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What book are you reading atm??

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    #3152
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,314 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    RoboRat wrote: »
    I am reading the 'The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared' Its very far fetched but enjoyable nonetheless :-)

    Loved that book.
    RoboRat wrote: »
    Does anybody know of a book that is based around a fictional Irish town which is seedy and dangerous - don't know the name of the book and author but he was on Matt Cooper a couple of months ago?

    City of Bohane. Absolute sh*te IMO but each to their own.


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    #3153
    FouxDaFaFa
    Registered Users Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭FouxDaFaFa


    Just finished "Death Comes to Pemberley" by P.D. James. It's a kind of continuation of "Pride and Prejudice" where, six years after P&P, someone is murdered on the grounds of Pemberley.

    It took me a while to want to read it because I was nervous James would butcher the characters from P&P.

    All in all, it was okay. Not hugely compelling and she somehow managed to make Darcy and Elizabeth quite bland.

    As a mystery novel, though, it was serviceable enough.

    I'm glad I read it, if only because the BBC is showing a tv adaptation of it this month.


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    #3154
    RoboRat
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    Absolute sh*te IMO but each to their own.

    Really? Think i'll give it a wide berth so. I heard the interview on Matt Cooper and it sounded interesting.


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    #3155
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    RoboRat wrote: »
    Really? Think i'll give it a wide berth so. I heard the interview on Matt Cooper and it sounded interesting.

    I read a short story by Kevin Barry that won sort of prestigious award...it was pretty crap


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    #3156
    Gamayun
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    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    I read a short story by Kevin Barry that won sort of prestigious award...it was pretty crap

    Yeah me too, I read Beer Trip to Llandudno, when it won the Sunday Times Short Story award. It was OK but didn't leave me wanting to check out his other writings.


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    #3157
    Burrow_Ursidae
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32 ✭Burrow_Ursidae


    The Steve jobs biography by Walter Isaccson.

    Jesus Christ I never realised how big an asshole he was.


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    #3158
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    The Devil's Double - Iraqi man plucked from the population to perform as a double for Saddam Hussein's crazy son.

    Read it a couple of years ago but I'm light on books, am enjoying the insight into the depravity of the regime. Gives some brief perspective.


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    #3159
    beano345
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    Anyone read that book "the alchemist?and would you recommend it?


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    #3160
    RoboRat
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    Anyone read that book "the alchemist?and would you recommend it?

    I really liked it but it has religious undertones (which didn't bother me). Wife didn't like it as much. Its a very good inspirational story with a great moral tone behind it. I would 100% recommend it.


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    #3161
    Vojera
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    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Started Neil Gaiman's American Gods this morning. Have enjoyed some of his other work and this seems to be his most well known novel.

    Something I really enjoyed about it is that his idea of gods relying on belief for survival reminded me of Terry Pratchett's anthropomorphic personification idea (that believing in something calls it into being) and I liked seeing the different interpretations of a similar idea by two very different (in my opinion) authors.


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    #3162
    Merkin
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    The Fever Tree, by Jennifer McVeigh which I am enjoying.


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    #3163
    beano345
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    RoboRat wrote: »
    I really liked it but it has religious undertones (which didn't bother me). Wife didn't like it as much. Its a very good inspirational story with a great moral tone behind it. I would 100% recommend it.

    Picked it up nearly through it its actually fairly good! Thanks for the recommendation!


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    #3164
    DublinArnie
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    Reading "The Reapers Are The Angels" at the moment, excellent book :D.


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    #3165
    fussyonion
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    The Best of Times by Penny Vincenzi.
    I've never read any of her books before: really enjoying this.
    It's 900 pages too so I'll be here til January reading it.


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    #3166
    GLaDOS
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    Vojera wrote: »
    Something I really enjoyed about it is that his idea of gods relying on belief for survival reminded me of Terry Pratchett's anthropomorphic personification idea (that believing in something calls it into being) and I liked seeing the different interpretations of a similar idea by two very different (in my opinion) authors.

    I thought the exact same thing, reminded me of Small Gods in that respect.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #3167
    TPD
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    Reading the bible at the minute, pretty tough going. On the book of Judges currently, which isn't so bad as it's all warring and fighting - but some of the previous books were total tedium.


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    #3168
    Sunny Dayz
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    Recently finished Patricia Scanlon's Divided Loyalties - I actually couldn't put it down, many a late night up reading it. Only thing I didn't like was how the couple divided in relation to having another child was portrayed, the one not wanting another was made out to be selfish which IMO isn't alway the case.


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    #3169
    RoboRat
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    Picked it up nearly through it its actually fairly good! Thanks for the recommendation!

    If you like that, get 'the book thief' you will love it.
    Reading the bible at the minute, pretty tough going.

    On my list with ulysses but I cant seem to start them!


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    #3170
    ruthloss
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    A Feast for Crows. (Game of Thrones) George R.R. Martin.

    I'm addicted to these books.


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    #3171
    cloudatlas
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    beano345 wrote: »
    Anyone read that book "the alchemist?and would you recommend it?

    It's a quick read and I enjoyed the tale, it has a nice heartwarming message. Apparently he based the story on a tale from the Arabian Nights tales so perhaps you'd rather read a few of those.


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    #3172
    beano345
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    cloudatlas wrote: »
    It's a quick read and I enjoyed the tale, it has a nice heartwarming message. Apparently he based the story on a tale from the Arabian Nights tales so perhaps you'd rather read a few of those.

    Read them a few years ago must dig them out again


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    #3173
    UnderDawg2
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭UnderDawg2


    Currently reading Dodger by Terry Pratchett


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    #3174
    Pang
    Registered Users Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Pang


    Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

    Read one of his other books The Boys From Brazil and really enjoyed it, so I said I would try some more of his books.


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    #3175
    FishorSeal
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭FishorSeal


    I'm reading Iceman atm,very hard to put down. It's about a hitman who worked for the mafia. Really chilling story. It was made into a movie starting Michael Shannon from Boardwalk Empire.


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    #3176
    playedalive
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    I am reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. I am trying to read it in French to keep up my language.


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    #3177
    aknitter
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    Whirlwind by James Clavell
    Enjoying it so far, part of the Asian Saga (I've read Tai Pan, Shogun & Noble House), I'd recommend them all tbh!


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    Mars Bar
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    playedalive wrote: »
    I am reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. I am trying to read it in French to keep up my language.

    I was thinking yesterday how nothing has captured my imagination like the Harry Potter series did. I felt like I lived in the world.

    Is there another series like that?

    I have the first book of Game of Thrones read and I'm trying to gear myself up for reading the second one over the Christmas. It's a bit tedious though.


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    #3179
    JumpShivers
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    Mars Bar wrote: »
    I was thinking yesterday how nothing has captured my imagination like the Harry Potter series did. I felt like I lived in the world.

    Is there another series like that?

    I have the first book of Game of Thrones read and I'm trying to gear myself up for reading the second one over the Christmas. It's a bit tedious though.


    I'm the exact same! I've never found a book series that I've loved so much :)

    I read a bit of the first GoT, couldn't get into it at all :pac:


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    #3180
    Mars Bar
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    I haven't read Lord Of The Rings and always held a weird smugness about the fact.
    I might just though. See if it's a fantasy land I could lose myself in...


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    #3181
    cloudatlas
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    JumpShivers wrote: »
    I'm the exact same! I've never found a book series that I've loved so much :)

    I read a bit of the first GoT, couldn't get into it at all :pac:

    Hunger Games. It caught me by surprise as for some reason I equated it with 'Twilight' in my mind, how wrong was I.


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