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What book are you reading atm??

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    #1172
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,119 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Just finished Friday Night Lights. Amazing.

    I don't know what to read next.


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    #1173
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    sarah88 wrote: »
    Reading 'Freakonomics' by Levitt and Dubner, have already watched some documentaries based on the book, still a very good read.

    It's such an interesting read. I read it a few years ago and I was raving about it for ages. Really makes ya think!


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    #1174
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Europes Tragedy by Peter H Wilson, about the thirty years war.


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    #1175
    fundlebundle
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭fundlebundle


    xxxJennyxxx wrote: »
    William Shatner's Tech Wars
    You really need to open your mind dougal
    What are you reading there Ted

    Actually, I'm re-reading it


    I'm reading a book of short stories from fscott fiztgerald, nice to read short stories sometimes


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    #1176
    circos
    Registered Users Posts: 463 ✭✭circos


    God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens.


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    #1177
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Hootanany wrote: »
    Ronald Dahl

    Is he a brother of Roald?


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    #1178
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    just read "rebecca" by dumaurier today

    was alright


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    #1179
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    I've just finished A Dance with Dragons, having started with A Game of Thrones just before Christmas and reading the whole series (reading one novel by a different writer in between each book to make sure it didn't become a slog).

    I've really enjoyed the series overall, and though I felt it lagged a bit in separate stretches in books three and four, the last book seemed to get things back on track.

    I don't know how I'm going to wait for the next book.


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    #1180
    Sinfonia
    Registered Users Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    Henning Mankell's Faceless Killers
    Recently read Larsson's Millennium trilogy and Agatha Christie's ABC Murders.
    There may be a pattern emerging..


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    #1181
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    HhHh by Laurent Binet.

    Its about Operation anthropoid the assassination of top Nazi Heinrich Heydrich in Prague in 1942.

    If you have an interest in history, WW2 etc it is highly, highly recommended.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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    #1182
    pearliefan
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭pearliefan


    Perfume - Patrick Süskind.
    ibarelycare wrote: »
    BunShopVoyeur wrote: »
    Perfume.'Tis a good 'un.

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

    A few chapters into this. Very strange but I do like it... the descriptions of the surroundings are captivating.


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    #1183
    HUNK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 383 ✭✭HUNK


    H2O - A biography of water (Philip Ball).

    Yes, it is a book about water and nothing else. And it is actually really really interesting. Dat blue gold.


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    #1184
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    pearliefan wrote: »
    Perfume - Patrick Süskind.
    .

    cant wait to read that one


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    #1185
    silvervixen84
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 6,485 Mod ✭✭✭✭silvervixen84


    The Flying Man by Roopa Farooki. Picked it up at a book sale at work and I'm really enjoying it. It has a great flow and even though the main character is seriously flawed, you can't help but be charmed by him.


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    #1186
    Ms.M
    Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭Ms.M


    I love Robin Hobb, fantasy is my favourite genre in theory but there's a lot of books to avoid in it. Would recommend The Liveship Traders and The Tawny Man trilogies especially. The Farseer Trilogy you'd need to read before these for the background; most peoples fave but I don't like one first person perspective the whole way through a fantasy book that much. The Soldier's Son Trilogy is too rushed and the main protagonist isn't relatable. I'd avoid.

    I've just ordered book 3, 4 and 5 of the Song of Ice and Fire series.
    Haven't read book 1 and 2, just watched the series and read summaries of the book on the internet, hope I'm not missing out! :(

    Also, I really enjoyed David Mitchell's "Ghostwritten". Weirdly, couldn't read Cloud Atlas or Black Swan Green.


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    #1187
    Fluorescence
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 8,490 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fluorescence


    Odats wrote: »
    First Game of Thrones book.

    You mean, A Game of Thrones? The series isn't called Game of Thrones, it's called A Song Of Ice and Fire.


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    #1188
    py2006
    Registered Users Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭py2006


    I tried reading Game of Thrones but just couldn't get into it.


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    #1189
    Ms.M
    Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭Ms.M


    py2006 wrote: »
    I tried reading Game of Thrones but just couldn't get into it.

    Oh crap. Doesn't bode well for me so, I'm always doing that!
    Sometimes the first books are too slow though, maybe the later ones get going a bit quicker.
    I've a crap attention span.


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    #1190
    allydylan
    Registered Users Posts: 438 ✭✭allydylan


    pearliefan wrote: »
    Perfume - Patrick Süskind.



    A few chapters into this. Very strange but I do like it... the descriptions of the surroundings are captivating.
    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Strange book but I liked it. I've never seen the movie though.


    I seen the movie about a year ago, the movie is also......strange ( :p ) to say the least.
    Debating whether or not to read the book, its a creepy story


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    #1191
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Ms.M wrote: »
    I've just ordered book 3, 4 and 5 of the Song of Ice and Fire series.
    Haven't read book 1 and 2, just watched the series and read summaries of the book on the internet, hope I'm not missing out! :(
    Ms.M wrote: »
    Oh crap. Doesn't bode well for me so, I'm always doing that!
    Sometimes the first books are too slow though, maybe the later ones get going a bit quicker.
    I've a crap attention span.

    It might be worth getting books one and two as well. The tv series is quite good and pretty faithful overall, but there are some changes made. Most are minor, some are even improvements, but it might be a little confusing when the third book references things in the previous two that are different on tv.
    For example, one character had her name changed in the tv series because it's very similar to another character's. And some characters are involved in storylines on tv they're not involved in in the books.

    It might seem like a slog to get through two big books you're already familiar with, but, even as a slow reader, I raced through them quickly because of the style of writing and the structure.
    You'd probably manage ok overall just starting with Book 3, but I think it'd be a better overall experience starting at the start. It'll also slightly shorten the wait for Book 6! :)


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    #1192
    desertcircus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭desertcircus


    Thinking Fast And Slow by Daniel Kahneman, 2312 by an author whose name I don't remember, and Dreaming The Void by Peter Anderson.

    Couldn't get into Thrones, had to give up halfway through the second book.


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    #1193
    Ms.M
    Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭Ms.M


    Thanks King of Moo, they have info on character name-changes on Wikipedia. I don't really know loads of their names anyway :D There are a few synopsis things as well where they make reference to the inaccuracies in the show. I do have to wait til mid-week for them to be delivered though so I might just take your advice....


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    #1194
    Novella
    Registered Users Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    Tabitharose wrote: »
    it's the next book I'm going to read - what you thinking so far?

    I just finished it and am starting the second. I am quite a fan. :)


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    #1195
    [Deleted User]
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    Finished Game of Thrones today.. Thankful that the tv series landed me into reading such a great book. Watched and read season 1 now.. Don't know which to do first for season 2.


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    #1196
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Finished Game of Thrones today.. Thankful that the tv series landed me into reading such a great book. Watched and read season 1 now.. Don't know which to do first for season 2.
    Going on past experience watch the TV show first and then get more detail from the book. So many people say the film/show didn't live up to the book, so you might as well enjoy the TV show and move onto the better book. If you do it the other way around you may be disappointed by the TV show.


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    #1197
    eviltwin
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Finished Game of Thrones today.. Thankful that the tv series landed me into reading such a great book. Watched and read season 1 now.. Don't know which to do first for season 2.

    Halfway through book 1 at the moment and love it. Totally different to the sort of book I normally pick and I wouldn't have looked twice at it only for the fact I love the tv show. Really surprised at how easy it is to read, as a women I thought it would be very much catered to men but its got some really good female characters in it. Looking forward to getting through the series.


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    #1198
    mcmacness
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    Novella wrote: »
    I'm reading Fifty Shades of Grey. It's... porn.

    Me too :) Initially when I bought it I had just heard someone saying that it was a good book. I didn't know what it was about :) It is quite explicit, compared to what you'd expect from the description on the back. Its actually quite good, I'd read the second and third one too but I'd dread explaining to a relative or something what the book I'm reading is about!


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    #1199
    hairyprincess
    Registered Users Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    mcmacness wrote: »
    Novella wrote: »
    I'm reading Fifty Shades of Grey. It's... porn.

    Me too :) Initially when I bought it I had just heard someone saying that it was a good book. I didn't know what it was about :) It is quite explicit, compared to what you'd expect from the description on the back. Its actually quite good, I'd read the second and third one too but I'd dread explaining to a relative or something what the book I'm reading is about!

    Just downloaded this book after reading your recommendations so it better be good or I'll hunt you down ;)

    I just finished Michael Mc Intyres autobiography, it's brilliant. Very funny but with a serious side. Read it in two days, I couldn't put it down!


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    #1200
    shuridunno
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    Just finished the Hunger Games Trilogy, I thought it was aimed at kids/teenagers but it's not. I devoured them in a week. Thought they were brilliant, and will have to re read them at some point to make sure I didn't miss anything.

    Read Awareness by Anthony De Mello over the weekend and now onto some easy reading with Everlasting..Alison Noel...real drival stuff.

    Has anyone read The left Hand of God...Paul Hoffman, I have the second one..The Last Four Things, haven't started it yet.


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    Tym
    Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭Tym


    Has anyone read The left Hand of God...Paul Hoffman, I have the second one..The Last Four Things, haven't started it yet.

    I have. It's absolutley awful. Cringeworthy, horrible characters, anticlimatic and just horrible reasoning for some things. A certain change in a battle was just awful reasoning.


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