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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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  • #4652
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Birneybau wrote: »
    On to '2001' by Arthur C. Clarke, enjoyable, very accessible, picked up the whole collection, seems short enough, makes a change from having read 'Song of Ice and Fire' collection over the Summer. ; )

    Also, re-reading 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bryson on the side. Love it.

    Was thinking about getting that, what about Rendevous with Rama? Heard it's supposed to be good.


  • #4653
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,419 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Ipso wrote: »
    Was thinking about getting that, what about Rendevous with Rama? Heard it's supposed to be good.

    I may get to it eventually but '2001' is my first Arthur C. Clarke book.


  • #4654
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,907 ✭✭✭eire4


    Finished a re read of Roy Keane's 2002 biography self titled Keane. Interesting read but amazing how constantly negative he is in the book.


  • #4655
    Hrududu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭Hrududu


    Finished Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell and adored it. Not sure whether to take a break before reading another of his or jumping right in. First book I've read in a long time where I didn't want it to end.


  • #4656
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,419 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Hrududu wrote: »
    Finished Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell and adored it. Not sure whether to take a break before reading another of his or jumping right in. First book I've read in a long time where I didn't want it to end.

    Read 'Black Swan Green', a very straight forward palate cleanser before delving into 'The Bone Clocks'. Do not read "Number9dream' straight away. :)


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  • #4657
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Read 'Black Swan Green', a very straight forward palate cleanser before delving into 'The Bone Clocks'. Do not read "Number9dream' straight away. :)

    I don't care what order but read them all ... I love David Mitchell :)


  • #4658
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    I've started The Colour Purple. The dialect was a bit annoying at first but I've gotten used to it now, I find myself reading with an accent :)


  • #4659
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    I've started The Colour Purple. The dialect was a bit annoying at first but I've gotten used to it now, I find myself reading with an accent :)

    I found that such an upsetting book to read - brilliant but upsetting


  • #4660
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Callan57 wrote: »
    I found that such an upsetting book to read - brilliant but upsetting

    Well she's
    raped
    on the first page so I wasn't expecting a light read.


  • #4661
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,419 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Callan57 wrote: »
    I don't care what order but read them all ... I love David Mitchell :)

    I'm yet to read 'The Ten Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet' myself to complete his works, a great writer.

    Finished '2001' by Arthur C. Clarke last night and really enjoyed it, the moment where Dave goes through the Star Gate and what happens next were awe-inspiring.

    Straight into ' The Book of Strange New Things' by Michel Faber today, excellent so far, another fantastic writer.


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  • #4662
    ivytwine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭ivytwine


    Birneybau wrote: »
    I'm yet to read 'The Ten Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet' myself to complete his works, a great writer.

    Make that your next one, fab book!


  • #4663
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,419 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    ivytwine wrote: »
    Make that your next one, fab book!

    I'll line it up for next!


  • #4664
    Aenaes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭Aenaes


    I finished The American West by Dee Brown. Was a good read full of history, stories and some myth busting.

    I read The Hunger Games last night. It was okay.


  • #4665
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,419 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Aenaes wrote: »
    I finished The American West by Dee Brown. Was a good read full of history, stories and some myth busting.

    I read The Hunger Games last night. It was okay.

    Have you read 'Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee'? Read it years ago, loved it.


  • #4666
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Have you read 'Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee'? Read it years ago, loved it.

    One of my favourite books, I read it years ago, lost my copy during various moves but a few weeks ago didn't I pick up a copy in the Cancer Shop


  • #4667
    Aenaes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭Aenaes


    I haven't but it was mentioned as a big deal on the back of "The American West" so it's made me keep an eye out for it.


  • #4668
    SarahBM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭SarahBM


    I started Jamaica Inn by Daphne DuMarier last night. Love it so far.

    I was a blubbering mess at the end of a Monster Calls.


  • #4669
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,522 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    I just (finally) finished The Goldfinch. How that convoluted piece of garbage won a Pulitzer I will never understand.

    The whole thing comprised stories that went nowhere, like when Theo wore an onion on his belt, as was the style at the time.

    That was more an ordeal than a story of acceptance of life and life choices.


    Moving on, I'm going to start Metamorphosis by Kafka. :) Has been on my list for a while.


  • #4670
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    SarahBM wrote: »
    I was a blubbering mess at the end of a Monster Calls.

    I cried from where his friend gave him the note until the very end and for a little while after.


  • #4671
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    Busi_Girl08 wrote: »
    I just (finally) finished The Goldfinch. How that convoluted piece of garbage won a Pulitzer I will never understand.

    Agreed.

    Hated it. It was like she wrote a really long first draft and then didn't bother showing an editor and just printed the whole damn thing.


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  • #4672
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,522 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Agreed.

    Hated it. It was like she wrote a really long first draft and then didn't bother showing an editor and just printed the whole damn thing.

    There were entire prose that were irrelevant. Why, WHY do we need repeated elaborate descriptions of the titular painting. I KNOW WHAT THE THING LOOKS LIKE.

    It really felt like she gave herself a target and padded it out to death to reach that limit of pages. I did that when I was in 3rd year and had to write a 3 page long essay on Romeo and Juliet.


  • #4673
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Busi_Girl08 wrote: »
    There were entire prose that were irrelevant. Why, WHY do we need repeated elaborate descriptions of the titular painting. I KNOW WHAT THE THING LOOKS LIKE.

    It really felt like she gave herself a target and padded it out to death to reach that limit of pages. I did that when I was in 3rd year and had to write a 3 page long essay on Romeo and Juliet.

    The sad part is I was really loving it at the start. Young Theo was quite likable and I cared about his life after the explosion and his relationship with the old guy in the shop. Then he moved to Vegas and it all went to hell.


  • #4674
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Agreed.

    Hated it. It was like she wrote a really long first draft and then didn't bother showing an editor and just printed the whole damn thing.
    Busi_Girl08 wrote: »
    I just (finally) finished The Goldfinch. How that convoluted piece of garbage won a Pulitzer I will never understand.

    The whole thing comprised stories that went nowhere, like when Theo wore an onion on his belt, as was the style at the time.

    That was more an ordeal than a story of acceptance of life and life choices.


    Moving on, I'm going to start Metamorphosis by Kafka. :) Has been on my list for a while.

    Hated it too.

    She does her own editing, it's true! How arrogant is that?


  • #4675
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    Hated it too.

    She does her own editing, it's true! How arrogant is that?

    Or doesn' bother doing her own editing seems more likely.


  • #4676
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Or doesn' bother doing her own editing seems more likely.
    That's what it looks like but she has actually said she edits her own books. Sure how can you do that objectively?


  • #4677
    Jijsaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Jijsaw


    'A Piece of Cake' by Cupcake Brown. I'm up to her "Gangsta period" which apparently turned a lot of people off her memoirs but I'm finding it good so far. It's a bit hard to believe all her stories though what with her always stating how she was drunk and/or high all the time yet still could remember everything with perfect clarity...


  • #4678
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    The sad part is I was really loving it at the start. Young Theo was quite likable and I cared about his life after the explosion and his relationship with the old guy in the shop. Then he moved to Vegas and it all went to hell.

    Agree completly, I loved it up to that point. I actually thought, WOW I'm going to be pulling an all-nighter with this - Boy was I ever wrong


  • #4679
    Aenaes
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    SS-GB by Len Deighton. Extremely festive.


  • #4680
    Swiper the fox
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    Has anybody else read Time and Time again by Ben Elton. I absolutely loved it, very interesting hypothesis of what could have happened if there had been no WW1
    Back to reading sports books for the moment,


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  • #4681
    ivytwine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭ivytwine


    Swiper the fox wrote: »
    Has anybody else read Time and Time again by Ben Elton. I absolutely loved it, very interesting hypothesis of what could have happened if there had been no WW1
    Back to reading sports books for the moment,

    Oooh I like the sound of that Ben Elton book!

    Reading Martin Sixsmith's Russia. Very interesting. I realise I knew absolutely nothing about Russia until now!


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