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What book are you reading atm??

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    #3062
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Thinking fast and slow.

    Interesting but labours the point a tad.


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    #3063
    iwantmydinner
    Registered Users Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭iwantmydinner


    Flew through A Thousand Splendid Suns on holidays. Such a brilliant read, bloody heartbreaking!


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    #3064
    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    I found by accident a book I've had with years called Legends, a compilation of short stories including one of the prequel novella's to a Song of Ice and Fire called The Hedge Knight. was in my element when I discovered it


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    #3065
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Couldn't put down Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch.
    Then discovered there's a whole series!!

    They're a brilliant read. Best I've read all year actually.
    Heartily recommend them!


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    #3066
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,205 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Just finished The Silence of the Lambs, thoroughly enjoyed it

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



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    #3067
    Einhard
    Registered Users Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    Reading The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco. It's excellent. he has such an amazing way with language, and sometimes I don't even recognise the words he's using, let alone understand them, but am still pulled in by the sheer exuberance of it all. Also helps that its pretty damn funny at times! :pac:


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    #3068
    Aidric
    Registered Users Posts: 13,589 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Just started 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' by Daniel Kahneman.

    My interest was piqued by the following review from the Financial Times on the back cover 'There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality but only one masterpiece. This is one of the greatest and most engaging collections of insights into the human mind I have read'.


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    #3069
    cballrun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6 ✭cballrun


    Year of the Intern (1972) by Robin Cook


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    #3070
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users Posts: 3,709 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    'Just Kids' by Patti Smith


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    #3071
    playedalive
    Closed Accounts Posts: 750 ✭✭✭playedalive


    I just finished Dracula (finally) today. To be honest, I liked it in parts but the writing style was just not my cup of tea.

    Next book is George Orwell's 1984 :)


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    #3072
    czechlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭czechlin


    cloudatlas wrote: »
    The Harry Hole series is a bit out of synch if you are reading it in translation. It starts with 'the Bat', which is rated poorly and it doesn't have much bearing on the rest of the series, sometimes it's mentioned in passing. The second book 'Cockroaches' is being released in December. Most people start with 'The Redbreast' the third book which is one of my favourites. (I cheated and skipped ahead to 'The Snowman' and then back tracked to 'The Redbreast'). Jo Nesbo writes each book as a standalone but for the fans that read the whole series there is the reward of a few peripheral threads running through the books that add an extra dimension if you start with 'the redbreast'. It's a good series, the cases are satisfyingly complex and Nesbo writes in a very filmic way.

    I was in a bookshop the other day and The Snowman was on sale so I couldn't really leave it there. I'm way into Part 2 of the book and really enjoying it. Will definitely read the other books. I'll try to read them in some sort of an order from the next one :D


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    #3073
    baron von something
    Registered Users Posts: 741 ✭✭✭baron von something


    Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever,#1) by Stephen r. Donaldson


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    #3074
    judgefudge
    Registered Users Posts: 915 ✭✭✭judgefudge


    The autobiography of Malcolm X


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    #3075
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,304 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Just finished Part One of Tim Pat Coogan's Michael Collins bio and a de Valera one by T. Ryle Dwyer. Both were from the Indo's Irish biography series a couple of years back. Both quite interesting, especially the dev one as I think most of my history knowledge would be Collins based.

    Currently about half way through "A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal" by Asne Seierstad. Had read The Bookseller of Kabul by her and finding the current book more interesting. Would recommend


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    #3076
    JohnMearsheimer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,302 ✭✭✭JohnMearsheimer


    Con Cremin: Ireland's Wartime Diplomat. It's a decent account of Ireland's diplomat in Vichy France and Nazi Germany during World War 2.


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    #3077
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Wizard- the Nikola Tesla story.
    This is available online in those ebook libraries for free and so far I heartily recommend it.
    If only for the fact that people including members of his family, maintain Tesla was left on earth by an alien ship, as a child and was meant to make things better for us.
    It's written by his grand-nephew and really moves at a fair clip. And the guy was genius beyond telling. Give it a go
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    #3078
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    Just reading Sorceress of Darshiva by David Eddings atm. It's the fourth book of the 5 part Malloreon series. Standard fantasy fare but an entertaining read all the same.


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    #3079
    Clandestine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Clandestine


    Hunger by Knut Hamsen


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    #3080
    Eroticplants
    Registered Users Posts: 1,551 ✭✭✭Eroticplants


    The Shining by Stephen King.


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    #3081
    secretagent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭secretagent


    Bad Times In Buenos Aires by Miranda France. Very funny and sad account of living there. It's most famous resident hasn't been back there since his promotion, not surprised.


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    #3082
    K-9
    Registered Users Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    I predict a riot by Colin Bateman, it's set in Belfast and he captures the dark humour well, good page turner.

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



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    #3083
    Vincent Vega
    Registered Users Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley


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    #3084
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,205 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    11/22/63 by Stephen King, an entertaining read so far, but hardly a classic.

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



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    #3085
    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,375 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    The wolves of mid winter by Ann Rice, it is only alright but as I have started it I will finish it.


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    #3086
    sheroman01
    Registered Users Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭sheroman01


    Started A Clockwork Orange. Very interesting, however I did not realize I needed to know Russian for it :)


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    #3087
    Merkin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    Finished The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty recently which was a thumping good read - couldn't put it down and have recommended it to lots of people since!

    Have a couple of chapters left of Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler which is very good too, have flown through it.


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    #3088
    HansHolzel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    Cré na Cille. It's set in Albania.


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    #3089
    yeppydeppy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭yeppydeppy


    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami - I like it and I don't normally go for this kinda stuff.


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    #3090
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,229 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Found a load of books in the folks' attic, purchased as a pretentious teen.

    Currently reading "The Plague" by Albert Camus.


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    #3091
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Odyssey, Homer.

    Bored off my face :(


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