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What book are you reading atm??

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    #3332
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    ^^ Any of his books are.


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    #3333
    JohnMearsheimer
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    salacious crumb wrote: »
    ^^ Any of his books are.

    This is my third Bill Bryson book and I have 2 more lined up to keep me going for a while when I finish this one. His writing is a pleasure to read, always informal but informative and funny at the same time.


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    #3334
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,213 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    salacious crumb wrote: »
    You've still got one more to go so. It's a trilogy in five parts :pac:
    5live wrote: »
    Nope. Part 5 of a 4 part trilogy;)
    Woops! I'd gotten it all in one book, they obviously missed the last one :pac:

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #3335
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    JohnMearsheimer wrote: »
    This is my third Bill Bryson book and I have 2 more lined up to keep me going for a while when I finish this one. His writing is a pleasure to read, always informal but informative and funny at the same time.


    Have you read the one he wrote about Shakespeare?


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    #3336
    JohnMearsheimer
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    salacious crumb wrote: »
    Have you read the one he wrote about Shakespeare?

    Haven't got around to that one yet but I think I'll make my way through all his books eventually. I've read Notes from a Big Country and The Lost Continent. I have bought The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and A Walk in the Woods but haven't read them yet.


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    #3337
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    Lovely. Enjoy ;)


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    #3338
    donegal_man
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    'Jeeves And The Wedding Bells' Sebastian Faulks tribute to P G Wodehouse. Only a couple of chapters in but so far so good, he has the tone of the originals down well and there are already a few laugh out loud moments.


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    #3339
    david75
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    JohnMearsheimer wrote: »
    This is my third Bill Bryson book and I have 2 more lined up to keep me going for a while when I finish this one. His writing is a pleasure to read, always informal but informative and funny at the same time.

    For the Bryson fans, have any of you read A walk in the woods?
    It's laugh out loud funny most of the time.

    Can't find his book on Shakespeare


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    #3340
    david75
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    I love Bill Bryson, deeply. Reading his Shakespeare book. Only 50 pages in and it's already brilliant.


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    #3341
    Ilyana 2.0
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    david75 wrote: »
    I love Bill Bryson, deeply. Reading his Shakespeare book. Only 50 pages in and it's already brilliant.

    I read that years ago and loved it. Must have a root around for it!


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    #3342
    salacious crumb
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    His book Mother Tongue, about the history of the English language is also fascinating and highly entertaining.


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    #3343
    GLaDOS
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    Flying Through World War Z at the moment. Very well thought out book and write in a very accessible style. Really enjoying it.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #3344
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users Posts: 12,431 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Just started The Brethren by John Grisham.
    Decent enough so far.


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    #3345
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,108 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wise_Man%27s_Fear


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    #3346
    irishgeo
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    JohnMearsheimer wrote: »
    Haven't got around to that one yet but I think I'll make my way through all his books eventually. I've read Notes from a Big Country and The Lost Continent. I have bought The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and A Walk in the Woods but haven't read them yet.

    A short history of nearly everything is a brilliant read as well.


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    #3347
    Mickey H
    Registered Users Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Currently reading:

    "How To Master CCNA" by René Molenaar

    Dunno why I'm reading this as I have CCNA certification. :confused:


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    #3348
    baron von something
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    Metro 2033 - Dmitry Glukhovsky


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    #3349
    Tar.Aldarion
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    In the last weekish I've read Old Mans War, The Ghost Brigades and have started The Last Colony.


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    #3350
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Dunphys book, The Rocky Road. Very interesting so far, a good insight into growing up poor in Dublin in the late 40s and 50s.


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    #3351
    mutley18
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    A Storm of Swords, it's all downhill after this I hear from some people?


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    #3352
    Sephiroth_dude
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    baron von something wrote: »
    Metro 2033 - Dmitry Glukhovsky

    Any good? Played the game but never finished it.


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    #3353
    baron von something
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    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Any good? Played the game but never finished it.



    not far into it but its pretty creepy so far.i think i'll stop reading it at night :p .some of it seems a little lost in translation too


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    #3354
    BlurstMonkey
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    mutley18 wrote: »
    A Storm of Swords, it's all downhill after this I hear from some people?
    Not at all. A Feast for Crows is definitely a bit dull compared but you can't just have the foot on the pedal constantly. Dance of Dragons is more back on form. Both are set at the same time in the story, Martin just put all the better stuff in the second so it's a little uneven. Be glad you didn't wait 4 years for A Feast for Crows + whatever for Dance afterward.


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    #3355
    jimgoose
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    The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga. Cracking good and thought-provoking yarn.


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    #3356
    Randy Shafter
    Registered Users Posts: 345 ✭✭Randy Shafter


    Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury


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    #3357
    judgefudge
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    A million little pieces by James Frey. Not sure what's real or not but I wouldn't say in hugely fond of his writing style so far.


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    #3358
    Collie D
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    judgefudge wrote: »
    A million little pieces by James Frey. Not sure what's real or not but I wouldn't say in hugely fond of his writing style so far.

    Stick with it. I was the same but by the time I finished I enjoyed it.
    Until I discovered it was mostly fabricated


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    #3359
    Aquagakka
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    donegal_man wrote: »
    'Jeeves And The Wedding Bells' Sebastian Faulks tribute to P G Wodehouse. Only a couple of chapters in but so far so good, he has the tone of the originals down well and there are already a few laugh out loud moments.

    Just starting this. It's a bold move by SF but I've heard good reports about it.

    Looking forward to it.


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    #3360
    Piliger
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    Collie D wrote: »
    Stick with it. I was the same but by the time I finished I enjoyed it.
    Until I discovered it was mostly fabricated

    I'm confused ... how is that a spoiler ? :rolleyes:


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    #3361
    losthorizon
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    The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark.

    Just started it and still reading chapter 1. Have to say its a tough read and surprising turning many of my assumptions upside down.


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