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What book are you reading atm??

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject71


    Hadrian's Gate by Georgia Knight


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    Iron John - a book about men by Robert Bly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭Carry


    Keep it together - philosophy for everyday emergencies, by Marie Robert.

    It's a fun book and a lovely introduction to philosophy and philosophers for generation tl;dr.
    (also, the book has only about 150 pages).

    The author decscribes everyday situation where a certain philosophy might help, then explains the philosophy as such and recommends the according book for advanced readers.

    Chapter examples:
    °Spinoza goes to Ikea - or, the problem with desires.
    °Aristotle and hangovers - or, believing in the experience.
    °A bone to pick with Heidegger - or, what happens when your dog dies

    You get the idea...


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Someone just dropped "the Irrational ape" on my lap and told me I would enjoy it. Never heard of it so do not know what to expect. Should I put it on my already long "to read" pile or should I push it up the pile a bit?

    Currently Reading: "I never met an idiot on the river" by Henry winkler. But only because one of my face boards users happened to visit me last week and gave it to me. Nothing amazing but just reinforcing my belief that Winkler is one of the nicest people in Hollywood :) Would love to meet the man. Especially on the river.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Went back to reread the David Gemmell books. On Sword in the Storm now. Forgot just how good his writing and imagination was.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭TheRepentent


    Went back to reread the David Gemmell books. On Sword in the Storm now. Forgot just how good his writing and imagination was.
    Its been over 25 years since I read him...tempted to go back now

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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Reprint by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Watched the Lincoln movie recently starring Daniel Day Lewis and have developed an interest in Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War so thought Id give this book a go! Its very readable and not as dry as I thought it might be and Lincoln was clever in bringing rivals into his cabinet!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭gutenberg


    Looking forward to Hilary Mantel's new one, The Mirror and the Light, the final book in her Cromwell trilogy. Out in a few days :)

    In the meantime, flitting between Bill Bryson's Notes From a Big Country and Ida Milne's Stacking the Coffins, about the Spanish flu of 1918-19 - certainly relevant these days!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭Immortal Starlight


    Almost finished The Charmer by Mandasue Heller and next up is City Of Mirrors by Justin Cronin.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,630 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Shadowland Joseph O' Connor. Another one from the Christmas pile.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,790 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    The guest cat by TAKASHI HIRAIDE


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 194 ✭✭Simpsonsfan17


    Shallow Graves by Jeffrey Deaver.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭nigeldaniel


    I have just finished A Horseman riding by. I am surprised that a few films have not been made from it. One TV series and that was that. It might be set in the ol days 1900s but, there is a fair bit relevant to nowadays too. Quite a bit better than the constant remakes off Emma and co.

    Dan.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,630 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    I have just finished A Horseman riding by. I am surprised that a few films have not been made from it. One TV series and that was that. It might be set in the ol days 1900s but, there is a fair bit relevant to nowadays too. Quite a bit better than the constant remakes off Emma and co.

    If you like sprawling epics Hawaii by James Michener is brilliant in fact all of James Michener's books are very good.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    mariaalice wrote: »
    If you like sprawling epics Hawaii by James Michener is brilliant in fact all of James Michener's books are very good.

    Loved Alaska, and The Covenant. Haven't read his other books yet. Thanks for the reminder.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,494 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    Last To Die by Tess Gerritsen. This is book 10 of 12 in the Rizzoli & Isles series. Quite an enjoyable read.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭TheRepentent


    Started The Stand by Stephen King .

    I don't particularly like his writing style but willing to give this one ago (had previously attempted it many years ago).

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,049 ✭✭✭appledrop


    Just bought 'The Mirror & Light' by Hillary Mantel.

    Cant wait to start it. It's a whopper 800+ pages!


  • Registered Users Posts: 225 ✭✭voldejoie


    appledrop wrote: »
    Just bought 'The Mirror & Light' by Hillary Mantel.

    Cant wait to start it. It's a whopper 800+ pages!

    Currently re-reading Wolf Hall, and planning to re-read Bring Up The Bodies, to prepare :D Getting rave reviews so far, hope you enjoy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭gutenberg


    appledrop wrote: »
    Just bought 'The Mirror & Light' by Hillary Mantel.

    Cant wait to start it. It's a whopper 800+ pages!
    voldejoie wrote: »
    Currently re-reading Wolf Hall, and planning to re-read Bring Up The Bodies, to prepare :D Getting rave reviews so far, hope you enjoy!

    I also got this at the weekend! And I'm also planning to re-read both Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies :D


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    Just got stuck into The Empire of ashes" by Anthony Ryan. Third book in the series. Started reading it yesterday and already 3/4 way through it. Just brilliant fantasy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭Carry


    Last night I started Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys. And I was hooked from the first page (it turned out to be a long reading night...).

    In general it's about refugees during the last weeks of WWII from East Prussia and Lithuania, and about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea, the greatest disaster in maritime history with about 9000 people dead.

    The protagonists are four very different people, wonderfully characterized, each one with their own (national) story. The prose is beautiful, vivid and tender, without over-dramatising.
    It's one of the best books I came across recently.

    The author is a Lithuanian-American. I certainly will check out her other books.

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25614492-salt-to-the-sea


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,068 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Finding it very hard to get my head into reading since New Year and Ive a stack of books to get through. Just started Boys Will Be Boys : The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Foweva Awone


    The Bookish Life Of Nina Hill, by Abbi Waxman. I'm enjoying it. If you liked Eleanor Oliphant, you'll probably like this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,494 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    Currently making my way through Stephen Fry's Heroes, the follow up to Mythos, and I'm loving it. I would recommend it if you have even a passing interest in Greek mythology.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Started The Stand by Stephen King .

    I don't particularly like his writing style but willing to give this one ago (had previously attempted it many years ago).
    Sales have gone way up since the virus started.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭TheRepentent


    Sales have gone way up since the virus started.
    I actually had it for years on my kindle but yeah the coronavirus made me go back to it. My opinion that stephen king bores the tits off me hasn't changed but I'll stick at it

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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭buried


    I actually had it for years on my kindle but yeah the coronavirus made me go back to it. My opinion that stephen king bores the tits off me hasn't changed but I'll stick at it

    Ever read 'Journal of the Plague Year' by Daniel Defoe? If you haven't you should definitely get it.

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,068 ✭✭✭DenMan


    Dyslexia Unravelled by Rita Treacy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,026 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    I actually had it for years on my kindle but yeah the coronavirus made me go back to it. My opinion that stephen king bores the tits off me hasn't changed but I'll stick at it

    You should probably try a Bill Bryson book or maybe one of those dreadful ones with “Auschwitz” in the title.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    Survivors by Terry Nation,close enough content to what’s going on in the world now and very thought provoking!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,370 ✭✭✭bladespin


    zorro2566 wrote: »
    Survivors by Terry Nation,close enough content to what’s going on in the world now and very thought provoking!

    After it happened by Devon Ford, great book for those with a more apocalyptic outlook.

    MasteryDarts Ireland - Master your game!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,494 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    I have just finished Die Again by Tess Gerritsen, the penultimate book in the Rizzoli & Isles series.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,049 ✭✭✭appledrop


    I'm enjoying 'The Mirror & the Light' 100 pages in only 800 to go.

    Give the current situation I'm sure I'll have it all finished in a few days!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    appledrop wrote: »
    I'm enjoying 'The Mirror & the Light' 100 pages in only 800 to go.

    Give the current situation I'm sure I'll have it all finished in a few days!

    About the same and already dreading getting to the end of it because it is that good. Still have 3 or 4 Mantel novels left to read so will be able to wean myself off on those. Astonishing talent i think.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,049 ✭✭✭appledrop


    About the same and already dreading getting to the end of it because it is that good. Still have 3 or 4 Mantel novels left to read so will be able to wean myself off on those. Astonishing talent i think.

    I'll race you to the end!

    It is a great read. I'm remember when I bought it thinking when will I have the time to get through this? Ha ha I was so wrong.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,735 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing.
    Re-reading this for the excellent sections on how the crew survived months of social isolation on limited rations during the time they were trapped on the ice-flow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,494 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    Manach wrote: »
    Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing.
    Re-reading this for the excellent sections on how the crew survived months of social isolation on limited rations during the time they were trapped on the ice-flow.

    I have that on my self to read at some point in the not so distant future.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    appledrop wrote: »
    I'll race you to the end!

    It is a great read. I'm remember when I bought it thinking when will I have the time to get through this? Ha ha I was so wrong.

    I'm already in a race - got the book through my online library account and it tells me I'm just 12% through and expiring in 8 days. So i need to get a move on!

    Also got Graham Swifts Here We Are & Max Hastings Chastise (on the dambusters) on the go too. Both are excellent.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Raided Oxfams shelves the day it kicked off. Am now reading Sebastian Faulks ENGELBY and it is un-put-down-able. I can’t wait to find out where it goes - up reading all night. Just can’t read and cut steak!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,318 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    I am reading station eleven at the minute...pretty good so far.
    The novel takes place in the Great Lakes region after a fictional swine flu pandemic, known as the "Georgia Flu", has devastated the world, killing most of the population.
    So pretty timely you could say!


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    I’ve decided to read the entire Flashman series again. Because they are brilliant (apart from the slightly disappointing 2nd book). Genuinely laugh out loud books.


  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I’ve decided to read the entire Flashman series again. Because they are brilliant (apart from the slightly disappointing 2nd book). Genuinely laugh out loud books.

    I have the original 'Flashman' collecting dust atop the shelf, might be time to brush it down in honour of our resident lothario.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    The Antipope by Robert Rankin.

    I'm usually reading multiple books every day, thats the beauty of Kindle. Who reads only one book?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,494 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    Who reads only one book?

    Me :o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    Me :o

    Sorry, didn't mean to be arrogant, I'm just a voracious reader.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,494 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    Sorry, didn't mean to be arrogant, I'm just a voracious reader.

    No worries :), I only read physical books and wouldn't touch a kindle or the likes. My eyes wouldn't be able to handle that much screen time after working on a laptop all day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,263 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    voldejoie wrote: »
    Currently re-reading Wolf Hall, and planning to re-read Bring Up The Bodies, to prepare :D Getting rave reviews so far, hope you enjoy!

    I tried Wolf Hall and gave up. Her third book is getting good reviews so am wondering should i give it another go? And go for the treble?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    No worries :), I only read physical books and wouldn't touch a kindle or the likes. My eyes wouldn't be able to handle that much screen time after working on a laptop all day.
    Kindle is e-ink, not a backlit screen like a laptop. It's no harder on your eyes than paper. Or at least mine is; I couldn't swear there isn't a backlit model.

    I prefer real books too, but I travel for extended periods for work (or at least I did, until recently :() and my Kindle has been immensely useful for being a book-sized library.


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    No worries :), I only read physical books and wouldn't touch a kindle or the likes. My eyes wouldn't be able to handle that much screen time after working on a laptop all day.

    I enjoy it when people say they don't like kindles while making it blatantly obvious they've never even used one.


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