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What Are You Reading?

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  • #552
    Arcade Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Arcade Panda


    Impressionists.jpg

    I was in Charlie Byrne's bookshop in Galway about two weeks before Christmas and I was looking at this book lamenting the fact that I couldn't afford it.

    It was under the tree last night...my family rock!


  • #553
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Charlie Byrne's Bookshop has to be the best bookshop in the world. I've spent weeks looking around the place.


  • #554
    Arcade Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Arcade Panda


    It really is amazing...the books are so cheap! I got Empire of the Sun and Death & Nightingales for €10...job. I love how it's so higildy pigildy aswell...you could spend hours in there.

    There's another good bookshop up in dublin near Parnell street...I can't remember the name of it though.

    EDIT: It's called Chapters.


  • #555
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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  • #556
    Arcade Panda
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    Ya:)...just remembered it there! I havn't been in Dublin in about a year but everytime I do go up I go there.


  • #557
    phlegms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭phlegms


    creggy wrote: »
    My **** life so far by Frankie Boyle. Nearly finished it, would reccommend it if you have a morbid sense of humor :D

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    I was thinking of this today, might pick it up as a bit of light reading in between all my college schtuff I have to get through.


  • #558
    Fad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    America Gods by Neil Gaiman.


  • #559
    phlegms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭phlegms


    Arcade Panda wrote: »
    Empire of the Sun

    Seriously <3!!!


    My wonderful Aunt got me this:

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    Cant wait to tuck into it tonight perhaps, looks wonderfully interesting.


  • #560
    Arcade Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Arcade Panda


    phlegms wrote: »
    Seriously <3!!!


    I'm half way through itcool.gif So far so fantastic!


  • #561
    phlegms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭phlegms


    Arcade Panda wrote: »
    I'm half way through itcool.gif So far so fantastic!

    Hopefully you haven't seen the movie yet. I mean the film is wonderful and all, but the book is so much more wonderful :pac:


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  • #562
    almostnever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭almostnever


    belljar.jpg

    Unbefrickinglievable.


  • #563
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    ^ I bought The Bell Jar ages ago but haven't read it yet (bought an insane amount of books recently, so there's a backlog to get through) Loved doing Sylvia Plath for Leaving Cert English so I'm looking forward to reading it.


  • #564
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I have the complete collection of Plath's poetry (as compiled by Ted Hughs) but I haven't been ale to find the Bell Jar anywhere. I'm going hunting for it on Monday!


  • #565
    Bonkers_xOx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭Bonkers_xOx


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    Meh, it's ok. I got a few laughs out of it.


  • #566
    thebigcheese22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭thebigcheese22


    I'm reading Netherland by Joseph O Neill. The obligatory book off the folks at Christmas :)

    So far its ok, not liking the cricket references though


  • #567
    Namlub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


    The Hell of It All- Charlie Brooker. I lub him.


  • #568
    peabutler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭peabutler


    Becoming Holyfield by Evander Holyfield

    Decent enough even though he loves his Mama a bit to much.:)


  • #569
    TheCardHolder
    Registered Users Posts: 929 ✭✭✭TheCardHolder


    Read so far this week:

    Fahrenheit 451 - Soon to be adapted into a movie by the director of The Shawshank Redemption & The Green Mile. Great book, loved it.

    Reading:

    1984 - Loving it, very similar to Fahrenheit.


  • #570
    syncosised
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 708 ✭✭✭syncosised


    1984 is a fantastic book, read it last year, one of my favourites!

    I'm reading SuperFreakonomics now. It's very random, and very interesting. The prologue details how drunk driving is four times more dangerous than drunk walking!

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  • #571
    norwegianwood
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭norwegianwood


    Got a few Ross O'Carroll Kelly books for Christmas, they're focking hilarious.


  • #572
    hitlersson666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭hitlersson666


    im stating the new stephen king book! so far it seems a total rip off of the simpsons movie. Anyone agree?


  • #573
    Jesus Juice
    Registered Users Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭Jesus Juice


    hitlersson666 wrote: »
    im stating the new stephen king book! so far it seems a total rip off of the simpsons movie. Anyone agree?
    No not really, since King has been writing it for the past 25 years.


  • #574
    Pygmalion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    New Hitchhikers guide (By Eoin Colfer)...

    I might have liked it if it wasn't in such a great series, but it is so it brings down the series a huge amount :(


  • #575
    D4RK ONION
    Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    norwegianwood wrote: »
    Got a few Ross O'Carroll Kelly books for Christmas, they're focking hilarious.
    I've read all the main ones except the newest one. Great stuff.


  • #576
    Arcade Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Arcade Panda


    Just finished Empire of the Sun(which was class but very sad) and now I think I'm going to re-read Sabriel and all those Garth Nix books...seriously a little bit obsessed with them.


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  • #577
    Craguls
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,986 ✭✭✭Craguls


    Currently reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, it's pretty good so far.
    Then it's a toss up between The Road, Generation X, The Beach or a Neuroscience book I bought because I'm cool.


  • #578
    TheCardHolder
    Registered Users Posts: 929 ✭✭✭TheCardHolder


    hitlersson666 wrote: »
    im stating the new stephen king book! so far it seems a total rip off of the simpsons movie. Anyone agree?


    Really really enjoyed until the last part.


  • #579
    hitlersson666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭hitlersson666


    oh does it makes the first like 700 pages useless


  • #580
    Shacklebolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Shacklebolt


    A book about the history of the 20th century called 'The Age of Extremes'.. Its really good so far although the writer seems to be a bit of a fan of communism and isn't all that objective.


  • #581
    Aoibheann
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    Craguls wrote: »
    Currently reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, it's pretty good so far.
    Then it's a toss up between The Road, Generation X, The Beach or a Neuroscience book I bought because I'm cool.

    Oh, you should read The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. It's a neurologist telling the stories of some of his patients and cases, it's absolutely brilliant, I'd say you'd enjoy it. :)

    I'm currently reading a book from the True Blood series (my sister loaned me it) and it's not bad. Next on the list are The Lovely Bones and Let the Right One In. \o/ Really looking forward to reading both of them. And I have more book vouchers to spend, <3 Christmas presents.


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  • #582
    almostnever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭almostnever


    I'm starting Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk in the morning. :)


  • #583
    Pygmalion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    Shacklebolt wrote: »
    A book about the history of the 20th century called 'The Age of Extremes'.. Its really good so far although the writer seems to be a bit of a fan of communism and isn't all that objective.

    Sounds bad but 99% of history books seem to be written by big fans of Capitalism and aren't objective, yet no-one complains.


  • #584
    Stev_o
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,249 ✭✭✭Stev_o


    Pygmalion wrote: »
    Sounds bad but 99% of history books seem to be written by big fans of Capitalism and aren't objective, yet no-one complains.

    You'd be surprised. Iv yet to read a History book that somehow hasn't blamed America in some way or another for causing the many problems we have today. Likewise iv hardly seen alot written bad mouthing USSR's foreign policy during the same period. Though really the Capitalist dream is fictional as with the Socialist one problem being is that American/Americans won't expect that modern politics revolves around a hybrid of both ideologies.


  • #585
    under the dome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭under the dome


    As user name would imply i have just finished under the dome....a good read but nowhere near as good as the stand (what a book!!! truely brilliant), am currently reading the new martina cole..okaish


  • #586
    Zaffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭Zaffy


    Well as a 15 year old guy, I think it's pretty creepy that the last 2 books I have read are the Bridget Jones' Diaries


  • #587
    hitlersson666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭hitlersson666


    rofl u need thepery!!!!! anyway anyone who has finished reading under the dome.... is it like the simpsons movie considering they do seem alike


  • #588
    D4RK ONION
    Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    Zaffy wrote: »
    Well as a 15 year old guy, I think it's pretty creepy that the last 2 books I have read are the Bridget Jones' Diaries
    Nothing wrong with a bit of chicklit, though I've never read the books myself.


  • #589
    theowen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭theowen


    Jane Austin's Emma. Dusted it off yesterday:)


  • #590
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    Currently: Richard Dawkins' - The Greatest Show on Earth: Evidence for Evolution
    and 1 Samuel in the Bible.


  • #591
    A Neurotic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,779 ✭✭✭A Neurotic


    Jakkass wrote: »
    Currently: Richard Dawkins' - The Greatest Show on Earth: Evidence for Evolution
    and 1 Samuel in the Bible.

    How are you finding the Dawkins? I bought it months ago but still haven't gotten around to it.


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  • #592
    philologos
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    Interesting so far, I'm only in the middle of chapter 2.


  • #593
    theowen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭theowen


    Jakkass wrote: »
    Currently: Richard Dawkins' - The Greatest Show on Earth: Evidence for Evolution
    and 1 Samuel in the Bible.
    Is the Bible in any way entertaining?


  • #594
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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  • #595
    Jay P
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    I got a book for Christmas called Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures. It's really interesting, and nerdy, which is always good!


  • #596
    Arcade Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Arcade Panda


    I just re-read The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, my favourite book from the Narnia books. <3

    My sister went back to Dublin and left me too books to read: Eat, Pray, Love and The Road. Can't wait to get stuck in:)


  • #597
    phlegms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭phlegms


    Currently reading The Lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages. As you can already guess, it's thoroughly exciting stuff..

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  • #598
    Closed ac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭Closed ac


    The Kite Runner


  • #599
    cork*girl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 702 ✭✭✭cork*girl


    The Secret to Teen Power! Nice Positive thinking book! exactly what I need! :)


  • #600
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    theowen wrote: »
    Is the Bible in any way entertaining?

    Entertaining isn't really applicable, it's non-fiction, and a book that informs me about living, the world, spiritual things, God and what comes after :)

    I'm currently reading 2 Samuel now.


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  • #601
    D4RK ONION
    Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    Jakkass wrote: »
    Entertaining isn't really applicable, it's non-fiction, and a book that informs me about living, the world, spiritual things, God and what comes after :)

    I'm currently reading 2 Samuel now.
    Do you read all of the bible as non-fiction? Stuff like Genesis?


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