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This week, I are mostly reading....

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    #2492
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    yermin wrote: »
    I just finished the first in the sandman series by Neil Gaiman, and it has reawakened my love for comics after many years of not touching them.
    Started reading the first book of The Wheel of Time series for the second time, having got to the tenth and then stopping before the 11th for some reason. Damn I love those books though.
    And this week , mostly, I are mostly reading The island of the day before by Umberto Eco. Which Is a bit of a struggle for me at times, but it's totally worth it so far.

    I know what you mean about the wheel of time. I stopped after book 10 as well. Never bothered moving on to 11 and once I heard Jordan died and the book is to be finished by someone else I decided to give up on the series altogether!


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    #2493
    orangecake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭orangecake


    Spread wrote: »
    Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman.

    I loved that book.

    Currently reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. It is absolutely brilliant.


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    #2494
    tHE vAGGABOND
    Registered Users Posts: 6,687 ✭✭✭tHE vAGGABOND


    Originally Posted by tHE vAGGABOND viewpost.gif
    Uncle Toms Cabin
    Would you recommend it? Been on my bookshelf for years but never got round to it.
    Im about 150 pages in after 2 days! Its brilliant..

    Like all books from the middle of the 1800's it was written for chapter by chapter publishing, so each chapter is a story in itself, which makes it very readable indeed!


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    #2495
    banjopaul
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    Currently reading Shantaram:A Novel by Gregory David Robert.


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    #2496
    Blush_01
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    Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde.

    I think I might be a fan.


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    #2497
    abelard
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    Had been trying to get through it for aaaages, but I finally finished Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" last night.

    Maybe it's because it's still so fresh in my mind, but I thought it (and especially the last 100 pages or so) was some of the best and most powerful literature I've ever read.

    It was my first Dickens book, and I thought he tied together the themes, characters and backstory in such an incredible way.


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    #2498
    growler
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    Under Enemy Colours , s. THomas Russell, another british navy v's the French yarn , not bad but not Patrick O Brien either.

    and

    The Brutal Art, Jesse Kellerman, not the kind of thing I'd usually read , detective novel with a bit of artiness thrown in, won't be making my top 5000 books of all time


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    #2499
    Blush_01
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    The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde.

    Entertaining so far.


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    Andy-Pandy
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    China Melvile: Perdido St. Station

    Had it for a while, tried a few times to get into it, and failed. I am really enjoying it now.


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    #2501
    Manach
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    A perfect mess : the hidden benefits of disorder by Abrahamson & Freedman

    (i.e. why it is acceptable to ignore work's clean desk policy)

    On growler's book choice, thanks for tip as an O'Brian reader as well.


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    #2502
    Denerick
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    Around the world in 80 days by Jules Verne. Nearly finished it, taking my time. Small book and I think it was written for children back in the day.


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    #2503
    Leonard_H
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    Kharn wrote: »
    sorry, wanted to start a new thread tongue.gif

    Anyway...
    I are reading Magician by Feist


    ;) there are some interesting books in Persian language.
    maybe somobody knows english translation ??


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    #2504
    Blush_01
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    Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
    Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts


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    #2505
    DublinWriter
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    Millroy the Magician by Paul Theroux and JPod by Douglas Coupland.


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    #2506
    GhostInTheRuins
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    Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift


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    #2507
    mickedm
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    A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry


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    #2508
    Spread
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    Perley - The True Story Of A New England Hermit


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    #2509
    John
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    Ian Fleming Casino Royale


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    #2510
    Toots
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    Just read Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows again. Twas even better the second time, I think the first time I was so eager to find out how it ended I didn't really take it all in.


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    #2511
    O'Coonassa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭O'Coonassa


    A list of literary posers by various artistes


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    #2512
    Birdie086
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    The mammoth book of Jack the Ripper and because its true and freaks me out my bedtime book is John Rebus tooth and nail


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    #2513
    Tawfee
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    That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern


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    Cannibal Ox
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    Sartre - Nausea
    Hilariously depressing, one gigantic moan-a-thon. I have Autofiction by Hitomi Kanehara sitting on my desk, and I've never read Japanese fiction, so I'm tempted to give up on Nausea and switch to it.
    Denerick wrote:
    ...took on Catch 22. Around 250 pages in, fantastic book and can hardly keep away from it!
    One of the best! It's a great book, makes you think.


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    Proxy
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    Reading At Swim - Two Birds at the moment and it's making me feel incredibly dumb. I can't make head nor tail of it. No; I just find the main character irritating. I'll give it time, although it's a hard slog.

    Also flicking in and out of "Gentlemen's Blood: A History of Dueling" by Barbara Holland. Massively informative, humourous and well-written, highly recommended.


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    #2516
    John
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    Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert


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    #2517
    chenguin
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    I am reading Nineteen Eighty-Four.


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    #2518
    Busi_Girl08
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    I just finished The Book Thief

    Now Im on to Misery by Stephen King


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    #2519
    Tawfee
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    Lush Life by Richard Price


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    #2520
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,382 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Tawfee wrote: »
    That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
    Beautiful book.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    #2521
    finalfantasist
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    I'm currently reading At The Mountain of Madness and High Lord.


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