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This week, I are mostly reading....

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    #2162
    boobookitty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭boobookitty


    Richard Laymon - Night in the lonesome October.

    3rd time reading it. On loan from the library and I'm still loving it.


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    #2163
    crotalus667
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    The lovely bones


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    #2164
    BenjAii
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    I'm going through a biography phase. Just finished David Starkey on the early life of Elizabeth 1st and now with Peter Ackroyd on Edgar Allen Poe.

    I'm slightly embarrassed to say the choice of David Starkey was inspired by watching the latest Cate Blanchet installment on Elizabeth; Poe was picked up randomly at the library, is brief, but as all i've read of Peter Ackroyd before full of enough detail to fascinate.


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    #2165
    Lemon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭Lemon


    Just finished my third time reading 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt (saw her on Grafton Street a couple of months ago btw...she gave me a look as if to say "yeah yeah I know you recognise me now f*** off")

    Reading 'Dresden' by Frederick Taylor, 'Kieren Fallon' by Andrew Longmore and 'Vile Bodies' (again) by Evelyn Waugh.


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    #2166
    staker
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    Bill Clinton's autobiography "My Life". Tough enough going in that I can't relate to most of the characters.
    Can't help but think it's a "best of" of his own life, even though I respected him as president. He's never shown in a bad light...
    And no, I haven't got to THAT bit yet!:D


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    #2167
    THEHEDGEHOG
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    Procopius- Secret History , an analysis of tyrrany 500ad Rome. Some things never change.

    Conrad - The Secret Agent.


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    #2168
    DenMan
    Registered Users Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭DenMan


    Right now reading Heal Your Spirit, Heal Yourself. The Spiritual Medicine Of Tibet by Dr Pema Dorjee with Janet Jones and Terence Moore. It truly is a remarkable and eye opening book. I would highly recommend it to people.

    http://www.amazon.com/Heal-Your-Spirit-Yourself-Spiritual/dp/1842931555/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218310230&sr=8-1


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    #2169
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Japanese Independent Music by Franck Stofer et al.


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    #2170
    Ciaran B
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    Finished Special Topics In Calamity Physics By Marisha Pessl yesterday which was pretty good but it flagged a bit in the middle, good ending though.

    Started Heartbreaker by Robert Ferrigno this morning. He's always enjoyable, 100 pages in and it's quite entertaining.


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    #2171
    ionapaul
    Registered Users Posts: 5,297 ✭✭✭ionapaul


    I'm reading a few at the minute:

    The Never-Ending Days Of Being Dead (Non-Fiction): Marcus Chown

    Critical Mass (Non-Fiction): Philip Ball

    The Book Of Dave: Will Self

    Really enjoying this last one; anyone read any of the above and what did you think?


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    #2172
    the immortals
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    persian fire by tom holland, fantastic stuff


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    #2173
    IvyTheTerrible
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    the immortals wrote: »
    persian fire by tom holland, fantastic stuff

    Have you read "Rubicon"? It is fantastic.

    I've just started Germinal by Emile Zola....it's very good. I have a feeling it's not going to be a happy ending!


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    #2174
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Toll the Hounds - Steven Erikson


    yay!!!!


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    #2175
    film_gonzo
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    Just started 'American Gods' by Neil Gaiman and I'm hooked already.


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    #2176
    victoriaa
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    One flew over the cuckoo's nest.. I already know the end (damn you jack nicholson with all your movies) so it's kinda ruined for me. Nonetheless, a very good book.


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    #2177
    herbieflowers
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    Flann - At Swim-Two-Birds


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    #2178
    tHE vAGGABOND
    Registered Users Posts: 6,687 ✭✭✭tHE vAGGABOND


    Just started Midnights Children, by Salman Rushtie.


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    #2179
    John
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    I read The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami while on my holidays. Both very good but very, very different.


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    #2180
    Lemon
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    I've just finished 'The Blind Assasin' by Margaret Atwood. It was really excellent. She has one hell of an imagination!

    Currently reading some plays by Noel Coward. Light relief and very witty.


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    #2181
    IvyTheTerrible
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    Lemon wrote: »
    I've just finished 'The Blind Assasin' by Margaret Atwood. It was really excellent. She has one hell of an imagination!

    I loved that book.

    Finished Germinal, cried my eyes out in the last 50 pages. Brilliant.

    Started "A good and happy child"...it's a little ...unsettling... so far..


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    #2182
    Jim
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    Factotum - Charles Bukowski

    Awesome awesome read.


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    #2183
    BroomBurner
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    Reading The Crusades at the moment, trying to not be so ignorant of our history.


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    #2184
    Roisin89
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    I've just finished Great Expectations, and I liked the way it was told, and it made me laugh and almost cry, but the ending was a bit abrupt.

    I've really gotten into the classics lately, because I like the fact that they are what modern literature is based on.

    I think I'm going to start a Colin Bateman book next. I've never read any of his books, but I like the sound of them haha and I saw an interview with him once, and it was really good. It's called "Orpheus Rising: Love, Rockets and a Bloody Great Fish".

    =]


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    #2185
    DenMan
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    Finally got my hands on The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (Gothic). Looking forward to getting really stuck into it. Gothic novels really float my boat as they give me great inspiration.


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    #2186
    bluto63
    Registered Users Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    Just finished reading The Island Of Dr Moreau by H. G. Wells
    Roisin89 wrote: »
    I've just finished Great Expectations, and I liked the way it was told, and it made me laugh and almost cry, but the ending was a bit abrupt.
    =]

    Was just about to start reading this


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    #2187
    rosboy
    Registered Users Posts: 990 ✭✭✭rosboy


    Just finished reading "A Long Way Gone" by Ismael Beah. Its the memoirs of a child soldier. Should be recommended reading for everyone. Sheds a light of a very different reality to ours, but one that is going on in parrallel. An essential read.

    Just starting "Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegut


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    #2188
    YogiBear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭YogiBear


    WASTED by Mark Johnson!
    www.amazon.co.uk/Wasted-Mark-Johnson/dp/184744024X


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    #2189
    monkey9
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    God Is Dead by Ron Currie


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    #2190
    Tetra
    Registered Users Posts: 301 ✭✭Tetra


    No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay


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    #2191
    herbieflowers
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    Nausea - J-P Sartre


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