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What book are you reading atm??

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  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm about a third through 'War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in civilisation, from primates to robots' by Ian Morris, and very good it is too, so far.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    'The Salmon of Doubt', by Douglas Adams


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,733 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    When the Church Was Young: Voices of the Early Fathers by Marcellino D'Ambrosio


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    KH25 wrote: »
    Read the extended cut myself. Don't know what parts aren't in the regular edition. Great story once you get into it!
    I finished this myself last weekend. I enjoyed it but the ending was a let down. New bits for the extended version are apparently The Kid and Frannies mother.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    The Life and Loves of a He Devil by Graham Norton. Laugh out loud funny.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    I started reading "We are all completely beside ourselves" by Karen Joy Fowler last night - and finished it in the early hours.

    An absolutely amazing, unexpected, fantastic book.


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


    I just finished Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie. It's like a Native American version of The Commitments with a bit of magic realism thrown in. I loved it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,399 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Picked back up "you can't win" by jack black and have to say its a good read,I'll let google do the synopsis:

    You hold in your hands a true lost classic, one of the most legendary cult books every published in America. Jack Black's autobiography was a bestseller and went through five printings in the late 1920's. It has led a mostly subterranean existence since then - best known as William S. Burrough's favorite book, one he admitted lifting big chunks of from memory for his first novel, Junky. But it's time we got wise to this book, which is in itself a remarkably wise book - and a ripping true saga. It's an amazing journey into the hobo underworld: freight hopping around the still wide open West at the turn of the 20th century, becoming a member of the "yegg" (criminal) brotherhood and a highwayman, learning the outlaw philosophy from Foot-and-a-half George and the Sanctimonious Kid, getting hooked on opium, passing through hobo jungles, hop joints and penitentiaries. This is a chunk of the American story entirely left out of the history books .

    I bought this based solely on your post. Sounds like a great read. Will post again when I've started. Just finished Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend. Only one more to go, sadly. Only recently discovered she continued the series into Mole's adulthood.

    Like to take a break of a day or two between books so will start You Can't Win during the week. Odd sized book to be carrying on public transport. It's like a college textbook or something.


  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Started reading The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins, by Irvine Welsh.

    Not sure I like his change to this Americanised writing style, but will continue.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Collie D wrote: »
    I bought this based solely on your post. Sounds like a great read. Will post again when I've started. Just finished Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend. Only one more to go, sadly. Only recently discovered she continued the series into Mole's adulthood.

    Like to take a break of a day or two between books so will start You Can't Win during the week. Odd sized book to be carrying on public transport. It's like a college textbook or something.

    Probably a nabat books print of it,part of a series of reprinted forgotten memoirs by various misfits,outsiders and rebels,I finally finished "beggars of life: a hobo autobiography" by Irish-american Jim Tully about his life as a road kid hopping freight trains much in the same vein as jack London's "the road" or jack Kerouac' "on the road".


  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭rosb


    Reading Evelyn Waugh's "Bridehead Revisited". I am reading some classic books I never got around to reading.
    I never read To Kill a Mocking Bird either. ... its next.


  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭rosb


    Reading Evelyn Waugh's "Bridehead Revisited". I am reading some classic books I never got around to reading.
    I never read To Kill a Mocking Bird either. ... its next.


  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭baron von something


    Royal Assassin (Farseer #2) - Robin Hobb


  • Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭The YOPPA


    Re-reading "Watchers" by Dean R Koontz

    Have close to 40 of his books...always a good read.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭LenaClaire


    Just finished re-reading every single disc world book. Sad to be at the end, but hopeful about the new release that he was working on before he passed away.

    Now starting to re-read the Honor Harrington sci-fi series.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,891 ✭✭✭✭Hugo Stiglitz


    Just started Sand by Hugh Howey.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 430 ✭✭scream


    I'm re-reading Excession by Iain M Banks. It's even better the second time around.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,946 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    The Valley of Fear - Arthur Conan Doyle


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Last exit to Brooklyn by Hubert selby jr


  • Registered Users Posts: 654 ✭✭✭spud82


    Wrong thread sorry


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,333 ✭✭✭brinty


    About 200 pages into fall of giants by Ken Follett
    It's a great read this far


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes.

    I'm the biggest fan of Marian and have read all her books, but when I bought this book last October (and met her and had the book signed!), I couldn't get into it.

    For once in my Marian-soaked reading life, I just couldn't absorb myself into the story, so I left the book on the bedside locker, vowing to go back to it some other day.

    Fast-forward seven months and I'd forgotten everything I'd read so far in the book, so I've restarted it and this time, I'm enjoying it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    "Yes Taoiseach" by Frank Dunlop. A tale of old-school vs. young bucks, power, money and shenanigans at the heart of government, particularly Fianna Fail, from the Arms Crisis to deep doo-doo in the late 2000s. It's quite good, readable and entertaining.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes. Thoroughly enjoying it.


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Blazing through 1Q84, just onto the 2nd book. Really enjoying it.

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



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


    Have been reading a lot lately which is great. Read One Step Too Far by Tina Saskis a few days ago which is a tense thriller. It was easy reading but kept me engrossed so I'd highly recommend it as a good beach read.

    Finished Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey last night and it blew me away. It's a very clever and beautifully written story, the protagonist having dementia and it's told from her perspective. It's also a crime thriller so lots to keep one interested. Can't recommend it enough!


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Blazing through 1Q84, just onto the 2nd book. Really enjoying it.

    I haven't read a Murakami book that I haven't loved. Yet!

    My favourite at the moment is Norwegian Wood.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    The manipulated man by Esther villar


  • Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭robbie02


    i just read Titanic Thompson (the man who bet on everything) by Kevin Cook. One of the best books i have read in ages!! Thoroughly recommend it


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The manipulated man by Esther villar

    Described by that bastion of reason and self regard Return Of Kings as the 'Holy Bible of Red Pill Wisdom'.

    Which says it all, really.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry.
    I am not really sure where this book is going, but it does have me hooked despite not been my type of book.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭Henry94


    Last exit to Brooklyn by Hubert selby jr

    I remember being thoroughly depressed by the film so i avoided the book.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Candie wrote: »
    Described by that bastion of reason and self regard Return Of Kings as the 'Holy Bible of Red Pill Wisdom'.

    Which says it all, really.

    Its quite the eye opener ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Henry94 wrote: »
    I remember being thoroughly depressed by the film so i avoided the book.

    The book is pretty grim in places too


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Its quite the eye opener ;)

    It'll open your eyes but blinker them at the same time. It's a terrible book.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Candie wrote: »
    It'll open your eyes but blinker them at the same time. It's a terrible book.

    Most women would say that about it in fairness,villar is still getting death threats to this day,not that I agree with everything in it but she's makes some valid arguments and points,brutally honest and depressing at the same time in parts.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Most women would say that about it in fairness,villar is still getting death threats to this day,not that I agree with everything in it but she's makes some valid arguments and points,brutally honest and depressing at the same time in parts.

    All that book does is confirm the bias of people so inclined, it's very poorly written and has little basis in objective reality. Take it with a pinch, or better yet a quarry, or salt. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Candie wrote: »
    All that book does is confirm the bias of people so inclined, it's very poorly written and has little basis in objective reality. Take it with a pinch, or better yet a quarry, or salt. :)

    I dunno I'd wager alot men would recognize themselves in it depressingly enough,she makes keen observations.


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


    Candie wrote: »
    I haven't read a Murakami book that I haven't loved. Yet!

    My favourite at the moment is Norwegian Wood.

    Its my favourite too although considered by die-hard Murakami fans as the least true to form. Yawn! I don't think so, it's different yes but equally as good if not better than lots of his other works.


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  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Candie wrote: »
    I haven't read a Murakami book that I haven't loved. Yet!

    My favourite at the moment is Norwegian Wood.

    Yeah I think I'll be checking that out after, have heard it's supposed to be very good.

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



  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Merkin wrote: »
    Its my favourite too although considered by die-hard Murakami fans as the least true to form. Yawn! I don't think so, it's different yes but equally as good if not better than lots of his other works.

    Yes, it's a 'better' read in lots of ways, just not quite the usual style.

    I've loved all of his work (that I've read) though. Kafka on the Shore is my second favourite - so far. :)


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm currently reading Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill. From early in the book, I've found the narrator to be an irritation.

    It's like I'm hitch-hiking through a charming & beguiling landscape, having been picked up by a really obnoxious, whiny, sour driver. I hate him. I wish I could be rid of him and enjoy this experience without him, but I'll probably hop out of the car, or dump him on the roadside at the earliest opportunity.

    I'll probably not finish the book, in other words.


  • Registered Users Posts: 794 ✭✭✭jackal


    Haynes Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Manual

    http://www.haynes.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BookFeature_SR-71-BlackbirdView?storeId=10001&catalogId=10001

    Actually more of a history etc but interesting for man-children like myself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭foggy


    Some great recommendations there. I've just finished 'Unravelling Oliver' by Liz Nugent. Great book.
    Before that I read 'We are all completely beside ourselves' by Karen Joy Fowler also a great read.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭Sunny Dayz


    Reading LA Candy by Lauren Conrad (she of MTV's The Hills). Case of art immitating "reality" but addictive none the less, like the show.


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


    foggy wrote: »
    Some great recommendations there. I've just finished 'Unravelling Oliver' by Liz Nugent. Great book.
    Before that I read 'We are all completely beside ourselves' by Karen Joy Fowler also a great read.

    I read Fowler's book recently and absolutely hated it. I think it's probably very much a love it or hate it book!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭foggy


    Merkin wrote: »
    I read Fowler's book recently and absolutely hated it. I think it's probably very much a love it or hate it book!

    I know what you mean, I didn't like the main character much, found her to be a bit weak willed, but I enjoyed the story. I found it facinating.


  • Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭nicki11


    Reading the painted caves by Jean M. Auel, very engrossing and detailed novel about early humans surviving in a fictional universe


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ice Storm


    Merkin wrote: »
    I read Fowler's book recently and absolutely hated it. I think it's probably very much a love it or hate it book!
    I was quite indifferent to it. But I knew too much about the story before reading it so that probably affected my enjoyment.

    I don't understand why people love it so much; I found it very depressing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭gutenberg


    I finished The Poisonwood Bible at last, and loved it.

    In fact, the subject of the book (the Congo) intrigued me so much that I am now re-reading Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.


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