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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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    #242
    tHE vAGGABOND
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    Secret Scripture, by Sebastian Barry


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    #243
    JesseCuster
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    Finished Black Lands by Belinda Bauer.
    Quality crime thriller, a very promising debut.


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    #244
    Cicero
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    Just Started The Guinesses- Joe Joyce

    1/2 way through Ian Dury- Biography by Will Birch


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    #245
    That_Guy
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    I've just started Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.


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    #246
    Evan93
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    Nearly finished Somewhere South Of Midnight by Stephen Laws
    Starting The Stand by Stephen King


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    #247
    Cadiz
    Registered Users Posts: 454 ✭✭Cadiz


    Who Killed Zebedee - a short story by Wilkie Collins. Would love to hear what anyone thought of The Woman In White?


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    #248
    Col!n
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    Halfway through The Resurrectionists by Michael Collins very good so far.
    When I finish that it's on to Disgrace by Coetzee.


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    #249
    Cadiz
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    Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton. Love it but it's depressing the hell out of me.


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    #250
    SecondTime
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    Col!n wrote: »
    Halfway through The Resurrectionists by Michael Collins very good so far.
    When I finish that it's on to Disgrace by Coetzee.

    Disgrace is excellent, I've liked everything I've ready by Coetzee. Hope you enjoy it!


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    #251
    herbieflowers
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    Just over a third of the way through Tolstoy's War and Peace. Excellent so far, interesting characters and themes yet it is surprisingly readable.


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    #252
    ian8746
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    Just finished reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. A Brilliant read from start to finish.


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    #253
    kerash
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    A Thousand Splendid Suns - I'm really enjoing it. I picked it up for €2 in a charity shop! I've yet to read The Kite Runner but it's next on my list.


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    #254
    jeru
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    Just finished The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest, by Stieg Larsson. Really enjoyable trilogy. Have just started on The Road and it has certainly caught my interest...


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    #255
    Busi_Girl08
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    Finished 100 Years of Solitude. To be honest, I started to lose interest towards the end :(

    Am now half way through Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. So far so good :D

    It's nice reading the narration in Morgan Freeman's voice.


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    af_thefragile
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    Cuz I can't read on the bus (my eyeballs hurt to the point of popping out), lately I've been listening to The Trial by Franz Kafka.

    Quite intriguing. Always carries an air of suspense keeping you wondering what's gonna happen next. Can get a little tedious at times but for most part its very interesting.


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    #257
    pearliefan
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    I'm reading To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee. Hadn't read it in about four years so I decided to do so again and I've been stuck in it all morning!! I'm trying to read it slowly so as to savour it though..

    Also started reading The Great Gatsby last week... can't really get into it but it's been recommended so many times that I'll have to!

    Read The DaVinci Code last week and I loved it!!


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    #258
    Any key?
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    Currently reading The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the murder at Road Hill House

    Very disapointed can't wait to finish and start something new. I have a big list for when I go to the library.:D


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    #259
    Busi_Girl08
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    Currently reading Dracula.

    Now THAT'S how you write vampires!!:D


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    #260
    horseplay
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    Man in the dark -- Paul Auster

    really enjoying it :D


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    #261
    tazkatie
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭tazkatie


    Again I have been sucked into the authors I have been reading for such a long time. Just can't get away from the lure of James Patterson, his new offering Worst Case is actually very enjoyable and see the reintroduction of Patterson's newest leading man Michaal Bennett. Well worth the read. I have also read two from Karen Rose but to be honest am thinking of steering clear in the future. I have read Don't Tell which a follow on off the back story to one of her other books... okay but could have done without it to be fair. I also read Have You Seen Her by Karen Rose and this was a much better read - but on a very similar theme to all the other.. Professional woman becomes target of killer, falls in love with lead detective and thwarts the killer in the end.. All of her books follow the same well worn pattern and that is why I will not read any more ( or so I say now but will most probably buy the next one in the hope it is better.
    I also read this week, Lesley Pearse now book Stolen and really enjoyed it. She is a super story teller and you end up immersed in her worl albeit for a very short time but this is a great relaxation book - nothing too terrible and great for passing the time. I have also read this week the new book in the alphabet series by Sue Grafton we are now at U so only a few more to go. I have read the whole series and I love them. They only come out so infrequently it is always a treat to return to catch up with the characters - Kinsey and her 80 year old plus landlord Henry. Excellent. I have just start Wolf Hall and hear that is a fantastic read so looking forward to getting into it. Also very sad to hear of the passing of Dick Francis, another one of my long time favourite authors. I think I will have to revisit some of his books over the next few weeks.


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    #262
    Blush_01
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    I, Lucifer - Glen Duncan

    I have attempted to read this a number of times but always get distracted, so I'm focussing solely on this for the moment. I have to admit, I've just started it, but I'm really enjoying it!


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    #263
    Cadiz
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    Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett. I heart Terry.


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    #264
    p to the e
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    Just finished "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis. Started slow but the violence comes thick and fast towards the end. Will Definitely be reading more of his stuff in the future. Started reading "I am Legend" by Richard Matheson. Very good read and completely different to the film. Also listening to an audio book "The elegant universe" by Brian Greene. Essentially it's an introduction to string theory


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    Sephiroth_dude
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    Having read the first 7 books of the dresden files by jim butcher,I have decided to take a break from that series and start on twilight.


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    #266
    kerash
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    This week I'm reading Memoirs of a Geisha.


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    #267
    Pittens
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    Just finished Brooklyn by Colm Toibín. Very nice story. Am finishing Dome by Stephen King. As always with King I find the psychological bits and the dialogue sympathetic, the general mayhem bits leave me a bit cold.

    But a return to form. After than possibly some popular science book.


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    Col!n
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    SecondTime wrote: »
    Disgrace is excellent, I've liked everything I've ready by Coetzee. Hope you enjoy it!

    Disgrace was brilliant, bloody depressing but brilliant all the same.


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    #269
    fontanalis
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    p to the e wrote: »
    Just finished "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis. Started slow but the violence comes thick and fast towards the end. Will Definitely be reading more of his stuff in the future. Started reading "I am Legend" by Richard Matheson. Very good read and completely different to the film. Also listening to an audio book "The elegant universe" by Brian Greene. Essentially it's an introduction to string theory

    Great book, how they managed to mess that up, I suppose the cgi and fluffy ending didn't help.


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    #270
    af_thefragile
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    Just finished Kafka's trial and now started Lord of the Rings, the first book.


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    #271
    tazkatie
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    kerash wrote: »
    This week I'm reading Memoirs of a Geisha.
    I loved this book. Hauntingly beautiful. Enjoy!


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