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This week, I are mostly reading....

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    #1472
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    "The Black Company" by Glen Cook.


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    #1473
    tHE vAGGABOND
    Registered Users Posts: 6,687 ✭✭✭tHE vAGGABOND


    Battle Cry by Leon Uris


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    #1474
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Finally back to the dark tower series.
    Wizard and glass.


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    #1475
    Per Liefsonson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 238 ✭✭Per Liefsonson


    AJG wrote:
    This week its Pleasures & Regrets by Proust. First thing I've read by him. Its alright but has anyone read In Search of Lost Time/Rembrance of Things Past?
    I'm currently five books through. It's really good but definitely not for the faint of heart.


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    #1476
    genericgoon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭genericgoon


    War of the World- Niall Ferguson


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    #1477
    The_Minister
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    OfflerCrocGod wrote:
    The Art of War by Sun-Tzu - yes, yes I'll show myself out now don't worry :D
    /Hides well-thumbed copy of Machievelli's "The Prince" and "The Discourses".


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    #1478
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    2010 odyssey 2


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    #1479
    MementoMori
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,492 ✭✭✭MementoMori


    The Average American Male - Chad Kultgen bit slight but good would recommend it to females looking for an insight into how the male mind works


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    #1480
    brianthebard
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    What good are the arts? by John Carey. Its not bad but its not mind blowing either. He starts by dismissing almost all theories about what art is and isn't and why its good or bad, using rather extreme examples in a lot of cases. But he doesn't offer any real alternative other than anything can be art if someone says it is, which while valid isn't what I had hoped for. Well written though and good to get another opinion on those authors that have been presented to me for the last three years as the pinnacle of criticism.


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    #1481
    Psychedelic
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    about 160 pages into 'The Glass Bead Game' by Hermann Hesse, it's okay, a bit boring in places.

    last book i read was 'New York Trilogy' by Paul Auster and thought it was fantastic, one of the best books i've read in the last few years.


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    #1482
    Extreme-LoopZ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭Extreme-LoopZ


    I'm about a third of the way through David Copperfield by Dickens. It was really good to start with, it seems to be getting a bit bland now though...... but Uriah Heep is such a great character :)


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    #1483
    sitout
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    the back of me cornflakes box


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    #1484
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,305 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Just started As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela by Mark Thomas. Anyone familiar with his stand-up will know what to expect, a thoughtful and well researched left-leaning rant against something that's wrong with our society, in this case the arms trade. Interesting stuff so far.


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    #1485
    AJG
    Registered Users Posts: 348 ✭✭AJG


    Since the Proust its been:

    Journey to the East - Hermann Hesse
    To the Slaughterhouse - Jean Giono
    A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
    Gold - Blaise Cendrars

    Currently on Interzone by William Burroughs.

    The Hesse and Giono were excellent and the Swift and Cendrars were pretty good. I've only started Interzone but it seems promising.


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    #1486
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,383 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Not yet half way through it but I have just stopped reading 'Bonfire of the Vanities' and I don't intend returning to it.
    I bought 'Stand Up And Fight' on Monday and had it finished by Tuesday morning.
    Now I'm onto 'Frank Zappa' by Barry Miles.
    After that it's probably back to 'Rabbit Angstrom:The Four Novels', which I previously took a break from about half way through 'Rabbit Is Rich'.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    #1487
    Rhiannon14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭Rhiannon14


    Just finished "I am not myself these days," by Josh Kilmer-purcell. A very emotionally stirring account of a drag queen's escapades. It's grand if you're in the mood for a truly pathetic story.


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    #1488
    AJG
    Registered Users Posts: 348 ✭✭AJG


    Burroughs' Interzone was a decent read. It acts as a kind of link between Junky, Queer and the later stuff like Naked Lunch.

    Just started H. Rider Haggard's 'She'.


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    #1489
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    The King James Bible, riviting stuff, Noah is building a big ass ark I wonder whats going to happen


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    #1490
    Red Hand
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    Brittlewood by John Banville


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    #1491
    Pherekydes
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    Lately, I'm dug into Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy.

    A great read.

    He hasn't crossed the Rubicon yet. :)


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    #1492
    genericgoon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭genericgoon


    QI The book of general Ignorance


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    #1493
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Richard Ellmann James Joyce


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    #1494
    AJG
    Registered Users Posts: 348 ✭✭AJG


    Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels


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    #1495
    humbert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, absolutely loved it. Thought it was insightful, well written and inspiring.


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    AnBealBocht
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    Wonderfully insightful of Henry James. But, what a self-centered man was the latter & what a sad, lonely life, it seems.


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    #1497
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    James Joyce Poems and Shorter Writings


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    #1498
    TragicJohnson
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭TragicJohnson


    The Crow Road By Iain Banks


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    #1499
    eclectichoney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭eclectichoney


    humbert, i *loved* the fountainhead too!
    Currently on Oranges are not the only fruit, not very impressed tbh


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    Kevster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Kevster


    After a number of years of reading solely science books and magazines, I'm now currently reading Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.


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    genericgoon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭genericgoon


    And another thing, The world according to Clarkson Vol 2

    Jeremy Clarkson

    Its not all high brow stuff you know :p


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