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Library of The Nocturnal

  • 13-06-2008 2:37am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭


    Well we've covered late night TV, music and snacks. How many of ye read to try and get to sleep?
    I'm currently re-reading "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" because I want to read the entire Trilogy of Four. It's a great book for late night reading! :)
    So what are ye all reading at the mo to try and get sleepage? (Reading boards doesn't count :p)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,965 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    Haven't read a book in a while before going to sleep, after starting to read "The Hurricane", it's about Rubin Carter (wikipedia him).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    I read the backs of my eyelids. Generally I'm so tired I just fall straight off. However, been reading the driver theory test book as of late, test soon-ish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,965 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    been reading the driver theory test book as of late, test soon-ish.


    Say that will put you asleep alright, I know it did for me all them months back.:D



    Off topic: Use the mock tests on the Theory Test CD, that's my useful tip.;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    S'what I am doing, I couldn't stand hearing

    "WHAT DOES THIS SIGN MEAN" another 300 times, so i bought the book to learn from.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭thusspakeblixa


    I read A Clockwork Orange
    Over
    And Over
    Again


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    I love light reading at night, So it's usually either Terry Pratchett, or some comic books, Cable + Deadpool is a current favourite.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭thusspakeblixa


    Actually yeah there'd be a good few comics and manga in there
    ...Although the Manga I read may be described as odd.
    (MPD Psycho)


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭takola


    I'm currently re-reading "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" because I want to read the entire Trilogy of Four. It's a great book for late night reading! :)

    Just saw this. There's 5 books in the Guide. It's a trilogy of Five! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    takola wrote: »
    Just saw this. There's 5 books in the Guide. It's a trilogy of Five! :D

    It can be pretty easy to forget about "Mostly Harmless" at times!

    Personally, i always opt for more of a "story" at night. Pratchett is always great, just finished read "His Dark Materials" a few weeks ago.

    I spent a while reading "A Scanner Darkly" and while it's an awesome book it can be depressing. Eh, David Gemmel is always a bit of fun....and Lee Child.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Wouldn't be much of a reader, but I have been known to whip out a book or two in the small hours.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Proxy


    Right now i'm reading No Country For Old Men to compare with the film.. its a different experience but you kinda get to know the characters a lot more. Loved the film so the book is excellent, its like getting even more of the film :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    Proxy wrote: »
    Right now i'm reading No Country For Old Men to compare with the film.. its a different experience but you kinda get to know the characters a lot more. Loved the film so the book is excellent, its like getting even more of the film :D

    That film contains the greatest sound in the history of cinema.

    Love it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    takola wrote: »
    Just saw this. There's 5 books in the Guide. It's a trilogy of Five! :D

    Oh I never knew there was a 5th one! Must go find that. Thanks! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    im reading a harmless girly piece of fluff called "size 12 is not fat" read it before but still like the cheese


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Oh I never knew there was a 5th one! Must go find that. Thanks! :)

    Be warned, Douglas Adams was famously in a very depressed state of mind when he wrote it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,507 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    takola wrote: »
    Just saw this. There's 5 books in the Guide. It's a trilogy of Five! :D

    There was a Bradford trilogy too that was several books over 3.
    The first book in the already legendary Bradford trilogy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    SDooM wrote: »
    I love light reading at night, So it's usually either Terry Pratchett

    That, right there, is the best late night reading.

    Though if anyone wants to try Susan Sontag or Roland Barthes, be my guest... :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,965 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    Wouldn't be much of a reader, but I have been known to whip out a book or two in the small hours.

    Whipping books in the early hours, whatever you're into man.:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Love late night reading. Reading Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride now.

    Anything by her is :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭Alicat


    im reading a harmless girly piece of fluff called "size 12 is not fat" read it before but still like the cheese

    :pac:

    I've tried to stop reading those girly things. Now I stick to intellectual literature, like Glamour or Cosmo :rolleyes: Although I haven't got either for about 4 months so maybe I'm weaning myself off them.

    I can't read horror/creepy stories at night cause I get far too freaked. A few years back, I read the Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson at about 1 in the morning. I cried myself to sleep I was ****ting it so much :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    Alicat wrote: »
    :pac:
    I can't read horror/creepy stories at night cause I get far too freaked. A few years back, I read the Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson at about 1 in the morning. I cried myself to sleep I was ****ting it so much :pac:

    ive read a few read a few freaky books at night.used to read the tennage r.l.stine books not the goosebumps theese ones acctually would freak me out.loved going to bed scared.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    I always find whenever i read a decent horror book before i fall asleep i will always have awesome Hollywood style dreams. Cheap cinema!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    yeah its so cool and if i was bothered by anything earlier my fear overtook it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭Alicat


    When I was 13 I read 'The Shining', sitting in the sunshine, by a pool in Majorca.....and it still scared the crap out of me :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    Ah yes, the Shining, my first real horror read and a decent intro to it all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 931 ✭✭✭banjopaul


    Steven King! Great for late night reading, Pratchett's cool too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    banjopaul wrote: »
    Steven King! Great for late night reading, Pratchett's cool too.

    ooh stepehen king...never read any of his work but saw some filims.they any use?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    I usually go with Pratchett too, I'm rereading Thud! at the minute (the City Watch ones have always been my favourites :))

    Quite a lot of nocturnals seem to be Pratchett fans from this thread.

    People staying up all night reading fantasy books and posting on the internet, geeky-stereotypes ftw! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 931 ✭✭✭banjopaul


    ooh stepehen king...never read any of his work but saw some filims.they any use?

    Of his films I've only seen Carrie and It, both good and freaky! Also the tv mini series of the stand is deadly, can't beat the books though!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    banjopaul wrote: »
    Of his films I've only seen Carrie and It, both good and freaky! Also the tv mini series of the stand is deadly, can't beat the books though!

    ah ill have to give them a bash

    orestes once the people in the real world dont find out were all safe


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,104 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Terry Pratchett - Going Postal


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    Terry Pratchett - Going Postal

    Apparently that's the next one they are making into a movie, I hope they don't screw it up cos it was one of the better books in the series imo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,045 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    just read smut. beat yourself off and pass right out.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,104 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    orestes wrote: »
    Apparently that's the next one they are making into a movie, I hope they don't screw it up cos it was one of the better books in the series imo

    Ywah, I love it. Would like to see it on tv.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    I'm currently reading Prachett's Making Money - I find him to be great reading before sleepy time. Either that or whatever graphic novels/collected comics I have lying around. The Dark Knight or Watchmen usually :)


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Jaysis, Dark Knight or watchmen?

    Would you not go for something a bit lighter in the wee small hours? :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    At the moment I am reading a book called Do Ants Have Arseholes and 101 other questions.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    animan wrote: »
    At the moment I am reading a book called Do Ants Have Arseholes and 101 other questions.

    Is that the one thats told from the perspective of this old gentlemans club and just makes up the answers, taking the piss from QI?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    Indeed it is. And btw ants do have arseholes.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    SDooM wrote: »
    Jaysis, Dark Knight or watchmen?

    Would you not go for something a bit lighter in the wee small hours? :)

    The darker side of life/literature/art/music just appeals more. I'd usually be listening to some filthy horrendous Doom whislt reading or drifting off to sleep too.


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Kharn wrote: »
    The darker side of life/literature/art/music just appeals more. I'd usually be listening to some filthy horrendous Doom whislt reading or drifting off to sleep too.

    Excuse me, I am quite clean!

    Actually the message in Dark Knight isn't so dark, compared to Watchmen. Frank Miller is quite the "good conquers all" romantic comic book writer in his own little way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,492 ✭✭✭MementoMori


    My problem is that once I get into a book I'll keep reading and stay awake in order to finish the book rather than sleep - this led my to falling asleep a couple of times in school, especially in fifth year:o

    Still do this - nowadays leads to me being a zombie the next day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,945 ✭✭✭trout


    real zombies don't need school


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,492 ✭✭✭MementoMori


    Just to clarify it doesnt lead to me being an actual zombie, just made me seem like same to other people, due to my slow-paced stumbling and lust for fresh brains


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,253 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    Kharn wrote: »
    I'm currently reading Prachett's Making Money - I find him to be great reading before sleepy time. Either that or whatever graphic novels/collected comics I have lying around. The Dark Knight or Watchmen usually :)

    I thought Making Money and Going Postal were pretty poor actually. I also prefer more of the Night Watch.

    Ive just finished reading a bunch of Clive Cusslers and have now moved onto James Rollins. They are both pretty similar authors.
    Prevously it was al of my Pratchetts again, Pyramids and Small Gods FTW.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    orestes wrote: »
    I usually go with Pratchett too, I'm rereading Thud! at the minute (the City Watch ones have always been my favourites :))

    Quite a lot of nocturnals seem to be Pratchett fans from this thread.

    People staying up all night reading fantasy books and posting on the internet, geeky-stereotypes ftw! :D
    City Watch ones are always the best tbh. The witches are my least favourite.
    orestes wrote: »
    Apparently that's the next one they are making into a movie, I hope they don't screw it up cos it was one of the better books in the series imo
    Really? Great! I enjoyed that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,396 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    "Sniper One" is my current bedside locker book; finish it tonight I'd say.

    Got "21...." to start. Must get a deck and start learning how to count..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,556 ✭✭✭MizzLolly


    Memoirs of a Geisha is my fave book.

    Also liked To Kill A Mockingbird.

    At the moment, I've just began to read I Choose To Live, where Sabine Dardenne tells her story about her kidnapping.


  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,927 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    Finished reading 'Hell House' last night (again). Don't know why, but I always want to read that book just before bed, and by candle light for extra atmosphere (also cos my OH is trying to sleep so if I have the bedside light on it's not fair on him).

    Think I'll re-read Disasters at Sea tonight.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,065 ✭✭✭DenMan


    As well as juggling other books right now I am almost at the end of Stephen King's IT. I have been dragging it on for a couple of years now and in a way I don't want to finish it, I have really enjoyed it. However it will be finished by the end of this week. :(


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