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This week, I are mostly reading....

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    #32
    Trojan
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    Good call Typie. I'm a PFH junkie.

    Currently some Robin Hobb, though I'm not enjoying it too much, just want to finish the trilogy (Liveships) at this stage.

    🎙️ The Recognized Authority Podcast



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    #33
    Beatrix
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    The Witches - Roald Dahl

    After having read a book on Freud... The Witches is brilliant for relaxation purposes
    Also... the children's books are the best to pick up writing tips from!!!


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    Just finished Who On Earth is Tom Baker?.

    Plan to start The Narrows by Michael Connelly tomorrow. Bought it a month ago, just waiting till Id finished the Leaving Cert, which is tomorrow at 12:50.


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    Envy
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    The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy.

    Well, trying to read it -- the Leaving Cert. doesn't leave much free time. I'll get properly into the book when the LC finishes next Wednesday.


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    secret_squirrel
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    Originally posted by Typedef
    The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F Hamilton.

    Strongly recommend Fallen Dragon (his best imo) and Pandora's star after you have finished that trilogy typie.

    Just finished Gridlinked by Neal Asher. Starting Song of ice and fire again. (hurry up No4).

    Just before that was Curious incident of the Dog in the nighttime - excellent.

    Book of the year so far: Market Forces - Richard Morgan.


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    byte
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    byte


    Peter And Mary Have A Row - Damien Owens


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    #38
    Krusty_Clown
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    Stephen Hawkings: A Life in Science
    Michael White, John Gribbin


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    #39
    pork99
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    "Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life" by Daniel Dennett.

    It's tough going but fascinating.

    I think this book (plus "The Blind Watchmaker" and "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins and "How the Mind Works" and "The Blank Slate" by Stephen Pinker) should be mandatory reading for those people posting on the Paranormal board - might explain a thing or two to them and stop them making such complete tools of themselves :)


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    CuLT
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    Originally posted by secret_squirrel
    Strongly recommend Fallen Dragon (his best imo) and Pandora's star after you have finished that trilogy typie.

    Oh god no, Fallen dragon is a watery, watery book compared to the trilogy.

    For the Night's Dawn trilogy though, he is my favourite author, I even bought the federation handbook :p . And of course that lurvely short story collection, of which Escape Route was my favourite.


    I are mostly reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy atm.


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    #41
    echomadman
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    this week i are mostly reading J.G. Ballard, read Empire of the Sun and The Drowned World in the last few days. Starting Cocaine nights tonight.


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    #42
    joe_chicken
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    this week i are mostly reading Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre : ih's okay... nothin special


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    #43
    secret_squirrel
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    Originally posted by CuLT
    Oh god no, Fallen dragon is a watery, watery book compared to the trilogy.

    How can you dis fallen dragon?...its got a proper ending unlike Nights Dawn and the rest of Peter H's books!


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    LoneGunM@n
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    Originally posted by Beatrix
    The Witches - Roald Dahl

    After having read a book on Freud... The Witches is brilliant for relaxation purposes
    Also... the children's books are the best to pick up writing tips from!!!

    I took your lead & picked up an old Enid Blyton book [ok so I bought a few Enid Blyton books] last week & I keep reading them 1 after another ... they're the mystery series by the way ... The 5 find-outers & dog rock :D:D

    Actually, kid's books rock :)


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    plastic membrane
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    Originally posted by Trojan


    Reading David Brins "Uplift" series, now on bk 2, "Infinity's Shore".

    Kind of a strange style to get the hang of, but quite enthralling
    Al.

    They are quite brilliant, arent they.

    This week i am reading "Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow" by Peter Hoeg. Which is so strange i cant help feeling the English translation made it a lot odder than it actually is. Very good so far, though..


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    Tusky
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    Originally posted by Buck Owens
    Just finished I am Legend:D
    about to start Porno-Irving Welsh.

    Porno is class . The book and the industry ;)


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    Bibliofemme
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    Originally posted by bmarley
    just finished a star called henry by roddy doyle.
    currently reading east of eden by john steinbeck

    I'm also reading East of Eden - it's quite a tome (I'm usually faint-hearted with big books) but it just sucks you in. No one does characterisation as well as he does.


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    Bibliofemme
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    Haven't poked my head in here in while but recent reads include:

    Fillums by Hugh Leonard (entertaining, more like a collection of colloquial Irish short stories)
    The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (I hated it - totally unoriginal and forgettable)
    Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (excellent book, deals with death and existence through food and cross-dressing!)
    MJ Hyland's How the Light Gets In - great read, the teen heroine and much of this book reminded me of The Outsiders or The Catcher in the Rye


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    Kolodny
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    Distress - Greg Egan. Mindboggling good.


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    callmescratch
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    this week i are been mostly reading Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
    just started this, it's about hollywood in the 70s. seems good so far tho


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    simu
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    Originally posted by plastic membrane
    They are quite brilliant, arent they.

    This week i am reading "Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow" by Peter Hoeg. Which is so strange i cant help feeling the English translation made it a lot odder than it actually is. Very good so far, though..

    Smilla's a great character - just when you think you understand her, she surprises you completely. I really enjoyed that book!


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    Micro1
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    A million little pieces by James Fry.
    Just started it, got tucked in, looked up ,checked what page i was on and realised i had read 50 with out even realising. So far its briliant.


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    #53
    CuLT
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    Originally posted by secret_squirrel
    How can you dis fallen dragon?...its got a proper ending unlike Nights Dawn and the rest of Peter H's books!

    And ending has such... finality to it.

    He intends to continue the Night's Dawn universe from what I've heard.


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    vibe666
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    This week, I are mostly reading....'The Da Vinci Code' by Dan Browne. Just finished it and it was excellent.

    the man's so smart he must have to carry his brain round in a big wheelbarrow.

    had me hooked on the first couple of chapters and just kept picking up speed, with more twists and turns than a big twisty turny thing stuck in a small box.

    highly recommended. just going to jump into the rest of his books in the next day or so.


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    secret_squirrel
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    definately recommend Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, its actually better than the Da Vinci code imo, its great apart from its seemly indestructable main. character

    The other 2 are just above average thrillers, good but not special.


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    In_Diana_Jones
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    Originally posted by Buck Owens
    Just finished I am Legend:D
    about to start Porno-Irving Welsh.

    Porno is Genius!!


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    In_Diana_Jones
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    How The Dead Live by Will Self

    The man is a genius!!


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    Dancing duck
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    Re-reading, The Virgin Suicides and Animal Farm:p


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    Bibliofemme
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    Originally posted by In_Diana_Jones
    How The Dead Live by Will Self

    The man is a genius!!

    That's probably his best book I reckon.

    His recent one 'Dr. Mukti and other Tales of Woe' is worth a read too.


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    #60
    Micro1
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    The secret History by Donna Tart


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    #61
    Kunst
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    some thing called Ulysses by James Joyce.

    :)


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