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This week, I are mostly reading....

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  • #1592
    AJG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭AJG


    Just finished 'Victoria' by Knut Hamsun and started 'The End Of The Affair' by Graham Greene.


  • #1593
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Haven't read The End of the Affair but saw the film. Fantastic. One of my fave films ever.


  • #1594
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    ZorbaTehZ wrote: »
    Could you expand a little on that? :)

    It reads like treacle. Not in a bad way but it is so tiring to read, each sentence is heavy with meaning and flows like a river made of concrete. I think I like it but I'm not sure.


  • #1595
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Pandora's Legion by Harold Coyle. Good plot about bioterrorism up until the last 50 pps, where it looks like the author was in a hurry to make the publication deadlines (one too many fiery chariots to save the day, as if a Greek play with high tech).


  • #1596
    arbeitsscheuer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,391 ✭✭✭arbeitsscheuer


    Blue_Lagoon wrote: »
    Pandora's Legion by Harold Coyle. Good plot about bioterrorism up until the last 50 pps, where it looks like the author was in a hurry to make the publication deadlines (one too many fiery chariots to save the day, as if a Greek play with high tech).
    Is that the same Harold Coyle who wrote The Ten Thousand?
    The Ten Thousand's not a bad book, a sort of modern-day adaptation of Xenophon's Anabasis for an American audience. Since it's for a US audience tho, it's a tad too pro-American, way too much faith in their training, technical and tactical superiority. But if you can suspend your disbelief it's a fairly compelling read.

    Harold Coyle is the new Tom Clancy.


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  • #1597
    AJG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭AJG


    'The Cone Gatherers' by Robin Jenkins.


  • #1598
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    The Science of Discworld 2-Terry Pratchett.


  • #1599
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    HP Lovecraft Dagon and Other Macabre Tales


  • #1600
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    john lecarre - the little drummer girl


  • #1601
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Revolutionaries - Eric Hobsbawm
    Twelve - Nick McDonnell


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  • #1602
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Deadhouse Gates - A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson


  • #1603
    AJG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭AJG


    '1933 Was A Bad Year' by John Fante


  • #1604
    AJG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭AJG


    Just moved onto 'The stories of Paul Bowles'


  • #1605
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy


  • #1606
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    The Marching Powder by Rusty Young (with Thomas McFadden)

    http://www.marchingpowder.com/


  • #1607
    Mr. Bones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭Mr. Bones


    Just finished "Into the Wild" (ok, nothing special) by Jon Krakuer, starting Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil by John Berendt....


  • #1608
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Joyce, Family and Finnegans Wake by Patrick McCarthy.


  • #1609
    tHE vAGGABOND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,693 ✭✭✭tHE vAGGABOND


    World Without End, by Ken Follet [sequel to Pilllars of the Earth - if you have not read it, go and get it second hand on ebay or amazon :)]


  • #1610
    EimearNíS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭EimearNíS


    Just finished "the kite Runner"... READ IT!!! It's brill!!!


  • #1611
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The Korean Way , Max Hastings (Pan Books)

    Scary the way political stuff in the lead up to the war reads just like Iraq and the book was written in 1987.


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  • #1612
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,019 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    Half way through 'From potter's field' by Patricia Cornwell. Great read so far.


  • #1613
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Just finished reading Eisenhower, supreme allied commander by Carlo D'Este http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/MP-30046/Eisenhower.htm

    onto Jools Hollond's authobiography now ....


  • #1614
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    "The Southwest Airlines way" by a dude who's last name is Gittel. lol


  • #1615
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    James Joyce Finnegans Wake (reading it in conjunction with the Kitcher book above)
    Yukio Mishima Spring Snow


  • #1616
    BossArky
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,776 Mod ✭✭✭✭BossArky


    "Making Money" - Terry Pratchett


  • #1617
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Memories of ice - Steven Erikson


  • #1618
    Mrs. MacGyver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Mrs. MacGyver


    The secret lives of Mrs Simpson - Duchess of Windsor by Charles Higham
    Just finished 'the last king of Scotland' a great read, looking forward to seeing the DVD of it now!


  • #1619
    highlight100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭highlight100


    Co Longford and it's people - D Leahy


  • #1620
    Blush_01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    stovelid wrote: »
    Twelve - Nick McDonnell

    I really enjoyed reading that ages ago. It's a very easy read, but there's something in it that really hits you.

    Shalimar the Clown - Salman Rushdie
    Mercy - Jodi Picoult


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  • #1621
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    I'm not reading anything this week, teacher would be very dissapointed


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