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What book are you reading atm??

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    #8822
    stratowide
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭stratowide


    Stephen king's always been my favourite writer.Loved all his books.
    Very underrated too.

    Mr Mercedes was the last book of his I read.Excellent stuff.

    Love the way he develops his characters.


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    #8823
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,075 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Reading The Couple Next Door now.
    Gripping.

    To thine own self be true



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    #8824
    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    stratowide wrote: »
    Stephen king's always been my favourite writer.Loved all his books.
    Very underrated too.
    He's the most successful and celebrated horror writer of the 20th century. Only Lovecraft comes close on the former, and no one does on the latter. Literally dozens of his stories are movies now, some of them quite celebrated too. Granted, literature prizes are snobby about genre writers, but I'm struggling to see how King is underrated.


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    #8825
    TheRepentent
    Registered Users Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭TheRepentent


    I must be the only one but I found Stephen Kings books had the habit of boring the tits off me.Finished a few of them just out of pure stubborness.

    Just reading a graphic novel at the moment called Jaegir (set in the 2000ad Rogue Trooper universe). I'm enjoying it so far.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_war_crimes

    https://www.btselem.org/



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    #8826
    Not in Kansas
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭Not in Kansas


    Struggling through Milkman by Anna Burns. I just can't get into it.


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    #8827
    appledrop
    Registered Users Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭appledrop


    Not in Kansas wrote: »
    Struggling through Milkman by Anna Burns. I just can't get into it.

    I hate to tell you but it gets no better + nothing really happens in whole book.

    Its crap.


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    #8828
    [Deleted User]
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    TheRepentent wrote: »
    I must be the only one but I found Stephen Kings books had the habit of boring the tits off me.Finished a few of them just out of pure stubborness.
    His books usually start off well, but taper off as you get to the end. I love most of his older stuff though. I can't even remember the name of the last one of the newer ones that I read.


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    #8829
    otnomart
    Registered Users Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Only book by Stephen King I have red is Pet Sematary and it scared me, I still shiver when I think about it.


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    #8830
    Redneck Reject
    Closed Accounts Posts: 587 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject


    otnomart wrote: »
    Only book by Stephen King I have red is Pet Sematary and it scared me, I still shiver when I think about it.

    Film wise I loved Maximum Overdrive but sadly that's overlooked.


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    #8831
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Kings best book, IMO is The Stand
    Best film version of any of his stories has to be The Shawshank Redemption


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    #8832
    batgoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭batgoat


    I would say his short stories and novellas are well worth a look as well. They also to fair the best when adapted.

    "Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee" is my current read, about a true crime that Harper Lee was planning to write a book about. It's pretty fascinating, all about Voodoo and such.


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    #8833
    ILikeBoats
    Registered Users Posts: 2,451 ✭✭✭ILikeBoats


    otnomart wrote: »
    Only book by Stephen King I have red is Pet Sematary and it scared me, I still shiver when I think about it.

    Actually watched that movie yesterday - wasn't impressed

    I like his shorter stories too, Skeleton Crew is a good collection.


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    #8834
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    ILikeBoats wrote: »
    otnomart wrote: »
    Only book by Stephen King I have red is Pet Sematary and it scared me, I still shiver when I think about it.

    Actually watched that movie yesterday - wasn't impressed

    I like his shorter stories too, Skeleton Crew is a good collection.
    The short story The Raft is brilliant.


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    #8835
    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,398 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    I would rate James Herbert above Stephen King for unsettling horror, The rats was the first horror book I ever read scared the living daylights out of me.


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    #8836
    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    mariaalice wrote: »
    I would rate James Herbert above Stephen King for unsettling horror, The rats was the first horror book I ever read scared the living daylights out of me.
    I've only read Ash by him, and it bored the pants off me. He gets better?


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    #8837
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users Posts: 13,461 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    mikhail wrote: »
    I've only read Ash by him, and it bored the pants off me. He gets better?

    No. Just started throwing in a load of sex to try and distract people from the fact that he's just not a very good writer.

    I'm just about to finish a re-read of Nick Harkaway's The Gone-Away World and then I'm off to Book Station to pick up The Testaments and The Institute. Bit of a Sophie's choice as to which to read first but I suspect Margaret will wing it. I did my undergrad Literature dissertation on her work.


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    #8838
    Redneck Reject
    Closed Accounts Posts: 587 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject


    Mercury and Me by Jim Hutton. If your a Freddie Mercury fan, it's a great behind the scenes life of Freddie and Jim. Very emotional at the end.


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    #8839
    heathledgerlove
    Registered Users Posts: 114 ✭✭heathledgerlove


    batgoat wrote: »
    I would say his short stories and novellas are well worth a look as well. They also to fair the best when adapted.

    "Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee" is my current read, about a true crime that Harper Lee was planning to write a book about. It's pretty fascinating, all about Voodoo and such.

    Didn't she help Truman Capote do a lot of research for In Cold Blood, was it the same case about those murders of the family? That was a great book too


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    #8840
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    I can recommend James Herbert's Once and The Magic Cottage. The Survivor is good too. I haven't read much more of his though.
    I'm a few more chapters into Stephen King's Gwendy's Buttons Box and enjoying it.


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    #8841
    accensi0n
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭accensi0n


    Started reading Dracula. Never read it before, liking it so far.


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    #8842
    [Deleted User]
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    Started the Count of Monte Christo..
    Only got about 50 pages in, don't think I'm going to bother going any further..

    Something about the writing is annoying me.. Said I'd just stop rather than be annoyed for another 1200 pages..


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    #8843
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,630 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    batgoat wrote: »
    I would say his short stories and novellas are well worth a look as well. They also to fair the best when adapted.

    "Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee" is my current read, about a true crime that Harper Lee was planning to write a book about. It's pretty fascinating, all about Voodoo and such.


    I agree with the others who opine that Stephen King’s best work was in his early years. He has a book of very early short stories from before his first full novel, Carrie, that is very chilling.

    Carrie, published in 1974, was pretty groundbreaking in the way novels were written, using the varying perspectives of various characters in the story. And of course 2 years later it would be made into a horror classic that made Sissy Spacek a star.

    King’s following novels, The Shining, Christine, Cujo, Salem’s Lot (both novel and film gave me nightmares), It - all superb. He was very good up to Misery. However, The Dark Half (1990) and Needful Things (1992) were disappointing IMO.

    Stephen King is the undisputed master of late 20th century horror fiction. But IMO James Herbert’s work between 1975 and 1995 was also excellent, and Clive Barker deserves a mention here too.


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    #8844
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    The New Testament.
    SPOILER ALERT.
    He gets killed in the end


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    #8845
    Kdylass
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭Kdylass


    Deep Water by Paula Daly...real page turner - very enjoyable


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    #8846
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,569 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Edgware wrote: »
    The New Testament.
    SPOILER ALERT.
    He gets killed in the end

    Like we said before, that's not the end. Keep reading.


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    #8847
    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    New Home wrote: »
    Like we said before, that's not the end. Keep reading.
    Most of that's just fan fiction tacked on later.


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    #8848
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Just started Porno by Irvine Welsh.


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    #8849
    The Late Late Show
    Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭The Late Late Show


    Edgware wrote: »
    The New Testament.
    SPOILER ALERT.
    He gets killed in the end

    The bible or Margaret Atwood??!!


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    #8850
    batgoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭batgoat


    heathledgerlove wrote: »
    Didn't she help Truman Capote do a lot of research for In Cold Blood, was it the same case about those murders of the family? That was a great book too

    Yep she did, Capote and herself were also friends since childhood. So were really close.


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    #8851
    Be right back
    Registered Users Posts: 6,083 ✭✭✭Be right back


    Redneck Reject wrote: »
    Mercury and Me by Jim Hutton. If your a Freddie Mercury fan, it's a great behind the scenes life of Freddie and Jim. Very emotional at the end.

    Reading that too. Very interesting.


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