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What book are you reading atm??

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    #3002
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    rozeboosje wrote: »
    I'm reading a book about the cat's genome. I'm at the bit where it goes CATCATCATCAT it's hilarious.

    Which codes for the amino acid histidine and is used to tag DNA sequences!


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    #3003
    willmunny1990
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭willmunny1990


    Just after buying Stephen Kings IT.

    The film always sacred me when I was a kid so I said I'll give the book a read!

    Anyone ever read it?


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    #3004
    8mv
    Registered Users Posts: 393 ✭✭8mv


    Finished The Book Thief yesterday evening and when I stopped sobbing I picked up Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Hope It's not a slog.
    Good books I read recently were Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and Joseph O'Conners' book of short stories Where Have You Been?


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    #3005
    Custardpi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    Currently reading "Perfecting Sound Forever" by Greg Milner, about the history of recorded music in its various formats, Edison's wax cylinders to the digital downloads of today. It's fascinating to read about the various format wars throughout the years (cylinder vs disc seems to have been every bit as fierce as cd vs vinyl) that the author recounts & also how the evolution in studio technology has changed the way music is made & our relationship to it. There's some great stuff in the book about various people in the music industry from Alan Lomax & Lead Belly to Bob Dylan & Neil Young & their attitudes to & influence upon technological & cultural evolution in music. Really well written book, can definitely recommend it to any music lover with an interest in history.


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    #3006
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users Posts: 3,709 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell


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    #3007
    baron von something
    Registered Users Posts: 741 ✭✭✭baron von something


    neverwhere - neil gaiman


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    #3008
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    willmunny1990 wrote: »
    Just after buying Stephen Kings IT.

    The film always sacred me when I was a kid so I said I'll give the book a read!

    Anyone ever read it?
    I read it a few years ago after seeing it on tv, as usual, the book is much better:)


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    #3009
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    willmunny1990 wrote: »
    Just after buying Stephen Kings IT.

    The film always sacred me when I was a kid so I said I'll give the book a read!

    Anyone ever read it?

    Good, long sprawling book.Terrible ending (even for Stephen) and there's one particularly tasteless scene that I really didn't like, you'll know it when you get to it


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    #3010
    Fishyfreak
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    willmunny1990 wrote: »
    Just after buying Stephen Kings IT.

    The film always sacred me when I was a kid so I said I'll give the book a read!

    Anyone ever read it?

    1300 pages of pure brilliance. IT is a masterpiece.

    Just noticed the comment above about the "tasteless scene". Probably the biggest WTF moment in any of his books. Truly mad!


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    #3011
    Fishyfreak
    Registered Users Posts: 576 ✭✭✭Fishyfreak


    With my love for true crime books, my latest is:

    The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber. Story of a male nurse (Charlie Cullen aka The Angel of death) who murdered in excess of 200 patients over a long career in multiple hospitals. Gives a great insight into his mindset and also into the hospital administrations who covered up their inadequacies in dealing with him and reporting the suspicious deaths to the police.


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    #3012
    py2006
    Registered Users Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭py2006


    IT is an amazing book. King has an amazing talent for writing about the interactions and conversations between children and teenagers.


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    #3013
    anncoates
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    Against The Day by Thomas Pynchon.


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    #3014
    IvyTheTerrible
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    Fishyfreak wrote: »
    1300 pages of pure brilliance. IT is a masterpiece.

    Just noticed the comment above about the "tasteless scene". Probably the biggest WTF moment in any of his books. Truly mad!
    I read that when I was quite young when I was going through a Stephen King phase. That scene put me off his books for a long time afterwards.


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    #3015
    RachaelVO
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    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    I just finished The Shining, thoroughly enjoyed it.

    You HAVE to get Dr Sleep, it's brilliant, and so much better than anything more recent he's produced. It even ends well, which is a nice change (Yes Dark Tower I'm talking about you...)


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    #3016
    Birneybau
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    thefireinside wrote: »
    Gone Girl.. It's absolutely brilliant :)

    Come back when you're finished.


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    #3017
    whitewave
    Registered Users Posts: 397 ✭✭whitewave


    willmunny1990 wrote: »
    Just after buying Stephen Kings IT.

    The film always sacred me when I was a kid so I said I'll give the book a read!

    Anyone ever read it?

    I've never seen the film but decided to give the book a go....had to give up after 2 chapters. My mind was playing tricks on me and was getting too freaked out! Decided to read Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy instead. Halfway through The Subtle Knife and enjoying it, it's a nice easy read but keeping me interested.


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    #3018
    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    anncoates wrote: »
    Against The Day by Thomas Pynchon.

    I was wondering is it a very dense book with lot of ideas, I tried reading Thomas Pynchon once but found it hard going.


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    chakotha
    Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭chakotha


    willmunny1990 wrote: »
    Just after buying Stephen Kings IT.

    The film always sacred me when I was a kid so I said I'll give the book a read!

    Anyone ever read it?

    I've read it twice. Great great read - his best imo.


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


    I've just borrowed Dracula from the library, for the time of year that's in it ;)


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    #3021
    leahyl
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    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    I just finished The Shining, thoroughly enjoyed it.

    Just recently bought that on my Kindle - think I'll start it tonight :)

    Just finished reading "Goodbye, Dearest Holly" by Kevin Wells about his daughters murder by Ian Huntley in 2002 and the court case that followed. What a horrific ordeal that family went through, as well as Jessica Chapmans family.


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    #3022
    Harvey Low Fat Milk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 400 ✭✭Harvey Low Fat Milk


    White Teeth by Zadie Smith

    It's really enjoyable, love the slang and colloquialisms used in the dialogue. Funny too.


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    #3023
    anncoates
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    mariaalice wrote: »
    I was wondering is it a very dense book with lot of ideas, I tried reading Thomas Pynchon once but found it hard going.

    Only just started it. :)

    I've only read The Crying Of Lot 49 before this.


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    #3024
    chakotha
    Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭chakotha


    The Sound of Laughter by Peter Kay


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    #3025
    Teyla Emmagan
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    Death Comes to Pemberley. Saw PD James speak in Trinity there a couple of weeks ago. It's good, particularly if you're into Austen, of course.


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    #3026
    carolinespring
    Registered Users Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭carolinespring


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    Death Comes to Pemberley. Saw PD James speak in Trinity there a couple of weeks ago. It's good, particularly if you're into Austen, of course.

    I really enjoyed Death comes to Pemberly. I just finished Longbourn which was quite good.

    Reading Jeanette Winterson's Why be happy when you could be normal. So far so good.


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    #3027
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Yup


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    #3028
    david75
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    I'm drunk.

    The warded man trilogy. Excellent


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    #3029
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    "Honour Thy Father."

    The story of Salvatore Bonnano son of Mafia boss Joe Bonanno, A Sicilian immigrant to NY who was awarded the control of the Maranzano Crime Family (faction of the American Cosa Nostra) in 1932. It subsequently became known as the Bonanno Crime Family and still is in NYC to this day.

    La Cosa Nostra families in Sicily had a thing where the first born son no matter what would join his father and take the oath of Omerta and become a Man of 'Honour.' The ceremony entailed pricking the trigger finger and dripping the blood of the inductee onto a card of St Francis of Assisi. The card was then set alight in the inductees hands and they swore their oath as it burned. 'May I burn like this saint if I ever betray my family.' (English translation)

    The book is an amazing insight into the mob with Salvatore himself talking about how he was his fathers son. They hide nothing, they tell the good the bad and the ugly. The book also details the Bonanno family's exploits in the 21st century, far removed from the father and son who gave them their name.


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    #3030
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    While its topical, I'm told the Enders Game books are excellent.

    Anyone know for sure?


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    #3031
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    papillion -henri charriere


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