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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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  • #1772
    flyaway.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭flyaway.


    Austenland by Shannon Hale


  • #1773
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Half way into Simon Scarrow's 'The Eagle's Prophecy' ... really good


  • #1774
    rainshowers82
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 352 ✭✭rainshowers82


    doriansmith wrote: »
    One of my favourite books.

    I started reading We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver last night. Have a big pile of Christmas/birthday present books to get through.


    We need to talk about Kevin is a great book!

    Finished water for elephants .... I really did not enjoy it as much as i had hoped :( But LOVED The Girl Who Played With Fire !


  • #1775
    Conzea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭Conzea


    The 2nd of Shelby Foote's Civil War trilogy. C'mon confederates!

    Just a suggestion for people looking for summit good. The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies.
    The man is God.


  • #1776
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman


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  • #1777
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,522 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    The Prestige by Christopher Priest.


  • #1778
    doriansmith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 365 ✭✭doriansmith


    rainshowers82 wrote: »
    We need to talk about Kevin is a great book!

    Yeah I loved it, thought it was excellent. I must give the film a watch now.


  • #1779
    lestat21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭lestat21


    Even if you dont like fantasy books I would recommend Joe Abercrombies First Law trilogy to anyone who likes an action packed story with dodgy but interesting characters and twists you will never see coming... Im reading this series of books for the second time and Id forgotten how good it was!!


  • #1780
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    lestat21 wrote: »
    Even if you dont like fantasy books I would recommend Joe Abercrombies First Law trilogy to anyone who likes an action packed story with dodgy but interesting characters and twists you will never see coming... Im reading this series of books for the second time and Id forgotten how good it was!!

    +1

    Great trilogy and very very funny.


  • #1781
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,907 ✭✭✭eire4


    I am getting towards the end of Greg Bears Moving Mars. A little bit slow moving at times. But overall I like it.


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  • #1782
    de Faoite_girl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36 ✭de Faoite_girl


    Just finished And then there were none by Agatha Christie (loved it). Now starting Roseanne by Sjöwall and Wahlöö.


  • #1783
    spacecoyote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,917 ✭✭✭spacecoyote


    Just finished reading City of Bohane by Kevin Barry & God Is Not Great by Hitchins.

    Very different books but both fantastic & highly recommended!

    Malcolm Gladwell's What the Dog Saw is next on the list.

    On the Road, 1984 & Uncle Tom's Cabin on the way in the post :)


  • #1784
    AnnyHallsal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal


    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White


  • #1785
    SarahBM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭SarahBM


    doriansmith wrote: »
    Yeah I loved it, thought it was excellent. I must give the film a watch now.


    RE We Need to Talk About Kevin: I started that book after being recommended it by a friend but I got about a third of the way in and I had to put it down. I just thought it was rubbish.
    Considering how so many people think its great, I might give it another go (or go watch the film :D)

    I need to get cracking and read the pile of books in my press. Started the Master and Margarita and Im liking it so far.


  • #1786
    x_Ellie_x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭x_Ellie_x


    I'm reading The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf


  • #1787
    T954
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭T954


    Dracula....need i say who wrote it? Really really enjoying it....tried it years and years ago and didn't take to it at all. Perhaps a little age and maturity has helped I really don't now but its a top notch novel. :)


  • #1788
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Rereading Great Expectations in honour of the great man's bicentenary .... reading it as an adult is like a reading a totally new book :)


  • #1789
    Belle E. Flops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Belle E. Flops


    Just started Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky!


  • #1790
    wilkie2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    Just started Julian Barnes's "The Sense of an Ending". So far it's fantastic; definitely one to be re-read.

    Last night, I finished "Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse" by Philip O Ceallaigh. Wow, what an amazing series of short stories. I'd definitely recommend it.


  • #1791
    wilkie2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    grizzcol2 wrote: »
    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre

    How did you get on with that? I started it but gave up after about 100 pages. Is it worth persevering with?


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  • #1792
    meganj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭meganj


    wilkie2006 wrote: »
    Just started Julian Barnes's "The Sense of an Ending". So far it's fantastic; definitely one to be re-read.

    Loved The Sense of an Ending thought it was beautifully written. I will probably reread it in the not too distant future, the ending kind of sneaks up on you.

    Started The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst. It's stunningly written, I'm so impressed with his turn of phrase. It's a bit of a nod to the good ole days of English literature, which is good in that it invokes some excellent use of language, but it's annoying sometimes as I can't help but shake the feeling that the author is more in love with the old English masters than the characters.


  • #1793
    tannytantans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 302 ✭✭tannytantans


    Read the three Hunger Games book in three days :o Really enjoyed them but was a little disappointed with the ending. I'm not sure why but I was expecting more....

    Also reading 'Holes' by Louis Sachaar with my class at school - great book!


  • #1794
    Monkeybonkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭Monkeybonkers


    Reading 'The Hunger Games' on my new Kindle (trying to fit in everywhere that I have a new Kindle, lol)


  • #1795
    cynder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,128 ✭✭✭cynder


    Dont know what to read, got loads of ebooks to get through... Ive never read the lord of the rings, dont think its really me, but i think i will start there...


  • #1796
    Belle E. Flops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Belle E. Flops


    grindelwald wrote: »
    Dont know what to read, got loads of ebooks to get through... Ive never read the lord of the rings, dont think its really me, but i think i will start there...

    You are in for a treat! They are fantastic!


  • #1797
    x_Ellie_x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭x_Ellie_x


    I'm reading Two For the Dough by Janet Evanovich and The Shakespeare Secret by J.L. Carrell.


  • #1798
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,739 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Busi_Girl08 wrote: »
    The Prestige by Christopher Priest.
    What did you think of it? I think that the movie blows the book out of the water.

    I'm currently reading Mark Z Danielowski'd Only Revolutions. It's my second time reading it and I'm still not entirely sure what's going on.


  • #1799
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,522 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    kylith wrote: »
    Busi_Girl08 wrote: »
    The Prestige by Christopher Priest.
    What did you think of it? I think that the movie blows the book out of the water..

    I'm not even half way through it yet :o Damn college is taking up ask my reading time :(

    I'm really enjoying it so far though. Haven't seen the movie though so I can't comment on that.


  • #1800
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,907 ✭✭✭eire4


    I am almost done with Finbarr's Hotel. It is the second time I have read it and I must say it is a great read. Sometimes books like this don't work with a different Irish author writing each chapter but this one works briliantly.


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  • #1801
    SarahBM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭SarahBM


    grindelwald wrote: »
    Dont know what to read, got loads of ebooks to get through... Ive never read the lord of the rings, dont think its really me, but i think i will start there...

    Read the Hobbit first. :D


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