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Evil Phil

Executive Orders - Tom Clancy. Not his best.

Write right! - Name escapes me. Still a good book.

Krusty_Clown

Felt like a bit of mindless fiction, so I am currently reading:
Stephen King & Peter Straub's - Black House

1/4 the way in, it's fullfilling all expectations - mindless, but page-turning...

Beruthiel

'Vintage Stuff' by Tom Sharpe

It was given to me by a friend to read, I'm 70 pages in and am finding it highly amusing, I have laughed out loud on more than one occasion, which is always a good sign.

LoLth

Just finished Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. Most enjoyable.

It's a bit weird reading though. You keep forgetting that they are kids.

off to look for the next in the series, Speaker for the dead I think it be called.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks

Haven't gotten too far into it yet startin a bit slowly TBH

scipio_major

Just started reading A Winter's Heart - Robert Jordan last night. Long time since I read the Wheel of Time before it and spent the first 3o or so pages trying to get the Tower Sedai straight in my mind.

Charlie Byrne's in Galway has a whole load of Winter's Hearts in new (remainder) paperback if anyone is interested.

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Kolodny

'Consider Phlebas' - Iain M. Banks

amp

Just finished Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson. IT WAS TEH WIN!
Seriously though I found it very Gibsonish but with more emotional language and funnier. The universe he creates seems more real and concrete than Gibsons.

/me goes off to consume the rest of Stephenson's works

Funky

just finished Ivanhoe by Scott Walters was pretty good....

now reading Rob Roy by the same author

roxy

woody allen's complete prose. lost original copy and saw it republished in chapters. wickedly funny. well it's woody allen so I feel like a bit of a tool pointing out that it's funny but y'know.....

It's his syntax together with the complete nonsense that make for a wonderful reading experience.

plastic membrane

Following along in the Iain M Banks tradition: The Player Of Games. I have Thanx 4 The Fish to thank for the loaner...

Mikill

Just finished Black House.
Gets very weird towards the end as you would expect.
Started George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four.
Almost finished it now as it is very short.
Excellent book.

pyure

slightly between books atm...just finished 'Alien' - bad, bad book and still hacking my way through 'hitch hikers guide to the universe' (only have it on computer so dont get to read it for decent periods of time)

gonna go get the new tom clancy book i think (red rabbit?), loved every fiction book he's written so far - to whoever is readin exec. orders, its a class book

need to find a new fantasy series to get into - gettin annoyed waiting for the new Wheel of time books, and its starting to suck big time

if anyone wants to recommend something for me that'd be nice

Manach

For Work - Debugging Perl

For Entertainment - Fool's Errand, Robin Hobb

For Info - My American Journey, Colin Powell

Bard

Diana Gabaldon - Cross Stitch
...better than I expected.

Ben Elton - Dead Famous
... just getting into it.

Nevyn

A CARESS OF SHADOWS by Laurel K Hamilton

A brill new book 2nd ina new series.
The 1st was the Anita Blake books well worth reading in fact vol. 1 to 7 are in the libary system but 8 and 9 were not published here too much for the censor apprently.

The new stuff is her writing style fully fleshed out, you could see it develope in the anita books which is fun .

they are set in modren times and the modren word with a few changes. Any fans of the whitewolf genre will love them.
a lil supernatual, a fair bit of violence blood twists and a damn good female lead.

thedrowner

angels by marian keyes
everyone seems to be reading far more intelligent books than me...i always get slagged off for reading marian keyes!

qwidgybo

McCarthy's Bar-Pete McCarthy

pretty entertaining stuff....

adnans

Originally posted by Bard
Diana Gabaldon - Cross Stitch
...better than I expected.

i believe that was the series of books by that author. remember ordering a bunch of them for my mum

finished reading philip and alex's guide to web publishing. im currently in between books at the moment, some ones are better on certain days then others. (plato the laws, bosnia by television, and moby dick by melville)

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Brian33

I'm reading The Blind Watchmaker-Richard Dawkins (a book about Darwinism), Holy Blood, Holy Grail-Baignent Leigh and Lincoln. Just finished Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger...brilliant book...read it.

~Brian

CodeMonkey

The Gap series book 3: A Dark and Hungry God Arises by Stephen Donaldson. Almost finished with this and it's turning out to be one of the best sci-fi series I've ever read. All thanks to various individuals mentioning this series on other threads.

sixpack's little hat

Das Boot Lothar Gunther Buchheim

about half way through it
a very good read

Thanx 4 The Fish

Originally posted by Thanx 4 The Fish
Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks

Haven't gotten too far into it yet startin a bit slowly TBH

Just finished, thought it was complete pants, one character has all of his thoughts spelled phonically which get's a bit annoying, only satisfying thing I found was eventually getting through it.

Am onto second book in chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the future is looking bright

pauldeehan

Everything's Eventual by Stephen King. Quite good so far but not up to the standard of his other short story compilations.

Mythago

Just finished "Dark Rose" (can't remember the author) which was about the Palestinian(not protestant) invasion of Ireland!? And it was as daft as it sounds.... rubbish, but does demonstrate the somewhat narrow minded view some people have of Ireland!
And I am just about to start the Assasin trilogy by Someone Hobbs, I think! Sorry but my memory has decided to go AWOL.....

pugwall

A God in Ruins - Leon Uris

Im impressed so far with the first 13 chapters.

What a great story teller

scipio_major

Just finished reading American Tabloid - James Ellroy (same guy who wrote LA Confidental). Very very good. Cubans and the CIA and FBI with JFK as a bit character.

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McGinty

Just finished Marian Keynes 'last chance salon'. So thedrowner don't worry I think she's brilliant and very funny too.

I'm currently trying to finish 'Soul Music' by Terry Pratchett, I am not enjoying it, it keeps switching too much. However I have nearly finished it so I will perserve.

I've also just read John B.Keane 'Letters from a love hungry farmer', he is a fantastic storyteller, I cried with laughter and also cried with sadness in parts.

Victor

Principles of Irish Law (Doolan), Bunreacht na hÉireann and Oxford Dictionary of Law (all at the same time).

The_Scary_Man

"The Rise of Endymion" Dan Simmons

Excellent series of books.

Saruman

Right at this moment im reading the 3rd book in the Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb (fantastic!!!) Just read Robedrt Jordans book one of The Wheel of time series! Also fantastic. Also recently read Terry brooks final landover novel "a witches brew". And George RR Martins 3rd book of "A song of Ice and Fire"
And Raymon E Feists Talon of the slver Hawk book 1 (new series) and his latest riftwar book (not the best!)

There are more but they are the main ones. Oh all are fantasy books by the way.

Panda

The Catcher in the Rye

just started it, always meant to read it just because it was one of those classic type books.

or something

Psychedelic

Just finished reading "So Long and Thanks For The Fish" by Douglas Adams, the 4th book in the Hitch Hiker series. probably my favourite of the books, though i haven't read Mostly Harmless yet.
Dunno what to read now though-another Bukowski novel would be good (read "Ham On Rye" a while ago-brilliant)- or some Freud or Jung would be nice

johnnynolegs

am just finishing Talon of the Silver Hawk by Feist and am just starting stormrider by david gemmell

Just finished Marian Keynes 'last chance salon'. So thedrowner don't worry I think she's brilliant and very funny too.

yep i read this last year and i was actually very surprised cos it was sooo good

Unjaku

'The Lathe of Heaven'
Ursula le Guin

Just finished reading Phillip Pullman's 'Dark Materials' trilogy.

johnnynolegs

finished silver hawk am halfway through stormrider and have just started murder in lamut

davej

I'm 3/4 way through the last book in the Pullman Dark Materials trilogy.
I've really enjoyed them it has to be said. I took them on holiday with me last week and got through them quite quickly. Your eyes are opened to the richness of his universe very nicely as the story progresses.

Davej

ThenComesDudley

Just Finshed THE STRAW MEN by MICHEAL MARSHALL
and AMERICAN GODS by Neil Gainman
( I Highly recomend you all check this book out. its the bees knees)

roxy

At Swim Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill. About two gay teenage boys in south dublin around 1916.

The syntax is just classy - I'd say this guy has read plenty of flann o'brien in his time: it's of a similar vain.

yellum

William Gibson - Pattern Recognition

Set this time in the present, has mentions of Sept 11th. Just started it, saving it for my flight tomorrow.

Book released in Feb 2003 btw

SandraP

Joseph Conrad - Nostromo

roxy

Originally posted by yellum
William Gibson - Pattern Recognition

has mentions of Sept 11th.....saving it for my flight tomorrow.

way-hey!! sounds like fun.

Pigman

Originally posted by Mythago
, but does demonstrate the somewhat narrow minded view some people have of Ireland!

Which reminds me ...... just finished 'An Intelligent Person's guide to Modern Ireland' by John Waters.

A must read if you've never had faith in our governments and their 'solutions' of selling us as cheap intellectual labour to multinational corporations, then similtaneously insulting us by saying we are a progressive and autonomous nation whose destiny remains in our own hands.

adnans

Originally posted by yellum
William Gibson - Pattern Recognition

Set this time in the present, has mentions of Sept 11th. Just started it, saving it for my flight tomorrow.

Book released in Feb 2003 btw

explain yourself?

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LoGiE

Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden.
This guy was one ruthless bastard..

xern

Nemisis by bill napiar.

Great book. i'd recommend it!

johnnynolegs

just started the wheel of time looking forward to it

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

the wheel of time rocks be prepared for a long wait between books though.. but if you'reonly starting you have another 10 books before that becomes an issue for you.

i'm reading a book called Sabriel, by Garth Nix .. anyone ever heard of it? only on page 4 now

johnnynolegs

exactly i am only on book 1 and it has 700+ pages so it will be at least a week before i get to book 2

oeNeo

Finished reading the Rama collection a few months ago, then read The Catcher in the Rye (for about the 3rd time). Just finished reading The Stand last night, excellent read!

Waylander

The Horse with My Name by Colin Batemen, quite enjoyable. Just finished Espedair Street by ian banks, thought it was Ok but it took me a while to get into it.