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Online book review

  • 11-08-2006 10:20am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭


    Anyone interested in participating in one of these with me? We could read and review a book each month and post our thoughts on the book as we go along and also get into a discussion about the book online. Any interest or suggestions?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 47 pajos55


    I like the sound of this.

    Might be an idea to compile people's "wish lists" (i know i have a list as long as my arm of books i have been meaning to read for ages) and select from that based on what the majority want to try...

    I'll throw in some of my wish list for starters: -

    Underworld - Don DeLillo
    Animal Farm - Orwell
    1984 - Orwell
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
    Foucaults Pendulum - Umberto Eco
    The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
    Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
    The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
    Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
    The Untouchable - John Banville


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭BossArky


    yep, I'd be interested. How about giving a few weeks notice of whatever book will be read next month so people get times to get hold of a copy.

    Will post a list of books I have lying around at home unread later when I can see them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    I'm willing to give this another go. Lets decide on a book.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Deer


    Okay - I'm easy enough on what to read. I think we should only put one suggestion in each time otherwise there'll be major confusion! Do we want serious lit or a lighter type novel?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭BossArky


    1 of each and then vote?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Deer


    Okay my "serious lit" book is Lanark by Alasdair Gray and my lighter novel would be I know this much is true by Wally Lamb.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Deer


    Anyone?!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    I'd never heard of either book, but Lanark sounds very interesting. I'll definitely be checking it out. This Much I Know Is True however, sounds like heavy going, and while maybe intersting, doesn't fit my definition of a "lighter" book.

    Maybe perhaps something like A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss, or The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭BossArky


    I don't mind what ye pick, just give me a week or two to find a copy on ebay ad we're off. So what is it going to be?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Deer


    Okay we'll go with Lanark and do not dance on my head if you all think it's rubbish :D and one of Dudara's suggestions which I will leave up to someone else to pick! I never thought of using Ebay before for books. Then again I don't have a credit card so there wouldn't be much use in it for me.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 47 pajos55


    Lanark sounds good to me.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭BossArky


    I mentioned earlier in this thread that I'd post a list of unread books I have waiting around at home in case any of them sound interesting for the next book reviews:

    - Les Miserables
    - Fear & Loathing in LV
    - Heart of Darkness
    - Sons & Lovers
    - Phantom of the Opera (I think)
    - The Divine Comedy
    - 100 years of Solitude
    - State of the Art
    - Against a Dark Background
    - Million Dollar Habits

    ... and some other stuff I cannot remember right now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 47 pajos55


    I vote Heart of Darkness as the second book


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭BossArky


    Just about getting my hands on Lanark, ... should arrive within 10 days.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭BossArky


    I hope it wasn't one of you boards folk who outbid me following my last post :mad:


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