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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,128 ✭✭✭cynder


    Just finished maze runner. will read the other 2 books in the coming days..


  • Moderators Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭ChewChew


    In the middle of too close to home by Linwood Barclay. It's odd. But it's ok.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,128 ✭✭✭cynder


    ChewChew wrote: »
    In the middle of too close to home by Linwood Barclay. It's odd. But it's ok.

    I find linwoods novels easy to read, quite light and story lines are ok, nothing spectacular but readable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭Monkeybonkers


    Really enjoyed Nevil Shutes novel. Didn't realise he had such deep Irish connections (his father worked in the GPO during the Rising). Next up: Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Really enjoyed Nevil Shutes novel. Didn't realise he had such deep Irish connections (his father worked in the GPO during the Rising). Next up: Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord

    I really like Nevil Shute's writing and find he is under-rated. Try "On the Beach", chilling.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭Monkeybonkers


    I really like Nevil Shute's writing and find he is under-rated. Try "On the Beach", chilling.


    I enjoyed his style too. I'll check out 'On the Beach'. Thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,128 ✭✭✭cynder


    finished the scorch trials, bit peeved that i cant get hold of 'the death cure' until april, may have to order it off amazon.com :(

    Started karlology, his a gas man...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    I've just started reading the new Shrlock Holmes novel, "The House of Silk" by Anthony Horowitz. It's great and I'd really recommend it.

    Initially I was quite skeptical of a new SH novel but then reasoned that, since I'm enjoying Stephen Moffitt's BBC series so much, new isn't necessarily bad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭baconsarnie


    deem79 wrote: »
    Mario Vargas Llosa - The Feast of the Goat


    Fantastic read.

    Just started "White Noise" by Don DeLillo. I just finished "There but for the" by Ali Smith.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    About to begin Praetorian by Simon Scarrow


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    I just finished "There but for the" by Ali Smith.

    What did you think of that? I read about 80 pages and, 5 months later, still haven't gotten back to it. Like "The Slap", I found the premise interesting but it just didn't deliver enough of a story


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,030 ✭✭✭Slippin Jimmy


    ChewChew wrote: »
    In the middle of too close to home by Linwood Barclay. It's odd. But it's ok.

    Stated reading this myself two last night. 27% the way through it now according to my kindle. Read never look away earlier in the year, enjoying this so far.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 352 ✭✭rainshowers82


    Just finished We need to talk about Kevin .. tough going but enjoyable! Also just finished The girl with the dragon tattoo ... Yes i jumped on the bandwagon ha ha i actually enjoyed it and im toying with the idea of reading the final two :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭flyaway.


    The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,128 ✭✭✭cynder


    Read 'the enemy and the fear' started reading 'th fear' all about zombies, plenty of deaths though not too graphic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭Monkeybonkers


    Stairway To Hell by Charlie Williams


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭Hells Belle


    Got a kindle at Christmas and I haven't put it down:

    Read The Hunger Games trilogy last weekend, I only bought it because I kept seeing the name pop up but I really enjoyed it.

    On the recommendations of you guys I'm reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, can't believe I never read it before, really enjoyable,thanks :) (and free on kindle)

    Just finished Work! Consume! Die! by Frankie Boyle, I don't like his comedy and I don't know why I bought it but some of his thinking is bang on. Some of it is off the wall with long rants. If you like crazy Scotsmen then this is for you.

    Nineteen Eighty Four is next, wish me luck!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Belle E. Flops


    Just after starting the Hunger Games. I hope it lives up to the hype because every second person seems to be raving about the trilogy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭flyaway.


    Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭x_Ellie_x


    I just started Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs tonight and I haven't been able to put it down. I'm already halfway through it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    x_Ellie_x wrote:
    I just started Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs tonight and I haven't been able to put it down. I'm already halfway through it.

    Just looked this up - sounds interesting!

    I'm currently reading Northern Lights by Philip Pullman.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭x_Ellie_x


    Just looked this up - sounds interesting!

    It's a great book! I really enjoyed it and I loved all the old photos. They fit in perfectly with the book. A word of warning though, the book leaves off on a cliffhanger and the sequel won't be coming out for another 14 months which is really frustrating. My advice: buy the book now (just in case they start reprinting it without the wonderful photos like they did with Sara Gruen's Water For Elephants) and hold off reading it until its closer to the release date for the sequel.

    I'm just about to start reading East of Eden by John Steinbeck.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭WoundedRhino


    I've just polished off "Survivor" by Chuck Palahniuk, which was excellent. I'm also midway through "The Death Of WCW" by RD Reynolds, which is really only of interest to those of us who like the peculiar sport of oiled-up muscly men in tights pretending to hit each other.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭lestat21


    Just after starting the Hunger Games. I hope it lives up to the hype because every second person seems to be raving about the trilogy!

    Just read the entire Hunger Games series in four days. Its act a brilliant read even though people keep comparing it to Twilight. I couldnt stop crying in some bits and I just love how the author takes the series in realistic but completely unexpected directions.

    Im now looking for something new to read... Only four?/five? years til the next George RR Martin book :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭SarahBM


    Finished Bad Science. - love it.

    picked up Persuasion - again :D

    Love Austen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 bitlocked


    Two chapters away from finally finishing Ulysses! So that's a few months in other words.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭Monkeybonkers


    The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 814 ✭✭✭Tesco Massacre


    The City & The City by China Mieville.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,128 ✭✭✭cynder


    Finished 'Little Star' yesterday morning finshed 'Clockwork Angel' yesterday eveing and finished 'Clockwork Prince' at 1am this morning.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    I finished my latest Jasper Fforde last night so for something completely different I am taking up Road of Bones by Fergal Keane


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