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This week, I are mostly reading....

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    #2432
    Tawfee
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    That they may face the rising sun - by John McGahern


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    #2433
    p to the e
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    The universe in a nutshell (on audiobook)


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    #2434
    BaZmO*
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    p to the e wrote: »
    The universe in a nutshell (on audiobook)
    So..... This week, you are mostly listening to....


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    #2435
    p to the e
    Registered Users Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭p to the e


    BaZmO* wrote: »
    So..... This week, you are mostly listening to....

    That's a bit read-ist:)


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    #2436
    Valmont
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    I'm still reading Catch 22. Taking my sweet time because it is so funny. I think the chapter about Major Major Major Major was the funniest thing I've read since The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

    I'm also reading V for Vendetta and a book on Informal logic.


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    #2437
    chenguin
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    The Caller by Alex Barclay


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    #2438
    Quality
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    Lainabaina wrote: »
    Ooh that's one of my unfinished ones :/
    How are you getting on?

    It has been a slow read so far... But haven't really had the chance to get stuck into it yet...


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    #2439
    Sir Gallagher
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    Started Brave New World by Aldous Huxley a couple of days ago.


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    #2440
    yerayeah
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    Fight Club


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    #2441
    orangecake
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    Sir Gallagher wrote: »
    Started Brave New World by Aldous Huxley a couple of days ago.

    Great book. To continue to dystopian theme I'm rereading Nineteen Eighty-Four.


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    #2442
    theCzar
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    The Dark Tower, not as good as it started 6 books ago, but I'm looking forward to this dark tower.


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    #2443
    Codofwar
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    This week I are mostly readin The Magician's Apprentice by Trudi Canavan. Its based on the way things were before the dark magician trilogy. Only at the start of it but it seems very good so far, another great book from canavan.


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    Denerick
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    Started the decline and fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon. I consider it a long term read, will read it in between other books over a long period of time...


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    #2445
    Tawfee
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    Leviathan by Paul Auster


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    #2446
    Heisenberg.
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    #2447
    Blush_01
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    Still reading Tristram Shandy (slowly).

    Starting Girl With A Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier.


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    #2448
    finalfantasist
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    This week I am mostly reading The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett and End of Shadows by Brent Weeks.


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    #2449
    livvy
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    just finished ken follett's "pillars of the earth"


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    #2450
    curly2000ie
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    I'm a non-fiction kinda of guy. Currently i am reading James Watson's "DNA:the secret of life". It's damn good stuff.

    Definitely the best introduction to DNA/genetics. Just think what all you fiction guys.gals are missing. This is the first book that lives up to its subtitle.


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    #2451
    Tawfee
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    The Damned Utd by David Peace


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    #2452
    mickedm
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    Ive got a non-fiction for you too Curly. similar theme

    The Cosmic Serpent; DNA and the Origins of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby

    Definitely a different take on the subject matter. Pretty good though


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    Shryke
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    The Suspicions of Mr. Wicher by Kate Summerscale. It's very good so far. It's about the real life murder of a young boy in the 1800's. The events are fictionalised but it's very factually accurate and accessable.


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    #2454
    kaimera
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    finally finished 'Shadow's Edge', book#2 of the Night Angel trilogy.

    fantastic books thus far. Been a while since I really got into a fantasy book like this has drawn me in.

    fail by me for not bringing book3 with me :(


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    #2455
    theCzar
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    David Copperfield.

    had a choice of 3 editions in Waterstones in Liverpool
    1) 11 pound
    2) 9 pound
    3) 2 pound

    1 and 3 are both produced by penguin, I can't figure out if they're implying we're retarded, or that they're retarded.


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    #2456
    Blush_01
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    Leaf Storm - Gabriel Garcia Marquez


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    #2457
    orangecake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭orangecake


    Just finished reading The Great Gatsby for the second time. Wasn't very taken with it the first time but it was much better on the reread. Onto 'Of Mice and Men' now. Really enjoying it, right from the first few pages.


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    #2458
    Tawfee
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    orangecake wrote: »
    Just finished reading The Great Gatsby for the second time. Wasn't very taken with it the first time but it was much better on the reread.

    I'm hoping that's the case for me also when i eventually get round to re-reading it. I never got the sense the first time round that I was reading the "great American novel".


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    #2459
    Shryke
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    Starting Les Miserables, complete and unabridged.


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    #2460
    turgon
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    theCzar wrote: »
    had a choice of 3 editions in Waterstones in Liverpool
    1) 11 pound
    2) 9 pound
    3) 2 pound

    1 and 3 are both produced by penguin, I can't figure out if they're implying we're retarded, or that they're retarded.

    Theyre probably implying that the expensive one is made out or better quality paper and has an introduction and/or notes and/or a nice cover.

    Those 2 pound green ones are **** quality, they disfigure in front of the fire, the ink smudges all the cover, no introduction, and usually a mediocre translation (if relevent).

    +1 to Tawfee


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    #2461
    Thnx4theGum
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    Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup


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