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What book are you reading atm??

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    #3212
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,254 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Recently finished "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon and "Fleshmarket Close" by Ian Rankin.

    Currently reading "Them: Advenures With Extremists" by Jon Ronson and "Stoner" by John Williams, really enjoying both.


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    #3213
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,213 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Halfway through Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, right up there with his best work.

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



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    #3214
    IvyTheTerrible
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    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Halfway through Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, right up there with his best work.
    Just finished it, really excellent sequel.


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    #3215
    iwantmydinner
    Registered Users Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭iwantmydinner


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Recently finished "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon

    One of my all-time favourites.

    I got Pat Leahy's "The Price of Power" for Christmas. Only just started it, reads very well so far. I'm a fan of Leahy's SBP work anyway so it was a pretty safe bet that I'd like this.


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    #3216
    iwantmydinner
    Registered Users Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭iwantmydinner


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    Hyperbole And A Half.

    A collection of stuff from the blog but I hadn't known about the blog when I got it. Plenty of lolz.

    This was on my Christmas list but I didn't get it :( must get it myself. Love the blog.


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    #3217
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,579 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    iwantmydinner wrote: »
    This was on my Christmas list but I didn't get it :( must get it myself. Love the blog.

    The wife bought it for me. I've no idea how...it wouldn't be her humour and she'd never heard of it.

    But managed to pull out a whammy like that.


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    #3218
    Ilyana 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    Hyperbole And A Half.

    A collection of stuff from the blog but I hadn't known about the blog when I got it. Plenty of lolz.

    My boyfriend got that for Christmas and from the snippets I've read, it's just hilarious!


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    #3219
    willmunny1990
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    270 pages into Stephen Kings IT and I am enjoying it so far, I have never been into reading and I don't think this was a great first choice to be honest, its so long and sprawling in parts it makes it difficult at times to get through.

    However I have never once found it boring, its consistently absorbing for the most part, I've yet to come across this controversial part either which is supposed to be pretty bad by all accounts. Ill definitely keep going with it as it enjoyable but I feel it'll take me forever to finish!


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    #3220
    ItsNoAlias
    Registered Users Posts: 170 ✭✭ItsNoAlias


    The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie


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    #3221
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Over Xmas I picked up No Way Down by Graham Bowley, about a somewhat disastrous attempt on K2 where a number of people died. I literally could not put it down nor could I be tempted away from it by booze, poker games or sleep. And now I want to climb some tall mountains


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    #3222
    astonaidan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭astonaidan


    Just finished Zlatans Autobiography, now Im starting on Ronan O'Garas


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    #3223
    Paco Rodriguez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 701 ✭✭✭Paco Rodriguez


    A Great Game; a history of hockey in Toronto by Stephen Harper.

    Really really interesting if you are into ice hockey.


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    #3224
    newmug
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    Scent of roses, by colm Keane. It's a collection of eye witness accounts, specifically from Irish people, relating to miracles and cures from Padre Pio. A curious read, especially for the non-believer.


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    #3225
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    ItsNoAlias wrote: »
    The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

    I read all his books last year, fantastic. Some brilliant characters.


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    #3226
    calanus
    Registered Users Posts: 271 ✭✭calanus


    Simon Singh - The Simpsons and their mathematical secrets


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    #3227
    baron von something
    Registered Users Posts: 743 ✭✭✭baron von something


    Vojera wrote: »
    I really enjoyed that book. I found it really charming. I would love to see a spin-off or more stories set in the same world.


    my favourite gaiman book so far

    ItsNoAlias wrote: »
    The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie


    and part my joint-favourite trilogy of recent years


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    #3228
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,213 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Halfway through Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, right up there with his best work.
    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    Just finished it, really excellent sequel.

    Finished it last night. Was sceptical when I head he was doing a sequel to The Shining but he really proved me wrong. Best thing he's written in a while.

    Got a load of books over Christmas :D

    Catch-22
    World War Z
    Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy of Four
    Cracked.com's The De-Textbook
    Shadow of a Dark Queen (Raymond E Feist)
    The Fifth Elephant (Pratchett)
    Hannibal and Hannibal Rising
    Collection of Short Stories by Egdar Allen Poe
    The Road (Cormac McCarthy)

    Also found The Book Thief lying around the house so added it to the pile

    Will keep me busy for a good while :)

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



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    #3229
    Vojera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    I'm reading Season 8 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I'm halfway through. I like that it carries on from the tv show but sometimes the dialogue tries too hard.


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    #3230
    blue note
    Registered Users Posts: 4,518 ✭✭✭blue note


    A Prayer for Owen Meaney and The Lord of the Rings at the moment. Both superb.

    I read a couple of Stephen King ones before that - the long walk, shawshank, apt pupil. Its hard to go wrong with Stephen King!


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    #3231
    roro1990
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    Just finishing The Slight Edge, by Jeff Olson. A brilliant read.


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    #3232
    judgefudge
    Registered Users Posts: 915 ✭✭✭judgefudge


    Just started 11.22.63


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    #3233
    sadie06
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    ScienceNerd wrote: »

    Got a load of books over Christmas :D


    The Road (Cormac McCarthy)

    Also found The Book Thief lying around the house so added it to the pile

    Will keep me busy for a good while :)

    Leave that one till last, as there's a high probability you will top yourself after reading it, and then never get to read the others.


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    #3234
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,213 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    sadie06 wrote: »
    Leave that one till last, as there's a high probability you will top yourself after reading it, and then never get to read the others.

    Sounds intriguing!

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



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    #3235
    Censorsh!t
    Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭Censorsh!t


    Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky


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    #3236
    mosstin
    Registered Users Posts: 6,128 ✭✭✭mosstin


    Over half way through 'The Goldfinch' by Donna Tartt. Really enjoying it.


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    #3237
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    Censorsh!t wrote: »
    Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

    Snap.

    Also the Yoga Sutra.


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    #3238
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,968 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Just read A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story. It's quite short, and fairly weird in a way I wasn't expecting.
    I wasn't expecting the whole Mormons interlude, for example.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #3239
    Witchie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    Finished reading a lovely book that my 16 year old son suggested I read coz he really enjoyed it called "The Fault In Their Stars" by John Green. A really moving story well told. Was shocked that my son loved it so much. Passed it on to my sister and she just sent me a message today to tell me that its my fault she was crying in work today, well the fault of the book! She loved it too.

    Just started reading One Day by David Nicholls but not having much time for reading with loads of college work to do. Oh well.


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    #3240
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users Posts: 31,827 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    Witchie wrote: »
    Finished reading a lovely book that my 16 year old son suggested I read coz he really enjoyed it called "The Fault In Their Stars" by John Green. A really moving story well told. Was shocked that my son loved it so much. Passed it on to my sister and she just sent me a message today to tell me that its my fault she was crying in work today, well the fault of the book! She loved it too.

    Just started reading One Day by David Nicholls but not having much time for reading with loads of college work to do. Oh well.

    It's "The Fault In Our Stars" ;)

    It's coming out in the cinemas this year. I love the Vlogbrothers but haven't been able to bring myself to read that book. I don't want to be crying myself to sleep at night!


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    #3241
    Witchie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    Mars Bar wrote: »
    It's "The Fault In Our Stars" ;)

    It's coming out in the cinemas this year. I love the Vlogbrothers but haven't been able to bring myself to read that book. I don't want to be crying myself to sleep at night!

    Doh you are right. Silly me. Was too blinded by tears to read the cover!


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