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What book are you reading atm??

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    #7472
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users Posts: 13,406 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    73Cat wrote: »
    I plan on rereading all my Stephen King books at some point. Black House was brilliant, it is linked in some way to another book of his if I remember correctly, possibly The Talisman. At the moment I am very slowly reading Sleeping Beauties by King and his son. Too many good books and not enough time:(

    Yep, it's the follow-up to The Talisman.

    I enjoyed Sleeping Beauties. There were a few clunky passages where I was like "That's definitely Owen's writing" but overall the joint effort worked well and it didn't go too far down the Under the Dome road of repugnantant toxic masculinity, which was a relief.


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    #7473
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Sacred - Denis Lebanese. Very enjoyable so far. Read some of his
    Other stuff and haven't been disappointed so far.


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    #7474
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    A God in Every Stone - Kamila Shamsie.

    I adore how she writes.


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    #7475
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    Working Stiff Two Years, 262 Bodies, and The Making Of A Medical Examinar by Judy Melinek M.D. And T.J. Mitchell


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    #7476
    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle


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    #7477
    pitifulgod
    Registered Users Posts: 1,282 ✭✭✭pitifulgod


    eviltwin wrote: »
    A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

    Did that recently, was surprisingly different to what I expected, particularly towards end.


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    #7478
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Working Stiff Two Years, 262 Bodies, and The Making Of A Medical Examinar by Judy Melinek M.D. And T.J. Mitchell

    A fascinating book:). If you enjoy that, and you haven't read it already "Smoke gets in Your Eyes" by Caitlin Doughty is a great insight into the world of cremation.


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    muppetshow1451
    Registered Users Posts: 272 ✭✭muppetshow1451


    The strange death of Europe by Douglas Murray,highly recommended.


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    #7480
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    73Cat wrote: »
    A fascinating book:). If you enjoy that, and you haven't read it already "Smoke gets in Your Eyes" by Caitlin Doughty is a great insight into the world of cremation.

    Agreed :) thank you for the recommendation I have read that one - it was very good too :) One for you along these lines if you haven't read it is Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach


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    #7481
    Autosport
    Registered Users Posts: 22,246 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Gallery of the dead by Chris Carter. Love this mans mind :D


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    #7482
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors by Con Iggulden. The fourth and last of his War of the Roses series, fascinating period of history and a family tree that is like a pretzel.
    He's not as good a writer as Bernard Cornwell (who I'd like to see tackle the story).
    Has anyone a recommendation for a good book on the topic?


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    #7483
    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Agreed :) thank you for the recommendation I have read that one - it was very good too :) One for you along these lines if you haven't read it is Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

    There's a good one written by a medical examiner. Morgue by Vincent Dimaio


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    #7484
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Agreed :) thank you for the recommendation I have read that one - it was very good too :) One for you along these lines if you haven't read it is Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

    Is that her real surname?😊


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    #7485
    griffin100
    Registered Users Posts: 4,774 ✭✭✭griffin100


    About 20 years after I first read it I'm rereading Strumpet City. It's a fantastic book. I won't say it mimics current society, but there are some similarities, which considering the plot is set a century ago suggests nothing much changes in this country.


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    #7486
    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,376 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    griffin100 wrote: »
    About 20 years after I first read it I'm rereading Strumpet City. It's a fantastic book. I won't say it mimics current society, but there are some similarities, which considering the plot is set a century ago suggests nothing much changes in this country.

    Have you read The Circus Animals by the same writer my husband really rates it but I can't get into it, I have made a couple of attempts to read it.


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    #7487
    kimokanto
    Registered Users Posts: 851 ✭✭✭kimokanto


    The Old man & the sea. Hemingway. Not my first or last time to read this. So good.


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    #7488
    Ipso
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    kimokanto wrote: »
    The Old man & the sea. Hemingway. Not my first or last time to read this. So good.

    I'm hitting a birthday milestone soon, I may re-read it. Then I'll go to sleep and dream about the lions.


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    #7489
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    seveneves by neal stephenson.
    i think he's great in general but it's slower going than i'm used to.
    great book so far though
    just finished the bear and the nightingale which was great, i'm gonna get the next one


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    #7490
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick.
    The story of the pilgrim fathers. Nicely written and very informative on an aspect of history I only had a passing knowledge of.


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    #7491
    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    bluewolf wrote: »
    seveneves by neal stephenson.
    i think he's great in general but it's slower going than i'm used to.
    great book so far though
    While it was generally well received, a lot of people really hate the gear change in the last third of it. I enjoyed it though.


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    #7492
    Malari
    Registered Users Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭Malari


    I've started Stoner by John Williams, as I'd never heard of it before, but it seemed to be recommended by quite a few people. So far so dull really. I'm about a third of the way through and it's not appealing to me at all.


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    #7493
    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,077 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    John Simpson's We choose to speak of war and strife.

    It's a book of stories about new foreign correspondants. Not my normal type of thing but it is really interesting and broken down in to nice bite sizes.


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    #7494
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    I'm about half way through Sleeping Beauties by Stephen & Owen King. It's not bad but a bit heavy on the all men are scumbags theme.


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    #7495
    MarkY91
    Registered Users Posts: 7,067 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    I bought "the couple next door" months ago. I should start giving it a go.


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    #7496
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users Posts: 13,406 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm about half way through Sleeping Beauties by Stephen & Owen King. It's not bad but a bit heavy on the all men are scumbags theme.

    I thought he was remarkably restrained in that compared to Under the Dome.

    I finished Carrie Fisher's The Princess Diarist on Saturday. I was a little underwhelmed, tbh. Starting Joyce Carol Oates' A Book of American Martyrs today.


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    #7497
    Beethoven9th
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭Beethoven9th


    Just finished reading "The Woman in the Window"
    Debut novel by AJ Finn recently released
    Amazing, Hitchcock style thriller


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    #7498
    Michael D Not Higgins
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    Hyperion by Dan Simmons


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    #7499
    recyclops
    Registered Users Posts: 2,387 ✭✭✭recyclops


    only getting around to the dark tower series now, ( 33 years old dont know how i never started)

    just finished the drawing of the three and all i can say is WOW


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    #7500
    Beethoven9th
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭Beethoven9th


    Starting on Boyhood by J. M. Coetzee


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    #7501
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,293 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The Big Fellow by Frank O'Conner, a biography of Michael Collins


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