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This week, I are mostly reading....

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    #392
    grimsbymatt
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    Nimrod's Son wrote:
    Finished reading Of Mice And Men by Steinbeck a copule of days ago. An excellent novel.
    Finally started reading Catcher In The Rye. Not mad about it TBH.
    I read Of Mice Men on the train the other day and have now started The Catcher In The Rye - according to comments read on Boards, it doesn't sound like it's going to be any good at my age. Maybe I'll read 1984 first.


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    #393
    Nimrod's Son
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    grimsbymatt wrote:
    I read Of Mice Men on the train the other day and have now started The Catcher In The Rye - according to comments read on Boards, it doesn't sound like it's going to be any good at my age. Maybe I'll read 1984 first.

    Go with 1984 first. Best book ever! Finished Catcher In The Rye and it was awful IMO. Can't work out what the big deal is about it. I didn't relate to it at all. It could be argued that that is because I'm too old for it at this stage but if I had've read a few years ago when I was 16, I still wouldn't have related to it.


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    OfflerCrocGod
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    Nimrod's Son wrote:
    Feet Of Clay - Pratchett.
    Tres good book! From the period when Pratchett was writing his best.
    dudara wrote:
    The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl

    Took a while to get going at the start, but I'm currently enjoying it.
    It was the same for me. It's quite good it's just the ending let's it down a bit because it drags out; but the rest is enjoyable.

    I agree with the above post dump Catcher and read a REAL book: 1984 is class. As for myself.....

    I'm presently readin' Dan Simmons's Hyperion it's a sort of Canterbury tales in the 29th century; it's quite enjoyable some of the tales are very interesting.


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    Dades
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    Nimrod's Son wrote:
    Finished Catcher In The Rye and it was awful IMO. Can't work out what the big deal is about it. I didn't relate to it at all. It could be argued that that is because I'm too old for it at this stage but if I had've read a few years ago when I was 16, I still wouldn't have related to it.
    Touché.

    Finally finished it yesterday so back to reading Billions and Billions (Carl Sagan) by day, and
    Sunstorm (Arthur C Clarke & Stephen Baxter) by night....


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    supersheep
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    This week, oi have mostly been reading "The Balkans, 1804-1999" by Misha Glenny (my holiday reading, apart from Dan Brown books <shudder> and some Hemingway short stories). It's very good, although he does occasionally skim over some sections - especially the revolutions, which are often just alluded to more than described. One to read if you're interested in history, especially the Balkans - anyone who's doing the Eastern Question in history would be advised to read the description of the Council of Berlin, very informative.


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    CathyMoran
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    Am currently on holidays so am basically eating books, but a really good one is "The Armchair Diplomat on Europe" by Melissa Rossi. A really great read, good to dip in and out of but very informative with numerous interesting facts and observations on Europe.


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    Nightwish
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    In the middle of Justice Denied by Jimmy Guerin. its meh...


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    simu
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    Reading The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch. Very interesting ideas on ethics and a good, engaging read too!


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    dudara
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    Currently reading Auschwitz by Laurence Rees. Very chilling book detailing the creation and implementation of Nazi policy. Very well written and engaging despite the horrific subject matter.


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    pbsuxok1znja4r
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    Reading "Middlemarch" by George Eliot, and "That Hideous Strength" by C.S. Lewis.


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    Franky Boy
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    Reading "perfume" by Peter Suskind(I think that's his name)


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    Dagnir Glaurung
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    Kafka's The Trial. Don't really have much idea what's going on >_>


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    dudara
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    Franky Boy wrote:
    Reading "perfume" by Peter Suskind(I think that's his name)
    Excellent book! very absorbing and chilling, or at least, so I remember.

    At the moment, I'm reading one of my teenage sister's books, "Eragon" by Christopher Paolini. Fantasy stuff based around dragon riders, but not bad at all. A nice easy book for a change.


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    Art_Wolf
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    dudara wrote:
    At the moment, I'm reading one of my teenage sister's books, "Eragon" by Christopher Paolini. Fantasy stuff based around dragon riders, but not bad at all. A nice easy book for a change.

    Recall liking that - also noticed the sequel has just been released in Easons.

    Currently reading Shadow Warrior - nice in a bounty hunter way :)


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    OfflerCrocGod
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    The Fall Of Hyperion by Dan Simmons it's very good; I like it even with the bits and pieces of poetry in it.


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    Dublin's Finest
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    Catch-22


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    da_deadman
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    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - by Dave Eggers

    This is a fantastic book, so descriptive, funny, real, tragic. It encompasses everything. It's a while since I enjoyed a book as much as this one.


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    Nimrod's Son
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    The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived by Robert Rankin.... I swear I'm gonna lay off the Rankin after I finish this one. I've being reading far too much of his lately.


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    Nightwish
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    The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson. Ive only just started it, and its completely insane


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    aidan_walsh
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    Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov. Great continuation to the saga.


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    dudara
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    Eragon wasn't bad at all. considering the author wrote it when he was a teenager. You can see the LoTR influence, but still, not bad at all.

    I finished The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood yesterday. What a great book. Short and simple, yet a fantastic story about love and loss. Thoroughly recommended. If anyone read "The Time Traveller's Wife" then they'll probably like this

    Just started Kings of Albion by Julian Rathborne. So far so good, but it's early days.


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    theCzar
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    "Nam: Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There"
    by Mark Baker.

    Just starting it really, it's a collection of lots of personal accounts from veterans, the reasons why they signed up, their experience etc. I'm amazed at how young they all were, 17/18 years old, and they're being sent to kill and die.


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    Skip
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    The Tin Drum by Günter Grass.


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    #415
    callmescratch
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    the invisible man
    h. g. wells


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    Rossonero
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    Just finished
    Bolivian Diaries by Che Guevara
    The Making Of A Legionnaire by Bill Parris

    Just Started
    Jupiter's Travels by Ted Simon
    A Season With Verona by ?
    The Naked Soldier


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    John
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    Skip wrote:
    The Tin Drum by Günter Grass.

    That's an absolutely great book


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    Alana
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    -The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
    (the movie is coming out soon, and I want to relive my childhood...em hem...it's soooo good,sigh..)
    -Confessions of Sveno


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    ionapaul
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    Last weekend I bought:

    The Idiot: Dostoyevsky (downstairs in Easons, O'Connell Street for €2.20!)
    Book 3, Part 1 (can't remember the name) of George R.R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice series
    The Ancestor's Tale: Richard Dawkins

    Have started on Dawkins first, excellent so far, I have read most of his books previously and enjoy his style and the content covered. Many of the 'popular science' books that cover evolution and evolutionary theory are wonderful.

    Anyone read War of the Flowers by Tad Williams? I have read almost all of his works and really loved them, but would like to hear an opinion before diving in...


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    dudara
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    Alana wrote:
    -The lion, the witch and the wardrobe

    You just made me put that on my next-to-read list. Time to go home and steal it from my kid sister


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    tSubh Dearg
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    The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux.

    Just started it so can't really comment on it yet. I finally finished the French Lieutenant's Woman, I got kind of bogged down in the middle of it but not a bad story overall.


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