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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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    #7262
    autumnbelle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭autumnbelle


    Stephen king the outsider. Only 80 or so pages in so far but enjoying it


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    #7263
    [Deleted User]
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    The girl who plays go, by Shan Sa..

    Probably only because I quite enjoy playing go..

    But, I dunno..I think Japanese, as a language doesn't translate into English well..
    This is like the third or fourth book now that I've thought the same..


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    #7264
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng - Really liked Everything I Never Told You so high hopes for this one


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    #7265
    Dibble
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    We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler‎


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    #7266
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Dibble wrote: »
    We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler‎

    God, I hated that book.


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    #7267
    Dibble
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭Dibble


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    God, I hated that book.

    I'm about 50 pages in and so far so good. You've got me worried now!


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    #7268
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Dibble wrote: »
    I'm about 50 pages in and so far so good. You've got me worried now!

    There's a "twist" about half way through and you'll either love it or it'll make you want to throw the book out the window. Many people I've spoken to loved it. I, did not.


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    #7269
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Dibble wrote: »
    We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler‎


    I absolutely loved that book :)


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    #7270
    Xofpod
    Registered Users Posts: 718 ✭✭✭Xofpod


    Callan57 wrote: »
    I absolutely loved that book :)

    I'm also in the "loved it" category but it's definitely (and surprisingly, for me anyway) one of the more divisive books of recent years


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    #7271
    Joe_ Public
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    I thought it was ok, not bad at all, but nothing to get too excited over. If it wasn't for the peculiar plot twist I doubt I'd remember very much about it at all.


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    #7272
    LionelNashe
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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    There's a "twist" about half way through and you'll either love it or it'll make you want to throw the book out the window. Many people I've spoken to loved it. I, did not.
    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    I thought it was ok, not bad at all, but nothing to get too excited over. If it wasn't for the peculiar plot twist I doubt I'd remember very much about it at all.

    Tsk, tsk. Twists are less likely to surprise somebody if they know there's a twist coming. :)


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    #7273
    otnomart
    Registered Users Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    started The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany.
    I loved his Yacoubian Building, and saw him in Dublin years ago in conversation with Colm Toibin at the IFI.
    Seems promising from the start.


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    #7274
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Tread Softly On My Dreams by Gretta Curran Browne ... it's OK but glad I got it for 99p


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    #7275
    branie2
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    The Third Antichrist, the last of the Nostradamus trilogy by Mario Reading


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    #7276
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Moonrise by Sarah Crossan


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    #7277
    Sheridan81
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    Moveable Feast by Hemingway


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    #7278
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Elmet by Fiona Mozley


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    #7279
    4Ad
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    Dont Let Go by Harlan Coben.
    Terrible, usually he is a good read.


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    #7280
    Arghus
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    A Death in The Family. Book One of My Struggle by Karl Ove Knaussgard.

    I'm a bit late to the party with these books, I know they've been out for a few years now, but I have to say I've found this volume to be an incredible read. Very bleak at times and always totally unsparing. How he manages to mix the mundanity of life with what feel like earth shattering moments of insight is just awe inspiring. It'll be straight onto book two after this.


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    #7281
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,709 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    "Varying Degrees of Hopelessness" by Lucy Ellmann.

    The first (short) chapter was a bit annoying and a bit dull. But the rest is very funny, in a neurotic sort of a way. I like it, anyway.


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    #7282
    Mr.Nice Guy
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    Read 'My Cousin Rachel' by Daphne du Maurier and really enjoyed it. Last few chapters were exciting. I'd recommend it.


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    #7283
    Foweva Awone
    Registered Users Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Foweva Awone


    I just finished Harvesting by Lisa Harding, best book I've read in a while. Well worth a read, the fact that it's an Irish book is a bonus too!


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    #7284
    Irish_rat
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    Reading Consider Phlebas. Very good book so far as expected.


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    #7285
    Arghus
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    Augustus by John Williams.


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    #7286
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa


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    #7287
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    Finally finished The Good People by Hannah Kent. Couldn't get into it at all. Really tough going to even finish it. I loved her previous book, Burial Rites, so I was looking forward to this but nope, huge disappointment.


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    #7288
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Finally finished The Good People by Hannah Kent. Couldn't get into it at all. Really tough going to even finish it. I loved her previous book, Burial Rites, so I was looking forward to this but nope, huge disappointment.


    I thoroughly enjoyed both The Good People & Burial Rites


    A Game of Ghosts by John Connolly & The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen


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    #7289
    Xofpod
    Registered Users Posts: 718 ✭✭✭Xofpod


    Had a couple of weeks of good holiday reading:

    Darkness, take my hand - Denis Lehane
    The Power, Naomi Alderman
    A hero in France, Alan Furst
    The Dry, Jane Harper
    My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante


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    #7290
    Xofpod
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    Irish_rat wrote: »
    Reading Consider Phlebas. Very good book so far as expected.

    It was my recent first experience of the Culture books. I felt it was a bit over-long and over-written. I've heard that's it's one of the weaker of the series though so I'll take another dip.


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    #7291
    Wyldwood
    Registered Users Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭Wyldwood


    Have to agree with Tickle_Me_Elmo, I didn't find The Good People a very good read either, having loved Burial Rites.

    Halfway through Lisa Genova's Every Note Played and as is to be expected, it's a harrowing but brilliant read. Genova writes such great medical based books. Still Alice is one of my all-time favourites.


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