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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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    #602
    Metalfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭Metalfan


    Warlock by Wilbur Smith


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    #603
    Travel is good
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    "Skippy Dies" by Paul Murray

    I'm on a bit of a Booker Prize theme here, as I just bought The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas & Room by Emma Donoghue.


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    #604
    emeraldstar
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    Have had Skippy Dies sitting at home for ages. I really must read it now. We've got innumerable piles of unread books though, it's quite ridiculous, so I don't know when I shall get round to it. How do you find it?


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    #605
    pearliefan
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    'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was great.. Reading the second one now - 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' - and it's a fantastic read as well.


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    #606
    rushnaldo
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭rushnaldo


    pearliefan wrote: »
    'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was great.. Reading the second one now - 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' - and it's a fantastic read as well.


    Same here. I'm half ways thrugh the second book. Its even better than the first one imo so far. Has anyone read all three? which is the best?


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    #607
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    rushnaldo wrote: »
    Same here. I'm half ways thrugh the second book. Its even better than the first one imo so far. Has anyone read all three? which is the best?

    Read all 3 and for me the last one Hornets' Nest is the best but all 3 are rivetting reads ... for once well worthy of all the hype :D


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    #608
    Travel is good
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    emeraldstar wrote: »
    Have had Skippy Dies sitting at home for ages. I really must read it now. We've got innumerable piles of unread books though, it's quite ridiculous, so I don't know when I shall get round to it. How do you find it?
    I just finished the book yesterday. A strange story, but very topical. It reminded me a bit of the film "Donnie Darko". It's set in a fictional Irish fee-paying school, though you can probably guess which school it's based on. I won't reveal anymore, though the title gives you a hint.

    Last night I started "The Room" by Emma Donoghue.


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    #609
    Blobby George
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    Fire And Ice by J.A. Jance


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    #610
    Busi_Girl08
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    Finished Brave New World. Loved it.

    Just started Kite Runner last night.


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    #611
    Callan57
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    About to start The Housekeep & The Professor by Yoko Ogawa


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    #612
    Kurtosis
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    The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman


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    #613
    8mv
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    Finished the Millenium Trilogy. Quite decent but left me a little underwhelmed. No interest in any character except Lisbebh.

    Just started Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor. Liking it so far. Can't wait to see how it ends!

    I'll also be reading as many plays as I can as suggestions for our drama group. Just scanned through A Crucial Week In The Life Of A Grocers Assistant by Tom Murphy. I'll mark it down as a possible. Saw a production of his Bailegangaire recently and it blew me away.


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    #614
    Censorsh!t
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    Finished Brave New World by Aldous Huxley a few days ago. I liked it. But (just seen as they're compared so much) I do like Orwell's Nineteen-EightyFour more.


    I'm now onto Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz. For a book that's over 700 pages long I'm tearing into it very well! It's one that just flows and you don't notice that you've read so much. I like Toltz's way of describing things, and much of the passages have a very quotable feel to them.


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    #615
    BopNiblets
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    Finished reading Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan, gritty and hardboiled, great stuff (if not a little confusing sometimes, I tend to read at night so sleepy no good for delicate plot points :D ).


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    #616
    Asphyxia
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    I've been re-reading some classics at the moment but started the girl who played with fire and think it's brilliant so far, so excited about it.


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    #617
    MsMoo
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    Recently read Iain Banks - The Steep Approach to Garbadale and a re-read of Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman - Good Omens.

    Great reads.


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    #618
    Fenny
    Registered Users Posts: 122 ✭✭Fenny


    Finally getting round to reading At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien. It's really good so far! He's mad craic. :D


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    #619
    Busi_Girl08
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    Fenny wrote: »
    Finally getting round to reading At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien. It's really good so far! He's mad craic. :D

    LOVED that book. It's just so...all over the place. In a good way :P

    I just started The Dalkey Archives. So far so good :)


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    #620
    pavb2
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    Just coming to the end of The Religion Tim Willocks very good story not sure about the flowery language though.

    Read short story The Lottery last night,excellent twist


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    Callan57
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    Just getting into The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver


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    #622
    RacoonQueen
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    Reading the new Sansom book Heartstone. This could beat Sovereign!


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    #623
    Callan57
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    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    Reading the new Sansom book Heartstone. This could beat Sovereign!

    Is it that good? I'm a huge fan of Sansom just love his writing style


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    #624
    Kevlyn20
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    Busi_Girl08 wrote: »
    Finished Brave New World. Loved it.

    Just started Kite Runner last night.

    Fantastic book The Kite Runner as is A Thousand Splendid Suns.

    Currently reading Kate Mosse, Sepulchre enjoying it so far


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    Callan57
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    Just finished The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver and I'm going to start 'Room' tonight ... heard so much about it I'm really looking forward to it.


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    #626
    Kalimah
    Registered Users Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭Kalimah


    Finished The Reluctant Fundamentalist. An easy read and well done too. I liked it. Just on to an Antonia Fraser bio of Charles 11 which is a bit turgid to say the least. I picked up The Chidren's Book by AS Byatt in a charity shop during the week. Dying to read thE new CS Sansom Matthew Shardake. I love those stories!


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    LoLth
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 10,339 Mod ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    I'm about halfway through Zero History by William Gibson. I *think* its the last in the Bigend trilogy (after pattern recognition (great) and Spook Country (good)). this one is very much closer to pattern recognition in pace and enjoyability.


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    #628
    Seillejet
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    I am about a third of the way in to Jo Nesbo's "The Snowman", and it is stunningly good. I read one of his other Harry Hole novels which was decent but this demands your attention it is that good. I would highly recommend.


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    #629
    cynder
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    Seillejet wrote: »
    I am about a third of the way in to Jo Nesbo's "The Snowman", and it is stunningly good. I read one of his other Harry Hole novels which was decent but this demands your attention it is that good. I would highly recommend.


    I read that on holidays in france, loved it. I told my mom to get it and she got it of amazon 3 days ago.


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    #630
    Callan57
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    I'm almost finished Emma Donoghue's 'Room' ... amazing book very thought provoking and would be a deserving Booker winner.


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    Asphyxia
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    My sister's boyfriend (who works in a book shop) got me a couple of books today that were left in the store room. I finished the Girl Who Played with Fire a few days ago which was brilliant and i'm thinking of starting Les Miserables - Victor Hugo, it's volume to of the book. I already read volume one so we'll see how it goes when I start it tomorrow.


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