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What book are you reading atm??

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  • #2502
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Just finished "Telegraph Avenue" by Michael Chabon and "Beautiful Ruins" by Jess Waller.

    2 good reads.

    Next up, "Rust and Bone"


  • #2503
    looking_around
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    World War Z. Not what I expected at all. About 1/3 of the way through, wasn't really enjoying the whole interview thing at the beginning but getting into it now. I take it the movie is only very loosely based on the book? :confused:

    yeah, they're extremely different. Shame on them naming the movie WWZ

    I found the book quite dull. But it is different from your standard zombie story.


  • #2504
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Finished William Boyd's Stars and Bars, a good read, very farcical and a bit unbelievable at the end, but a good storey teller. Bought Ordinary Thunderstorms from him today and looking forward to it.

    Started Graham Greene's The Human Factor today, caught me hook, line and sinker already and I'm not quite sure how!

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #2505
    jimthemental
    Registered Users Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭jimthemental


    I'm reading Homicide: A year on the killing streets by The Wire creator David Simon. Unbelievably good book. I've never seen a crime novel written like this!


  • #2506
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    Currently reading 'The Final Empire' by Brandon Sanderson and loving it!


  • #2507
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    maguic24 wrote: »
    Currently reading 'The Final Empire' by Brandon Sanderson and loving it!

    Very good premise for a fantasy novel and well written. The only thing that annoyed me (slightly) is that the magic system is too well described, it's a very original method but parts are almost like instructions for a video game


  • #2508
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Finished the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.Heart wrenching and brilliant.
    Going to start And the Mountains Echoed by the same author now,can't get enough.


  • #2509
    Merkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    Finished the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.Heart wrenching and brilliant.
    Going to start And the Mountains Echoed by the same author now,can't get enough.

    A Thousand Splendid Suns is a must-read as well if you haven't already...


  • #2510
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Merkin wrote: »
    A Thousand Splendid Suns is a must-read as well if you haven't already...

    That's the book that I read first,really enjoyed it.


  • #2511
    Merkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    That's the book that I read first,really enjoyed it.

    Amazing. Am waiting until And the Mountains Echoed comes out in paperback.


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  • #2512
    Sir Gallagher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    Goodbye to the Hill by Lee Dunne, by all accounts it was easier to get your leg over in 1950's Dublin than it is now.


  • #2513
    starviewadams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    Depression and How to Survive It by Spike Milligan.


  • #2514
    saggycaggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 814 ✭✭✭saggycaggy


    Merkin wrote: »
    Amazing. Am waiting until And the Mountains Echoed comes out in paperback.

    Do you know when it is being released in Paperback? I tried to buy it on the Book Depository but they said I could pre-order it with only 317 days to go!


  • #2515
    Davyhal
    Registered Users Posts: 455 ✭✭Davyhal


    I have developed that nasty habit of having two books on the go at any one time! I blame Trudi Canavan's "The Magician's Apprentice". I have been working my way through it for a while now and I simply am not enjoying it as much as I did the Black Magician Trilogy.

    I have just finished The Great Gatsby as I have always wanted to read it, and I wanted to make sure I had it read before I saw the film. Now that I have finished the book, I have been advised not to see the movie as it is a disappointment.

    Currently half way through the Book Thief... Hard to get into at first, but now cannot put it down


  • #2516
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Just started Mandela's autobiography. Has been gathering dust on the shelves for too long.


  • #2517
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    jimthemental wrote: »
    I'm reading Homicide: A year on the killing streets by The Wire creator David Simon. Unbelievably good book. I've never seen a crime novel written like this!

    That's another one I have gathering dust... I guess I'm just so used to the television series which was inspired by the novel.


  • #2518
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Davyhal wrote: »
    I have just finished The Great Gatsby as I have always wanted to read it, and I wanted to make sure I had it read before I saw the film. Now that I have finished the book, I have been advised not to see the movie as it is a disappointment.

    Currently half way through the Book Thief... Hard to get into at first, but now cannot put it down

    I thought the film was really good. Leonardo did an excellent job as Gatsby as did all the other characters. It lacks the depth and completeness of the book but its a good film. Allthough the one thing that ruined it was ****ing Jay-Z and Lana del Ray!!!

    I read halfway through The Book Thief a few years ago, then it got too depressing so I put it aside to find a more lighter read, never quite got to finishing it unfortunately...


  • #2519
    **Vai**
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭**Vai**


    old hippy wrote: »
    That's another one I have gathering dust... I guess I'm just so used to the television series which was inspired by the novel.

    Hahaha me too, Im looking at it propping up a stereo speaker right now. Someday!


  • #2520
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    **Vai** wrote: »
    Hahaha me too, Im looking at it propping up a stereo speaker right now. Someday!

    I'm terrible; can't walk into a charity shop without buying a book or two. In my local shop, I pay an average of 50p for a new book in good nick. I'm running out of space!


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  • #2521
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    old hippy wrote: »
    I'm terrible; can't walk into a charity shop without buying a book or two. In my local shop, I pay an average of 50p for a new book in good nick. I'm running out of space!
    Me too, I need to donate some of them back to the charity shop once I've read them and feel I won't read them again.


  • #2522
    who_me
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭who_me


    Reading Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson. It's the second of his I've written, and the form is much the same. Several disparate threads, often in different eras, and you're wondering how they'll all come together. In the first book (Reamde), I thought the ending wasn't anything special, but I like his writing style so much I'm not bothered.

    As a nerd, I love the crytpography elements to it too.


  • #2523
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    who_me wrote: »
    It's the second of his I've written.


    Lazy bastard should write his own books :pac:.


  • #2524
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,230 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Stinger by Robert R McCammon. Was recommended to me on this thread ages ago! Really enjoying it, good old fashioned horror/sci fi story.

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



  • #2525
    steve_r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,044 ✭✭✭steve_r


    Currently reading "Then They Came for Me", by Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari chronicling Bahari's family history, and his arrest and 118-day imprisonment following the controversial 2009 Iran presidential election, as part of the Boards reading club!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=85183009#post85183009


  • #2526
    GerB40
    Registered Users Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    Davyhal wrote: »
    I have developed that nasty habit of having two books on the go at any one time! I blame Trudi Canavan's "The Magician's Apprentice". I have been working my way through it for a while now and I simply am not enjoying it as much as I did the Black Magician Trilogy.

    I have just finished The Great Gatsby as I have always wanted to read it, and I wanted to make sure I had it read before I saw the film. Now that I have finished the book, I have been advised not to see the movie as it is a disappointment.

    Currently half way through the Book Thief... Hard to get into at first, but now cannot put it down
    The book thief is one of my favourite books. Zusack has a great way of portraying imagery..


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  • #2527
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    To Kill a Mocking Bird, for the first time. Awfully compelling book, a pity Harper Lee didn't write any more


  • #2528
    Davyhal
    Registered Users Posts: 455 ✭✭Davyhal


    af_thefragile wrote: »
    I read halfway through The Book Thief a few years ago, then it got too depressing so I put it aside to find a more lighter read, never quite got to finishing it unfortunately...

    I can get where you are coming from. I had The Book Thief for about a year and when I was heading on holidays I decided to bring a few of the books that I had intended on reading for a long time.

    When I was sitting poolside in Gran Canaria with a drink by my side, I felt somewhat out of place reading a book about a little girl growing up in Nazi Germany, especially with the book narrated by Death himself! My friends read the description at the back and gave me a very concerned look! But since I landed back in Ireland, with all the rain, and post-holiday blues, I have no trouble with it!


  • #2529
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Just started but it's promising. I've gone mad recently buying 99p books off ebay


  • #2530
    Barna77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    Stephen King's Under the Dome.


  • #2531
    Plumpynutt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 648 ✭✭✭Plumpynutt


    Just finished The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I enjoyed it, although I thought The Shadow of the Wind was better. May move straight onto The Prisoner of Heaven and finish the saga or read something else. I have The Rules of Attraction by Brett Easton Ellis beside my bed, but I dunno if I'm in the mood to read that yet


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  • #2532
    py2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,844 ✭✭✭py2006


    Barna77 wrote: »
    Stephen King's Under the Dome.

    How is it? I am about to start it before watching the series.


  • #2533
    LizT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    Just finished "The Fault in our Stars" by John Green. Haven't loved a book as much in ages, genuinely one of those book when you're laughing out loud one minute and crying the next.


  • #2534
    judgefudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭judgefudge


    Half way through The Quarry, Iain Banks. RIP.


  • #2535
    Barna77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    py2006 wrote: »
    How is it? I am about to start it before watching the series.
    I started it on Thursday, I've read just a few pages, so can't really make an opinion on it yet.


  • #2536
    poisonated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭poisonated


    NYPD Red by James Patterson.


  • #2537
    Optimalprimerib
    Registered Users Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭Optimalprimerib


    py2006 wrote: »
    How is it? I am about to start it before watching the series.

    I read it a few years ago and devoured it in about 2 weeks. It has One of the best love to hate characters I have ever come across


  • #2538
    HerrScheisse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 783 ✭✭✭HerrScheisse


    I am reading "The Age of the Warrior" by Robert Fisk. And what excellent reading it is, a collection of his articles over the years, written by a journalist in the true sense of the word.

    He is like a thinking mans Kevin Myers, you get all of the outrage and none of the idiocy.


  • #2539
    Zombee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭Zombee


    I am reading Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time Series and I am hooked, currently on Book 4 The Shadow Rising.


  • #2540
    looking_around
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    Zombee wrote: »
    I am reading Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time Series and I am hooked, currently on Book 4 The Shadow Rising.

    Be warned it slows down a bit and can be a bit of a hog to get through the next few books.

    But a great series all the same! :)


  • #2541
    therunaround
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭therunaround


    looking_around wrote: »
    Be warned it slows down a bit and can be a bit of a hog to get through the next few books.

    But a great series all the same! :)


    Finished the wheel of time last week. Took 10 months from start to finish.
    Stick with it!


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  • #2542
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users Posts: 3,709 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius. A favourite of world leaders I believe.


  • #2543
    Custardpi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    cloudatlas wrote: »
    'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius. A favourite of world leaders I believe.

    Though probably not as much as Machiavelli's The Prince.


  • #2544
    stringofmisery
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭stringofmisery


    'The Cocaine Diaries' by Jeff Farrell and Paul Keany.The story of an Irishman's ordeal in a Venezuelan prison.compelling reading.


  • #2545
    JohnMearsheimer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,302 ✭✭✭JohnMearsheimer


    I recently read The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw. It's billed as an accessible book on physics but most of it was still above my level of understanding.

    I'm reading Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson at the moment. It's a book on little observations Bryson made on life in America after moving back there after spending 20 years living in the UK. I'm really enjoying it and have had a few laugh out loud moments.


  • #2546
    tim3000
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭tim3000


    I am reading Anna Karenina about 380 pages through it. Good book by all accounts


  • #2547
    thefasteriwalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭thefasteriwalk


    tim3000 wrote: »
    I am reading Anna Karenina about 380 pages through it. Good book by all accounts

    It's an enjoyable read, to be sure. I'm currently reading Pedro Juan Gutierrez's Dirty Havana Trilogy.


  • #2548
    Hallyington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭Hallyington


    Reading Notes From The Underground and Lord Of The Rings.


  • #2549
    Vojera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    I just finished The Morbidly Obese Ninja and next I'm starting Zomblog II.


  • #2550
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    At Home by Bill Bryson. Entertaining read!


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  • #2551
    Lucena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Lucena


    I’m reading « A Game of Thrones », the first book in the A Song of Ice and Fire Series. Only about 100 pages in but struggling to remember all the characters. There’s a list at the back of the book, but I daren’t look in case I find out something that hasn’t happened yet (death, secretly the father of X or whatever).

    Can anyone tell me if it’s safe to look?


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