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CTYIers favourite book

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    #32
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    Already have Sarah - Gill forced it on me a few months back and i stayed up reading until i finished it that same night - fantastic read.


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    #33
    edibility
    Closed Accounts Posts: 602 ✭✭✭edibility


    Yeah, same as with me :) I really want my own copy aswell.


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    #34
    carlowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,152 ✭✭✭carlowboy


    "Why not me"- Al Franken..
    Funniest book everrrrr!


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    #35
    Feral Mutant
    Registered Users Posts: 950 ✭✭✭Feral Mutant


    Never read that one but I did read "Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them". Hilarious.


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    #36
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Just finished Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein for the second time, great book.


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    #37
    Piste
    Registered Users Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    The Crow Road by Ian banks is good. If only for the exploding corpses and morse code messages sent using genitals.


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    #38
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    As is Wasp Factory. Creepy, creepy book... Dead Air is funny as hell too. Moby Dick is an amazing novel. I think everyone should read it. It's just mad. Makes me want to go stab endangered species...


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    #39
    im_invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 375 ✭✭im_invisible


    anything by irvine welsh (filth, trainspotting, porno..) chuck palahnuik; choke, (the only one of his ive read yet), david mitchell; cloud atlas, (very good, 6 interconnected stories ...from the 19th century to a post-apocayptic future...) michael crichton; timeline, (a bit of time-travel) just read casino royale by ian flemming, reading fear and loathing in las vegas at the moment, i refuse to read lotr, or watch the films, just because...


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    #40
    carlowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,152 ✭✭✭carlowboy


    Feral Mutant wrote:
    Never read that one but I did read "Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them". Hilarious.


    It's a lot funnier. He's supposedly running for President and he has a "diary" about it. Farking class.


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    #41
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Piste wrote:
    The Crow Road by Ian banks is good. If only for the exploding corpses and morse code messages sent using genitals.
    As is the Algebraist, but that's Iain M. Banks. ie sci-fi.


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    #42
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    Havent managed to get more than a few pages into the algebraist, whis is personally worrying seeing as that makes 3 Iain (M.) Banks books i havent read - espedair st., algebraist and player of games - *is a huge fan* - though i do think the later stuff isnt as good.


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    #43
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Algebraist is very hard to start all right. Took me at least 3 tries ^^;


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    #44
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    I can lend you Espedair Street if you like. Great book.


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    #45
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    Actually - another two fantastic books that i've just finished (most stop reading 3 books concurrently - it gets...er...odd.)

    First they killed my father, which i mentioned already.
    Perfume, by Patrick Goksund(?)
    and The Historian - interesting read.


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    #46
    Undergod
    Registered Users Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Undergod


    The Algebraist = the dog's genitals.

    Great book. Great author.


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    #47
    edibility
    Closed Accounts Posts: 602 ✭✭✭edibility


    I do like Iain M. Banks alright, although I prefer his Iain Banks stuff.


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    #48
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Haven't read any of his stuff sans M, but then again I tend to prefer speculative fiction


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