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Books

  • 18-04-2015 09:17PM
    #1
    Shandashey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭


    What kind of books do you read? Do you read at all? Do you read autobiographies / biographies / crime / romance / thrillers etc.?

    I love to read and I do it a lot. I can't imagine a life without books


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  • #2
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    What now?


  • #3
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    My favourite genre would be Harry Potter.


  • #4
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    Wat ya readin' for?


  • #5
    Tsipras
    Closed Accounts Posts: 493 ✭✭Tsipras


    Cormac McCarthy :cool: especially Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses but once you've read that you'll want the rest of the border trilogy:)


  • #6
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Just remember the more obscure the smarter you'll look.


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  • #7
    Shandashey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭Shandashey


    Keno wrote: »
    My favourite genre would be Harry Potter.[/QUOTE


    meeeeeeh


  • #8
    Tsipras
    Closed Accounts Posts: 493 ✭✭Tsipras


    kneemos wrote: »
    Just remember the more obscure the smarter you'll look.

    McCarthy was on Oprah so he ain't obscure!


  • #9
    Shandashey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭Shandashey


    kneemos wrote: »
    Just remember the more obscure the smarter you'll look.


    noam Chomsky is a dear bed time friend


  • #10
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭Lisha


    Murder, cop stories and chick lit. I love reading. I always have a book on the go,


  • #11
    lazeedaisy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭lazeedaisy


    Thriller, Lee Child, Patrica Cornwell, Linda Fairstein,

    Or whatever takes my fancy when I go to the library, I also like a light read for the car, audio cd's are the way to go, just finished a P G Woodhouse, The Single Batchelor, love listening to books in the car, it passes time,

    That said..... I would read the back of a cornflakes box, I love reading, I would get through 3 books a week.


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  • #12
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    I love to read. Mainly into fantasy/sci fi books lately. Reading the Wheel of Time series at the moment.


  • #13
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Anything and everything, currently reading one of the Game of Thrones series, the Panti autobiography, a Neil Gaimen and a psychological thriller.


  • #14
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    A lot of sci-fi not as Much anymore,prison escape stories and recently hobo literature


  • #15
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    ...on a real cracker at the minute, Jill has just followed the boyo up the incline, he must be a programmer as there's something about him being pail! it's nail biting I can't wait to get to the next excerpt, will she persuade him to come down again? who's Doug? won't somebody think of the children?


  • #16
    Leogirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭Leogirl


    Mostly history & historical fiction. I'll read most genres but I have no interest in science fiction.


  • #17
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    History and popular science during the day and fiction at night.

    5 library books per week and I buy around 3 per month.


  • #18
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Cold War Kid wrote: »
    Wat ya readin' for?
    Why read when you can just flip on the 'tube?

    I'm not too fussy about genre. I love Pratchett with a passion but other than that pretty much anything that's interesting and well written is good.

    Not a Stephen King fan at all though.


  • #19
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    There's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster.


  • #20
    Shandashey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭Shandashey


    Heidi Small Belly wrote: »
    History and popular science during the day and fiction at night.

    5 library books per week and I buy around 3 per month.

    Do you have a kindle?


  • #21
    ArtyM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭ArtyM


    I love Books, especially Big Books.
    I search the Internet all the time for videos of Big Books.
    My favourite ones are big bouncy latina ones.


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  • #22
    Shandashey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭Shandashey


    Junkyard Cat wrote: »
    There's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster.

    :p


  • #23
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    bukes


  • #24
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Comic books.


  • #25
    Jinonatron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭Jinonatron


    I used to read a lot when I was a kid. Then at college kind of stopped me. Back into it now. I love a lot of stuff. This year I have read:

    Mao : The unknown story -- Jung Chang
    In the Miso Soup -- Rhu Murakami
    Keane -- The auto biography.
    1984 -- George Orwell
    The Commitments -- Roddy Doyle.

    I love lots of genres. I was mad into Lee Child a while ago. Think the Reacher character is great. Not read the latest ones yet though.

    Recently bought a few in a second hand shop.
    Looking forward to reading:
    Red Dragon -- Thomas Harris
    Animal Farm -- George Orwell
    The devotion of suspect X-- Some japanese dude.
    The Snapper -- Roddy Doyle.

    Currently reading "Nothing to Envy" which is a biography of north korean defects. I love to read history, horror, crime, science fiction and autobiographies.

    I was using a kindle for about two years and liked it. Then I read a paper book again and just couldn't go back to the kindle.


  • #26
    Tsipras
    Closed Accounts Posts: 493 ✭✭Tsipras


    Jinonatron wrote: »
    I used to read a lot when I was a kid. Then at college kind of stopped me. Back into it now. I love a lot of stuff. This year I have read:

    Mao : The unknown story -- Jung Chang
    In the Miso Soup -- Rhu Murakami
    Keane -- The auto biography.
    1984 -- George Orwell
    The Commitments -- Roddy Doyle.

    I love lots of genres. I was mad into Lee Child a while ago. Think the Reacher character is great. Not read the latest ones yet though.

    Recently bought a few in a second hand shop.
    Looking forward to reading:
    Red Dragon -- Thomas Harris
    Animal Farm -- George Orwell
    The devotion of suspect X-- Some japanese dude.
    The Snapper -- Roddy Doyle.

    Currently reading "Nothing to Envy" which is a biography of north korean defects. I love to read history, horror, crime, science fiction and autobiographies.

    I was using a kindle for about two years and liked it. Then I read a paper book again and just couldn't go back to the kindle.

    Read this bad boy http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fidel-Castro-Life-Spoken-Autobiography/dp/1416562338

    or

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Muhammad-Ali-His-Life-Times/dp/1907554807/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429391714&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=hausen+ali


  • #27
    lazeedaisy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭lazeedaisy


    I have a kindle and use the app on my iPad, but that said, I now use the library, but my local one does not support e books yet.

    I browse online and order books via the online system, then also pick up random books in the library. It's an expensive hobby, but I enjoy the whole trip to the library.... .. It's obvious I don't get out enough, ha! I used to buy a book a week on amazon, now it's only one a month,


  • #28
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    I love books so much I listen to audio books when I'm places I can't read. I get through 1-2 books a week. I'd be lost without something to read. I love meeting people into books and if I go into a house and see books everywhere it endears me to that person.


  • #29
    Mam of 4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,487 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Love books, this is a great thread :) Will read practically anything apart from -- they meet,they fight,they make up, they marry-- yep, the mills and boons are banned from my house :D

    Love thrillers, war stories,really anything with a good storyline

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #30
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Moved recently and had to cut down on books to save packing space.

    Here's some of what I kept:

    J.M. Coetzee
    Charles Dickens
    John Irving
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    George Orwell
    Harper Lee
    J.D. Salinger
    John McGahern
    John Steinbeck
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Philip Roth
    John Updike


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  • #31
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    osarusan wrote: »
    Moved recently and had to cut down on books to save packing space.

    I donated 3 boxes of books after my ex moved in so I feel your pain. I can't stop thinking of all those books I rehomed that I'll never have again.


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