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What book are you reading atm??

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    #1742
    GastroBoy
    Registered Users Posts: 863 ✭✭✭GastroBoy


    Retrovertigo wrote: »
    Wait until you go from the outstanding 'A Storm of Swords' on a high only to find 'A Feast for Crows' brings you right back down again.

    :(

    What an extremely irritating comment to make.


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    #1743
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Reading 'Mao the Unknown Story '

    brilliant.


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    #1744
    TwoShedsJackson
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    ibarelycare wrote: »
    That's strange since he only wrote them in the 90's :p

    Not sure if you're messing here but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%E2%80%93Maturin_series - Master & Commander first published 1970.

    (edit) OK just copped you're talking about George RR Martin (/edit)


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    #1745
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    TwoShedsJackson wrote: »
    Not sure if you're messing here but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%E2%80%93Maturin_series - Master & Commander first published 1970.

    (edit) OK just copped you're talking about George RR Martin (/edit)

    Derp :o Sorry, should have read your post more carefully!


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    #1746
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    GastroBoy wrote: »
    What an extremely irritating comment to make.
    He/She speaks the truth. Feast of crows is a big let down, in my opinion anyway. It is taking me ages just to finish it, storm of swords was much better!


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    #1747
    SonOfPerdition
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    maguic24 wrote: »
    He/She speaks the truth. Feast of crows is a big let down, in my opinion anyway. It is taking me ages just to finish it, storm of swords was much better!


    I agree, it took me ages to get through it. The reason it is so difficult is something that is explained at the end of the book with a note from Martin which I feel should have been explained at the beginning of the book.

    This isn't a spoiler of events, just how the books are layed out.
    The timeline in Feast for crows is mirrored in the first half of Dance with dragons. Martin covers events that happen to some characters in Feast and the remaining characters re-appear in Dance. So as you read Feast you think some characters have just disappeared and it becomes really frustrating. The timeline between the two books merge about half way through Dance and it continues from there.

    If I had known this at the start of Feast I wouldn't have been so frustrated reading it.


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    #1748
    Ormus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,913 ✭✭✭Ormus


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    That's a good one, must read that again. Her The Little Friend is also a great read.

    The Secret History is superb, I had high hopes for The Little Friend, but found it tedious and gave up about a hundred pages in (which I rarely do).


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    #1749
    El Guapo!
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    Just started "The Litigators" by John Grisham.
    Only a few chapters in but it seems good so far.


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    #1750
    blue note
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    Juts finished the sense of an ending. great booked and you'd read it in a day.


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    #1751
    Mars Bar
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    I had to put Catch-22 down. Haven't a clue what's going on in it. Might come back to it another time.

    I've moved on to Sourcery by Terry Pratchett.


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    #1752
    AllWasWell
    Registered Users Posts: 184 ✭✭AllWasWell


    Anyone reading The Casual Vacancy? I bought the book but I'm in the middle of A Feast For Crows atm so I'm going to wait until I've finished that before I start it


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    #1753
    cloud493
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    Reading parades end, after watching the tv show :D


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    #1754
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    AllWasWell wrote: »
    Anyone reading The Casual Vacancy? I bought the book but I'm in the middle of A Feast For Crows atm so I'm going to wait until I've finished that before I start it

    I hope to read it at some stage, but I heard it's not great. :-/ I am a massive Harry Potter fan, so I definitely think I will be disappointed. :(


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    #1755
    Angron
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    AllWasWell wrote: »
    Anyone reading The Casual Vacancy? I bought the book but I'm in the middle of A Feast For Crows atm so I'm going to wait until I've finished that before I start it
    I'm about 1/3 of the way through the book. It's not a bad book, but it's always gonna struggle with the fact that it was written by the author of HP.


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    #1756
    AllWasWell
    Registered Users Posts: 184 ✭✭AllWasWell


    maguic24 wrote: »
    I hope to read it at some stage, but I heard it's not great. :-/ I am a massive Harry Potter fan, so I definitely think I will be disappointed. :(
    I'm also a massive HP fan and JK Rowling is a goddess in my eyes so I'm sure its fantastic! Having said that, it will be hard to live up to the HP series so hopefully won't be too much of a let down.


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    #1757
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    AllWasWell wrote: »
    I'm also a massive HP fan and JK Rowling is a goddess in my eyes so I'm sure its fantastic! Having said that, it will be hard to live up to the HP series so hopefully won't be too much of a let down.

    Fingers crossed it will be good, going to read it anyway, when I get the chance. I was hoping she would start writing adult fantasy, I'm still hoping. :) I'll let you know what I think of it as soon as I have read it. :)


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    #1758
    Angelandie
    Registered Users Posts: 225 ✭✭Angelandie


    I've just finished Good as Dead by Mark Billingham and have started the Book Thief by Markus Zusak but finding it hard going


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    #1759
    eviltwin
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    Rereading The Passage by Justin Cronin in anticipation of its prequel due out at the end of October


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    #1760
    housetypeb
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    eviltwin wrote: »
    Rereading The Passage by Justin Cronin in anticipation of its prequel due out at the end of October

    Enjoyed that book so I'm glad to hear of a prequel coming out.


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    #1761
    Liamalone
    Registered Users Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭Liamalone


    Just started Diary of a Wimpy Kid


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    #1762
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    The Shelbourne Ultimatum. Very disappointing. The last 2 or 3 Ross O'Carroll Kelly books were hilarious, this one is a bit dull and predictable. I think he's had his day!


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    #1763
    Ecarg
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭Ecarg


    I started The Casual Vacancy but couldn't get into it, so put it aside for now. I'm disappointed with the first taste of her post Harry Potter writing.
    Anyway, I started P.D.James' "Death comes to Pemberly" which is far more enjoyable.


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    #1764
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    Just re-re-re-re-finished Robert Jordan's the Eye of The World, on to The Great Hunt and all the way up through 13 books to The Gathering Storm in preparation for 2013's A Memory of Light.


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    #1765
    Barna77
    Registered Users Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    The Shelbourne Ultimatum. Very disappointing. The last 2 or 3 Ross O'Carroll Kelly books were hilarious, this one is a bit dull and predictable. I think he's had his day!
    NAMA Mia had its good moments but I think it's all gone down a bit. Usually I'd buy the latest book as soon as it was out, I'll wait a while until I get Shelbourne Ultimatum though


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    #1766
    py2006
    Registered Users Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭py2006


    I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can't put it down.


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    #1767
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Reading Peter Hamilton's latest


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    #1768
    Maggiesims
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    I wish I could read Reflecting in you by Sylvia Day. Paper copy is not out until 25th of October, ebook out since 2nd & I don't have a kindle.

    Has anyone got it on PDF and would kindly email it to me please.


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    #1769
    Slattsy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    Silverthorn.
    The second book by Feist in the Riftwar saga.
    Love the first book Magician.


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    #1770
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    Tried reading "Bared To You" but couldn't get over the 50 Shades references so now I'm indulging in my love of antropologdy by reading this month's How It Works magazine on Amazing Animals. It is both interesting an educational.
    In regards to fiction/non-fiction, I've got a copy of Stephen King's "On Writing" lined up for a possible train journey down to my Dad's so I'll post up a review sooner or later.


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    #1771
    py2006
    Registered Users Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭py2006


    McChubbin wrote: »
    In regards to fiction/non-fiction, I've got a copy of Stephen King's "On Writing" lined up for a possible train journey down to my Dad's so I'll post up a review sooner or later.

    That's an excellent book.


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