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What book are you reading atm??

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    #2912
    czechlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭czechlin


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    Is that the one involving the salvation army?

    I'm not sure as I haven't read anything of Nesbo's work yet but read a summary of The Snowman and it seemed very interesting.


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    #2913
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users Posts: 7,517 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    czechlin wrote: »
    I'm not sure as I haven't read anything of Nesbo's work yet but read a summary of The Snowman and it seemed very interesting.

    I've read a couple of his Harry Hole novels and they are quite entertaining. Alternatively you could try reading Headhunters which is a stand alone book, might give you a taste of the author's style.


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    #2914
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users Posts: 3,709 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    czechlin wrote: »
    What do you think of it?

    The Harry Hole series is a bit out of synch if you are reading it in translation. It starts with 'the Bat', which is rated poorly and it doesn't have much bearing on the rest of the series, sometimes it's mentioned in passing. The second book 'Cockroaches' is being released in December. Most people start with 'The Redbreast' the third book which is one of my favourites. (I cheated and skipped ahead to 'The Snowman' and then back tracked to 'The Redbreast'). Jo Nesbo writes each book as a standalone but for the fans that read the whole series there is the reward of a few peripheral threads running through the books that add an extra dimension if you start with 'the redbreast'. It's a good series, the cases are satisfyingly complex and Nesbo writes in a very filmic way.


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    #2915
    Savoir.Faire
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 326 ✭✭Savoir.Faire


    Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche. It's a dense work, and I sometimes get the feeling Nietzsche is reading me, rather than I him.


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    #2916
    Johnny Drama_11
    Registered Users Posts: 280 ✭✭Johnny Drama_11


    The Testament (John Grisham), when you say atm I will be starting it tonight.


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    #2917
    saltyjack silverblade
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    Just finished Empire of the Sun. Hated every moment of it.

    Has anyone read the Orphan Train? Heard mixed reviews.


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    #2918
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users Posts: 3,709 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    saltyjack silverblade wrote: »
    Just finished Empire of the Sun. Hated every moment of it.

    Has anyone read the Orphan Train? Heard mixed reviews.

    Why did you persevere if you hated every moment of it. If I don't like a book after 50 pages I toss it.


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    #2919
    Shivers26
    Closed Accounts Posts: 639 ✭✭✭Shivers26


    I have been reading the Gone series by Michael Grant. Apparently they are aimed at teenagers but I found a lot of stuff in them fairly gruesome. It would be a bit like Lord of the Flies crossed with X-Men. I'm on the last book now, I've enjoyed them.


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    #2920
    czechlin
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    Thank you, I think I'll give the series a go.


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    #2921
    saltyjack silverblade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 480 ✭✭saltyjack silverblade


    cloudatlas wrote: »
    Why did you persevere if you hated every moment of it. If I don't like a book after 50 pages I toss it.

    I just kept hoping it would get better. I have a thing as well that I can't let it go, have to read it through to the end.


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    #2922
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users Posts: 3,709 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    saltyjack silverblade wrote: »
    I just kept hoping it would get better. I have a thing as well that I can't let it go, have to read it through to the end.

    I've been guilty of that in the past especially if the book has been recommended by a friend. Now I find as my book list has gotten longer my tolerance has grown shorter.


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    #2923
    Ihatehalloween
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭Ihatehalloween


    saltyjack silverblade wrote: »
    I just kept hoping it would get better. I have a thing as well that I can't let it go, have to read it through to the end.


    I used to be like that but life's too short lol


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    #2924
    chestylaroux
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    I'm reading A Clash of Kings just now by George RR Martin. It's gripping but long winded.

    I fancy trying some Graham Greene next, never read any of his stuff.


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    #2925
    py2006
    Registered Users Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭py2006


    What a great thread this has turned out to be.

    Well I have picked up 'God is not Great' by Christopher Hitchens and 'Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee' by Dee Brown.

    I began both but really need to put one down and just get stuck into the other. I have a mountain of books to read.


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    #2926
    rock chic
    Registered Users Posts: 123 ✭✭rock chic


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

    got this in a charity shop but havent started it so its that good :D


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    #2927
    RayM
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    Philip Larkin - Required Writing. Miscellaneous Pieces 1955 - 1982


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    #2928
    Birneybau
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    "Speak, memory" by Nabokov.

    God, it's bloody dense. Dunno if I'm enjoying it yet.


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    #2929
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (not far into it yet but like it so far)
    and
    Notes from a Small Country by Bill Bryson. I love Bill Bryson! :D


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    Shout Dust
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    chestylaroux wrote: »
    I'm reading A Clash of Kings just now by George RR Martin. It's gripping but long winded.

    I fancy trying some Graham Greene next, never read any of his stuff.

    Wait till you get to A Feast For Crows, the gripping aspect dwindles while the long windedness grows exponentially, although there's a few interesting chapters. It picks up again in A Dance With Dragons, and A Storm of Swords, especially the second half is probably one of the best books I've ever read.


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    #2931
    Birneybau
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    Have put Nabokov aside for the moment and bought Morrissey's "Autobiography".


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    #2932
    FouxDaFaFa
    Registered Users Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭FouxDaFaFa


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Have put Nabokov aside for the moment and bought Morrissey's "Autobiography".
    Ha, I thought you were trying to be catty putting it in quotation marks but he really did name it "Autobiography"...


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    #2933
    MJ23
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    Shelbourne Ultimatum. Not as good as the first 5 Rosser books, but quite enjoyable all the same.


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    #2934
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,236 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    FouxDaFaFa wrote: »
    Ha, I thought you were trying to be catty putting it in quotation marks but he really did name it "Autobiography"...

    It's released through Penguin Classics as well :rolleyes:

    One of the reasons I like him though.


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    #2935
    cotswolds
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭cotswolds


    "on the road" by jack kerouac.

    It's really really making me feel like packing my bags.


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    #2936
    Pumpkinseeds
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    Birneybau wrote: »
    It's released through Penguin Classics as well :rolleyes:

    One of the reasons I like him though.
    There's been a bit of controversy over the Penguins Classics cover, I'm guessing he insisted on it.


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    #2937
    Pumpkinseeds
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    I'm enjoying reading the Shining, but I find the wifes character very trying. She's so passive aggressive and whiney that I can't sympathise with her, for me she's just such an irritating character that you almost want him to kill her, just to shut her up.

    Thinking back to the film, Jack Nicholson seemed like an odd choice for the roll although on film he's perfect. As far as I remember the actress who played the wife was brunette but in the book shes a blonde.


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    #2938
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    weetiepie wrote: »
    Would you recommend eamon dunphys book??
    Yes.
    I like sports biographies. I read Zlatan Ibrahimovic's in one sitting a few weeks ago.
    There is plenty of behind the scenes detail. He was at Manchester United when George Best, bobby Charlton, and John Giles were there. Jimmy Savile was in Manchester at the time, and features a little bit.
    He was not a fan of DeValera, Haughey, and the Soldiers (of Destiny).
    He is not a fan of the FAI top brass, and there are a few stories. I have only read about 2/3 of it so far.


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    #2939
    branie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭branie


    The Enemy, a Jack Reacher novel.

    Jack is narrating the book


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    #2940
    Feardorca
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭Feardorca


    Blue Heaven C J BOX Great Writer


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    #2941
    FurQyou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭FurQyou


    Re-reading Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki at the moment.. The guy is a genius!

    Quirky, lyrical and totally original author. Would highly recommend him.


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