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What book are you reading atm??

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    #2462
    MOC88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 430 ✭✭MOC88


    looking_around wrote: »
    Anyone here on Goodreads? would like to share book lists? :)


    I'm currently reading Inside Out is a your standard dystopian read.
    I have recently finished WoT series .. ended well, as one would expect, I think. Wish I knew if the Aiel future was truly changed or not :P.



    Well I was thinking the same myself but the fact

    SPOILER =
    that Rand survived and now probably has unlmited power... and since Mat and Tuon survived it changes the whole outcome that Aviendha saw


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    #2463
    Steve_o
    Registered Users Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭Steve_o


    Finally got around to reading the 'Song of Ice and Fire' books. I'm just starting the second one, I highly recommend the first one anyway. I've watched the Game of Thrones TV series, so far I prefer the first book to season 1 of the TV Show, far more vivid.


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    #2464
    apollonia
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    Coetzee " Age of Iron" -very very very very GOOD!


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    #2465
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    looking_around wrote: »
    Why would you do that to yourself?
    R&J is a crap read. Impulsive, melodramatic(yes, I know it's supposed to be), unrealistic imo.

    If you're gonna read anything by Shakespeare, go for Hamlet.

    I've read Hamlet when I was doing my leaving cert. And it is my favourite play by Shakespeare! Back then for some reason I really identified myself with Hamlet. I'll probably read it again.

    I suppose Macbeth would be my next pick but I was following John Green's "Crash Course in Literature" on youtube and he had Romeo and Juliet as part of his reading list...

    Anyway, I just finished The Great Gatsby. Loved it! Its such a beautifully written book. The book sort of has a completeness to it that the film failed to capture.

    I have The Count of Monty Cristo qued up next. Although I should go back to finishing Moby Dick sometime too...
    The Catcher in the Rye is another book I need to read. I suppose that's what I'll start reading next!


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    #2466
    robman60
    Registered Users Posts: 2,222 ✭✭✭robman60


    Got Orwell's 1984 from Amazon this morning. I won't start reading it immediately as I'm currently reading "A Thig Na Tit Orm" which is an Irish book written by a native Irish speaker from Kerry. It's on my Leaving Cert course too, but I'm enjoying it as a read in itself too, even if people are constantly criticising the material on the course.


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    #2467
    old hippy
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    Iain Banks "A Song of Stone" - not one of his more outstanding ones but still intrigueing, nevertheless. After that it's either going to be more George RR Martin or Le Carre.


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    #2468
    looking_around
    Registered Users Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    MOC88 wrote: »
    Well I was thinking the same myself but the fact

    SPOILER =
    that Rand survived and now probably has unlmited power... and since Mat and Tuon survived it changes the whole outcome that Aviendha saw
    Well tbh, it never said he didn't live through in what Aveindha saw.

    And did it show Mat & Fortuona die? .. Cause what I remember it showed the Aiel being at war (losing) against the Seanchan.

    I would've thought the Aiel forcing Rand to add them to the treaty is part of what might change the future for them, as they wouldn't be going back to the three fold land. Still I'd love to see more.
    Guess might have to find a good fanfic author.


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    #2469
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    Working my way through The Shining at the moment surprised by how different it is from the film. I had heard that it was but I though that they were exaggerations.


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    #2470
    ViveLaVie
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭ViveLaVie


    MOC88 wrote: »
    Well I was thinking the same myself but the fact

    SPOILER =
    that Rand survived and now probably has unlmited power... and since Mat and Tuon survived it changes the whole outcome that Aviendha saw
    You did not spoiler that properly! :(


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    #2471
    Celly Smunt
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    Read a thousand splendid suns a few weeks ago and then took a break to catch up on a few other things,now halfway through the kite runner by the same Author.Again,excellent book so far.


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    #2472
    Custardpi
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    pmcmahon wrote: »
    Read a thousand splendid suns a few weeks ago and then took a break to catch up on a few other things,now halfway through the kite runner by the same Author.Again,excellent book so far.

    Saw the film of the latter when it came out, how does the book compare?


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    #2473
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Custardpi wrote: »
    Saw the film of the latter when it came out, how does the book compare?

    I haven't actually seen the film myself,I picked up that other novel by chance and have just carried on with the author (albeit in the wrong order,makes no difference though).I'd recommend the book however if you enjoyed the story of the film.


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    #2474
    Seachmall
    Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Reading Mastery by Robert Greene at the moment. It reads much more fluidly then his other books in my opinion which I found great but somewhat tedious at times. And like his other books it's worth reading for the mini-bios alone.

    Definitely worth picking up if you get the chance.


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    #2475
    GLaDOS
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    Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett, <3 Rincewind

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



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    #2476
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    Man's Search For Meaning - Victor Frankl.

    This is going to be an all-nighter. It is truly life-changing stuff. I won't stop till I finish it.


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    #2477
    The Falcon
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭The Falcon


    American Tabloid - James Ellroy.

    An excellent read.


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    #2478
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Just finished mark kermode's The Good The Bad and The Multiplex. intersting, well argued stuff but unless youre really into movies it will bore the tits off you. i expected it to be funnier coming from kermode


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    #2479
    QuiteInterestin
    Registered Users Posts: 623 ✭✭✭QuiteInterestin


    robman60 wrote: »
    Got Orwell's 1984 from Amazon this morning. I won't start reading it immediately as I'm currently reading "A Thig Na Tit Orm" which is an Irish book written by a native Irish speaker from Kerry. It's on my Leaving Cert course too, but I'm enjoying it as a read in itself too, even if people are constantly criticising the material on the course.

    Hope its better then the version I bought from Amazon. It was printed by Amazon in tiny font, 6 I'm guessing. The layout was terrible, no index and chapter titles on the bottom of a page with the text not starting until the next page. If it is the same one (plain black cover) I'd recommend you send it back and get a better version as it ruined the book for me, made is so difficult to read, I was squinting the entire time :(


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    #2480
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    Just finished mark kermode's The Good The Bad and The Multiplex. intersting, well argued stuff but unless youre really into movies it will bore the tits off you. i expected it to be funnier coming from kermode

    Try his first effort - "It's Only a Movie" - that's funnier. Plus it has the legendary Herzog/bullet interface.


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    #2481
    carolinespring
    Registered Users Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭carolinespring


    The colour purple by Alice Walker.


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    #2482
    stefan idiot jones
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    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett, <3 Rincewind

    My favourite line by Terry Pratchett, ' The Mended Drum has a Splatter. Just like a bouncer, only uses more force'

    The man is a genius.


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    #2483
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,212 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    stefan idiot jones wrote: »
    My favourite line by Terry Pratchett, ' The Mended Drum has a Splatter. Just like a bouncer, only uses more force'

    The man is a genius.
    "Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue" is one that always stood out for me :D

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



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    #2484
    IvyTheTerrible
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    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    "Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue" is one that always stood out for me :D
    That smiley face in your post is looking a little suspicious for my liking! :P


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    #2485
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users Posts: 3,709 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    'Jerusalem : the biography' by Simon Sebag Monefiore. Good so far. Very bloody.


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    #2486
    El Guapo!
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    "A Wanted Man" by Lee Child.
    I just started it but its a struggle to read on. Lee Child seems like an awful writer.


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    #2487
    GLaDOS
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    El Guapo! wrote: »
    "A Wanted Man" by Lee Child.
    I just started it but its a struggle to read on. Lee Child seems like an awful writer.

    I tried one of his books, 'Nothing to Lose'. An entertaining read, but Jack Reacher strikes me as an almost perfect hero, which makes for an unremarkable protagonist.

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



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    #2488
    fussyonion
    Registered Users Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    I'm a self-confessed chick-lit fiend and I normally just read Marian Keyes/Jane Green/Sophie Kinsella-fluffy and fun, I know, but I like them.

    At the moment I'm reading "Always on my Mind" by Colette Caddle but I'm really looking forward to reading "The Red House" by Mark Haddon, which my Mum picked up for me recently; it isn't what I'd normally read, so I'm looking forward to getting my teeth into it!


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    #2489
    EoghanIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    I am finishing off life the universe and everything by Douglas Adams at the moment .


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    #2490
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,723 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    About half way through Tom Holts's "Djinn Rummy". Djinnuinely hilarious :D


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    #2491
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Stalingrad - Anthony Beevor

    Excellant read, must get more of his books.


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