Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

This week, I are mostly reading....

Options
1…4243454748…88

Comments

  • Options
    #1322
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Nick Cave And the Ass Saw the Angel


  • Options
    #1323
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow. Peter Høeg


  • Options
    #1324
    Femelade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭Femelade


    The innocent man - John Grisham..

    Its good, alot of legal jargon..but quite astonishing all the same..


  • Options
    #1325
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users Posts: 9,557 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    After seeing Battlefield Earth recently, out of morbid fascination I just had to read the book as see if it's as bad as the film.


  • Options
    #1326
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    DublinWriter wrote:
    After seeing Battlefield Earth recently, out of morbid fascination I just had to read the book as see if it's as bad as the film.

    You masochist!


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #1327
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Oh bring the pain! :)


    Anyway, Gunslinger - Stephen King.
    Nearly finished it already, weird.


  • Options
    #1328
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Just about to start The Children of Húrin


  • Options
    #1329
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    God, get on with it, and sent it to me.
    :)


    The drawing of the Three - Stephen King


  • Options
    #1330
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Tar.Aldarion wrote:
    God, get on with it, and sent it to me.
    :)


    The drawing of the Three - Stephen King

    Don't be cheeky or I'll ruin the end of the Dark Tower series for you :p


  • Options
    #1331
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Never heard of it...
    >_>
    <_<
    *runs*
    I think Luckat is giving me the book, yay! :)


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #1332
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Freakshow: Ain't That Peculiar, a graphic novel by Robert Curley, Stephen Mooney and Stephen Thompson. Good, but kind of hard to follow at times. Oh yeah, and Maxed Out, a book about the credit industry; very scary.


  • Options
    #1333
    Merrick
    Registered Users Posts: 888 ✭✭✭Merrick


    The Stand - Stephen King. The extended version.... Over 1000 pages of joy to go...


  • Options
    #1334
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Stephen King is much better than I expected.


  • Options
    #1335
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Not all of the time though. Some of his stuff is dreadful but when he's good, he's great.


  • Options
    #1336
    cue
    Registered Users Posts: 564 ✭✭✭cue


    The Raw Shark Texts. So-so.


  • Options
    #1337
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Andy Wildon Faust: Stretch Out Time 1970-1975


  • Options
    #1338
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    hey, battlefield earth was a fine novel.. it could have done with ending about 500 pages sooner than it did.. but all in all it was kind of, pretty readable.

    atm reading from dawn to decadence - jacques barzun

    already late returning it to the library, so I'm going to have to take a day or two and get through this as quick as I can.


  • Options
    #1339
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Finished the Children of Hurin, I've read all the material before, but I still enjoyed it. Now, to buy a book.


  • Options
    #1340
    ZorbaTehZ
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭ZorbaTehZ


    The Tunnels Of Cu Chi
    - Tom Mangold & John Penycate


  • Options
    #1341
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Joseph Conrad The End of the Tether

    Two chapters in and yet again I wonder why I bother with Conrad...


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #1342
    Goebels
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭Goebels


    Rant by Chuck Palahnuik


  • Options
    #1343
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    John wrote:
    Joseph Conrad The End of the Tether

    Two chapters in and yet again I wonder why I bother with Conrad...


    I've been meaning to have a look at his stuff over the summer, what's your opinion of his work?


  • Options
    #1344
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    I think he's rubbish but admittedly I'm in a tiny minority.

    Now I'm reading a biography of William Blake entitled Blake by Peter Ackroyd. Very nice read.

    I'm also reading a collection of short stories called The Shadow at the Bottom of the World by Thomas Ligotti, a little known but brilliant horror writer. His material is very much in the same vein as HP Lovecraft, not over the top gross out horror but very metaphysical and terrifying.


  • Options
    #1345
    sara33
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭sara33


    This week....

    Wild About Harry, Colin Bateman.


  • Options
    #1346
    Blush_01
    Registered Users Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser. I've meant to read this for ages but really bothered. It's interesting, to say the least.


  • Options
    #1347
    dream brother
    Registered Users Posts: 404 ✭✭dream brother


    Half way though this book and I have to say its a pretty good read....so far!


  • Options
    #1348
    ZorbaTehZ
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭ZorbaTehZ


    The Father Brown Stories - G.K. Chesterton


  • Options
    #1349
    jackdaw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭jackdaw


    The Human Mind by Robert Winston very interesting, just finished The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova -- very good but maybe too much packaging ... dragged out a bit maybe ??

    anyway wanted a change , have read a lot of novels wanted a non fiction book
    in the science area to read.. speaking of which anyone recommend a good pop science book in the human evolution area ?


  • Options
    #1350
    Mrs. MacGyver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Mrs. MacGyver


    'Olivia Joules and the overactive imagination' by Helen Fielding (the one who wrote Brigid Jones Diary)


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #1351
    Mrs. MacGyver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Mrs. MacGyver


    jackdaw wrote:
    The Human Mind by Robert Winston very interesting, just finished The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova -- very good but maybe too much packaging ... dragged out a bit maybe ??

    anyway wanted a change , have read a lot of novels wanted a non fiction book
    in the science area to read.. speaking of which anyone recommend a good pop science book in the human evolution area ?


    A brief history of everything by Bill Bryson is easy and informative to read (from a person who reads mostly fiction!)


This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement