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What book are you reading atm??

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    #692
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Read The Woman in Black last week. Meh...really don't see what all the fuss is about. I guess if you're a fan of ghost stories you might like it, but I didn't find it at all scary.

    Just started Dracula this morning...hope that's scarier :D


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    #693
    gaf1983
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    Have two on the go at the moment:

    The Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini - I'd say it'll get good, just haven't really gotten into it yet, the Internet and my iPhone have ruined by attention span.

    Social Psychology by David Myers, Jackie Abell, Arnulf Kolstad and Fabio Sani - a college book. My sister was using this book for her course last year, I was in her house a few weeks ago, started thumbing through it and it seemed fascinating so I have that on the go too.


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    #694
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users Posts: 5,763 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    gaf1983 wrote: »
    Have two on the go at the moment:

    The Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini - I'd say it'll get good, just haven't really gotten into it yet, the Internet and my iPhone have ruined by attention span.

    Keep going, it's excellent! And when you've finished, try his other one, A Thousand Splendid Suns.


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    #695
    Wattle
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    'It's Fine By Me' - Per Petterson.


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    #696
    MayoForSam
    Registered Users Posts: 2,268 ✭✭✭MayoForSam


    'Inferno' by Max Hastings - all you ever wanted to know about WW2.


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    #697
    jester77
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    Reading sex.com and Child 44 at the moment. Child 44 almost finished, good read. Shantaram is next...


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    #698
    RiseToTheTop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 956 ✭✭✭RiseToTheTop


    Make Money Online for Free & Quickly.


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    #699
    tim_holsters
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    Sonnenblumen wrote: »
    Just finished 'Fly away Peter' by David Malouf. A beautiful story about a young man and nature lover from Queensland and his brutal trench experiences during WW 1. Memorable.

    Now reading Jon McGregor's 'if nobody speaks of remarkable things'. Beautifully written story about ordinary city people living ordinary lives in England. So far an absolute joy to read.

    I second that, the book has a lingering effect found myself thinking about it now and then even a couple of weeks after I'd finished it.


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    #700
    aujopimur
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    Madeline, Kate McCann


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    #701
    wideangle
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    Facebook


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    #702
    Smeggy
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    We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Enjoying it and looking forward to seeing the movie when I'm finished


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    #703
    Gummy Panda
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    Some of Lyle McDonald's books on nutrition


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    #704
    wivy
    Registered Users Posts: 204 ✭✭wivy


    gaf1983 wrote: »
    Have two on the go at the moment:

    Social Psychology by David Myers, Jackie Abell, Arnulf Kolstad and Fabio Sani - a college book. My sister was using this book for her course last year, I was in her house a few weeks ago, started thumbing through it and it seemed fascinating so I have that on the go too.

    Studied this book as part of my degree also. I must pull it out of the attic and re-read it as it definetley makes you look at social situations very differently!

    (Dont slaughter me) Time of my Life by Cecilia Ahern


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    #705
    pavb2
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    In reply to others I reckon it took me about 4 months to read The Stand good book as is Shantaram the description of Indian slums is an eyeopener.

    Currently reading The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne, free on kindle quite good so far but no idea how many pages it is.


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    #706
    tebowfan
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    cujo by Stephen King


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    #707
    McChubbin
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    Just started reading Stieg Larson's "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo". Not really enjoying the first chapter but hopefully, it should pick up.


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    #708
    loconnor1001
    Registered Users Posts: 323 ✭✭loconnor1001


    McChubbin wrote: »
    Just started reading Stieg Larson's "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo". Not really enjoying the first chapter but hopefully, it should pick up.


    It will! Brilliant series!


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    #709
    loconnor1001
    Registered Users Posts: 323 ✭✭loconnor1001


    Heart Shaped Box- Joe Hill


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    #710
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    McChubbin wrote: »
    Just started reading Stieg Larson's "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo". Not really enjoying the first chapter but hopefully, it should pick up.


    First book took me a good while to get into. Found all the names and place-names hard to follow. Worth sticking with though!


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    #711
    BunShopVoyeur
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    Perfume.

    'Tis a good 'un.


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    #712
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    BunShopVoyeur wrote: »
    Perfume.

    'Tis a good 'un.



    Strange book but I liked it. I've never seen the movie though.


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    #713
    BunShopVoyeur
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭BunShopVoyeur


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Strange book but I liked it. I've never seen the movie though.

    Yeah I'm really enjoying it so far, I'm not too far in yet.

    I'll probably watch the film when I'm done though....reviews were good.


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    #714
    emeraldstar
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    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Strange book but I liked it.
    I liked the first half, then found it got rather tiresome.


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    #715
    Millicent
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    "Middlesex" by Jeffery Eugenides. Just finished "We Need to Talk About Kevin" lately too. Anyone read either of them? Dying to discuss them.


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    #716
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Millicent wrote: »
    "Middlesex" by Jeffery Eugenides. Just finished "We Need to Talk About Kevin" lately too. Anyone read either of them? Dying to discuss them.


    Is We Need To Talk About Kevin good? I have that earmarked to download next, along with American Psycho!


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    #717
    JohnMearsheimer
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    ibarelycare wrote: »
    American Psycho!

    American Psycho is a fantastic read. I really love Louis Theroux documentaries so I'm reading his book, The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures. He catches up with some of the more unusual people that featured in his documentaries.


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    #718
    cabbage kid
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    Quantum by Manjit Kumar

    I'm almost finished and it's been an interesting insight into the interaction between the geniuses of the golden age of physics, Neils Bohr and Albert Einstein primarily :)

    And yes, I know I'm a nerd :p


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    #719
    Millicent
    Registered Users Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭Millicent


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Is We Need To Talk About Kevin good? I have that earmarked to download next, along with American Psycho!

    Stayed with me for weeks. The sort of book that will kick the crap out of you and leave you bruised. The voice might take a little while to get into -- it's unusual in its articulacy -- but I was gripped till the end. Some hard questions and interpretations thrown up by it too.

    Let me know how you get on with American Psycho. It's on my list too. Just as a suggestion, maybe read something funny in between or you might be traumatising yourself!


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    #720
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Millicent wrote: »
    Stayed with me for weeks. The sort of book that will kick the crap out of you and leave you bruised. The voice might take a little while to get into -- it's unusual in its articulacy -- but I was gripped till the end. Some hard questions and interpretations thrown up by it too.

    Let me know how you get on with American Psycho. It's on my list too. Just as a suggestion, maybe read something funny in between or you might be traumatising yourself!


    I've just started Dracula so that will probably take me a good 3 weeks! I'm going to read We Need To Talk About Kevin after it...I'll take your advice and read something lighthearted in between :D


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    #721
    Chipperf
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    Read American Psycho a couple of years ago....really found it quite disturbing, not even sure what kind of mind could dream up the stuff the main character got up to. I many ways still a good book though.


    Currently reading Grapes of Wrath, really enjoying it, having read many of Stienbecks more accessable books, and on each occasion, really liked his style of writing.


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