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What book are you reading atm??

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  • #1902
    zyanya
    Registered Users Posts: 208 ✭✭zyanya


    I have just stared an Irish book! "Room".


  • #1903
    The_Thing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭The_Thing


    @ScienceNerd

    Any other authors you'd recommend who wrote in the same style of Lovecraft?


  • #1904
    shalalala
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭shalalala


    zyanya wrote: »
    I have just stared an Irish book! "Room".

    Really very good.


  • #1905
    foxinsox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    Hmmm.. I haven't been in here in a bit..

    Recent reads..last few months, no particular order..

    The Snowman - Jo Nesbo - good
    The Leopard - Jo Nesbo - good
    Headhunters - Jo Nesbo - crap and not at all the usual writing skill.

    Perfume - Patrick Suskind - excellent but wierd.

    11/22/63 - Steven King - excellent read, wanted it to go on more.

    Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brien - good read if you like historical.

    Imperium - Robert Harris - excellent
    Lustrum - Robert Harris - excellent
    Ghost - Robert Harris - ok ish

    The Search - Nora Roberts - good, not complete slop, bit of suspense.
    Tribute - Nora Roberts - ok ish bit too sloppy and mushy.

    Firefight - Chris Ryan - good if you like the action man SAS CIA stuff.

    Relentless - Simon Kernick - can't remember, must have been ok.
    Severed - Simon Kernick - can't remember, must have been ok.
    The Last Ten Seconds - Simon Kernick - just finished this, very good.

    The Curious Incident of the dog in the nighttime - Mark Haddon - excellent.

    Room - Emma Donoghue - excellent (just saw post above)

    That's all I can remember for the moment!

    Enjoy :)


  • #1906
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Some of Steven King's shorts stories would be somewhat similar (he actually has one "Lovecraft" story, part of the Cthulu mythos), other than that I got nothing. Would be interested in hearing some recommendations myself.

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



  • #1907
    The_Thing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭The_Thing


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Some of Steven King's shorts stories would be somewhat similar (he actually has one "Lovecraft" story, part of the Cthulu mythos), other than that I got nothing. Would be interested in hearing some recommendations myself.

    Thanks, I've been reading Stephen King's stuff for the best part of the last 30 years. Have you read anything by Robert R. McCammon - I'd recommend 'Stinger' and 'Swan Song'

    I love the John Carpenter film 'The Thing' so I'm planning on reading the original novella sometime soon - Who Goes There?


  • #1908
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Nope I haven't, I'll look into him, been neglecting Horror in favour of fantasy the last couple of years so need to correct that.

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



  • #1909
    The_Thing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭The_Thing


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Nope I haven't, I'll look into him, been neglecting Horror in favour of fantasy the last couple of years so need to correct that.

    Keep an eye on this thread, going to bed now, but will reply with more suggestions tomorrow.


  • #1910
    The_Thing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭The_Thing


    @ScienceNerd

    William Hope Hodgson - the only story I read of his was The House On The Borderland. I must read more of his works.

    I've read all of the early novels of English author James Herbert

    As a teenager I read all of the Sven Hassel war books.

    As I said in an earlier post - Robert R. McCammon's Stinger and Swansong. I haven't yet read Boy's Life, but I intend to. You might be interested in McCammon's defence of it to a Florida school board where it was to be banned.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_lwRs388ZA


    The horror novels of Dan Simmons

    And lastly (for now) The Keep by F Paul Wilson.


  • #1911
    13spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭13spanner


    Ross O Carroll-Kelly 'Should Have Got Off At Sydney Parade' and 'The Shelbourne Ultimatum', granted it's not the classiest of literature, but it's a good laugh :D


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  • #1912
    Cargin
    Registered Users Posts: 836 ✭✭✭Cargin


    Re-reading Dan Abnett's Inquisitor series in anticipation of Pariah, his third trilogy in a trilogy of trilogies :eek:


  • #1913
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    After struggling around the 2/3 mark of A Clash of Kings, I really started enjoying it and am FINALLY onto the third book. I think I'll find it difficult with new characters and not being able to just google image the name to remember who they were in the TV show :o


  • #1914
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    After struggling around the 2/3 mark of A Clash of Kings, I really started enjoying it and am FINALLY onto the third book. I think I'll find it difficult with new characters and not being able to just google image the name to remember who they were in the TV show :o

    The images of characters that are in my head are usually much better than the ones in the TV show (especially The Hound and The Mountain)


  • #1915
    TPD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    Just finished a reread of American Psycho, started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo over lunch today. I've seen the Swedish films and figured the books are probably better.


  • #1916
    Slattsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    TPD wrote: »
    Just finished a reread of American Psycho, started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo over lunch today. I've seen the Swedish films and figured the books are probably better.

    The books are a million times better. (slight exaggeration maybe)

    But i did love the Swedish movies. I wouldnt attempt to watch the 'Americanised' versions.


  • #1917
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,887 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    The Colour of A Dog Running Away by Richard Gwyn.


  • #1918
    nedd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭nedd


    Finished "Cloud Atlas" and really enjoyed it.

    Reading "Enders Game" by Orson Scott Card. Very good!


  • #1919
    TPD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    Slattsy wrote: »
    The books are a million times better. (slight exaggeration maybe)

    But i did love the Swedish movies. I wouldnt attempt to watch the 'Americanised' versions.

    Aye, figured that. Looking forward to getting stuck into them.


  • #1920
    drdeadlift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭drdeadlift


    The secret race,by Taylor Hamilton.
    Its very enjoyable.


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  • #1921
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭✭later12


    Poems of the Dispossessed.
    It's an anthology of Irish misery-lit.

    I'm a larf a minute.


  • #1922
    Whatsernamex33
    Closed Accounts Posts: 843 ✭✭✭Whatsernamex33


    Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer. :)


  • #1923
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. Eldest girl did it for the Leaving. It's a classic, I feel so cultured now:D. Enjoyable, so far...


  • #1924
    zyanya
    Registered Users Posts: 208 ✭✭zyanya


    later12 wrote: »
    Poems of the Dispossessed.
    It's an anthology of Irish misery-lit.

    I'm a larf a minute.

    Irish misery lit? ooh, what's the author name, please?

    I want some!


  • #1925
    zyanya
    Registered Users Posts: 208 ✭✭zyanya


    drdeadlift wrote: »
    The secret race,by Taylor Hamilton.
    Its very enjoyable.

    I like the name. what's it about?


  • #1926
    malkmoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 98 ✭✭malkmoose


    I, Partridge: We need to talk about Alan. I read it in about 4 days, funny stuff. If you are a Partridge fan I recommend it, otherwise maybe not.


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  • #1927
    shalalala
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭shalalala


    73Cat wrote: »
    I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. Eldest girl did it for the Leaving. It's a classic, I feel so cultured now:D. Enjoyable, so far...

    I loved that book so much growing up. I might dig it back out and re-read actually :)


  • #1928
    9959
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    The Colour of A Dog Running Away by Richard Gwyn.

    What colour is it, by the way?


  • #1929
    aujopimur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    The assasination of Robert Maxwell.


  • #1930
    Twinkleboots
    Registered Users Posts: 127 ✭✭Twinkleboots


    We need to talk about Kevin- Lionel Shriver

    It's pretty disturbing :(


  • #1931
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    I don't read, I get the audiobooks :)

    The actors are superb, realy bring it to life

    Currently going through World with End by Ken Follett

    They did a TV series about it recently

    The TV series was good but the book is even better!


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  • #1932
    BlaasForRafa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭BlaasForRafa


    Finally got around to buying Rough Ride by Paul Kimmage. It was nestled in amongst a heap of Lance Armstrong titles at the local bookshop which I thought was ironic. The major part of the book is made up of his diary entries from his pro racing career in the late 80's and the title of the book is certainly appropriate.


  • #1933
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    I am reading two at the moment

    Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
    About a hundred pages read.Its top notch and I am really enjoying it.

    The Fort by Bernard Cornwell
    On the last chapter....................


  • #1934
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    The_Thing wrote: »
    Thanks, I've been reading Stephen King's stuff for the best part of the last 30 years. Have you read anything by Robert R. McCammon - I'd recommend 'Stinger' and 'Swan Song'

    Wolfs Hour
    Is a great read as well.Reading the blurb you would think no way.But as crazy as the story sounds ,he makes it believable.Top Notch IMO.


  • #1935
    Fiery mutant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Fiery mutant


    No Easy Day. The book about the SEAL raid that killed Bin Laden. I wasn't sure of it at first, but I'm actually enjoying it now to be honest.

    We should defend our way of life to an extent that any attempt on it is crushed, so that any adversary will never make such an attempt in the future.



  • #1936
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,782 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Ross O'Carroll-kelly.

    The Shelbourne Ultimatum.


  • #1937
    jimmymal
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭jimmymal


    just finished one flew over the cuckoos nest, reread. forgot how great a book it is.

    now on captain morellis mandolin. really enjoying the start of it. and also realizing how small my knowledge of the second world war is in regards to the Mediterranean. ill have more of an interest in future.
    really liking the style of writing so far, and some good characters developing nicely.


  • #1938
    jimmymal
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭jimmymal


    just finished one flew over the cuckoos nest, reread. forgot how great a book it is.

    now on captain morellis mandolin. really enjoying the start of it. and also realizing how small my knowledge of the second world war is in regards to the Mediterranean. ill have more of an interest in future.
    really liking the style of writing so far, and some good characters developing nicely.


  • #1939
    Hitchens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,040 ✭✭✭Hitchens


    'Containment Room 7' by Bryan Hall

    They'll probably make a film out of this one. Research ship orbiting a black hole and what ensues.


  • #1940
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    11/22/63 by Stephen King after a recommendation here.

    Just when i lost all faith in King he comes back with this,Great read so far.


  • #1941
    Custardpi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    About half way through "Love in a Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez, a moving account of life in a coastal Colombian town at the turn of the 20th century & the diverging future fortunes of two erstwhile not-quite-lovers divided by class pretensions. Reading it in the original para mejorar mi nivel en la lengua & not finding it too difficult, despite the occasional region-specific (i.e. not commonly used elsewhere) word or phrase. The richness of the language is an absolute joy to read, García Márquez is really good at capturing characters & setting scenes with just a few lines of dialogue. Don't think it's quite as good as "100 Years of Solitude", which I found mindblowingly magical but very few books are. Would definitely recommend it.


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  • #1942
    Nyoms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭Nyoms


    Half way through Graham Norton's autobiography. It's a good read.


  • #1943
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better For Everyone.


  • #1944
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    They Made America by Harold Evans


  • #1945
    zyanya
    Registered Users Posts: 208 ✭✭zyanya


    Custardpi wrote: »
    About half way through "Love in a Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez, a moving account of life in a coastal Colombian town at the turn of the 20th century & the diverging future fortunes of two erstwhile not-quite-lovers divided by class pretensions. Reading it in the original para mejorar mi nivel en la lengua & not finding it too difficult, despite the occasional region-specific (i.e. not commonly used elsewhere) word or phrase. The richness of the language is an absolute joy to read, García Márquez is really good at capturing characters & setting scenes with just a few lines of dialogue. Don't think it's quite as good as "100 Years of Solitude", which I found mindblowingly magical but very few books are. Would definitely recommend it.

    Have you read "Doce Cuentos Peregrinos" (Twelve peregrin tales)? <3 Also, I love the songs Shakira wrote for the film ("Despedida" and "Hay Amores")


  • #1946
    Hogata
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭Hogata


    ,,IT" and ,,Bag Of Bones "by S.King


  • #1947
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Flew through 'The Wind Through The Keyhole' by Mr King in 2 days. It's another Dark Tower book, giving insight into a couple of the characters backgrounds.I really enjoyed it.

    Currently re-reading 'Small Gods' by Pratchett, trying to remember not to laugh out loud when I'm on the train can be a challenge.

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



  • #1948
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    A Secret History of The IRA by Ed Moloney, very interesting


  • #1949
    Hogata
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭Hogata


    phonebook :D:D;)


  • #1950
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Twinkleboots wrote: »
    We need to talk about Kevin- Lionel Shriver

    It's pretty disturbing :(

    I read that recently. Took me a good while to get into but then I started enjoying it. Keep meaning to watch the movie.



    Just started A Storm of Swords the other day. Really enjoying it so far, especially after struggling a bit with A Clash of Kings.


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  • #1951
    bacon?
    Registered Users Posts: 784 ✭✭✭bacon?


    boards.ie


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