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Re-opening of the Nocturnal Library

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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators Posts: 24,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭Angron


    Got two new books today,

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    Starting Siege of Castellax first, it's quite good so far.


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ Martha Flat Scam


    Just starting 'Exquisite Corpse' by Poppy Z Brite.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,677 ✭✭✭Zwillinge


    Finished City of Bones, what a pile that was...

    Have since started The Count of Monte Cristo - so far, epic adventures :D:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Finished this amazing and entertaining book:
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    Now reading this:
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  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Currently reading The Moth - 50 true stories. The stories are a collection of some of the stories that have been told at Moth nights.

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    It's a varied selection of stories but all of them so far have been entertaining in their own way. :)

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    That looks pretty interesting.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 21,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭entropi


    Bought 1Q84 books 1-3 today, looking forward to reading them once I finish The Passage :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    After seeing a trailer for Filth, decided to re-read Irvine Welsh's Filth before the movie comes out.


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ Martha Flat Scam


    After seeing a trailer for Filth, decided to re-read Irvine Welsh's Filth before the movie comes out.

    What a book! Wonder if they'll tone it down for the film version.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 47,749 Mod ✭✭✭✭cyberwolf77


    Just finished The legend of Luther Strode. I really need his training materials


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    What a book! Wonder if they'll tone it down for the film version.

    I'd imagine they might have to :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,132 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    I haven't read the book but I went to see Filth last night..quite interested to see if they did in fact tone it down

    Currently reading Needful Things by Stephen King


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭fenris


    Reading the Thousandfold Thought by R. Scott Bakker at the moment, it is good but making my head hurt because I read too much of it too late last night and now all the characters names are mixed u in my head.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    I haven't read the book but I went to see Filth last night..quite interested to see if they did in fact tone it down

    Currently reading Needful Things by Stephen King

    One of my favourite King books.

    Filth was toned down a little, but not very much. They did leave a hell of a lot out of the movie, and the sequencing of events was wrong, but MacEvoy was great, as were Shirley Henderson and Eddie Marsan, and I did laugh out loud a lot of times.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,132 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Yeah they were very good, must pick up the book so and find out what was missing!


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    Yeah they were very good, must pick up the book so and find out what was missing!


    Have you read any of Welsh's other books?


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,132 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Have you read any of Welsh's other books?

    Nope, i kinda just got stuck reading the same genres for years so now im trying to break free!


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    Nope, i kinda just got stuck reading the same genres for years so now im trying to break free!


    Which genres?

    If you've seen Trainspotting, read Porno. It's the sequel set ten years later.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,132 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Mainly crime and thriller stuff.
    I started reading Raymond Feists massive collection of books and quite enjoyed the first three but unfortunately the person I was getting them from no longer supplies me with them so I need a new source for them!

    Oh nice, I will look that up


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    Mainly crime and thriller stuff.

    Ever read any Elmore Leonard?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 13,132 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    I know the name but nope, we will be here all day if we play this game! I spent the last while reading Tess Gerritsen's series


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    Fair enough.

    But seriously, read some Elmore Leonard, greatest crime writer there ever was :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,132 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    well I can hardly say no to that raving review can I? Maybe after a brief break away from the crime..im not one of these people that can read two separate book at the same time!


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    To get back to your Feist post, I've never actually read any of his stuff, although I have been tempted. I used to work in a sci fi/fantasy book/comic/merch etc. shop and after encountering the f*cking anoraks who read Feist, I just couldn't bring myself to do it :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,132 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    haha I know what you mean, it was my ex that made me read them (he was one of those anoraks). I read Magician to be nice! I have to say I spent about two thirds of the book going this is bull**** as I wouldn't have been into fantasy stuff AT ALL..but towards the end it got really good and then just had to read the other two books that deal with the same characters.
    Have no idea what all the others are about though (THERE ARE JUST TOO MANY!!)..so I may not like those ones as much,or it could just be the same case all over again, hate the first half of the first book, get invested, read the rest! unless they all have the same characters then i'm all for it!


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    I may just give him a go so. The only fantasy books I've ever read were LOTR, I'm much more of a sci fi fan.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators Posts: 24,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭Angron


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    Currently re-reading the first omnibus, then I'll start re-reading the second one.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,132 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    I may just give him a go so. The only fantasy books I've ever read were LOTR, I'm much more of a sci fi fan.

    harry potter was about as fantasy as it got for me! no harm in trying them, you don't have to commit yourself to all 30 of them!


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,827 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    haha I know what you mean, it was my ex that made me read them (he was one of those anoraks). I read Magician to be nice! I have to say I spent about two thirds of the book going this is bull**** as I wouldn't have been into fantasy stuff AT ALL..but towards the end it got really good and then just had to read the other two books that deal with the same characters.
    Have no idea what all the others are about though (THERE ARE JUST TOO MANY!!)..so I may not like those ones as much,or it could just be the same case all over again, hate the first half of the first book, get invested, read the rest! unless they all have the same characters then i'm all for it!
    I may just give him a go so. The only fantasy books I've ever read were LOTR, I'm much more of a sci fi fan.

    I read faerie tale by Raymond Feist,A good book I must say,thats the only book Ive read by him though.

    I'm still trying to get through The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two by Patrick Rothfuss,Such a great book,much prefer this one to the first one :).Hopefully book 3 will be out next year.


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 47,749 Mod ✭✭✭✭cyberwolf77


    You want a good fantasy read, give Jim Butcher's Dresden Files a go. Phillip Marlowe solving crimes with magic


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