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    #392
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've just started reading Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. Seems pretty interesting so far. It's definitely a book I'm going to read slowly, anyway (I'm also reading short stories by Tolstoy every now and then between chapters of other books).


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    #393
    nayorleck114
    Closed Accounts Posts: 224 ✭✭nayorleck114


    My wife says The Historian is a really good read.

    http://www.amazon.com/Historian-Elizabeth-Kostova/dp/0316011770


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    #394
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    I've started reading Bleak House. It's the first Dickens novel I've ever started. It took me about ahalf an hour to get through 6 pages. :(
    I'm gonna stick it out though, even if it bores the arse off me.


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    #395
    nayorleck114
    Closed Accounts Posts: 224 ✭✭nayorleck114


    Knife-WREEENCH wrote: »
    I've started reading Bleak House. It's the first Dickens novel I've ever started. It took me about ahalf an hour to get through 6 pages. :(
    I'm gonna stick it out though, even if it bores the arse off me.

    Good, its worth it, its not easy to read but worth it.


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    #396
    almostnever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭almostnever


    I'm considering reading Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. Has anyone read it? (:


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    #397
    soccymonster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,553 ✭✭✭soccymonster


    Ive just started reading 'not without my sister' by some 3 sisters? Its alright so far... Its supposed to be the sunday times bestseller so it will probably get better. :)


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    #398
    OneArt
    Registered Users Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    A Neurotic wrote: »
    I'm also reading - too much period drama, not enough zombies.

    The addition of ninjas was nice. Pity dear Elizabeth kept killing them.


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    #399
    jefreywithonef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭jefreywithonef


    Started reading War And Peace.


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    #400
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    Monzo wrote: »
    Started reading War And Peace.

    I finished that about two months ago. It's a damn good book.

    What translation are you reading if you don't mind my asking? The translation that you read plays a huge role...

    After reading passages from half a dozen translations, I'd recommend the Louise and Aylmer Maude one (it was approved by Tolstoy himself).


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    #401
    A Neurotic
    Registered Users Posts: 3,779 ✭✭✭A Neurotic


    1984 is doubleplusgood.


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    #402
    aine-maire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 456 ✭✭aine-maire


    Wow oh wow.

    All of the Harry Potter books are now €1.99 each in Easons:D

    Currently rereading.............:)


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    #403
    jefreywithonef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭jefreywithonef


    -JammyDodger- wrote: »
    I finished that about two months ago. It's a damn good book.

    What translation are you reading if you don't mind my asking? The translation that you read plays a huge role...

    After reading passages from half a dozen translations, I'd recommend the Louise and Aylmer Maude one (it was approved by Tolstoy himself).

    Rosemary Edmonds... It's readable so far anyway.


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    #404
    lou91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭lou91


    On Writing by Stephen King.
    I love him. A lot.
    His contempt for the Meyer makes him even better.


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    #405
    poisonated
    Registered Users Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭poisonated


    I'm reading the client by John Grisham.I am not very far into it but it seems like a good book.


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    #406
    nima101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭nima101


    im reading 'breaking dawn' part of the twilight saga.If you havnt already read them then you should.It doesnt matter what age you are!


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    #407
    p1akuw47h5r3it
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭p1akuw47h5r3it


    I'm readin 3 books at the moment:

    The Great War for Civilisation... Robert Fisk... Graet book

    50 Dead Men Walkin...Dunno... It was made into a film.... It was really good (the book).

    New Ross o' Carrol Kelly one... Dunno... Decent enuf funny in some places but jus started it so...


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    #408
    internetaddict
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭internetaddict


    Just finished "Lock and Key" by Sarah Dessen. I like her writing style and she's easy to read when you're wrecked.

    Just starting "Are You Experienced?" by William Sutcliffe. It's kind of a cult book and it's good so far.

    I read "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Summer Crossings" by Truman Capote lately. Both really good but not very uplifting if you need something to cheer you up.


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    #409
    Fad
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    Right now I'm reading, The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

    I like it so far.


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    #410
    dontlikeurmam
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    Just finished reading The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It's the follow up to Shadow of the Wind which was amazingly good. Was a bit disappointed. His language and prose is lovely,like the las book, but the plot was a bit disjointed and the ending was v.poor and left a lot of unanswered questions...which i don't like:mad:

    Reading 50 Mathamatical Ideas by Tony Crilly which is actually pretty good for any1 who isn't great wit maths concepts...like me! Explains all the famous theoroms really well.


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    #411
    candlegrease
    Registered Users Posts: 475 ✭✭candlegrease


    This summer I read:

    1. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
    A good book but not as ground breaking for me as I imagine it would be for otehrs because I knew a good bit about science etc. already. Still a worthwhile read, though I was bored by some bits.

    2. Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín
    A short, interesting story about a girl who leaves Ireland for Brooklyn in the 1950s. Explores interesting themes of love and loss, but nothing spectacular.

    3. Watership Down - Richard Adams
    A great book. Engaging from the word go until the fantastic ending. It's a story about rabbits leaving their warren and becomes a voyage of discovery etc. Sounds mundane but very engaging!

    4. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevesky
    If you're willing to devote time and to concentrate it's very rewarding! A big book. so don't pick it up with the intention of light treading. Contains some excellent psychology that was ahead of its time, engaging and intricate plot tied into various sub-plots, and the plot just thickens until the very end. An excellent read.


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    #412
    Sophsxxx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Sophsxxx


    Confessions of a shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella! And Genesis by Karin Slaughter She's a class crime writer!!


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    #413
    DancingQueen:)
    Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭DancingQueen:)


    I am a bookaholic :D and when i'm at home im hardly ever not reading.
    Recently i've just finished the knoughts and crosses series and both books by Ruth Gilligan. Good reads if i do say so myself.
    Now i'm re-reading my novel for the leaving cert - Girl with a pearl earring, could be worse.


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    #414
    errlloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 12,603 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    DancingQueen:) wrote: »
    I am a bookaholic :D and when i'm at home im hardly ever not reading.
    Recently i've just finished the knoughts and crosses series and both books by Ruth Gilligan. Good reads if i do say so myself.
    Now i'm re-reading my novel for the leaving cert - Girl with a pearl earring, could be worse.

    Both of her three? Sorry that was a bit unfair, the other one was only released like a few days ago.


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    #415
    DancingQueen:)
    Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭DancingQueen:)


    She has a third? Got to get myself to the book shop then.
    Thanks i didn't know that :rolleyes:


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    #416
    c_dog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭c_dog


    salems lot by stephen king..... recommened to anyone


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    #417
    Pygmalion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    Reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 'tis quite good.
    Trainspotting after this.


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    #418
    Mushy
    Registered Users Posts: 21,208 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    Reading 'Stalins Children' now. Decent read, but quite harrowing.


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    #419
    sharondingle
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭sharondingle


    Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - a great book, full of insight into life in Nigeria/Biafra as well as a cracking good story


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    #420
    jefreywithonef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭jefreywithonef


    James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia.

    War And Peace was epic (well, everything except the epilogue).


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    #421
    Shacklebolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Shacklebolt


    Symposium, and The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato.


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