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This week, I are mostly reading....

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    #2582
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    Just finished a freebie of The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, and I'm about to start Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.


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    #2583
    chenguin
    Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭chenguin


    Just finished Cathcher in the rye.
    Not sure what to read next either crime and punishment or the new Paulo Coelho book.


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    #2584
    Odysseus
    Registered Users Posts: 6,754 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    Just finished Henry IV part one so I started on part II this morning


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    #2585
    Liquorice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭Liquorice


    Summer guilty pleasure reading is Agent of Evolution, a Bill Hicks bio I got as a present ages ago. Started Days of Reading today as well, another present.


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    #2586
    Blush_01
    Registered Users Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    The Poe Shadow - Matthew Pearl


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    #2587
    niffle
    Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭niffle


    reading Blindness good so far


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    #2588
    Cannibal Ox
    Registered Users Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭Cannibal Ox


    Burmese Days - George Orwell. Like it, good athmosphere.
    John wrote:
    Henry James The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
    What do you think of it? I was looking at it the other day and thinking about reading it.


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    #2589
    Mink
    Registered Users Posts: 2,260 ✭✭✭Mink


    The Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold.
    Really love it. Fantastic characters & original idea. Can be a bit unsettling but I think that's what I like about it.

    Going to try Revolutionary Road next


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    #2590
    Milky Joe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭Milky Joe


    finished catch 22 good read. Now for something completely different... A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson


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    #2591
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    "Love in a Cold Climate" - Nancy Mitford


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    #2592
    Orizio
    Registered Users Posts: 9,460 ✭✭✭Orizio


    Reading In Cold Blood right now, truly exceptional.


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    #2593
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    About half way into Babitt by Sinclair Lewis. A great book.


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    #2594
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users Posts: 7,220 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    Anna Karenina, about 390 pages in out of 811.


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    #2595
    Ian C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 70 ✭✭Ian C


    Just finished "Deadhouse Gates" by Steven Erikson, and just starting "Musicophilia" by Oliver Sacks.


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    #2596
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    I'am a big fantasy fan and this is my first book by Mr williams.
    Finding it tough going ,but determinted to finish it.Like some of the characters and dislike others,hopefully it will rally at the end.
    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!......already bought part 2 in a sale for €3 .


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    Mink
    Registered Users Posts: 2,260 ✭✭✭Mink


    Ok, finished The Lovely Bones... loved it

    Now reading... Revolutionary Road... good so far. The guy who wrote it (Richard Yates) used to write Robert Kennedy's speeches in the 60's. Book's not about that for those who've not read it. They made it into a film recently (Leonardo DiCaprio & Kate Winslet) but I'm not going to watch that til finish the book.


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    #2598
    ChewChew
    Moderators Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭ChewChew


    I'm reading 'The Book Thief' and am thoroughly enjoying it. It's a very interesting, and fascinating story and the way it is narrated is just superb! :D


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    #2599
    remus808
    Registered Users Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭remus808


    The Beach by Alex Garland, great for this time of year. Looking forward to watching the movie once I'm finished, I hear its quite good despite my suspicions.


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


    re-re-re-reading Shogun by James Clavell in anticipation of a jaunt out east later this year.


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    paoloiaquinta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭paoloiaquinta


    just read "paddy clarke" - excellent. also just read "boys in the river" - again, excellent - both books well worth the read - both books shortish too so it won't take you weeks to get through.
    next up is "the appeal" - john grisham.......


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    #2602
    chenguin
    Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭chenguin


    Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
    Very good book. Finding out everything I want to know about Einstein


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    #2603
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users Posts: 17,938 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    Just started reading The Lord of the Flies, so far so good!!:)


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    #2604
    Blush_01
    Registered Users Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    Theft - Peter Carey

    Actually not bad!


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    #2605
    randomguy
    Registered Users Posts: 285 ✭✭randomguy


    Blush_01 wrote: »
    Theft - Peter Carey

    Actually not bad!

    I read a lot of his earlier stuff and always found that it was hard-going at the start but worth it. Oscar and Lucinda is a classic, once you get into it.

    Just finished Bad Science by Ben Goldacre, based on his Guardian column. Recommended reading for those who have their doubts about Alternative Medicine and homeopathy etc.

    Have returned to Rick Moody's The Diviners - he wrote The Ice Storm so I had high hopes for this, but it is patchy and annoying in places. Still, exhilarating in patches too.


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    #2606
    Sir Gallagher
    Registered Users Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    Just finished The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway today and finished The Great Gatsby last week, another 2 classics down, 100's more to go!


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    #2607
    rickman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭rickman


    paolo...the roddy doyle one is good - "paddy clarke"enjoyed mccluskey's "boys in the river" one too.also i can recommend "the salesman" by joseph o'connor


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    i-digress
    Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭i-digress


    Just finished 'All Names Have Been Changed' by Claire Kilroy, and am currently reading 'Glover's Mistake' by Nick Laird. Would thoroughly recommend both of them.


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    DTrotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭DTrotter


    Re-reading the Dudley Smith trio by James Ellroy (The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz), very good books with very complex stories and characters.


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    #2610
    callmescratch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 316 ✭✭callmescratch


    Just finished Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson

    On The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery - seriously loving it


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    Enid.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭Enid.


    Just finished The Luminous Life Of Lily Aphrodite by Beatrice Colin. It's totally not the type of book I'd usually read but it was cute, the author did great research and created a very nice picture of Germany around WW1.

    I'm re-reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone now...just for the lulz:D

    I intend to start Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas after. Yay for summer!


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