a separate book.


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    #4279
    Chairman Meow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭Chairman Meow


    Mike Tysons Undisputed Truth.
    Not the most high brow book ive ever read, but bloody entertaining!


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    #4280
    Donald73
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    The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier. It's good so far, only started it last night.


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    #4281
    D-FENS
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    Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, wanted to read it before the David Fincher movie with Ben Affleck (Nothing to do with Gone, Baby, Gone) adaptation comes out next month.
    So far its reading like a story tailor made for a safe movie version….good looking young couple, mysterious disappearance, flashbacks… but Fincher says he will put a different spin on it, so hopefully he’ll make it darker than the book is, so far anyway.


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    #4282
    Birneybau
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    D-FENS wrote: »
    Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, wanted to read it before the David Fincher movie with Ben Affleck (Nothing to do with Gone, Baby, Gone) adaptation comes out next month.
    So far its reading like a story tailor made for a safe movie version….good looking young couple, mysterious disappearance, flashbacks… but Fincher says he will put a different spin on it, so hopefully he’ll make it darker than the book is, so far anyway.

    Yeah, wait til you finish it...


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    #4283
    Ciaran_B
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    Perfedia by James Ellroy.

    I re-read Bloods A Rover last month ahead of the release of Perfedia and to get my ear re-tuned to Ellroys writing style. So far this is pretty good but missing that Ellroy spark of genius, it’s more verbose than his previous books and isn’t as instantly addictive as Bloods A Rover.


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    Ilyana 2.0
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    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel. It's an interesting look at the Henry the VIII/Anne Bolyen/Thomas Cromwell/Bishop of York story.

    I'm reading that at the moment too. I've heard it's fantastic but I struggle to keep up with the narrative style sometimes.


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    #4285
    First_October
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭First_October


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel. It's an interesting look at the Henry the VIII/Anne Bolyen/Thomas Cromwell/Bishop of York story.

    I read that a few months ago and thought it was outstanding.


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    #4286
    D-FENS
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    Birneybau wrote: »
    Yeah, wait til you finish it...

    Ah, ok, will do


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    #4287
    azezil
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    Star Trek: Vanguard - book 4 of 9 - Open Secrets by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dimore. David Mack wrote most of the series and several other Star Trek books I really enjoyed reading, Dayton and Kevin so far aren't really doing it for me, but I'll read on regardless.


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    #4288
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,311 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    diograis wrote: »
    hate for it? I thought it was brilliant, what did people not like about? I've a fairly sarcastic sense of humour though. I also love how it was banned here back in the day :P

    Didn't know it was banned.

    Yeah - there are a few posts on this thread by people who really disliked it.

    As I thought it has grown on me. Did take a while though.


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    #4289
    Pumpkinseeds
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    Ilyana 2.0 wrote: »
    I'm reading that at the moment too. I've heard it's fantastic but I struggle to keep up with the narrative style sometimes.

    I've been reading a lot of Phillipa Gregory books recently, so I think I've adapted to the narrative style. I'd recommend her books too.


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    #4290
    Irishchick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭Irishchick


    At the min I'm reading

    Confessions of a sociopath
    Broken monsters
    The boy who never was (nearly finished)
    Naming Jack the Ripper ( New one based on the new evidence around the shawl)


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    #4291
    Birneybau
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    Finished 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, yeah, not bad, prefer his other 2 books though.

    Started 'Barracuda' by Christos Tsiolkas, enjoyable so far.


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