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What book are you reading atm??

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  • #2642
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown. Going to be a very sad tale I think


  • #2643
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Reading American Psycho for the second time this summer. LOVE IT!


  • #2644
    Vincent Vega
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    'Civilization and its Discontents' by Freud.
    Only a few chapters in but pretty interesting so far and surprisingly readable for the layman.


  • #2645
    Chareth Cutestory
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Chareth Cutestory


    Reading Strumpet City for a book club. Struggling with it I have to say.


  • #2646
    9959
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    Chareth Cutestory wrote: »
    Reading Strumpet City for a book club. Struggling with it I have to say.

    Struggling with Strumpet City, ah for Jaysus sake.


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  • #2647
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Just started Sophie's World


  • #2648
    GiftofGab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭GiftofGab


    Currently reading 'The Corner' from David Simon - the creator of the show the Wire. Great read. Gives an insight of what it like to raise a child in one of Americas worst neighbourhoods.

    I going to read the Wolf of Wall Street next. Apparently they are making a movie of it starring Leonardo Di Caprio.


  • #2649
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Finished "Ham on Rye" by Charles Bukowski yesterday, and have started "Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemmingway.


  • #2650
    Chareth Cutestory
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Chareth Cutestory


    9959 wrote: »
    Struggling with Strumpet City, ah for Jaysus sake.

    Struggling to fight the boredom I feel when reading it.


  • #2651
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I'm reading The Red Queen, by Phillipa Gregory. It's very good, a real page turner. I just finished Return to Manderley by Sally Beauman, that was very good too and not something I'd normally have chosen.


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  • #2652
    losthorizon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    The Pilgrim's Progress in Old and Modern English. Its just about keeping my attention. Don't know why I am reading the book. I am not religious at all but every now and again I get a book that is very old just to broaden the type and range of books I have read.


  • #2653
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    Manuscripts found in Accra by Coehlo, life lessons which I think are inspiring. Atheist types might not like it due to spiritual undertones but I wouldn't call it a religious book.


  • #2654
    Zombee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭Zombee


    I'm about a third of my way through "Citadel" by Kate Mosse, when I'm finished I will start Book 5 in the Wheel of Time series "Fires of Heaven".


  • #2655
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    I just purchased Gone Girl. I'm saving it for my holiday reading. I'm told it's suposed to be quite gripping.


  • #2656
    Yellow121
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 737 ✭✭✭Yellow121


    I haven't been able to put down my current book for weeks. It has so many little tales within the big tale. I don't see any of the twists and turns coming.


  • #2657
    Yellow121
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 737 ✭✭✭Yellow121


    Oh, it's called Ann and Barry.


  • #2658
    muckisluck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭muckisluck


    Yellow121 wrote: »
    Oh, it's called Ann and Barry.

    Don't say any more. I'm only on page 3 nd don't want the end ruined on me.


  • #2659
    rustedtrumpet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭rustedtrumpet


    Been reading 'The Incal', illustrated by Moebius. A sort of graphic novel but some whopper illustrations in it.


  • #2660
    Vincent Vega
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    rustedtrumpet wrote: »
    Been reading 'The Incal', illustrated by Moebius. A sort of graphic novel but some whopper illustrations in it.

    Have you seen any Jodorowsky films? If so, is his writing in Incal anything similar?


  • #2661
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    the adventures of huckleberry finn :o


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  • #2662
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    One of them yellow 'For Dummies' books - as to what category it is, I ain't saying :P


  • #2663
    QuiteInterestin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 623 ✭✭✭QuiteInterestin


    Northern Lights by Philip Pullman, good so far!


  • #2664
    Chareth Cutestory
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Chareth Cutestory


    McChubbin wrote: »
    I just purchased Gone Girl. I'm saving it for my holiday reading. I'm told it's suposed to be quite gripping.


    I found it to be a page turner for the most part but didn't really enjoy it as a whole. The plot just spirals into complete absurdity and you want to slap all the characters. Probably good for a holiday ready though, I imagine you'll be hooked throughout the first half, I was anyway.


  • #2665
    Duvetdays
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 478 ✭✭Duvetdays


    Just finished reading The Iceman by Philip Carlo. It's a true story about Richard Kuklinski mafia contract killer and all round psychopath. Couldn't recommend it enough.

    Now about to start Hard Time by Shaun Attwood another true story, this one is about an English guy jailed in Arizona for dealing Ectasy. Watched him on banged up abroad last week and bought the book based on that.


  • #2666
    rustedtrumpet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭rustedtrumpet


    Vincent Vega wrote: »
    Have you seen any Jodorowsky films? If so, is his writing in Incal anything similar?

    I havn't seen any no, although cheers this reminds me to. The copy of The Incal is translated, apparently doesn't read as fluidly as the original...


  • #2667
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    silvervixen84 wrote: »
    The Hunger Games. Enjoying it so far.
    Finished this the other day and really enjoyed it so went straight into the second one. They're addictive!


  • #2668
    Gonzovision
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,726 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzovision


    Still in my Rome faze, some fiction this time, with Imperium by Robert Harris. The first of the Cicero books.


  • #2669
    shockwave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭shockwave


    Reading Dan Browns new one Inferno, about halfway through and im bored.


  • #2670
    apieceofcake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭apieceofcake


    Just finishing up 'Sisterland' by Curtis Sittenfeld. Really enjoyed it, think she is a very perceptive writer.

    Have Ian Rankin's newest book lined up to read next. ('Standing in another man's grave')

    Have never read anything by him before, but have heard he is very good.


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  • #2671
    Stevie888
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 ✭Stevie888


    Just finished High Fidelity, it's hilarious, mainly due to how close to the bone it is! Haven't laughed do much whilst reading a book in a long time, but sad aswel.

    Next up will be Niall Fergusons "Empire", which should be interesting.


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