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Screaminmidget · 04-04-2011 06:06PM

Started reading "The Club" by Christy O'Connor. Lets hope I can finish it!

EuropeanSon · 05-04-2011 01:42PM

Just finished Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. Amazing book.

Aisling(",) · 05-04-2011 02:25PM

Just finished a trilogy by Lynda La Plante -Cold shoulder,cold heart,cold blood and I really enjoyed it till the very end...it didnt turn out how i wanted it to.

Insect Overlord · 05-04-2011 10:51PM

"Cití" le Siobhán Ní Shúilleabháin

"An Solas Dearg" le Antoine Ó Flatharta

Coming up tomorrow? "An Cléireach" le Darach Ó Scolaí.

Insect Overlord · 09-04-2011 06:52PM

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Namlub · 09-04-2011 11:37PM

She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir - she wrote it to take revenge on some girl that tried to come between her and Sartre so you can tell that she's portraying her in a really negative light. It's good but I keep noticing how badly it's translated, whoever did it just randomly didn't bother to change some words, so you get lines like 'The truth hit her like a cold douche'. Bothers me.

jefreywithonef · 10-04-2011 12:59AM

Finished Homicide by David Simon (the guy who created The Wire television drama) at long last. It's about his one-year stay with homicide detectives in Baltimore only written as a face paced thriller. Actually didn't realise until the end of the book that it's all based on real stuff - that's both fantastic and utterly grim at the same time. Good book overall, great in part, but I spent far too long with it. Started on Christmas day but college work and other things meant that I could only get at it sporadically.

Onto Kafka's The Trial now while I wait on a college book to arrive in the post. It's promising thus far so hopefully it can live up to The Metamorphosis, one of his short stories that was surreal, compelling and awesome.

Mollikins · 20-04-2011 01:49AM

Anyone thinking of reading The Book Thief definitely should!

I read it ages ago, thanks to so many people mentioning it here and I loved it. Such a great book

Also read a book called The Other Hand by Chris Cleave. Crap book tbh. The description on the back was why I bought it but I ended up being really disappointed by it. Such a waste of money and time.

I read The Bell Jar a few weeks ago. I liked it but I think I was expecting more from it since Plath is so well-known and everything. Maybe I’m just too critical.

I think the last book I read was Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. Great book. I really enjoyed it and I love Picoult’s way with words. Have a load of her books to keep me busy over the summer!

Think I’ll read Dear John next since I’ve been delaying watching the film ‘til I had read the book.

almostnever · 20-04-2011 09:16AM

Buckley v Attorney General. Riveting stuff.

Jay P · 20-04-2011 11:50AM

I'm back into War & Peace. I'm re-reading the first 150 pages or so, and it's a lot easier the second time around, it's much easier to keep track of the names. Hopefully I'll stay at it properly this time...

Seren_ · 20-04-2011 01:53PM

I'm reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Only about fifty or so pages into it, but it's been good so far

It's my best friend's favourite book ever so I'm expecting a lot :P

Namlub · 20-04-2011 07:59PM

Your Text Here wrote: »

I'm reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Only about fifty or so pages into it, but it's been good so far It's my best friend's favourite book ever so I'm expecting a lot :P

Keep meaning to read that. Actually I keep meaning to read anything, I fail...

Jackobyte · 20-04-2011 08:50PM

I just finished Twilight.

I hate that I might have actually enjoyed it. /cringe

Indiego · 20-04-2011 09:52PM

Currently reading:
To kill a mockingbird (for my J.C revision -__-)
Whats science ever done for us
and
Flowers in the attic

Arcade Panda · 20-04-2011 10:29PM

Just finished reading 'The Help'.

Absolutely brilliant

Seren_ · 20-04-2011 11:14PM

Namlub wrote: »

Keep meaning to read that. Actually I keep meaning to read anything, I fail...

i tend to get like that A LOT :pac:

Slow Show · 20-04-2011 11:22PM

I've been reading Catch 22 for weeks now. It's very good and very funny but I only ever read a chapter or a few chapters a day at most. It doesn't help that they're so short too. I'll get there...only about 400 pages to go.

bythewoods · 21-04-2011 01:31AM

Jackobyte wrote: »

I just finished Twilight.

I hate that I might have actually enjoyed it. /cringe

SarahBeep! · 23-04-2011 11:39PM

Indiego wrote: »

To kill a mockingbird (for my J.C revision -__-)

One of the single most amazing books EVER.

bythewoods · 24-04-2011 02:28AM

I read "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold... in 3 days. Good pre-exam hustle.
For all the rave reviews that book got, I can't say I really thought it was all that. It was... impulsive. Very easy to read and all that, but it wasn't as good as I was expecting it to be! It's on the BBC List of 100 Best Books of all time like, no WAAAAAYYYYY does it deserve to be anywhere there.

My friend gave me "Never Let me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro to start next. I'm really excited to get into it, he's meant to be a fantastic author, and I've never read his stuff. So yay for new books!

Lawliet · 24-04-2011 03:09AM

bythewoods wrote: »

I read "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold... in 3 days. Good pre-exam hustle.
For all the rave reviews that book got, I can't say I really thought it was all that. It was... impulsive. Very easy to read and all that, but it wasn't as good as I was expecting it to be! It's on the BBC List of 100 Best Books of all time like, no WAAAAAYYYYY does it deserve to be anywhere there.

I was interested in reading that until I watched the film; the plot was just creepy in all the wrong ways.

I'm taking a break from the Wheel of Time series and am reading Mogworld by Yahtzee Crowshaw. It set in a world based on World of Warcraft and told from the point of view of an NPC. The whole things a bit like Terry Pratchett with gamer references. Very funny

KnifeWRENCH · 24-04-2011 03:48AM

bythewoods wrote: »

My friend gave me "Never Let me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro to start next. I'm really excited to get into it, he's meant to be a fantastic author, and I've never read his stuff. So yay for new books!

There was a copy of one of his books at home (it was either 'Never Let Me Go' or 'The Remains of the Day', can't remember which) and I had it in mind to read it one day. Then I found out my mother gave it to a second hand bookshop because she thought no-one wanted it. :mad:

I'm currently reading "All Quiet on the Western Front", kindly donated to me by Eliot Rosewater.

After that, I'm gonna read "Midnight's Children", and I can honestly say I've never looked forward to a book as much. "The Satanic Verses" was amazing, and "Midnight's Children" is (supposedly) even better......please don't let me down Mr. Rushdie.

Insect Overlord · 24-04-2011 04:23AM

I finished "Trainspotting" by Irvine Welsh last night. Would anyone like to talk about it with me?

jefreywithonef · 24-04-2011 12:42PM

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

I'm currently reading "All Quiet on the Western Front", kindly donated to me by Eliot Rosewater.

Love that book. Might read it again in the summer if I get a chance. Though I'm considering picking up Ulysses as it's on my course next year so that might take up a lot of time, especially since I need to maintain my 'read a f*cking massive Tolstoy book for the summer' tradition.

I finished "Trainspotting" by Irvine Welsh last night. Would anyone like to talk about it with me?

Any good? I loved the film, though I suspect the book is much darker.

Insect Overlord · 24-04-2011 03:39PM

jefreywithonef wrote: »

Any good? I loved the film, though I suspect the book is much darker.

It's been a few years since I saw the film, so I can't compare them yet. I'll put on the DVD this evening though.

The book is very dark. Most of it is written in a variety of Scottish accents, so it takes a little while to figure out exactly what the characters are saying. I didn't find that too much of a challenge though. The descriptions of the characters' adventures with drink, drugs, disease and violence can be pretty gruesome though.
It sits nicely between American Psycho, Fightclub and A Clockwork Orange as one of the great challenging modern novels I've read since the start of 2010.

Lawliet · 24-04-2011 03:51PM

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Most of it is written in a variety of Scottish accents, so it takes a little while to figure out exactly what the characters are saying.

Haha the first book I read after finishing Trainspotting I automatically started reading in a Scottish accent.

Personally the film freaked me out more than the book, but then I first saw the film when I was eight so it's possible there's some psychological scarring going on there!

Insect Overlord · 24-04-2011 04:08PM

Lawliet wrote: »

Haha the first book I read after finishing Trainspotting I automatically started reading in a Scottish accent.

I started reading The Poor Mouth (the English version of An Béal Bocht). It's written in a really rural Irish style, so there was no chance of me having that problem.

Lawliet wrote: »

Personally the film freaked me out more than the book, but then I first saw the film when I was eight so it's possible there's some psychological scarring going on there!

:eek: Genuine sympathy for you! I remember feeling awful watching it when I was 16 or 17. Seeing it at eight is mad altogether!

Lawliet · 24-04-2011 04:38PM

Insect Overlord wrote: »

:eek: Genuine sympathy for you! I remember feeling awful watching it when I was 16 or 17. Seeing it at eight is mad altogether!

Yeah I believe it came on straight after Buffy the Vampire slayer when I was home alone, I think I watched it up until the head came out of the toilet before getting too scared and legging it down the road to my grannys house in the lashing rain wearing my teddy bear slippers :pac:

SarahBeep! · 24-04-2011 06:33PM

bythewoods wrote: »

I read "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold... in 3 days. Good pre-exam hustle.
For all the rave reviews that book got, I can't say I really thought it was all that. It was... impulsive. Very easy to read and all that, but it wasn't as good as I was expecting it to be! It's on the BBC List of 100 Best Books of all time like, no WAAAAAYYYYY does it deserve to be anywhere there. !

I started reading it and got a little bit freaked out.
It really does get straight down to the nitty gritty and at that start I thought a few bits were too graphic, especially because you got no warning that they were coming.

I'll prob finish it over the summer, just kinda had to put it down and walk away after that.

Indiego · 24-04-2011 09:46PM

SarahBeep! wrote: »

One of the single most amazing books EVER.

i agree, but when you have read it 12 times in the past 3 months it looses a bit of its magic lol

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