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This week, I are mostly reading....

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  • #1352
    CathyMoran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,458 ✭✭✭CathyMoran


    Am reading a book about Tori Amos called "Tori Amos. Piece by Piece" by Tori Amos and Ann Powers - only just began it but it seems to provide a useful insight into the artist.


  • #1353
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    More Pricks than Kicks Samuel Beckett


  • #1354
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    Blush_01 wrote:
    Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser. I've meant to read this for ages but really bothered. It's interesting, to say the least.

    Me too! I get to be all smug about living in the EU, with stricter food production rules! :D


  • #1355
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    Have you read not on the label then??? Cause I did and now I can't feel smug about the EU thing!!!


  • #1356
    Captain Smiggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭Captain Smiggy


    A confederacy of Dunces- John kennedy Toole...

    Ignatius j. Reilly, WHAT A MAN


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  • #1357
    Madge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Madge


    Am halfway through "Burnt Toast" by Teri Hatcher (she of 'Desperate Houswives' fame)


  • #1358
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen. Just finished Malka by Mirjam Pressler and Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar is still unfinished, can't seem to finish the last 100 pages without picking up another book..


  • #1359
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    The Darkness That Comes Before - R. Scott Bakker


  • #1360
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    The Treason of Isengard by J.R.R. Tolkien. More Middle-earth madness!


  • #1361
    Blush_01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    Hysteria: The History of a Disease - Ilza Veith.

    Pretty cool, to be honest! Light(ish) reading, but very interesting.


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  • #1362
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    I am Legend by Richard Matheson


  • #1363
    RawK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭RawK


    Just finished "Illuminatus Trilogy; The Eye of the Pyramid"

    currently re-read "Marabou Stork Nightmares!"


  • #1364
    Faerie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 411 ✭✭Faerie


    I've just started My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk. It's a bit weird but really good so far!


  • #1365
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    I'm finishing What are you like? by Anne Enright, its quite good. I like the way she messes around with the time line and the odd way she has of describing things. I was reading it for one of my exams but its good enough to finish.


  • #1366
    theCzar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭theCzar


    I'm sitting in the Congo estuary reading "Heart Of Darkness" by Joesph Conrad. Very atmospheric.


  • #1367
    theCzar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭theCzar


    John wrote:
    I am Legend by Richard Matheson

    One of my favourite books. I love the ending.


  • #1368
    Tetra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭Tetra


    I'm reading The Round Tower by Catherine Cookson. I enjoy reading 'chick lit' books, among others, but I think people can have certain ideas about this genre :)


  • #1369
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    theCzar wrote:
    One of my favourite books. I love the ending.

    I had seen it mentioned on here a few times and liked the sound of the blurb. Really enjoyed it, flew through it. Scared the crap out of me (zombie apocalypses are a recurring nightmare!) and yes the ending was brilliant. Good job people on boards!


  • #1370
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    WG Sebald Vertigo


  • #1371
    Blush_01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

    Oh how I wish I could stop reading it, and maybe try something of a more academic vein. I should finish it tonight. If I choose not to sleep. So simple and such a quick read...


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  • #1372
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Drowning Ruth

    It is well written as regards characters and situations but I dislike the way that it jumps from Third person to First Person without warning, and jumps between different times...its not that fluid in that regard, and makes it pretty confusing.


  • #1373
    theCzar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭theCzar


    The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien.


  • #1374
    RetroRainbow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 189 ✭✭RetroRainbow


    'The Bell Jar'- Sylvia Plath.


  • #1375
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    RetroRainbow wrote:
    'The Bell Jar'- Sylvia Plath.

    That's a great book. I absolutely devoured it when I read it.


  • #1376
    ZorbaTehZ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭ZorbaTehZ


    Candide, ou l'Optimisme - Voltaire


  • #1377
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    theCzar wrote:
    The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien.
    Any good? I'm considering buying it.

    I started Catch 22 again because I abandoned it for Batman comics when they arrived. :p


  • #1378
    JCDenton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 394 ✭✭JCDenton


    A Clockwork Orange


  • #1379
    daiixi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,349 ✭✭✭daiixi


    Cosa Nostra: A history of the Sicilian Mafia. Really really really interesting.


  • #1380
    doonothing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭doonothing


    the world according to garp - john irving, such a great book!

    i might search out i am legend next, sounds fun. my name is red and the bell jar are fantastic! just to reiterate what was said up yonder..


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  • #1381
    theCzar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭theCzar


    Currently reading The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

    very good. I'm enjoying it more than At-swim two birds tbh. More of a novel, as opposed to a collection of disjointed segments (albeit funny ones :D )


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