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What book are you reading atm??

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    #2372
    Custardpi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    Cody Pomeray wrote: »
    I'm sick of reading books that nobody talks about in everyday life, so this year I'm starting to read more classics.

    Right now I'm on War and Peace.

    Greatest novel ever written? Jesus it's tedious.

    That's one on my list, to be tackled in the next couple of years. Read another Tolstoy a few months ago - Anna Karenina & struggled with it a wee bit in places. Challenging books can often be very rewarding if persevered with. On the other hand if you're new to Russian literature there's probably far easier authors to start with.


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    #2373
    Cody Pomeray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Cody Pomeray


    Custardpi wrote: »
    On the other hand if you're new to Russian literature there's probably far easier authors to start with.
    I'm a big fan of Pushkin, I loved Eugene Onegin, and probably because it's so different to typical Russian classics.

    It's nowhere near as colossal as War and Peace in terms of time commitment, keeping track of characters, or trying to motivate an interest in military tactics.

    It's funny how we in Europe celebrate Tolstoy as potentially the greatest writer of all time. My understanding is that in Russia, Tolstoy plays second fiddle to Pushkin in the public consideration.


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    #2374
    Leogirl
    Registered Users Posts: 455 ✭✭Leogirl


    The Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn and loving it!:)


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    #2375
    jonnny68
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    Strumpet City, amazing book.


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    #2376
    Clandestine
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    The Plague by Albert Camus


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    #2377
    GLaDOS
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    Powered through The Great Gatsby what with the film being out. Entertaining enough read for something so short.

    Currently reading "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" by Edgar Allen Poe. Only started it, but I've high hopes.

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



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    #2378
    GLaDOS
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    Powered through The Great Gatsby what with the film being out. Entertaining enough read for something so short.

    Currently reading "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" by Edgar Allen Poe. Only started it, but I've high hopes.

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



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    #2379
    tdv123
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭tdv123


    The Green Book


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    #2380
    MurdyWurdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭MurdyWurdy


    Just finished a book called Stolen Time by a woman who was wrongly on death row for a year. I love non-fiction. It was only ok, there was a bit of a lack of actual details, around her trial and want went wrong for my liking. I guess that's the problem with autobiographies as opposed to biographies.

    I'm just about to start the Call the Midwife series by Jennifer Worth (the books the TV programme are based on). Looking forward to it!


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    #2381
    genie
    Registered Users Posts: 975 ✭✭✭genie


    Lionheart by Sharon Penman :)


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    #2382
    beks101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    Self-Made Man by journalist Norah Vincent, about eighteen months of her life that she spent disguised as a dude.


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    #2383
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Vernon God Little

    About a teenager of the above name in deepest small town Texas. Funny enough so far, though very over the top with metaphors.


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    #2384
    castletownman
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    Four Kings by the late American sports writer George Kimball.

    Charts the heady days of middleweight boxing in the 1980's when Leonard, Duran, Hearns and Hagler all fought each other at various stages, and were all at their peak. A thoroughly fascinating read. Wouldn't be a massive boxing fan, but such is the quality of the book that you don't need to be to enjoy it.

    I thought I wouldn't read a better sports orientated book than HG Bissinger's Friday Night Lights, but I think I definitely found a contender.


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    #2385
    maguic24
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    I am nearly finished a Dance of Dragons.....I hope he hurries up with the winds of winter!!! He left the book on such a cliff hanger!


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    #2386
    GLaDOS
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    The Children of Hurin by Tolkien. Not really a fan of his writing style but I've nothing else to read :p

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



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    #2387
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Fox_In_Socks wrote: »
    Vernon God Little

    About a teenager of the above name in deepest small town Texas. Funny enough so far, though very over the top with metaphors.

    Nearly wet myself reading that book. Poignant at times as well, though


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    #2388
    Custardpi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    Fox_In_Socks wrote: »
    Vernon God Little

    About a teenager of the above name in deepest small town Texas. Funny enough so far, though very over the top with metaphors.

    Yeah tis a good one alright. Handy tips for eating fried chicken (weird the things you remember from a book, eh?).


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    #2389
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Pompeii by Robert Harris

    and

    Leningrad by Anna Reid.


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    #2390
    Custardpi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    Reading the short novel "Heart Of A Dog" by Mikhail Bulgakov, whose most famous book "The Master & Margarita" is one of my favourites. While the main plot centres around the story of a scientist who creates a kind of hybrid man-dog in his laboratory there's also some wry commentary about Soviet politics & society which would have been quite controversial in that era. Very enjoyable.


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    #2391
    Potatoeman
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    maguic24 wrote: »
    I am nearly finished a Dance of Dragons.....I hope he hurries up with the winds of winter!!! He left the book on such a cliff hanger!

    I'm reading the Steven Erikson series Malazan book of the fallen. I had just got through the last GOT book so its great to be reading something that has finshed. I prefer Steven Eriksons style too.


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    #2392
    NothingMan
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    Potatoeman wrote: »
    I'm reading the Steven Erikson series Malazan book of the fallen. I had just got through the last GOT book so its great to be reading something that has finshed. I prefer Steven Eriksons style too.


    Enjoyed GoT but Malazan is just way better. Faster paced and more action but just as much intrigue and politics too. Just finished book 2. Reading the last Wheel of Time book now before continuing. Only took 10 years since I started it to finally get the last one.


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    #2393
    Cokeistan
    Registered Users Posts: 361 ✭✭Cokeistan


    The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson


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    #2394
    NothingMan
    Registered Users Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Cokeistan wrote: »
    The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson


    Another epic writer. Loved Mistborn and Stormlight. Haven't got to Elantris yet but look forward to it. I'm so glad he finished Robert Jordans Wheel of Time, honestly better than Jordan could I think because he wasn't so immersed in that universe but was still loyal to it completely.


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    #2395
    Jester252
    Registered Users Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    Undisputed by Chris Jericho

    Very good. Would recommend to others


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    #2396
    Reg'stoy
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    Based on current events both in the States and London, I've just started Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism by Michael Burleigh.

    Interesting insight into the possible mindset of those who carry out these acts, from the first 'terrorists' as in Irish Republicans and upto modern days 'Jihadist'.


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    #2397
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    Potatoeman wrote: »
    I'm reading the Steven Erikson series Malazan book of the fallen. I had just got through the last GOT book so its great to be reading something that has finshed. I prefer Steven Eriksons style too.

    I must give them a lash!


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    #2398
    gufnork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 546 ✭✭✭gufnork


    I'm reading Flash Gordon by Arthur Byron Cover, Night in the Lonesome October by Richard Laymon and Alexander Outland:Space Pirate by G. J. Koch. Although the Flash Gordon one is getting the most attention at the moment.


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    #2399
    ViveLaVie
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭ViveLaVie


    NothingMan wrote: »
    Enjoyed GoT but Malazan is just way better. Faster paced and more action but just as much intrigue and politics too. Just finished book 2. Reading the last Wheel of Time book now before continuing. Only took 10 years since I started it to finally get the last one.

    Must try out Malazan. Got completely bored with the fourth book in GOT and gave up. Reading A Memory of Light too myself. Only a quarter way in but seems promising so far! :)


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    #2400
    Ham Wallet
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 30 ✭Ham Wallet


    Playboy


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    #2401
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Reading a thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini.Not much happening at the moment but it's still engrossing for some reason,the characters really come to life.


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