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This week, I are mostly reading....

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    #782
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Michael Crichton - "State of Fear".
    (Enjoyable reading on the DART)

    Maybe I'm spoiled having recently finished A Song of Ice and Fire, but everything I've read since then has seemed, well, paint-by-numbers.


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    #783
    Blush_01
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    A Drama in Muslin, by George Moore. Just finished The Importance of Being Earnest again too. Wilde is wonderful!


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    #784
    Misty Moon
    Registered Users Posts: 294 ✭✭Misty Moon


    Decided on some more not very strenuous reading and am making my way thorugh the Crystal Singer trilogy by Anne McCaffrey again.


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    #785
    adonis
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    the third policeman - flann o brien (oh i love u lost)
    and the pelican history of the world...


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    #786
    Scratch Acid
    Registered Users Posts: 456 ✭✭Scratch Acid


    Just finishing up 'Where I'm Calling From' by Raymond Carver, which is definitely the best short story collection I've ever read.

    I just got 'The Silent Cry' by Kenzaburo Oe, and 'A Fistful of Gitanes'- a Serge Gainsbourg biography. Fun, fun, fun.


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    #787
    Undergod
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    Still ploughing through Dumas' 'The Count of Monte Cristo', also read 'On The Road' by Jack Kerouac other day. Some brilliant bits in it, some depressing bits too.


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    #788
    John
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    Endgame by Beckett


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    #789
    byte
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    byte


    The Van by Roddy Doyle.


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    #790
    Tristram
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    Ye olde One Hundred Years of Solitude (GG Marquez) this week, have to read Endgame (Beckett) for uni too, looking forward to abit of the auld negative dialectic.

    Read The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien) there a while back, loved it...funny, entertaining and an easy read.


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    #791
    BossArky
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    In the past few days I've been on a bit of a reading frenzy:

    The Man in the High Castle - Philip K.Dick .....enjoyed this, slightly sinister undertones

    The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho ...enjoyed this..makes you want to break out of a rut

    The 5 people you meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom .... was dissapointed by this after hearing some many people on this forum talk about it. Readable but I was expecting something more.


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    #792
    Morpheus
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    Fallen Dragon
    Peter F Hamilton


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    #793
    Dagnir Glaurung
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    Vanity Fair - W.M. Thackeray


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    #794
    Pherekydes
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    Just finished, in order: The Infinite Book by John D Barrow, The Code Book by Simon Singh and State of Fear by Michael Crichton.

    Anybody else an inveterate Crichton reader?


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    #795
    Tristram
    Registered Users Posts: 3,590 ✭✭✭Tristram


    Morph&#233 wrote: »
    Fallen Dragon
    Peter F Hamilton

    What did you think of it Morpheus?I read it a summer or two ago and loved it.Have to read some more Hamilton.


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    #796
    muesli_offire
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    Ye olde One Hundred Years of Solitude (GG Marquez)
    Gabo de man! If there is one film adaptation I would love to see its of this book. Might be a tad long though!


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    #797
    ronano
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    I finished reading 'transparent things' by Nabokov which i really didn't enjoy so have moved to 'Ada or Ardor' which so far is wonderful


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    #798
    John
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    Lord of the Rings. Again.


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    #799
    meldrew
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    Just starting "Velocity " by Dean Koontz


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    #800
    BossArky
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    Into the last 100 pages of Lolita by Nabokov.


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    Scratch Acid
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    Nearing the end of 'Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World' by Murakami. Took longer to get into than it usually does with Murakami, but it's moving along nicely now. Quite different from his other stuff, except 'Sputnik Sweetheart' a bit, I suppose.

    Also started 'The Possibility of an Island' by Michel Houllebecq, which, true to form, has featured several sex scenes in the first 50 pages.


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    #802
    BossArky
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    boards.ie


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    #803
    Jay Tomio
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    In the Eye of Heaven by David Keck and The Tourmaline by Paul Park, the sequel to one of the better books of last year A Princess of Roumania. Next week plan to move on to Naomi Novik's Throne of Jade and Black Powder War, the sequels to His Majesty's Dragon (aka Temeraire in the UK)

    I'm also reading Brian K. Vaughn's collected Runaways (comic)

    I'm trying to find time to read Geoff Ryman's latest, Kings Last Song. I also just reviewed Tobias Buckell's Crystal Rain.


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    #804
    Blush_01
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    I just found King Solomon's Mines. Read it.


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    #805
    herbieflowers
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    Freud's Civilisation and Its Discontents, Nietzche's Twilight Of The Idols and Woody Allen's Prose!


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    #806
    tbh
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    I just finished A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry


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    #807
    growler
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    The Commodore by Patrick O Brian , book 17 of 20.... nearly there !

    and

    The Witches of Chiswick Robert Rankin, which is likely to be my last ever Rankin red as he seems to have run out of new ideas and one liners.


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    #808
    BossArky
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    Finished The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho a few days ago, now reading The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.


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    #809
    berengar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 289 ✭✭berengar


    Kharn wrote:
    Ya, the revised version.

    I'd have started it properly but I started it pretty much straight after finishing Jingo and it was just too hard going after all that Pratchett! Tore a good chunk out of it last night (insomnia is great) and so far, it rox!


    All the best,

    Dav
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    homepage.tinet.ie/~davitt

    [This message has been edited by Kharn (edited 04-05-99).]

    Are these Star Wars books ?
    are they any good ? , I really like the films .


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    #810
    scojones
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    The I.R.A by Tim Pat Coogan.


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    meldrew
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    Velocity by Dean Koontz , actually quite a pleasant surprise , not as bad as his last few .


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