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    #362
    BrendanCro
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭BrendanCro


    starbelgrade wrote:

    Started on Phillipe Auclairs biography of Eric Cantona - excellent read so far.

    Finished this recently - supurb book.

    Currently reading Stephen King's Full Dark No stars - which is a collection of novellas - quite good although 1st one was bit too long.

    Also reading "The Ghost Runner" - by Bill Jones - which is decent but bit too long - fairly obvious it started life as an excellent magazine article

    Finally also reading "Fermat's Last theroem" by Simon Singh which is excellent (even for non-mathamaticians like me!) - really good book is ye like any sciency type books


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    #363
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,334 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Book two of the wheel of time. slowly.


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    #364
    groovie
    Registered Users Posts: 807 ✭✭✭groovie


    Has anyone read reamde or whatever you call it, it's sitting on a shelf looking at me (well it's in the next room, but still).


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    #365
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,334 ✭✭✭RichieC


    groovie wrote: »
    Has anyone read reamde or whatever you call it, it's sitting on a shelf looking at me (well it's in the next room, but still).

    Havent read it but:
    Writing in the Irish Examiner, Val Nolan called Reamde "one of the smartest, fastest-moving, and most consistently enjoyable novels of the year". It is, Nolan went on, a "painstakingly-researched, deftly-plotted roller-coaster of gigabytes and gunplay, a pitch-perfect pastiche of Robert Ludlum or Tom Clancy-style techno-thrillers and a comment on contemporary digitality and the ubiquity of online interconnectivity."


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    #366
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    Only recently finished Doctor Zhivago. It was decent, though it took quite a while to end. The pace was a bit of a problem for me: at some parts it went really slow, at others it flew by.

    Currently re-reading American Tabloid by James Ellroy.

    It's a really good historical fiction book, puts a whole new spin on the JFK years. Incredibly in-depth, complicated plots and, like other Ellroy books, the ending comes from nowhere.


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    #367
    longshanks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Red April. Just started it but it seems ok so far.

    Recently finished The Lock Artist which was fairly enjoyable, and The Sisters Brothers which was also good, if a bit short.

    I have Birdsong on the bedside locker. I've been picking up and putting back this book in the shop for ages, so I think its time we eventually tackled each other.


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    #368
    groovie
    Registered Users Posts: 807 ✭✭✭groovie


    RichieC wrote: »
    Havent read it but:

    I get the feeling that guy didn't read it either:D, thanks for the quote though.


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    #369
    Lorrs33
    Registered Users Posts: 690 ✭✭✭Lorrs33


    Moments by various female Irish authors, so far so good! :)


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    #370
    Sooopie
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭Sooopie


    Hacienda, by Peter Hook

    Proper mental :D


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    #371
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,202 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Collection of short stories by HP Lovecraft. Some are a bit mystifying but others are very good. All are weird :p

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



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    #372
    osnola ibax
    Registered Users Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭osnola ibax


    Hitchikers guide to the galaxy trilogy (in four parts). Cant believe I havent read it already, loving it.


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    #373
    unknownlegend
    Registered Users Posts: 375 ✭✭unknownlegend


    No country for old men.

    Terse, gripping, excellent.


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    Schism
    Registered Users Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    The Shadow Rising (Wheel of Time #4).

    First book was excellent. The second and third were pretty good too. Going well so far in #4.


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    triseke
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭triseke


    The hare with the Amber eyes.

    It's ok so far, has a comfy feel to it


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    pconn062
    Registered Users Posts: 5,370 ✭✭✭pconn062


    Re-reading Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.


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    #377
    jimmurt
    Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭jimmurt


    Aldebaran wrote: »
    A Clash of Kings, about 100 pages to go.

    Got the boxset last month. Started 'A Storm of Swords' yesterday.


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    #378
    Eramen
    Registered Users Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Eramen


    MisterEpicurus wrote: »
    The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky

    Would definitely recommend it! :-)

    A brilliant and very sincere read, you have to really invest yourself totally with a book like that!


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    flahavaj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,235 ✭✭✭✭flahavaj


    "The Hand of God" by Jimmy Burns. Good portrait of the darker side of Diego Maradona.


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    #380
    Eramen
    Registered Users Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Eramen


    Temple of the Dawn - Yukio Mishima, it contains some of the most startlingly beautiful imagery I have ever read and immersive descriptions of historical Thailand and India, another immaculately written book of his Sea of Fertility tetralogy.

    The Enneads - Plotinus, a key neo-platonist, with a a most inspirational work proving that philosophy cannot be merely an intellectual pursuit but one of higher action and self-ordering.

    "Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us." (Plotinus)

    Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you also... (Plotinus)

    God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so. (Plotinus)


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    Birdie086
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭Birdie086


    A game of Thrones


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    47
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭47


    Long Way Round.

    Ewan Mcgregor and Charley Boorman.

    Great book.:cool:


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    #383
    markesmith
    Registered Users Posts: 1,752 ✭✭✭markesmith


    Iron Kingdom
    The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1917

    It's like a coffee table book for me at this stage. Such a history nerd :p


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    #384
    John Doe1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    Just finished the great gatsby and now onto finally 'ulysees', wish me luck:D


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    tony 2 tone
    Registered Users Posts: 2,749 ✭✭✭tony 2 tone


    Atms can't read books. Why even ask them?


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    #386
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Went to a charity shop the other day, favourite place to pick up books! They were all 2 for €1. Got a few Stephen King books that I hadn't read. Currently reading White Teeth by Zadie Smith. I'm struggling with it a bit, but I'm over halfway through so I'll persevere. It's won loads of awards so I feel like I SHOULD be enjoying it more than I am :o


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    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Ben Hogan - An American Life, halfway through.

    and just got The Physics Book, a coffee book about 250 milestones in Physics.


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    Slattsy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy..

    And its bloody awful. Too much time spent describing the smallest of details and not enough story time as such.
    I'll finish it all the same.


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    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Am reading 11.22.63 by Stephen King. Absolutely brilliant. Delighted to see he has 2 new books coming out in 2012, a sequel to The Shining, and another Dark Tower book:D


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    Snakeblood
    Registered Users Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    Slattsy wrote: »
    Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy..

    And its bloody awful. Too much time spent describing the smallest of details and not enough story time as such.
    I'll finish it all the same.

    It's supposed to conjure a nightmarish mood. I can understand not liking it though. I stopped reading it, too ****ing depressing.


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    suitseir
    Registered Users Posts: 887 ✭✭✭suitseir


    Started to read Armenian Golgotha....a book belonging to the OH. Tough. Put it down but will make an effort again......starting on Page 10 this time!!!:(


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