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This week, I are mostly reading....

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 blackhead


    AJG wrote:
    Just finished 'Down And Out In Paris And London' by George Orwell .

    I've just started this :)

    Just finished So many ways to begin by Jon McGregor, which was wonderful!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭crotalus667


    the hobbit by Tolken im planing on reading the lord of the rings after this fallowed by the rest of his works


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


    Good choice.


    Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭AJG


    Finished Miller's 'Book of Friends' and also polished off Steinbeck's 'Tortilla Flats'. It was only 150 pages so my commuting makes short work of books like that. I've a stack of 20 or 30 books on my floor but still haven't decided what I'd like to devour next. I was going to say 'tackle' but devour seems more apt.


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


    Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭Psychedelic


    I'm about 50 pages into Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (800+ pages in total), tough going so far. Anyone here ever read it?


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


    No, Pynchon is someone I keep meaning to get around to but never do. Someday...

    Dante The Divine Comedy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭AJG


    Decided to start Graham Greene's 'Brighton Rock'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭Extreme-LoopZ


    I'm just starting Freedom Next Time by John Pilger.
    Should be interesting.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭Zoodlebop


    ooh. brighton rock is well good.

    I'm on "The Dispossesed" by Ursula le Guin

    Love a bit of Ursula, me.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭sd123


    I'm reading "A Briefer History Of Time" by Stephen Hawking. Bit difficult to read. Anyone here ever read it?


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


    Finally managed to pick up a copy of A Happy Death by Camus, and also have Atlas Shrugged lined up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭Art_Wolf


    Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,644 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Art_Wolf wrote:
    Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson

    Rereading or first time?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    Catch-22 by Joseph Heller


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭Extreme-LoopZ


    just finished reading Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 891 ✭✭✭rejkin


    Monster Island by David Wellington


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 44 Alsatian_Cousin


    The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭AJG


    A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    AJG wrote:
    A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
    What's it about? The FAI?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭AJG


    A very funny book about a fat sloth named Ignatius Reilly and his many misadventures. An excellent read.

    I've moved on to Emile Zola's 'Therese Raquin'.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,163 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    Zola? God... I read one of his books a while back, and I'm not doing that ever again for at least another 20 years. It was good and all, but there's only so much misery I can take. Same with Les Miserables and pretty much anything by Dickens... It's all about being miserable during the industrial revolution era...

    I hit a slump recently, and all I can stomach at the moment is light stuff, like Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills or some Yeats.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    the secret of crickley hall - james herbert


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,555 ✭✭✭tSubh Dearg


    Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins

    Had lent this to a friend about 2 years ago. Nice to see it's just as good as I remember it.


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


    Assasin's Quest - Robin Hobb.


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


    Strong Motion-Jonathan Franzen


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭genericgoon


    1984 george orwell


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,147 ✭✭✭mise


    Northern Lights by Philip Pullman and What does it all mean? by Thomas Nagel


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭crotalus667


    mise wrote:
    Northern Lights by Philip Pullman and What does it all mean? by Thomas Nagel

    I don’t know coz I haven’t gotten around to reading it (iv had the trilogy on my book shelf for about 2 years at this stage) im about to start so don’t spoil it :D


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