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This week, I are mostly reading....

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    #1052
    John
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    Joe Boyd White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s


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    #1053
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Just finished Lirael, on to The Abhorsen, when I can get my hands on it.


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    #1054
    BossArky
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    The autobio of Malcom X.

    It is quite good.


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    #1055
    John
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    M.R. James Ghost Stories


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    #1056
    wow sierra
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    Colum Mc Cann This side of brightness

    - lovely writingimagination and great/unusual backdrop - the tunnels i newyork from 1916 to now/ great empathy with the characters

    Ye probably have all read it but if not please do. Can't believe I am only discovering McCann now - will be working my way through his books.


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    #1057
    amen
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    John Irving "Until I Find you"
    I realy like Irving


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    #1058
    theCzar
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    The Devil's feather by, eh, can't recall.

    in a word, meh.


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    #1059
    Crucifix
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    One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey. It seems quite good so far.


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    #1060
    John
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    Crucifix wrote:
    One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey. It seems quite good so far.

    I really like that book. I saw the movie first and thought that the movie was fantabulous. Then I read the book and found that the book was fantabulouslier.


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    #1061
    BossArky
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    East of Eden - John Steinback.

    This man has such a way with words.


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    #1062
    Undergod
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    Plato - The Republic
    Worldwar: In the Balance - Harry Turtledove
    And if I can remember where I left At Swim-Two Birds - Myles naGopaleen, I'll be mostly reading that too.


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics


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    #1064
    John
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    James Joyce Dubliners


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    #1065
    BossArky
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    John wrote:
    James Joyce Dubliners

    How is it? Its on my "to read" pile (or under it actually :o )


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    #1066
    John
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    I've read it before, it's good but I didn't give it enough attention or thought. I'll give you an updated opinion soon.


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    Piste
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    The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, it seems fairly good so far, though I'm only a chapter and a half in.


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    tHE vAGGABOND
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    A Million Little Peices by James Frey

    Its a brilliant book, a great story, real edge of your seat stuff..

    No interest in the fact he lied about his criminal record. Im about 45% of the way through the book and it has no effect at all at the mo.

    Also, getting on my high horse here, let him without sin cast the first stone and all that! What biography style book would stand up to the e3xcellent smoking gun team looking into it for a couple of months..


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    #1069
    tbh
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    meh. i dunno. I thought the book was a great read, but I wondered why he was making himself out to be tougher than he really was (would have preferred a more honest account) and found myself wondering which bits were true, or which were totally made-up. If you are going to write a work of fiction, at least call it what it is!

    having said that, I read the whole thing in about two days - a real page turner!


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    marcus aurelious - meditations

    only 40 or so pages in atm, but it's a very interesting read. he seems like a damned fine person, gona have to read some more by/about him after this


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    #1071
    John
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    John wrote:
    I've read it before, it's good but I didn't give it enough attention or thought. I'll give you an updated opinion soon.

    After giving it more time and attention, the second reading of Dubliners was highly enjoyable. Especially considering I have recently read Ulyssees, Dubliners is like Anne and Barry in comparison!

    This week: Daniel Defoe A Journal of the Plague Year


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    #1072
    impr0v
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    high-rise by j.g. ballard


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    BossArky
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    "Mr Nice" - Howard Marks


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    BossArky wrote:
    "Mr Nice" - Howard Marks

    his 'book of dope stories' is excellent, if you haven't read that.... although I did skip all the cocaine stories, everything else was classic.


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    Esmereldina
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    I've just finished reading Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys -- one of those books I'd always meant to read, but never got around to before. It was a really great book though, with a suitably eerie gothic ending...


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    bringitdown
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    Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut.


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    Chinafoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    The Dark - John McGahern


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    tSubh Dearg
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    Cryptinomicon - Neal Stephenson and

    The Lighthouse - PD James.

    Both excellent though I found the former hard to get into at the start, it's going great now. PD James is up to her usual high standard of crime novel.


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    Crucifix
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    Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. Looks to be very interesting.


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    Tar.Aldarion
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    Small Gods - Terry Prattchetttt.


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    #1081
    BossArky
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    As of an hour or two ago I am reading nothing - wohoo! Just finished Mr Nice, will probably start "Like a Virgin" - the autobio of Richard Branson.


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