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  • 17-11-2011 12:35pm
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    kickarykee
    Registered Users Posts: 207 ✭✭


    Hey everyone!

    I noticed there are LOTS of books coming out soon that I'm really looking forward to...
    Sarah Rees Brennan's new "Unspoken" will be out in June.
    SRB/Justine Larbalestier will publish "Team Human" in early 2012.
    The final Eragon is FINALLY coming out these days.
    And the next Cassie Clare is also on the way to be out in December :D

    Any books you folks are looking forward to? :)

    Cheers!
    kickarykee


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    mickoregan
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭mickoregan


    Yep. The rest of Cormac McCarthy's works (see my separate thread) and the new biography of Spencer Tracy.
    :)


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    hatful
    Closed Accounts Posts: 346 ✭✭hatful


    This: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/De-Profundis-Other-Writings-Oscar-Wilde/9780140439908 Only 168 days left... hmm and it's edited by Colm Toibin.


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    Eoin
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    Michael Connelly's "The Drop", as I'm a shameless Harry Bosch fanboy


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    Giruilla
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    Robert Harris's final part in the Cicero trilogy.


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    kickarykee
    Registered Users Posts: 207 ✭✭kickarykee


    Oscar Wilde is awesome :D

    What's the Cicero Trilogy about?
    The man Cicero or is it fictional?


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    mickoregan
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭mickoregan


    Actually, having watched the Steinbeck programme on BBC 4 during the week I'm just about to re-read THE GRAPES OF WRATH for the first time in 24yrs. Looking forward to that.


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    amtw
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭amtw


    The new PD James. A murder mystery set 6 years after the marriage of Elizabeth and Mr Darcy. My Christmas read.


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    The Princess Bride
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    Harlan Coben's Shelter,out now,Patricia Cornwell's Red Mist,due out next week-will buy both and wrap them as my Christmas pressies to me from me!

    Tami Hoag's Down The Darkest Road- due out end of year and Lisa Gardner's Catch Me- due out for in the Spring.Might get these on Kindle.


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    Amirani
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    mickoregan wrote: »
    Actually, having watched the Steinbeck programme on BBC 4 during the week I'm just about to re-read THE GRAPES OF WRATH for the first time in 24yrs. Looking forward to that.

    Looking forward to reading that for the first time in 21 years myself, though unlike yourself, I've not read it before. I just recently read 'Of Mice And Men' which I enjoyed.


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    mickoregan
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭mickoregan


    NiallSparky wrote: »
    Looking forward to reading that for the first time in 21 years myself, though unlike yourself, I've not read it before. I just recently read 'Of Mice And Men' which I enjoyed.
    It's a wonderful piece of work. I'm enjoying discovering it all over again. Might I recommend EAST OF EDEN - Steinbeck's masterpiece, IMO.


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    Grievous
    Registered Users Posts: 218 ✭✭Grievous


    I don't keep up with new books at all.

    Would it qualify to say I am looking forward to discovering more older works by Nobel, Pulitizer and Booker prize winners.

    Anyone who knows my posting style here will know I am not in the least bit pretentious about my readings, this stuff is really the kind of thing that stimulates me emotionally and intellectually.

    Next year I should get around to reading authors like Gunter Grass, Toni Morrison, more Italo Calvino and both Henrys, Miller and James.


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    mickoregan
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭mickoregan


    I read James' PORTRAIT OF A LADY earlier this year and did not engage with it at all. I found it a trudge.
    The only other James I'd read was WASHINGTON SQUARE which I did enjoy.
    In discussing him with others I've been advised that, overall, his work is a bit of an acquired taste.


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    Grievous
    Registered Users Posts: 218 ✭✭Grievous


    mickoregan wrote: »
    I read James' PORTRAIT OF A LADY earlier this year and did not engage with it at all. I found it a trudge.
    The only other James I'd read was WASHINGTON SQUARE which I did enjoy.
    In discussing him with others I've been advised that, overall, his work is a bit of an acquired taste.

    Of his work, I have only read "The Turn Of The Screw" which was difficult(a shame really, as it is a mere novella) due to James' ponderous and flowerly style of writing, but it made me think a lot, and the work itself is open to multiple interpretations: Is it a genuine ghost story, a pyschoanalytic nightmare for the narrator, or something more?

    still, I wouldn't consider it one of my favourites.

    James is an interesting writer and person, he came from a family of theologians, intellectuals and other scholarly types. His brother is the famous psychologist William James.


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    Denerick
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    The final part of Harris' Cicero trilogy.

    George R.R. Martins next installment in the Song of Ice and Fire series (I'll probably be picking up my pension when thats finished)


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    Plowman
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    emeraldstar
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    Grievous wrote: »
    Of his work, I have only read "The Turn Of The Screw" which was difficult(a shame really, as it is a mere novella) due to James' ponderous and flowerly style of writing, but it made me think a lot, and the work itself is open to multiple interpretations: Is it a genuine ghost story, a pyschoanalytic nightmare for the narrator, or something more?

    still, I wouldn't consider it one of my favourites.

    Same here. Found it a bit of a struggle to get through and for such a short book I took quite a while to read it.

    Also started Portrait of a Lady a couple of years ago and didn't finish it. I didn't decide to stop reading it but just kind of drifted away from it. It was all a bit tiresome.


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    r3nu4l
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    kickarykee wrote: »

    What's the Cicero Trilogy about?
    The man Cicero or is it fictional?

    It's historical fiction, basically the rise and fall of Cicero in narrative form, told from the viewpoint of his slave Tiro who was his scribe and right hand in many ways.

    I'm dying for the next book too! Can't wait. Might buy this on Kindle my iPad Kindle app when it comes out.


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