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    #1682
    Seren_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    The Book Thief is sitting on my desk at home. Looking forward to reading it now after all the good reviews on this thread!

    I've about 50 pages left of A Game of Thrones to read; love it so much :D Going to watch the TV series again after I finish it, seeing as I'll know all the characters and stuff now.


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    #1683
    almostnever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭almostnever


    Finished "Room" by Emma Donoghue and "What They Teach You At Harvard Business School" by Philip Delves Broughton over the last few days. I hated Room. And I really thought I'd love it as a concept, so it was extra disappointing. It just seemed so convoluted and contrived and try-hard the whole way through, I wish I didn't have a compulsion to finish books because it was a waste of time reading all of it.
    The damn child language thing almost drove me to distraction, can't remember the last time I felt so angry reading a book for a reason other than its subject-matter.

    I liked WTTYAHBS, really insightful and well written. I did think he was trying a bit hard too though, he ended up calling HBS
    "a factory for unhappy people" and seemed to have a bit of a chip on his shoulder when it came to looking for internships and the like, it felt as if he was really pushing the agenda that "family life=happiness" throughout the book
    , but overall I really enjoyed it. :) Just started "One Day" by David Nicholls and I know I'm going to love it already!


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    #1684
    bythewoods
    Registered Users Posts: 2,361 ✭✭✭bythewoods


    Felt the very same way about Room!
    I read it last year and HATED it!

    Emma Donoghue also wrote "Slammerkin", which is a wonderful book (if a little odd) which I read AGES ago, and I was expecting something much better from her with Room. I suppose it must be pretty tough to write in that style for an entire book and that's a bit of a... feat, I guess. I was surprised it got so much recognition tbh, wouldn't recommend it to anyone.


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    #1685
    RolandIRL
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    Your Text Here wrote: »
    I've about 50 pages left of A Game of Thrones to read; love it so much :D Going to watch the TV series again after I finish it, seeing as I'll know all the characters and stuff now.
    i want to read that but found out that there's a huge queue for it in the library :mad::( oh well, Charlie Byrne's...here i come :D


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    #1686
    Jay P
    Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    I bought and read The Name of the Wind last week, and absolutely loved it. I'm gonna buy the second book soon, which is apparently even better! :D

    I also bought Magician by Raymond E. Feist, and am about halfway through. The amount of books Feist has out is just cronic, I don't know how I'm going to get through them all because I want to start reading Neil Gaiman and Steven Erikson and Richard Dawkins.


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    #1687
    EuropeanSon
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    #1688
    toadpenguin
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    Just finished the first half of Looking For Alaska and to be honest I'm really nervous about reading the second half (the "After" bit). Everything was so happy in the first half that you only got the sort of sense of impending doom in the last few pages. I have an inkling of what's going to happen but I hope I'm wrong!

    The characters in the book are just amazing, and having watched a lot of John Green's videos with his brother on Youtube, I feel like I know the character of Pudge a bit better. For anyone reading the book I'd recommend you watch the video below where John goes to his own high school (which Culver Creek is based on).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdjmNPlePVE


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    #1689
    KnifeWRENCH
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    ^ Alas, the cover of my edition isn't as cool as that one. :(

    I'm just about halfway through. Very strange book, and a little difficult to get into at first, but really really good. The Satanic Verses was great too, so I'll definitely be getting more of Salman Rushdie' stuff when I've finished this.


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    #1690
    shadowninty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,654 ✭✭✭shadowninty


    Just finished CHERUB: Shadow Wave.
    Couldn't find People's Republic in Kilkee natch :(


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    #1691
    Slow Show
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    Read 'One Day' by David Nicholls in one day...(hahahaha that actually wasn't planned). Day well spent tbh. Except the ending has left me feeling quite...emotional, for lack of a better word and even slightly spoiling it. Now to see if the movie is a complete train-wreck or not.


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    #1692
    Ally7
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    Did anyone else find "The Road" an incredibly difficult book to get into? I started it 2 days ago and I'm only 30 pages in..............


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    #1693
    Corkfeen
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    Just finished "The Wastelands" , think I'm gonna have to take a break from the Dark Tower books for a few weeks or else i'm gonna start talking like a gunslinger. :D


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    #1694
    RolandIRL
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    Corkfeen wrote: »
    Just finished "The Wastelands" , think I'm gonna have to take a break from the Dark Tower books for a few weeks or else i'm gonna start talking like a gunslinger. :D
    You've forgotten the face of your father :P yes i'm this universe's incarnation of Roland :pac:

    Just finished reading the latest book in the True Blood books, Dead Reckoning...good book, very easy to read. Think they're much better than the series which has way too many plots going on at once.

    Onward to A Game of Thrones now, shaping up to be a good read so far


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    #1695
    Aisling(",)
    Registered Users Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


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    Just started this hopefully it's as god as its tv counterpart!


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    #1696
    ReacherCreature
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    Ally7 wrote: »
    Did anyone else find "The Road" an incredibly difficult book to get into? I started it 2 days ago and I'm only 30 pages in..............

    Quite the opposite, personally. I read it in about 3-5 days. It was remarkably accessible I found. Stick with it.


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    #1697
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
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    I read 'The Outsider' by Albert Camus in one sitting earlier. Brilliant book.


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    #1698
    Namlub
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    Almost finished Ghostwritten by David Mitchell, so good. It's in nine separate parts so I was afraid it'd feel too much like a collection of short stories rather than a novel, but he interlinks them really cleverly. Definitely going to read Cloud Atlas next


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    #1699
    EuropeanSon
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    A really excellent book. Overall I thought it was very balanced, though maybe slightly dismissive of Pompey's abilities.


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    #1700
    pathway33
    Registered Users Posts: 2,229 ✭✭✭pathway33


    Hi,

    I was in a bookshop yesterday and read a bit of the first page and a few bits of middle pages in a book. I didn't buy the book. Now I regret my decision as the bookshop is at the other end of the country. So can anyone tell me what I was reading please? It was in the 'Young Adult' section. Here's what I know (maybe) about the book:

    * There was a classroom scene where the question is asked 'what is a friend?' where one reply was ' a friend is someone who returns your texts'
    * There was something about a geography teacher teaching normal geography for a change instead of talking about the end of the world.
    * I think there may have been diary entries
    * I think the protagonist was a girl

    Thanks,


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    #1701
    Ginja Ninja
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    it's very good,I'm about half way through and the way the devil's outlook changes is done very well


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    #1702
    Jay P
    Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    I finished Magician by Raymond E. Feist last week. I really enjoyed it, it was easy to read, and it held my attention for the most part, and I really liked the way Feist skipped bits that really didn't matter, like when people were travelling for weeks between cities. A lot of fantasy books, especially, seem to give every single little detail of the story, which is rarely necessary.

    I'll read the next book in the series eventually, but not just yet. I've got Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson, The Night Watch by Sergey Lukyanenko, Storm Front by Jim Butcher to read first, and then I'll decide which series to read first. I've also got A Feast for Crows by George RR Martin, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.

    Right now, I'm dividing my time between the God Delusion by Richard Dawkins and Someone Like You, a selection of short stories by Roald Dahl. And after seeing the SyFy adaptation of Moby Dick yesterday, I'm tempted to try that again.

    I'm delighted to be reading again :D


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    #1703
    Aoibheann
    Registered Users Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    Oh Jay P, you have so much to look forward to, those books are all fantastic. I must go back and read the Dresden Files from the start - it gets better with each book, btw, and the plot gets more intricate so it's definitely worth reading Storm Front if you're looking for an awesome series. :D


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    #1704
    Jackobyte
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    In the last 2 days, I've finally gotten back into reading after Irish College took it out of me. Finally nearing the end of A Clash Of Kings, ages after starting it. Onto A Storm of Swords. :D
    Jay P wrote: »
    The Night Watch by Sergey Lukyanenko
    I went to get that book from the library at one stage after reading good things about it here but got "The Night Watch" by Terry Prachett by accident. >.<


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    #1705
    Conor108
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    Game Of Thrones finished. BOOM


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    #1706
    EuropeanSon
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    Conor108 wrote: »
    Game Of Thrones finished. BOOM

    The book "A Game Of Thrones" or the whole ASOIAF series up to part 5?


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    #1707
    Conor108
    Registered Users Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    EuropeanSon wrote: »
    The book "A Game Of Thrones" or the whole ASOIAF series up to part 5?

    Just the book! I'll find A Clash Of Kings soon.


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    #1708
    Insect Overlord
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    Finally finished "A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man" on Saturday morning, three and a half years after I was supposed to read it for college. Incredible book. I'll have to read it again though.

    Got through "An Triail" by Máiréad Ní Ghráda on the bus yesterday as well.


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    #1709
    Aisling(",)
    Registered Users Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Got through "An Triail" by Máiréad Ní Ghráda on the bus yesterday as well.

    Well thats a torture I hope you never have to repeat....oh the horrors of that book and its god damn fimineacht and the evil puta of a mathair!


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    #1710
    jumpguy
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    EuropeanSon wrote: »
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    A really excellent book. Overall I thought it was very balanced, though maybe slightly dismissive of Pompey's abilities.
    Odd, I read Imperium by Robert Harris at the start of the summer, and just bought Lustrum today. I thought Imperium was fantastic!


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    #1711
    Insect Overlord
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    Aisling(",) wrote: »
    Well thats a torture I hope you never have to repeat....oh the horrors of that book and its god damn fimineacht and the evil puta of a mathair!

    It's actually a very easy play to read! :) The language isn't too complicated, and the characters are either good or bad. The subject matter is awful though, of course.


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