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This week, I are mostly reading....

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    #242
    Capt'n Midnight
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    just finished Down Under now starting on A Short History of Nearly Everything

    Both By Bill Bryson


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    #243
    John
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    Bob Dylan - Chronicles


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    #244
    Gummy Panda
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    The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King


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    #245
    theCzar
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    Just finished the first four books of the Hitchhikers guide series. again.

    I'll either start a big fat history book on the fall of Berlin, or I'll chill out with some trashy thriller


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    #246
    byte
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    byte


    The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien


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    #247
    JCDenton
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    Just finished American Psycho;

    quite nasty, But what was that ending all about?


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    #248
    Rhyme
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    Mondo Desperado... Irish novel, very funny.


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    #249
    theCzar
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    I've started the big fat history book on the Fall of Berlin by Anthony Beevor. Excellent if you like history, well written (easy to read) and packed with first hand accounts storys, really brings the subject to life.


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    growler
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    The Confusion , Neal Stephenson

    pretty good follow up to Quicksilver great mix of history, fiction and adventure.


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    #251
    John
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    theCzar wrote:
    I've started the big fat history book on the Fall of Berlin by Anthony Beevor. Excellent if you like history, well written (easy to read) and packed with first hand accounts storys, really brings the subject to life.

    That's a great book. I've got his Stalingrad book put aside for my holidays


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    #252
    Tristram
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    Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

    Hardy's last novel unfortunately due to the adverse criticism it received.Qualifies as a classic.


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    #253
    John
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    Neil Young - Greendale


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    #254
    bringitdown
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    The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde, superb.


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    #255
    John
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    bringitdown wrote:
    The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde, superb.

    I agree, great piece of work


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    Tristram
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    Hayden White - "Metahistory"
    Keith Jenkins - "Rethinking History?"

    uni stuff


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    #257
    Nimrod's Son
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    Chopper by Mark Brandon Read. The guy's an effin nutcase.


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    #258
    CathyMoran
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    Ivan Noble - Like a Hole in the Head, Living With a Brain Tumour

    A printed version of Ivan Nobles blog on living with a brain tumor, one of the most touching books I have ever read even though I read the blogs...incredibly moving.


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    #259
    Horatio
    Registered Users Posts: 148 ✭✭Horatio


    Rereading Peril's Gate at the mo, anyone hear anything about the next in the series, it was reportadly out in the UK 2 months ago but haven't seen
    it in any of the Dublin bookstores yet.


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    #260
    lemon_sherbert
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    collection of short stories by Kate Chopin. Loved them. way ahead of their time.


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    #261
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    The Good German by Joseph Kanon. It's ok so far.


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    #262
    Capt'n Midnight
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    RED MARS - kim Stanley Robinson - only at start so undecided.


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    #263
    OY
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    Have been reading Dune now for over a month... i have readers block!


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    #264
    PurpleFistMixer
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    I've been devouring books lately. Over the last week or so I've read Penny Dreadful and Hell's Half Acre by Will Christopher Baer (well, was just finishing PD), The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky and am now reading Neuromancer by William Gibson. Hurray for reasons to avoid studying!


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    #265
    CathyMoran
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    OY wrote:
    Have been reading Dune now for over a month... i have readers block!
    Keep going - it is worth the struggle. I first tried to read it when I was 7, did not suceed until I was 12, have read it several times since (including all the prequels, etc).

    Read: Jane Lapotaire - Time Out of Mind
    This is about surviving a brain haemorrage
    Mick Doyle - Zero Point One Six: Living in Extra Time
    This is also about surviving a brain haemorrage - of the two books, I found this to be the better one. Having a relative who has suffered from this condition I found that reading these biolgraphies was helpful in understanding what was happening - the medical books can only give you so much information.


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    #266
    grimloch
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    mostly arrians the campaigns of alexander and plutarchs age of alexander, part of the classics course


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    #267
    Dublin's Finest
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    Joyce - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.

    Bit bored so far though.


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    #268
    tabatha
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    Call Me Elizabeth by Dawn Annandale


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    byte
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    byte


    Turning Thirty - Mike Gayle


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    #270
    CathyMoran
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    byte wrote:
    Turning Thirty - Mike Gayle
    Remember first reading that book on my 30 minus nine month birthday...good book.


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    Kernel
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    Reading 'Phantoms' by Dean R. Koontz. Have to say it is a very engaging story so far. His writing style is great, and he can certainly build a creepy athmosphere with this one!


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