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What book are you reading atm??

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    #2972
    judgefudge
    Registered Users Posts: 915 ✭✭✭judgefudge


    RoboRat wrote: »
    BOOOONTY, cracking book. Skag heads is good too. Have you ever read any of chuck palahniuk's work? Highly recommend lullaby, choke and Rant.

    Yeah I've read skagboys. One of those books where I enjoyed it but then instantly forgot what happened in it. Which is a bit annoying.

    Haven't read any palahnuik yet but he's on the to-read list alright!


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    #2973
    Ilyana 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    RoboRat wrote: »
    I had a tear in my eye and that is quite a rare occurrence (not saying that I am a man bull****, I am just not emotional)



    BOOOONTY, cracking book. Skag heads is good too. Have you ever read any of chuck palahniuk's work? Highly recommend lullaby, choke and Rant.

    Oh I bawled my eyes out; it killed me :o


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    #2974
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    how to shave your wife.


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    #2975
    thefireinside
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭thefireinside


    Gone Girl.. It's absolutely brilliant :)


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    #2976
    Vojera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    I've just started Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men by Derek Landy.

    I'm not far into it but I'm excited that it's the penultimate book. I found the previous book (Kingdom of the Wicked) hard going to begin with so I'm hoping it won't be the same with this.


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    #2977
    JFlah
    Registered Users Posts: 752 ✭✭✭JFlah


    dirtyden wrote: »
    I really enjoyed Bury my heart at Wounded knee. If you like that there is a great book in a similar vein called 'Son of the morning star' it uses Custers last stand as the centrepiece but is also history of the indian wars.

    I have recently started reading Max Hastings, finished Armageddon. The man know how to right history. Have read Nemesis and the Korean war history he wrote, all cracking reads.
    Bury my heart at wounded knee is a read from start to finish in one sitting book-superb .

    Son of the Morning Star is one of my favourite non-fiction books really really fantastic.
    If you are interested, Washing the Spears - a history of the Zulu nation is a great read if you liked the the first two you,ll definitely enjoy


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    #2978
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey


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    #2979
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

    My favourite book.


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    #2980
    holystungun9
    Registered Users Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    judgefudge wrote: »
    Just started filth by irvine welsh. Wanted to read it before I see the film. Love it so far!

    I loved it but threw the book across the room when I finished it. You'll see what I mean.


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    #2981
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Celly Smunt wrote: »
    My favourite book.

    Cool, I've actually never even seen the movie! So I'm going to watch that after I read the book. Only started it on the bus this morning so I'm still on the introduction!


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    #2982
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Cool, I've actually never even seen the movie! So I'm going to watch that after I read the book. Only started it on the bus this morning so I'm still on the introduction!

    I never read the introduction before the actual book, most of the time it will ruin bits of the story


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    #2983
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    the count of monte cristo - alexander dumas


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    #2984
    Junco Partner
    Registered Users Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner


    Reading Skagboys by Irvine Welsh at the minute.


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    #2985
    SeaFields
    Registered Users Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    Just finished "Vietnam: The Irish Experience". Bought it after reading about the late John O sullivan here on boards


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    #2986
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    A History of Medicine ~ William Byrum


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    #2987
    dark crystal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex by Mark Kermode.


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    #2988
    iwantmydinner
    Registered Users Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭iwantmydinner


    delaad wrote: »
    Just finished "The Price of Power" by Pat Leahy, his account of the Coalition Govt to mid-2013. Its a good read, moving at pace and fuelled by Leahy's contention that what's going on in the background - often, chaos - is the dead exact opposite of the ordered progress the spinners would have us believe.

    Would suggest that Leahy's best source is Rabbitte, purely on the basis that he has nothing bad to say about him. A quote from Rabbitte indeed is the title for his final chapter.

    Having read it, I would be hard pressed to name the 15? Cabinet members, so much of the action revolves around the 4 Panjandrums of the EMC. Power in this country, such as it is, is concentrated in the hands of a very few people. maybe 11 or 12, only 4 of which have been elected.

    And the Price of Power?...., the junior partners's inevitable destruction at the next election.

    Some people never learn.

    Really looking forward to this book!


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    #2989
    iwantmydinner
    Registered Users Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭iwantmydinner


    Ilyana 2.0 wrote: »
    I think I might revisit Bird Song by Sebastian Faulks after that. I tried reading it last year but found it too heavy at the time but I'd like to give it another go.

    I flew through Birdsong but have found every single Faulks book since to be an extremely hard slog... The desriptions of trench/tunnel existence in Birdsong are very tough going :(


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    #2990
    Ilyana 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    iwantmydinner wrote: »
    I flew through Birdsong but have found every single Faulks book since to be an extremely hard slog... The desriptions of trench/tunnel existence in Birdsong are very tough going :(

    Yeah I read a review that mentioned that alright; better get my steely guts ready. Definitely not the lightest of reading!


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    #2991
    iwantmydinner
    Registered Users Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭iwantmydinner


    Ilyana 2.0 wrote: »
    Yeah I read a review that mentioned that alright; better get my steely guts ready. Definitely not the lightest of reading!

    Visceral is the word I'd use :o


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    #2992
    Ilyana 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    iwantmydinner wrote: »
    Visceral is the word I'd use :o

    Oh dear...!


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    #2993
    rozeboosje
    Closed Accounts Posts: 857 ✭✭✭rozeboosje


    I'm reading a book about the cat's genome. I'm at the bit where it goes CATCATCATCAT it's hilarious.


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    #2994
    rock chic
    Registered Users Posts: 123 ✭✭rock chic


    Shivers26 wrote: »
    I have been reading the Gone series by Michael Grant. Apparently they are aimed at teenagers but I found a lot of stuff in them fairly gruesome. It would be a bit like Lord of the Flies crossed with X-Men. I'm on the last book now, I've enjoyed them.
    finished the last 1 in june loved them should be made into a series or films :D


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    #2995
    JohnMearsheimer
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    SeaFields wrote: »
    Just finished "Vietnam: The Irish Experience". Bought it after reading about the late John O sullivan here on boards

    I read this book about 2 years ago, it was an excellent read. RTE broadcast a documentary called The Green Fields of Vietnam about Irish soldiers that fought in the Vietnam War back in about 2005 I think. We will probably never know the true numbers of Irish soldiers that fought in the war because a lot of them were listed as being American.

    At the moment I'm reading Con Cremin: Ireland's Wartime Diplomat. So far I'm finding it interesting.


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    #2996
    playedalive
    Closed Accounts Posts: 750 ✭✭✭playedalive


    RoboRat wrote: »
    Great book, have you read the book thief?

    Yeah I liked The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafón). Thief seems to be a similar read.

    I am now attempting the famous Dracula in preparation for halloween ;)


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    #2997
    FouxDaFaFa
    Registered Users Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭FouxDaFaFa


    playedalive wrote: »
    I am now attempting the famous Dracula in preparation for halloween ;)
    Such a great book.


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    #2998
    premierstone
    Registered Users Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭premierstone


    Who dafuq spends that much time at the bank machine??


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    #2999
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I just finished The Shining, thoroughly enjoyed it.


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    #3000
    cade
    Registered Users Posts: 378 ✭✭cade


    Currenty working my way through A Story or Swords, and Japanese from Zero 1. Next on the to-read pile is Bram Stokers, Dracula.


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    #3001
    thefasteriwalk
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭thefasteriwalk


    I've two on the go at the minute: Atomic by Jim Baggott (a really interesting read) and Mailan Kundera's Farewell Waltz


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