We read to know we're not alone...and go online just to make sure.

Piste

Alice in wonderland/ Alice through the looking glass
Animal Farm
1984
lord of the flies
I'm reading to kill a mockingbird in school and I thought it would be crap like the other stuff we did but its actually really good.
The life of Pi was a very good book I thought, really made me think

Shiney

Lord of the Rings-Classic
Bored of the Rings-Hilarious
Harry Potter books-i've read them way to many times but i never grow tired of them
The Outsiders
To Kill a Mockingbird
Chinese Cinderella
Across the Nightingale Floor
Piratica
One for the Money
Two for the Dough
Three to Get Deadly
The Alchemist-read it when i was 8 so i can't really remember it.
Inkheart
Goodnight Mister Tom-beloved childhood book but my english teacher ruined it in 1st year
Eragon-almost finished but BRILLIANT so far

Piste

The Snapper- Hilarious, its like the anti- Ross o Carrol Kelly book.

PurpleFistMixer

Life of Pi and The Alchemist are both very good books.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Life of Pi before, it's actually ridiculous how believeable it is. I'd never thought I'd think a book about a boy stranded on a lifeboat with a tiger for that long nearly non fiction, but I really did...

Or maybe I'm just an idiot.

Either way I win.

article6

Nah, it's not you. Life of Pi is just a work of pure genius.

Chowburger

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Okay, that took a bit of concentration and understand on my part...
I think I've read that book (is it about characters from a book who become real or something?), and yes, the book obsession I found rather irritating. To me, it made the characters seem a bit one dimensional.

A little one-dimensional, yes... and I think I'd probably have gotten bored of that book if it wasn't for Dustfinger, who rocked my metaphorical socks (and didn't do the whole book-obsessing thing)!

PurpleFistMixer

article6 wrote:

Nah, it's not you. Life of Pi is just a work of pure genius.

And highly informative now. I'm fully equipped to debate zoos with random strangers now. Or at least I would be if I could remember... god damn it.

Chowburger wrote:

A little one-dimensional, yes... and I think I'd probably have gotten bored of that book if it wasn't for Dustfinger, who rocked my metaphorical socks (and didn't do the whole book-obsessing thing)!

Yeah, he was pretty damn cool.

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Gummybearz!!! wrote:

The Snapper- Hilarious, its like the anti- Ross o Carrol Kelly book.

No you! The snapper was published in 1990, ROCK came about sometime in the late '90s if anything. Roddy Doyle is one of the greatest writers Ireland has ever produced and his books (the Barrytown Trilogy among them) have become bestsellers throughout the world. I admit, ROCK has his funny moments but to compare him to Roddy Doyle... gah! Even to say Roddy Doyle was trying to write back at ROCK... gah! No you!

O'Carroll Kelly writes to appeal to a certain section of society mainly found in south east Dublin. Roddy Doyle writes brilliant novels and plays that appeal to people throughout the world. I cannot think of a suitable analogy to this situation involving faeces but I will find one and, furthermore, I shall smite you down with my testosterone filled stick of doom*.

*You know what I'm talking about.

Crash

The butcher boy - Patrick McCabe

started reading it again last night - excellent book - actually manages to fill you with an overwhelming sense of dread and empathy with Francie and the path he goes down.

article6

OrangeRhino wrote:

No you! The snapper was published in 1990, ROCK came about sometime in the late '90s if anything. Roddy Doyle is one of the greatest writers Ireland has ever produced and his books (the Barrytown Trilogy among them) have become bestsellers throughout the world. I admit, ROCK has his funny moments but to compare him to Roddy Doyle... gah! Even to say Roddy Doyle was trying to write back at ROCK... gah! No you!

Well, just because somebody calls it the "anti-Ross" doesn't mean they presume it came afterwards. No need to get so agitated over tenses, though I agree about Roddy Doyle's quality of writing being superior. Or at least I would if I had enough interest to read those other books.

pinkpimp

Id have toi whole heartedly agree with mr. orangerhino here. ROCK is brilliant, but not even on Roddy Doyles scale.

Kitsune

Pterry rules!
Ringworld by Larry Niven is brilliant
as are the Wheel of Time books,
the Narnia Books
The first ten or so David Eddings books I read (They get so repetitive after that)
'The Portable Poe'
The Book of Revelations
The government publications English-Irish Dictionary. This is a million times better than those sh1t school dictionaries and makes writing an aiste sooo much easier.
I'm currently reading 'The theory and Practice of Communism'

Corruptedmorals

Lord of the Rings-Tolkien
A Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess
About A Boy-Nick Hornby
Chinese Cinderella-Adeline Yen Mah
I have lived a thousand years-I forget
Ulysess (sp?)-Joyce
The Ross O Carroll Kelly books-Paul Howard
Perfume- Patrick Suskind

jono087

Lord Of The Rings is/are legendary, histories of Middle Earth are much much more interesting tho....

Matthewthebig

as are the Wheel of Time books

They are my most favourist books ever i've read them all including the novella and the history book. Does anyone know when the knew one is due?

I'm also rather partial to the Darren Shan Saga

Chowburger

Matthewthebig wrote:

They are my most favourist books ever i've read them all including the novella and the history book. Does anyone know when the knew one is due?

I got sorta bored of them after about Book Four... After the character from HELL (what's her name... Faille or something) came along. She made me want to throw things.

I'm also rather partial to the Darren Shan Saga

One of the few good things Limerick has ever produced is Darren Shan. Those books rock!

Oh, and has anyone ever read Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer? I rather like the series. They're not the most fantastically written books ever, but twelve year old geniuses (genii? Bah - stupid plurals) always make for an entertaining read

PurpleFistMixer

I read the first 2 Artemis Fowl books. DIdn't think they were anything special. I disliked Artemis as a character. I dislike supersmart youngin's. (Even if it's only 2 years younger). And he had his own laptop! (Jerk.. *mutters*)

Matthewthebig

ah you cant get bored of the Wheel Of Time it just keeps on giving and giving. people go that Lord Of The Rings is an epic you try reading the whole Wheel Of Time thats an epic

Magician is a good book as well

pinkpimp

I quite liked the mister men books.






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Mystic Fibrosis

Indeed, Life Of Pi, the only book I read through in one day.
Simulacra & Simulation, and America, both by Jean Baudrillard
Quicksilver, The Confusion, Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Regeneration
and many more.
If I could include comics this list would be gigantic

It wasn't me!

Heh heh. Mister men.
*Remembers sitting in a circle around Leo as he reads Mister Noisy aloud in the Iveagh Gardens*

Shiney

It wasn't me! wrote:

Heh heh. Mister men.
*Remembers sitting in a circle around Leo as he reads Mister Noisy aloud in the Iveagh Gardens*

god that brings back so many memories . i has like a million of the little men and little miss's when i was small.
dunno what happened to them though...

Liquorice

It wasn't me! wrote:

Heh heh. Mister men.
*Remembers sitting in a circle around Leo as he reads Mister Noisy aloud in the Iveagh Gardens*

And somehow drawing a comparison between MDMA and elephants.

It wasn't me!

Yeah actually. That whole thing got surprisingly nerdy for an activity that involved reading a book with no word of more than two syllables.

mentalimplosion

the mr men series never really appealed to me, not like the little misses could. see, i could relate to the little misses, especially little miss splendid, whereas the mr men were all like, i'm tall, go me, i'm happy, go me.

Stephen Forde

hmmmmmmmmm (*strokes chin where beard will be hopefully in years to come, and nods approvingly at the great points being made)

jolly good insights

davethetrucker

read go ask alice best book ever.

PurpleFistMixer

Someone told me about Go Ask Alice. It's the diary of a girl who went on acid or something, right? Is it true that it's true?

mentalimplosion

yeah, we read it in first year. i tell ya, corrupted a lot of minds in my class.

It wasn't me!

Forde's growing a wannabeard!!!! *laughs hysterically* Aonghus should copyright that and charge you!