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What book are you reading atm??

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    #1832
    Shivers26
    Closed Accounts Posts: 639 ✭✭✭Shivers26


    Working my way through the Sookie Stackhouse series. I think I'm on book 10.


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    #1833
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,203 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    I'm only on the second book of A Song of Ice and Fire and I'm really struggling :o I think I might just give up and stick to the TV series. Loved the first book but I'm about 2/3 of the way through the second one and I've hit a wall. I've read 4 other books while I've been reading this one because I can't get into it. I find the whole jumping from one character to the other makes me lose interest.
    Having read them all, I thought the 2nd was the slowest storyline wise. I say stick with it because it gets so much better!

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



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    #1834
    ComfyKnickers
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭ComfyKnickers


    pmcmahon wrote: »

    so many names though

    Tell me about it, Im kinda satisfied that I know the main characters and that'll do me :-)


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    #1835
    ComfyKnickers
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭ComfyKnickers


    Barna77 wrote: »
    Watching the first series I made the huge mistake of checking wikipedia to sort a bit all those names, families and stuff..... SPOILERS GALORE :mad:

    You have to stay away from internet....

    I did exactly the same thing! Actually what is helpful is if you just Google list of characters in Game of Thrones, there are a few websites with lists and explanations of who they are without any spoilers.


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    #1836
    Liamalone
    Registered Users Posts: 4,955 ✭✭✭Liamalone


    ComfyKnickers wrote: »

    Tell me about it, Im kinda satisfied that I know the main characters and that'll do me :-)

    Same as. Just started A Dance with Dragons tonight funnily enough.


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    #1837
    Barna77
    Registered Users Posts: 3,271 ✭✭✭Barna77


    http://www.dorkly.com/comic/27384/george-rr-martin-is-a-master-of-surprise
    :mad:


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    #1838
    paulyd83
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭paulyd83


    Robbie Fowlers autobiography, very enjoyable


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    #1839
    DubberRucky
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭DubberRucky


    Less Incomplete by Sandie Gustus... And I would recommend it if your into what she talks about in the book :)


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    #1840
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    DubberRucky wrote: »
    I would recommend it if you're into what she talks about in the book

    Winner of the award for one of the most obvious statements ever made in the history of statements ever made.


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    #1841
    py2006
    Registered Users Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭py2006


    Irish History for Dummies

    yes I know. :o


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    #1842
    Quirk_Douglas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭Quirk_Douglas


    Here's what I have lined up for the month of November...

    Graham Greene - A Gun for Sale
    H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
    George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion
    Graham Greene - The End of an Affair
    John Fowles - The Collector
    Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
    P.G. Wodehouse - The World of Jeeves
    Thomas de Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium Eater & other writings
    Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus
    William Shakespeare - Othello
    Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
    John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
    Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
    Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    Alan Bennett - Plays: 2
    W. Somerset Maugham - Collected Short Stories 1

    Wish me luck!


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    #1843
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Quirk_Douglas wrote: »
    Here's what I have lined up for the month of November...

    Graham Greene - A Gun for Sale
    H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
    George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion
    Graham Greene - The End of an Affair
    John Fowles - The Collector
    Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
    P.G. Wodehouse - The World of Jeeves
    Thomas de Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium Eater & other writings
    Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus
    William Shakespeare - Othello
    Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
    John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
    Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
    Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    Alan Bennett - Plays: 2
    W. Somerset Maugham - Collected Short Stories 1

    Wish me luck!
    You have a few of my favourites there, reminding me that a re-read of some is due!
    Enjoy.


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    #1844
    Liamalone
    Registered Users Posts: 4,955 ✭✭✭Liamalone


    Quirk_Douglas wrote: »
    Here's what I have lined up for the month of November...

    Graham Greene - A Gun for Sale
    H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
    George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion
    Graham Greene - The End of an Affair
    John Fowles - The Collector
    Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
    P.G. Wodehouse - The World of Jeeves
    Thomas de Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium Eater & other writings
    Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus
    William Shakespeare - Othello
    Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
    John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
    Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
    Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    Alan Bennett - Plays: 2
    W. Somerset Maugham - Collected Short Stories 1

    Wish me luck!

    lol There's not a mission You can read that many books in one month.


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    #1845
    Merkin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    Just finished Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay which was alright, if a little disappointing. Started on Secrets of the Tides by Hannah Richell last night and have finished half of it, really engaging!


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    #1846
    Funglegunk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    Just about to start "The Lies of Locke Lamore". I've heard great things about it!


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    #1847
    Whatsernamex33
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    A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin.

    Can't get into it at all. :(


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    #1848
    py2006
    Registered Users Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭py2006


    Whatsernamex33 wrote: »
    A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin.

    Can't get into it at all. :(

    I was the same, gave up after about 30 pages!


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    #1849
    Lollers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Lollers


    Very disappointing. The last paragraph is the most revealing, but I nearly didn't make it that far.


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    #1850
    Mossin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭Mossin


    Whatsernamex33 wrote: »
    A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin.

    Can't get into it at all. :(

    Was of the same opinion, but continued on through it, and found it a great read, much much better than the HBO version of it.

    Just finished Tom Clancy's 'Locked On', tough read, but enjoyable.
    Not as good as 'Dead or Alive' by him though.


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    #1851
    Barna77
    Registered Users Posts: 3,271 ✭✭✭Barna77


    A Song of Ice and Fire: A Feast for Crows


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    #1852
    Shryke
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    Funglegunk wrote: »
    Just about to start "The Lies of Locke Lamore". I've heard great things about it!

    Great book!
    The second one reads like fan fiction though.


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    #1853
    9959
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    Quirk_Douglas wrote: »
    Here's what I have lined up for the month of November...

    Graham Greene - A Gun for Sale
    H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
    George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion
    Graham Greene - The End of an Affair
    John Fowles - The Collector
    Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
    P.G. Wodehouse - The World of Jeeves
    Thomas de Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium Eater & other writings
    Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus
    William Shakespeare - Othello
    Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
    John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
    Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
    Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    Alan Bennett - Plays: 2
    W. Somerset Maugham - Collected Short Stories 1

    Wish me luck!

    You're hardly a voracious reader, you've given yourself almost TWO FULL DAYS to read each book!

    Here's my reading list to be completed before 3pm today - Arsenal v Fulham on TV.
    David Edmonds and John Eidinow - Wittgenstein's Poker
    Umberto Eco - The Prague Cemetery
    James Joyce - Finnegan's Wake
    Friedrich Nietzsche - Philosophy in the Tragic age of the Greeks
    John Milton - Paradise Lost
    Marty Morrissey - Inside The Minds Of Jack O'Shea and Noam Chomsky

    Wish me luck!


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    #1854
    Auldloon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Auldloon


    Am more than half way through The Passage by Justin Cronin. The first half was excellent but the leap forward of 100 or so years threw me a bit. Its like a different book. Have stuck with it and enjoying it again, just hope its worth it. Have read somewhere, probably here that it is.


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    #1855
    FionnOh
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭FionnOh


    The Táin - translated by Thomas Kinsella..
    Its brilliant, getting back in touch with my ancient celtic side; blood, gore, battles, sex, the whole lot!

    Moving onto The Fall of Yugoslavia next so more of the same I suspect :P


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    #1856
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    9959 wrote: »
    You're hardly a voracious reader, you've given yourself almost TWO FULL DAYS to read each book!

    Here's my reading list to be completed before 3pm today - Arsenal v Fulham on TV.
    David Edmonds and John Eidinow - Wittgenstein's Poker
    Umberto Eco - The Prague Cemetery
    James Joyce - Finnegan's Wake
    Friedrich Nietzsche - Philosophy in the Tragic age of the Greeks
    John Milton - Paradise Lost
    Marty Morrissey - Inside The Minds Of Jack O'Shea and Noam Chomsky

    Wish me luck!

    Pfft. I'd have that lot read putting my pants on.


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    #1857
    FionnOh
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭FionnOh


    I love all this intellectual posturing.. :)


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    #1858
    internelligent
    Registered Users Posts: 956 ✭✭✭internelligent


    Ghost story by peter straub. Only 1/4 into it but I like it and it's gettin all freaky which I like.


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    #1859
    housetypeb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭housetypeb


    internelligent wrote: »
    Ghost story by peter straub. Only 1/4 into it but I like it and it's gettin all freaky which I like.

    Good book, they made a movie of it too. The book,as usual, was better.


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    #1860
    gutenberg
    Registered Users Posts: 983 ✭✭✭gutenberg


    We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.


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    #1861
    Eramen
    Registered Users Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Eramen


    The Gallic Wars - Julius Caesar

    The Bhagavad Gita     - Srila Prabhupada translation with commentaries


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