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This week, I are mostly reading....

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    #1562
    gracehopper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭gracehopper


    The bedroom secrets of the master chefs - irvine welsh.

    Pretty decent, fast moving, loads of cursing, scottish dialogue. About 2 guys trapped in a kind of voodoo doll tit for tat fight. It makes edinburgh sound like a horrible gaudy place. If you liked the acid house and trainspotting you'll be into this.


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    #1563
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Finished:
    Dante The Divine Comedy (I even read some of it in his pre-exile house and in the church he saw Beatrice for the first time)
    Dario De Tuoni Ricordo di Joyce a Trieste
    Bill Bryson The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (very enjoyable and funny)

    Currently reading:
    Frederick Taylor The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989
    Vivien Igoe James Joyce's Dublin Houses & Nora Barnacle's Galway
    The catalogue for the Guggenheim Museum in Venice


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    #1564
    Stargal
    Registered Users Posts: 3,626 ✭✭✭Stargal


    Reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen and dipping into On Purpose by Nick Laird.


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    #1565
    Deirdre Maguire
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    This is an odd one, I know, but I just finished Sean Moncrieff's novel, 'The History of Things' (I think it was only published this week), and it was really, really good - which surprised me greatly because I never liked him on television. He should write full time.


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    #1566
    AJG
    Registered Users Posts: 348 ✭✭AJG


    Just finished 'The Serpent Of Stars' by Jean Giono and I've moved onto 'The Decline Of The West' by Oswald Spengler.


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    #1567
    crotalus667
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    The catcher and the rhy :D


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    #1568
    GhostInTheRuins
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    I finally got around to reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I've been meaning to read it for years. About time I say!


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    #1569
    ZorbaTehZ
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭ZorbaTehZ


    Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray. Amazing stuff.


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    #1570
    Mrs. MacGyver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Mrs. MacGyver


    Mercy by Jodi Picoult
    The woman who walked into doors by Roddy Doyle


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    #1571
    arbeitsscheuer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,391 ✭✭✭arbeitsscheuer


    Robert Fisk In Time of War
    Clair Wills That Neutral Island
    Mark M. Hull Irish Secrets
    and, if I can feckin' well find it in our library,
    Carolle J. Carter The Shamrock and the Swastika


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    #1572
    tHE vAGGABOND
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    Shakespeare, by bill bryson


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    #1573
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    the selfish gene - richard dawkins


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    #1574
    luckylucky
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    gracehopper wrote:
    The bedroom secrets of the master chefs - irvine welsh.

    Pretty decent, fast moving, loads of cursing, scottish dialogue. About 2 guys trapped in a kind of voodoo doll tit for tat fight. It makes edinburgh sound like a horrible gaudy place. If you liked the acid house and trainspotting you'll be into this.

    I finished this a few weeks ago, good book, funny in parts, but very bleak.


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    #1575
    stovelid
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    luckylucky wrote:
    I finished this a few weeks ago, good book, funny in parts, but very bleak.

    What, Irvine Welsh...bleak? Surely not. :D


    Platform - Michel Houellebecq

    Watching the Door - Kevin Myers


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    #1576
    toomevara
    Registered Users Posts: 5,772 ✭✭✭toomevara


    The Road - Cormac McCarthy.....stunning, possibly his greatest work.


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    #1577
    XJR
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    The Broker - John Grisham - a reasonable yarn and something to do when I wake at 3am.


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    #1578
    shepthedog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,689 ✭✭✭shepthedog


    John Simpson - The Wars against Saddam.. Interesting read..

    Finished "This Book Will Save Your Life" a while back and enjoyed it immensely. Very different but think its like marmite, you'll love it or hate it..


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    #1579
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    The Master by Bryan MacMahon.


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    #1580
    theCzar
    Registered Users Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭theCzar


    Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6. *sigh*


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    #1581
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users Posts: 8,019 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    Just finished Fields of Fire by James Webb. A very poignant book about the horrors and losses of the Vietnam war.

    I'm about a third of the way through catch-22 after read it on and off for the last while. Apart from a few mildly humorous parts its doing absolutely nothing for me but I'm determined to finish it!


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    #1582
    Blush_01
    Registered Users Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
    The Portable Creative Writing Workshop - Pat Boran
    A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
    Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    The Dream Life of Sukhanov - Olga Grushin
    Poor Souls - Joseph Connolly
    Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
    Pieces of Me: A Life-in-Progress - Róisín Ingle


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    #1583
    BossArky
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    Dubliners - Joyce


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    #1584
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Eric R. Kandel In Search of Memory


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    #1585
    prendy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭prendy


    just finished harry potter no7.
    only started bk1 in july.they are such addictive books!


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    #1586
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Samuel Beckett Murphy. It's... dense.


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    #1587
    Dudess
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    Blush_01 wrote:
    A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
    Great book - very sad.

    I'm reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy - cheery. But my aim is to read every apocalyptic/dystopian book ever!


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    #1588
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Gardens of the Moon - The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Book 1
    by Steven Erikson


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    #1589
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm currently reading Contract by Simon Spurrier.


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    #1590
    ZorbaTehZ
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭ZorbaTehZ


    John wrote: »
    Samuel Beckett Murphy. It's... dense.

    Could you expand a little on that? :)


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    #1591
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,647 ✭ [Deleted User]


    This Champagne mojito is the last thing I own.Not quite as dense as some of Samuel Beckett's work!:D


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