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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭willy wonka


    Takk wrote: »
    I just started reading this too. Liking it so far. The film could be pretty good; Saoirse Ronan as Susie, Peter Jackson directing.


    Just finished tonight - really loved it. Looking forward to seeing the film. Yeah with Peter Jackson behind it, might not be bad at all. The character Hal isn't in it, but usually characters get chopped from books. Really like the grandma character - Susan Sarandon is playing her


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 990 ✭✭✭rosboy


    Just finished tonight - really loved it. Looking forward to seeing the film. Yeah with Peter Jackson behind it, might not be bad at all. The character Hal isn't in it, but usually characters get chopped from books. Really like the grandma character - Susan Sarandon is playing her

    Just finished it last night too;)

    Great book. Didn't like particularly like one part of the ending (
    the bit at the sink hole/garage where Susie comes inhabits Ruths body
    ), but it really was a brilliant book.

    Started "Catcher In The Rye" by J.D. Sallinger now


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭willy wonka


    rosboy wrote: »
    Just finished it last night too;)

    Great book. Didn't like particularly like one part of the ending,--- but it really was a brilliant book.

    Started "Catcher In The Rye" by J.D. Sallinger now

    When I was getting near the end I kind of thought I knew how it would end and that didnt bother me, because I liked the journey moreso than the destination, but then Wham! that bit happened and I was surprised but I did like it, if only that it brought a kind of salvation for Susie (and probably for the author herself if you know her history)


    re Catcher in the Rye - excellent book. A masterpiece! One of my favourites.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭Panda Bear


    Have just finished Shantaram
    Australian author who has lived in the slums of Bombay, and you almost expect to be enriched by some sort of karmic philosophy. Philosophy and spiritual journey or not, this certainly is no karma in a bottle. The story of Shantaram is a story of adventure and daring, a fictionalized account of the life of author Gregory David Roberts who escaped an Australian prison and moved to Bombay to spend almost a decade of his life in the slums and underworld of this city.

    Richly recommend this but not to be taken too seriously I wondered if some of the pieces are the author ruuning riot from films he has seen.:P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭TedB


    In the past week I have read Baudolino by Umberto Eco and Death and the Penguin for the book club. Currently half way through the (hilarious) 1889 novel, 'Three Men in a Boat' by Jerome K. Jerome.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭herbieflowers


    On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Not bad so far.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 VanishingLayla


    The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

    It's... all right.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 crazzycat


    "Act like a lady, think like a man" by Steve Harvey


  • Registered Users Posts: 69 ✭✭ilovenerds


    In Cold Blood - Truman Capote :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭turgon


    Slaughterhouse 5/Kurt Vonnegut


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭turgon


    ^ great book!

    Off for a month to Europe, enjoy the rainy weather here in Ireland. :D Ill be looking forward to Dresden after Slaughterhouse 5.

    Will be reading The Heart of the Matter; On The Road (cliche, huh?), A Farewell to Arms and The Trial while on the trains.

    Good Luck!!!!!!!!! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Just started 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee'

    Hope I get to finish it before school starts. My inner child keeps saying bury my fart at wounded gee though...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 200 ✭✭Tawfee


    Just back from hols where i read French Revolutions by Tim Moore (very funny), Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee (great read as usual from Mr. Coetzee) & The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks which was nearly unputdownable! Now reading The Discovery of France by Graham Robb (hols were in France but this one was too heavy to put in the panniers).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Tawfee wrote: »
    The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks which was nearly unputdownable!

    Love that book. The only book I have read more than once!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12 Buzz_Cagney


    On he Road by Jack Kerouac, its a fun read but is taking me a lot longer to read then most other books. i think its all the detail :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭minusorange


    The Trial by Franz Kafka

    Kafka died before completing this. It's strange reading an absurd head-spinner knowing it's gonna end before it even makes sense of itself. Good fun though!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,160 ✭✭✭✭banshee_bones


    Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts

    ... im almost finished! Epic stuff....


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    Rock and a Hard Place by Stephen J Martin.

    Hilariously written and very easy to relate to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    chris jericho - a lions tale


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 200 ✭✭Tawfee


    Brilliant Orange by David Winner


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43 MickBeth


    Finished The Van last week.......


    I must say it has fantastic insight on the strugle faced by family men on
    the dole and the embarsement and shame faced by them in the reflection's of there famileys.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,260 ✭✭✭Mink


    Started Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris over the weekend. It's the first in the Sookie Stackhouse series (made into the True Blood TV series).

    It's a nice light read, fairly witty & a page turner so far.
    I'll probably stick with it through the whole series.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 Withdrawn_Sean


    I thought I'd try my hand at some greek literature so I decided to give The Odyssey by Homer a go. It's ****, utterly boring and depressingly repetitive. On principle, I always finish a book once I've started it, but this one is pushing my belief to the limit. I cannot wait to get it out of the way so I can get started on some Camus again.


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


    Tawfee wrote: »
    Just back from hols where i read French Revolutions by Tim Moore (very funny)

    I've just finished reading it for a second time.

    Two descriptions of how he looked struggling up steep hills: "looking like Stephen Roche on La Plagne and sounding like Stephen Hawking at La Scala"; "looking like Bernard Hinault giving birth to a cement mixer"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭This_Years_Love


    Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 286 ✭✭randomguy


    About to start Black List Section H by Francis Stuart. Not sure what I'm going to make of it. A strange man with a dubious way of looking at morality by all accounts.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,160 ✭✭✭✭banshee_bones


    Im over half way through "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak.... different to say the least!


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


    Horseracing And Racing Society: Who belongs and how it works by Jocelyn de Moubray (1985)

    Written at/before the author was twenty-three, and after education at Eton, University of York (not sure he completed), and two years travelling in the sahara.

    It is very readable. I like the first names in his family: Crispin; Amicia; Daphne.


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


    Last week I read

    Outliers: the story of success by Malcolm Gladwell.

    Chapters
    1. The Matthew Effect. How birthdays affect sporting success.
    2. The 10,000 Hour Rule. You need to practice to be expert.
    3. 4. The Trouble with Geniuses. Skills are needed, not just IQ.
    5. The Three Lessons Of Joe Flom. Success for Jews in NY garment/legal explained.
    6. Harlan, Kentucky. Hillbilly feuding inherited from European ancestors.
    7. Ethnic Theory Of Plane Crashes: Native culture of flight crew responsible.
    8. Rice Paddies And Maths Tests. Why Asians are better at maths.
    9. Marita's Bargain. Bronx super high school, poor kids working harder.


    Cliche time "I couldn't put it down".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭Jako8


    The Last Oracle by James Rollins

    It's really good so far.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    The Dunkard's Walk: How randomness rules our lives" - Leonard Mlodonow

    A really really easy to read guide to probability and how things are a lot more random than we think. I found it fascinating and I think I will take stats in the media with more or a pinch of salt.

    I would definitely recommend it. One of the most readable "popular science" books I have read in a long time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭Karlusss


    You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers

    Missed three stops on my bus reading it. First thing I picked up after Infinite Jest, and it's not Infinite Jest, but I'm really enjoying it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Vim Fuego


    I finished "We Need To Talk About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver.

    It took me an absolute age. The first 200 pages are a struggle, I kept putting it off and reading graphic novels instead. Kevin's mother is a self-important shrew - but as the book develops and Kevin becomes older, it starts to get more interesting/disturbing and you're up until 2am trying to finish it.

    That said, I wouldn't necessarily recommend it. I can imagine it having more of an impact when it was published in 2003. Still, there's some interesting questions here based on nature vs. nurture so I can see why it seems to be so popular with book clubs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭herbieflowers


    Hurry on Down by John Wain


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 435 ✭✭pinkheels88


    Finished the Country Girls (Part one of trilogy) by Edna O'Brien - LOVE it, Babas a bitch, but everyone had a friend like her as a child.

    On Flann O'Brien 'The Third Policeman' now - waaaay too philosophical for my liking - not really interested in De Selbys theories. :( However I can appreciate the humor of some parts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Vim Fuego


    Just started 'You Got Nothing Coming' by Jimmy Lerner. I seem to have a bit of an obsession with US prisons so enjoying it so far.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,687 ✭✭✭tHE vAGGABOND


    half way thru Les Miz - Victor Hugo

    I have seen musical a couple of times and the movie with Liam Neeson, so I know the story, but the book has been on my shelf for years and I have never read it.

    Its Brilliant - which is my folks still read it a couple of hundred years later :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,537 ✭✭✭joseph brand


    Reading a Collection of Edgar Allan Poe tales. Tough going but well worth it. This man had some grasp of the english language. Stories are dark and grotty with a side order of tension. :)

    'Murders in the Rue Morgue' is absolutely fantastic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭This_Years_Love


    I've just started reading the first chapter of 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,086 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    Well, it took me about 3 months, but I finally finished Ulysses!!

    To be honest I am glad to see the back of it.

    Next, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

    I just can't wait to see some syntax and punctuation!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Porkpie


    The Kite Runner was one of my all time favourite books and expectations were high for A Thousand Splendid Suns - too high unfortunately. As one would expect, the story is joyful in parts, and heart wrenchingly sad in others. The plight of the women in the novel is truly awful and the story is depressingly tragic. It gives the reader an interesting insight in to life in Afghanistan during such troubled times. At times the story is compelling and there is no denying Hosseini's impressive writing abilities.

    I found however that the book became tedious after a while as it was very slow moving. As the chapters passed I was losing interest and it took considerable effort to finish reading it. At times the descriptions of the people and countryside are written beautifully but other times they feel very drawn out, with Hosseini dedicating paragraphs to describing characters or background stories that have very little relevance to the story. It's hard not to empathise with the two main characters, Laila and Mariam, who suffer from so much cruelty and oppression. However, I found myself much less absorbed in them compared to Amir and Hassan in TKR. I realise that, from a male perspective my review is more subjective, and I could understand how female readers might take more from the novel. The fact that there is very little light-heartedness in the story and no real sense of adventure, takes from the book. It was a thoroughly depressing read.

    The story is written, for the most part, from the perspective of the two main characters with chapters alternating between Laila and Mariam. This I found unnecessary and confusing, which added to my disappointment. Sometimes it was hard to remember who was who. The book for me was always going to be compared to the Kite Runner. Maybe I expected too much. Educational, yes, enjoyable, not really. 4 out of 10.

    Just started reading Quirkology by Richard Wiseman - a book about quirky scientific experiments in psychology. Funny and interesting so far.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Quality


    reading the girl who played with fire by stieg laarson enjoying it so far!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 14 qwerty23


    Just finished acidental billionaires by Ben Mezrich, only took a couple of days.

    It is not as good as his others that I have read in my opinion, a bit disappointing.

    Will either start "Ninety Eighty Four" by Orwell next or "A Long Long Way" by Sebastian Barry


  • Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭chenguin


    Just finished re-reading to kill a mocking bird. I love this book. So well written.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,086 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    Finished Paddy Clarke, I liked it, although I found it ended quite abruptly.

    Next: Animal Farm -George Orwell


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭wantacookie


    reading 'The time travellers wife' by Audrey Niffenger! its very sweet and is easy to read!

    next i'll be reading 'My sister's keeper' by Jodi Piccoult! its meant to be quite sad tho! :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 517 ✭✭✭lisbon_lions


    Just finished reading "The shadow of the wind" by Carlos Zafon, a very entertaing read with excellent character development. Next up is a toss up between a science read ("pale blue dot" by C Sagan) and general fiction ("My Sisters Keeper" Jodi Picoult). I'll decide at the bookshop :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,086 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    Just finished Animal Farm, loved every minute of it. The characters were very intriguing and very well developed, the story and the change of events and tone was fascinating and very well thought out.
    Brilliant portrayal of how thirst for power and greed takes over the thirst for a free world.

    EDIT: Change of plan. 1984 next :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭BanzaiBk


    Just finished Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg, just started Running With Scissors by Augesten Burroughs.


  • Registered Users Posts: 45 martoman


    I'm currently reading 'Murphy' by Beckett. Quite interesting, full of bizarre odd characters. At the same time, I find it a challenging read--contains a lot of obscure language. Anyone else have similar experiences?

    Next up: 'The Heart of a Dog' by Bulgakov.


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