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What Are You Reading?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭EmoMatt15


    I just read 'Salem's Lot by Stephen Fry

    I enjoyed it...cept the ending was a bit...deflated


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    EmoMatt15 wrote: »
    I just read 'Salem's Lot by Stephen Fry

    I enjoyed it...cept the ending was a bit...deflated

    Stephen King?:pac:

    I just bough it last week, havent started it yet.


  • Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭Heggy


    Someone had other things on their mind when they posted. :P
    Can't imagine Fry doing horror.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    EmoMatt15 wrote: »
    I just read 'Salem's Lot by Stephen Fry

    I enjoyed it...cept the ending was a bit...deflated

    OMGWTFBBQ? :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 862 ✭✭✭cautioner


    Just started The Making of Memory by Steven Rose. It's about memory.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,590 ✭✭✭Pigwidgeon


    just started the secret life of bees
    have to say its pretty good so far.


  • Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭Heggy


    Finished The Man in the High Castle, a bit underwhelmed, I think it's a rather deep book which I just didn't spend too much time reflecting on, it was just begging for analysis.

    Anyway, I'm going to read The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Limerick Dude


    I finished reading "Dreams for by Father" by Barack Obama.

    Very good start and finish, drags a bit in the middle though.

    Overall very good read and its quite insightful.


    Already started the "The Audacity of Hope"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭Pyr0


    Just started The Decent of Angels - Horus Heresy


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 129 ✭✭Elonex


    Wuthering Heights because of school.

    Don't like it at all :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 605 ✭✭✭vinylbomb


    Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
    If you can get past the fact that at first glance it seems to be about cricket its quite a good book.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    Pyr0 wrote: »
    Just started The Decent of Angels - Horus Heresy
    The series any good? 40K FTW!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭EmoMatt15


    Heggy wrote: »
    Someone had other things on their mind when they posted. :P
    Can't imagine Fry doing horror.

    Ooops Yeh I made a boo boo!

    Its cos I love Stephen Fry and Stephen King and I read books by both of them!!

    Too many Stephens :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    The catcher in the rye..... Its not very good imo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    landyman wrote: »
    The catcher in the rye..... Its not very good imo


    tbh it completely depends when you read it, you have to be the right age to enjoy it properly.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    Fad wrote: »
    tbh it completely depends when you read it, you have to be the right age to enjoy it properly.
    what age is that? i havent read it yet.
    and do you mean age or maturity?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 862 ✭✭✭cautioner


    I read it last year (17) and didn't enjoy it at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭Armin_Tamzarian


    STALIN (biography by Robert Service).

    Great book, what a guy...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    STALIN (biography by Robert Service).

    Great book, what a guy...
    Yes, what a man indeed :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    Teutorix wrote: »
    what age is that? i havent read it yet.
    and do you mean age or maturity?


    Around 14/15 is a really good time, then you can read it again and say "This was such a good book" but If you read it at say 17 once you've developed a bit more and hormones kinda level off, its not really all that relelvant.

    Same with Wuthering Heights according to my uncle, but I havent read it.

    That said when I was 14 I mainly read John Grisham novels..........(But I managed to squeeze in catcher there)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    Fad wrote: »
    Around 14/15 is a really good time, then you can read it again and say "This was such a good book" but If you read it at say 17 once you've developed a bit more and hormones kinda level off, its not really all that relelvant.

    Same with Wuthering Heights according to my uncle, but I havent read it.

    That said when I was 14 I mainly read John Grisham novels..........(But I managed to squeeze in catcher there)
    oh well im almost 17 now


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭Armin_Tamzarian


    Teutorix wrote: »
    Yes, what a man indeed :pac:

    Surely TIME magazine couldn't have gotten it wrong...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    Teutorix wrote: »
    oh well im almost 17 now
    You can still read it, and you could well enjoy it, but just dont expect it to change you outlook on life............


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Fad wrote: »
    tbh it completely depends when you read it, you have to be the right age to enjoy it properly.

    Hmm true i suppose.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭norwegianwood


    The Kiterunner- i'm not that far into it yet but it's a really good book.
    I just finished reading the book version of Slumdog Millionaire- I can safely say its the only time i ever saw a movie based on a book that was actually better than it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭denashpot


    McMafia by Misha Glenny.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 862 ✭✭✭cautioner


    The Kiterunner- i'm not that far into it yet but it's a really good book.
    I just finished reading the book version of Slumdog Millionaire- I can safely say its the only time i ever saw a movie based on a book that was actually better than it.

    Wait, which one's better now? Like the book, haven't seen the movie yet.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭norwegianwood


    cautioner wrote: »
    Wait, which one's better now? Like the book, haven't seen the movie yet.


    Yeah, sorry, could have been more clear about that.I thought the book was good, but the movie was way better.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭RHRN


    The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭Brien


    Are you Dave Gorman by Dave Gorman


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,739 ✭✭✭Jello


    Watchmen. Film is out on Firday so I should be finished it by then. I'm not into comics/graphic novels usually but it's a great read.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 862 ✭✭✭cautioner


    The Kingdom of Infinite Space by Raymond Tallis. It's more philosophical than I'd expected but very interesting. About the brain and consciousness and all that jazz.


  • Registered Users Posts: 45 marzabar


    of Human Bondage by Maugham... It's amazing. (Nothing to do with like sex and chains bondage...)


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    Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"

    after which my girlfriend is going to let me read The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (can't wait!)
    Brien wrote: »
    Are you Dave Gorman by Dave Gorman

    Brilliant book. Read "Googlewhack Adventure" next.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    Brilliant book. Read "Googlewhack Adventure" next.

    His stand up version of this is one of the funniest things I've ever watched! I was in stitches throughout the entire thing!

    Reading: The Turn of the Screw - Henry James.
    It's never as much fun to read for college as it is for pleasure, regardless of what book it is :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    i had a weird habit of starting to read hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, then discovering i had some big state exams to do, only getting halfway through it, and then it having to go back to the library.

    so i've finally finished hitchikers guide to the galaxy and am most of the way through the next book, the restaurant at the end of the universe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭cocoa


    i finished mostly harmless, the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named hithchiker trilogy recently and am now readin Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency which is also by douglas adams :)

    Now if only I could get starship titanic to run on my comp...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭EmoMatt15


    I'm reading 1984 by George Orwell again
    Definitly my fave book by him


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    marzabar wrote: »
    of Human Bondage by Maugham... It's amazing. (Nothing to do with like sex and chains bondage...)
    Suuuuuurrreeee it isnt ;)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 45 marzabar


    Suuuuuurrreeee it isnt ;)


    haha! I tried to pretend I was a good upstanding girl... Damn you foiled that anyway!

    1984 is fantastic ! One of my favourites. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭p1akuw47h5r3it


    The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy... Tis pretty good


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 804 ✭✭✭yerayeah


    I finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas this morning instead of going to lectures:pac: I enjoyed it but maybe it wasn't quite as good as I hoped. Has anyone seen the film? How do they compare?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    bah, finished the galaxy at the end of the universe. wasn't half as good a read as hitchiker's guide, up until the very last chapter, i was starting to really get into it and then...nope. gone. over. *puff*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,477 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    Reading a book for sociology essay I've to do, Its called 'Quest for Excitement:Sport & Leisure in the Civilising Process'. If you have an interest in sport and history, this is a really good book, although as its aimed for moe academic reasons, that may detract from it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    yerayeah wrote: »
    I finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas this morning instead of going to lectures:pac: I enjoyed it but maybe it wasn't quite as good as I hoped. Has anyone seen the film? How do they compare?
    Ive never read the book but buggery I do love the film. Johnny Depp is a legend in it :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 200 ✭✭Neverwhere


    Stephen King -- Tommyknockers


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 861 ✭✭✭KeyLimePie


    Gossip Girl - You know you love me
    And
    Beowulf - Seamus Heany Translation :)

    they cancel each other out really


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Ive never read the book but buggery I do love the film. Johnny Depp is a legend in it :D

    I think they complement each other quite well actually, the whole drug thing is something that's really well expressed visually, but at the same time Thompson's an amazing writer. That bit about the wave breaking is done very well in the film


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    KeyLimePie wrote: »
    Gossip Girl - You know you love me
    And
    Beowulf - Seamus Heany Translation :)

    they cancel each other out really

    Ah yes, debit and credit reading, I'm on Caleb Williams and some crappy PD James murder mystery myself :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    the celestine prophecy - an adventure.

    a mate gave it to me. apparently, a few years ago, he moved out to the australian bush living pretty rough, and a combo of that and this book changed everything for him.

    so he gave it to me.

    aaaaaaaaaaaand it's starting to really really affect the way i think and the way im viewing my life. it's intriguing and kinda scary but im loving this book.


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