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This week, I are mostly reading....

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    #452
    GumDropButtons
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    The Boer War, by Thomas Pakenham. So big and pretty... mmm, history....


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    #453
    tHE vAGGABOND
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    Grapes of Wrath - Stienbeck

    Finished 'rule of four' last week, great story right up to the final few chapters which were poor imho


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    tSubh Dearg
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    Finally finished the Mosquito Coast this week, very odd book.
    I also read Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman, it's his short story and poem collection which I greatly enjoyed.
    On top of that I also managed to read the first Anita Blake book, Guilty Pleasures which is written by Laurell K. Hamilton. It was a nice little read and distracted me from a lot of things I should've been doing other than reading.


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    #455
    pukey
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    read Smoke and Mirrors a while back, really good. good omens is really well worth reading too


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    #456
    bringitdown
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    Just finished:

    Jarhead - Antony Swofford, great read, highly recommend.
    Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland, classic Coupland but not his best.
    States of Fear - Micheal Crichton, I needed to pass the time!
    Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - Ditto.

    Starting Burmese Days - Orwell, great so far, love Orwells writing.


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    secret_squirrel
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    tSubh Dearg wrote:
    On top of that I also managed to read the first Anita Blake book, Guilty Pleasures which is written by Laurell K. Hamilton.

    The Anita Blake books are good for a read alright. I personally thought they started tailing off after book 9 - Obsidian Butterfly - which is easily the best imo.

    *cough* *cough* There is a link in my sig where all the Laurel K books are going cheap. *cough* *cough*


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    #458
    Nimrod's Son
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    Just started part 3 of The Dark Tower. Thought it was a trilogy but have learned much to my chagrin that it's in 8 parts. :eek: I have access to the fourth part but after that I'm in trouble...


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    #459
    Jay Tomio
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    Finishing up Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora, and Maureen Mchugh's collection, Mothers and Other Monsters.


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    #460
    Dades
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    Nimrod's Son wrote:
    Just started part 3 of The Dark Tower. Thought it was a trilogy but have learned much to my chagrin that it's in 8 parts. :eek: I have access to the fourth part but after that I'm in trouble...
    LOL.

    I have a reluctance to start trilogies etc. as it means you have to write off so much reading time. 8 parts - yikes.


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    #461
    Vokes
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    secret_squirrel wrote:
    Just bought Judas Unchained by Peter F Hamilton - only released today, and Im already trying to resist its call..... Still got it in Trade Paperback format from Easons so saved me €9 over the hardback in Waterstones.
    It's in paperback already?! Are there many copies left?


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    pbsuxok1znja4r
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    Suprised By Joy - C.S. Lewis ; kind of a biography but also an account of Lewis' spiritual milestones in his life.


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    secret_squirrel
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    SofaKing wrote:
    It's in paperback already?! Are there many copies left?

    TRADE paperback - the giant sized paper back thats sometimes larger than the actual Hardback version. I only saw it in O'Connel St Easons. The rest of Dublin either had the Hardback or not at all. (it was the first day of release).

    There were a pile of about 20 copies there on Sat.

    I've noticed that happens quite a lot here - Irish chains get the trade paperback (easons, Hughes and Hughes etc)versions and the UK owned chains (waterstones) get the Hardback versions of new books.


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    #464
    callmescratch
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    The Plague - Albert Camus
    A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

    only about 100 pages into each, but really liking both of them so far


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    #465
    aptappellative
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    Just finished 'Case Histories' by Kate Atkinson. Couldnt put it down. Anyone read it? What d'you think?


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    #466
    Sauron
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    Just finished reading "a million little pieces" by James Frey

    Intense and vivid and brutally honest. Excellent :) Anyone else read it?


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    #467
    Chinafoot
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    Nick Hornby - A Long Way Down

    Halfway through and really enjoying it.

    Although theres Four novels I'm supposed to have read for college already ....but, eh...hmmmm Yea.


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    OfflerCrocGod
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    Fallen Dragon by Peter F Hamilton not as good as Nights Dawn trilogy but still very enjoyable - I think I'll start reading all his other books I'm quite liking this author's style :)


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    Dades
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    The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan.

    And a random Clive Cussler just before kip-time. :D


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    #470
    Jay Tomio
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    Currently working through The Strange Adventures of Ranger Girl by Tim Pratt, and Glass Soup by Jonathan Carroll.


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    #471
    tinka
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    Great Expectations - Dickens


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    The Atheist wrote:
    The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan.

    And a random Clive Cussler just before kip-time. :D
    good one first one.

    As for Clive I can imagine him at his word processor ..
    Find "Titanic carrying rare metal" Replace All With "Roman Tresure Ship"

    ReReading There and back again aka The Hobbit


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    #473
    John
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    I'm reading a biography of Bill Hicks called American Scream by Cynthia True.


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    #474
    Closing Doors
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    1984....yes I know, I should have read it long ago..blah blah :p
    Something to keep me occupied til Book 11 of Wheel Of Time arrives (hopefully tommorow!)


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    #475
    theCzar
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    Reading Bleak House by Dickens, just finished Feist's Magician. Excellent.


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    #476
    eljono
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    The Stand, Stephen King


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    #477
    pukey
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    just read coraline by neil gaiman on the plane, a childrens book but very good i thought. starting south by ernest shakelton


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    #478
    athena 2000
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    I'm about 100 pages into Tracy Chevalier's
    Girl With a Pearl Earring.

    You can almost feel the imagery she creates. It's beautifully written.


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    #479
    John
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    I read Oscar Wilde's "Lord Savile's Crime" last night and then started on "Anansi Boys" by Neil Gaiman. I didn't like it at first but I'm starting to get into it.


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    #480
    dudara
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    theCzar wrote:
    Reading Bleak House by Dickens, just finished Feist's Magician. Excellent.

    I've been thinking about that too, what with the BBC version starting on Thursday.

    Finished "My Name is Red" by Orhan Pamuk and "Operation Red Jericho" by Joshua Mowll recently. And I'm about ahlf-way through "Sheepfarmers Daughter" by Elizabeth Moon. (Every so often I just have to give in to those fantasy urgings)


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    #481
    Vokes
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    Neal Stephenson's System of the World just came out in paperback (finally!) the other week. So picked that up this morning for €12 - am looking forward to it. Im a slowish reader so hopefully, by the time ive finished it, Peter Hamiltions Judas Unchained will be out on paperback :D


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