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What book are you reading atm??

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    #452
    Da Shins Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    Reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez right now. Magic realism at its finest. Pretty much the perfect book.


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    #453
    Da Shins Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    Slattsy wrote: »
    Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy..

    And its bloody awful. Too much time spent describing the smallest of details and not enough story time as such.
    I'll finish it all the same.

    It takes a few tries, and I can understand people not liking it initially. I had to try three times before I was able to fully get it. It's one of those books that needs persistence. But, having read it a few times I fully believe that it's one of the greatest novels to ever come out of the US. Cormac McCarthy is fantastic. The character of The Judge - gotta be one of the scariest, most brilliant villains ever.


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    #454
    jimjimjimmy
    Site Banned Posts: 175 ✭✭jimjimjimmy


    Reading Karl Pilkington An Idiot Abroad, seriously funny stuff.


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    #455
    Glico Man
    Registered Users Posts: 8,279 ✭✭✭Glico Man


    Currently on its way to me is Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E Lawrence. Looking forward to it.


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    #456
    jiltloop
    Registered Users Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    I'm always reading more than one book at a time, right noww I'm reading analog synthesisers and cormc mc carthy's trilogy all the pretty horses.


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    #457
    Johnny Foreigner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    Writings from Prison by Bobby Sands.


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    #458
    Lady von Purple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Lady von Purple


    David Gemmell's Waylander. Excellent fantasy novel. Brilliant characters.


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    #459
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    I, Alex Cross by James Patterson.


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    #460
    karaokeman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭karaokeman


    Dubliners by James Joyce:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:


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    #461
    tonsiltickler
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭tonsiltickler


    North to the night by Alvah Simon. My favourite book ever. Fiction is bulls**t.


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    #462
    Icaras
    Registered Users Posts: 926 ✭✭✭Icaras


    InkSlinger67 wrote: »
    Stuff about Ché

    He's not as interesting as everyone makes him out to be in fairness

    If its Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life it gets good in the second half, I havent read any other Che stuff but was assured at the time this was the only book I needed to read about him.

    Im rereading The Astrological Diary of God by Bo Fowler very funny book and I got it on Amazon for 3pounds inc delivery.


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    #463
    Mink
    Registered Users Posts: 2,260 ✭✭✭Mink


    Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

    Set in World War 1, ties in stories from families in Wales, America, Russia & some token Germans. Good enough read


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    #464
    maxfresh
    Registered Users Posts: 688 ✭✭✭maxfresh


    The rough guide to the usa , would love to head there


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    #465
    simit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭simit


    Micheal Connollys' Echo Park and Denis Lehanes' Prayers For Rain. Two great books from two brilliant authors.


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    #466
    Ormus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,913 ✭✭✭Ormus


    The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

    and

    All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (Second time)


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    #467
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor (brother of Sinead)

    Only 50 pages in but it is very well written. It is about a ship transporting Irish emigrants escaping from the famine so it's harrowing in places (this coming from someone who's favourite book is the gore soaked Blood Meridian)


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    #468
    billymitchell
    Registered Users Posts: 11,996 ✭✭✭✭billymitchell


    Bram stoker's Dracula
    Neil Gaiman - complete Sandman series


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    #469
    Censorsh!t
    Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭Censorsh!t


    The Third Policeman by Flann O Brien


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    #470
    cynder
    Registered Users Posts: 4,128 ✭✭✭cynder


    Got 'Divergent' yesterday afternoon, started it at 8pm and read it cover to cover by 1am, its a very good book, unputdownable. If you like The Hunger Games i would recommend it.


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    #471
    Slattsy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    Censorsh!t wrote: »
    The Third Policeman by Flann O Brien

    Been meaning to get this, have heard good things.
    Your thoughts on it so far?


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    #472
    Slattsy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    Censorsh!t wrote: »
    The Third Policeman by Flann O Brien

    Been meaning to get this, have heard good things.
    Your thoughts on it so far?


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    #473
    spadesaspade
    Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭spadesaspade


    duncan banathyne 's book from the dragons den, quiet an interesting fellow and good read


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    #474
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster - Jon Krakauer


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    #475
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Finished Terry Pratchett's 'Snuff' yesterday and also half way through Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridien' (a really uplifting read that one).


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    #476
    Censorsh!t
    Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭Censorsh!t


    Slattsy wrote: »
    Been meaning to get this, have heard good things.
    Your thoughts on it so far?

    It's total madness, but in a great way. I really like it so far anyway.


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    #477
    raveni
    Registered Users Posts: 433 ✭✭raveni


    Trying to get through some classics atm, just finished 1984 by George Orwell, now onto The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgearld.


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    #478
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster - Jon Krakauer
    I just finished reading this, absolutely incredible story, I was close to tears on a few occasions.


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    #479
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    I just finished reading this, absolutely incredible story, I was close to tears on a few occasions.

    Have a read of The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev, both to balance out Krakauer's guff and for the fact that it's a great read.


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    #480
    JohnMearsheimer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,302 ✭✭✭JohnMearsheimer


    Fiction: A Model World and Other Stories by Michael Chabon.

    Non-Fiction: Vietnam: The Irish Experience by James Durney. It's an interesting account of Irish born soldiers that fought in the US and Australian armies in Vietnam.


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    #481
    triseke
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    Da Shins Kelly wrote: »
    Reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez right now. Magic realism at its finest. Pretty much the perfect book.

    Fantastic book. I really loved it. It takes a while to get used to the characters as they all have very similar names, but just a wonderful story.


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