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What book are you reading atm??

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    #2882
    ZiabR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭ZiabR


    Magician

    Loving it, great read.


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    #2883
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    The Price of Power by Pat Leahy.
    Great insight into the machinations of the current government.


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    #2884
    Barna77
    Registered Users Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Downturn Abbey - Ross O'Carroll-Kelly. I still love these books :)
    Is it good? I didn't rush to buy the last couple of books as soon as they were out.


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    #2885
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Reading 'Guards, Guards!' by Terry Pratchet. Read most of the Discworld books but I didn't start from the first. So the book is reading like a prequel/flashback to me which is actually kind of cool. Real interesting seeing Vimes back in his drunken spineless days after it being referenced in the later books, and being able to contrast it with how far he comes.


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    #2886
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    strobe wrote: »
    Reading 'Guards, Guards!' by Terry Pratchet. Read most of the Discworld books but I didn't start from the first. So the book is reading like a prequel/flashback to me which is actually kind of cool. Real interesting seeing Vimes back in his drunken spineless days after it being referenced in the later books, and being able to contrast it with how far he comes.


    The Night Watch and the Witches were always my favourite of the Discworld stories. Although I haven't read any of them since Soul Music. Must actually catch up on the last 15ish years :pac:


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    #2887
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Barna77 wrote: »
    Is it good? I didn't rush to buy the last couple of books as soon as they were out.

    I enjoyed it more than the previous two. It's not as good as the earlier ones, but it's entertaining and quite funny in parts.


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    #2888
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    no irish,no blacks,no dogs - john lydon


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    #2889
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    About to start Slaughterhouse 5


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    #2890
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    About to start Slaughterhouse 5

    Class.


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    #2891
    Birneybau
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    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    About to start Slaughterhouse 5

    Great book, read it in a day myself.


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    #2892
    McChubbin
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    Dara O Briain's "Tickling The English". Very funny and informative look at the idiosyncrasities of British life.


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    #2893
    JohnFalstaff
    Registered Users Posts: 874 ✭✭✭JohnFalstaff


    beano345 wrote: »
    no irish,no blacks,no dogs - john lydon

    Gread read. Love the way he lets other people from the time give their version of events in their own words.

    Lydon was on a new music doc on TG4 the other night called Guth talking about a lot of the stuff in this book. The series is about musicians with Irish roots - Lydon, Gallaghers, Smiths.

    The Lydon episode is repeated tonight on TG4 at midnight. It's well worth a watch if you are enjoying the book.


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    #2894
    Ihatehalloween
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭Ihatehalloween


    I was reading "Inferno" by Dan Brown but had to give up on it as it appeared all he was doing was making the reader aware of how much he knew about the city of Florence. Shame really as I enjoyed all his other novels.

    I think I will give Stephen Kings "Under the dome" a shot.


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    #2895
    Daith
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    strobe wrote: »
    Reading 'Guards, Guards!' by Terry Pratchet. Read most of the Discworld books but I didn't start from the first. So the book is reading like a prequel/flashback to me which is actually kind of cool. Real interesting seeing Vimes back in his drunken spineless days after it being referenced in the later books, and being able to contrast it with how far he comes.

    Yeah I love Guards!Guards!. For anybody who's interested in reading Discworld books and put off by the number of books I would recommend this as great start point.


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    #2896
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users Posts: 3,709 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    'The Railway Man' by Eric Lomax.


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    #2897
    Vojera
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    Upon the Midnight Clear by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Pure cheese but I love them.


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    #2898
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Ihatehalloween wrote: »
    I was reading "Inferno" by Dan Brown but had to give up on it as it appeared all he was doing was making the reader aware of how much he knew about the city of Florence. Shame really as I enjoyed all his other novels.

    I think I will give Stephen Kings "Under the dome" a shot.

    Forget under the dome and get started on 11/22/63 now.


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    #2899
    bootybouncer
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    Celly Smunt wrote: »
    Forget under the dome and get started on 11/22/63 now.

    Forget 11/22/63 and get under the dome................half way thru, v good


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    #2900
    judgefudge
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    Dr. Sleep by Stephen King


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    #2901
    Seachmall
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    Just finished "The Wisdom of Psychopaths" by Kevin Dutton.

    Interesting in places but, while referencing some interesting studies, read as if it were simply the author thinking out loud as oppose to presenting current understandings of psychopathy.

    Also, too much "look at how cool psychopaths are!" for me.


    Starting "The Emotional Life of Your Brain" by Richard Davidson.

    Not far into it but it makes some serious claims so I'm intrigued to see if it can follow through. It might be too early to say but I suspect it's going to be a less theoretical and more applied version of Ekman's "Emotions Revealed" (assuming it keeps it's promises).


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    #2902
    Celly Smunt
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    judgefudge wrote: »
    Dr. Sleep by Stephen King

    100 pages in myself.

    For those thinking of reading,i'd highly recommend you read the shining first.


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    #2903
    Pumpkinseeds
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    Celly Smunt wrote: »
    100 pages in myself.

    For those thinking of reading,i'd highly recommend you read the shining first.
    Am reading The Shining at the moment to refresh my mind before Dr Sleep:)


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    #2904
    mewe
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    Not far into By The Light Of The Moon by Dean Koontz. Can never really go wrong with him i find.

    Just finished A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly. That was an excellent read.


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    #2905
    naughto
    Registered Users Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭naughto


    Ihatehalloween wrote: »
    I was reading "Inferno" by Dan Brown but had to give up on it as it appeared all he was doing was making the reader aware of how much he knew about the city of Florence. Shame really as I enjoyed all his other novels.

    I think I will give Stephen Kings "Under the dome" a shot.
    did the same my self holy mother or god would he just tel the story and not every little detail about the city of Florence.

    just downloaded
    ]Joint Enterprise (The Romney and Marsh Files)


    by oliver tidy


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    #2906
    judgefudge
    Registered Users Posts: 915 ✭✭✭judgefudge


    Celly Smunt wrote: »
    100 pages in myself.

    For those thinking of reading,i'd highly recommend you read the shining first.

    How you finding it? I'm about half way through. Really enjoying it, I nearly always enjoy Kings books but I'm just worried he's going to mess up the ending.

    And yeah I'd second reading the Shining first.


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    #2907
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    judgefudge wrote: »
    How you finding it? I'm about half way through. Really enjoying it, I nearly always enjoy Kings books but I'm just worried he's going to mess up the ending.

    And yeah I'd second reading the Shining first.

    It has the pace of the old king (as have most of his recent books thank god),i'm not far in enough to give it a full go ahead but so far so bloody good.


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    #2908
    czechlin
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    Just started an autobiography of Albert Einstein, quite good so far.
    And The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

    Read The Gypsy Boy before that. Flew through it. Very interesting insight into the life of gypsies, can't remember the last time a book made me so angry.


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    #2909
    czechlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭czechlin


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    The Snowman by Jo Nesbo

    What do you think of it?


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    #2910
    czechlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭czechlin


    QuiteInterestin wrote: »
    Reading Grimms Fairytales at the moment, bit childish I know but it was mentioned on a thread somewhere on boards that many of the versions of fairytales we're familiar with e.g. Cinderella are alot different now to what they were written as due to time and Disney changing them so decided to read the originals. Alot darker then you'd expect for childrens stories, also no mention of a fairy godmother in Cinderella, feel so cheated!

    I love the Grimms! And Andersen. I grew up on those and still have a soft spot for children's books. The Disney versions are fine but they are so sugar coated, yuck. e.g. I prefer "our" version of Cinderella ("Three hazelnuts for C." to be precise), which is again different from Grimms if I remember correctly.


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    #2911
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users Posts: 7,523 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    czechlin wrote: »
    What do you think of it?

    Is that the one involving the salvation army?


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