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    #212
    vinylbomb
    Registered Users Posts: 605 ✭✭✭vinylbomb


    Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
    If you can get past the fact that at first glance it seems to be about cricket its quite a good book.


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    #213
    Teutorix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    Pyr0 wrote: »
    Just started The Decent of Angels - Horus Heresy
    The series any good? 40K FTW!


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    #214
    EmoMatt15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭EmoMatt15


    Heggy wrote: »
    Someone had other things on their mind when they posted. :P
    Can't imagine Fry doing horror.

    Ooops Yeh I made a boo boo!

    Its cos I love Stephen Fry and Stephen King and I read books by both of them!!

    Too many Stephens :pac:


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    #215
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    The catcher in the rye..... Its not very good imo


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    #216
    Fad
    Registered Users Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    landyman wrote: »
    The catcher in the rye..... Its not very good imo


    tbh it completely depends when you read it, you have to be the right age to enjoy it properly.


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    #217
    Teutorix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    Fad wrote: »
    tbh it completely depends when you read it, you have to be the right age to enjoy it properly.
    what age is that? i havent read it yet.
    and do you mean age or maturity?


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    #218
    cautioner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 862 ✭✭✭cautioner


    I read it last year (17) and didn't enjoy it at all.


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    #219
    Armin_Tamzarian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭Armin_Tamzarian


    STALIN (biography by Robert Service).

    Great book, what a guy...


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    #220
    Teutorix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »
    STALIN (biography by Robert Service).

    Great book, what a guy...
    Yes, what a man indeed :pac:


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    #221
    Fad
    Registered Users Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    Teutorix wrote: »
    what age is that? i havent read it yet.
    and do you mean age or maturity?


    Around 14/15 is a really good time, then you can read it again and say "This was such a good book" but If you read it at say 17 once you've developed a bit more and hormones kinda level off, its not really all that relelvant.

    Same with Wuthering Heights according to my uncle, but I havent read it.

    That said when I was 14 I mainly read John Grisham novels..........(But I managed to squeeze in catcher there)


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    #222
    Teutorix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    Fad wrote: »
    Around 14/15 is a really good time, then you can read it again and say "This was such a good book" but If you read it at say 17 once you've developed a bit more and hormones kinda level off, its not really all that relelvant.

    Same with Wuthering Heights according to my uncle, but I havent read it.

    That said when I was 14 I mainly read John Grisham novels..........(But I managed to squeeze in catcher there)
    oh well im almost 17 now


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    #223
    Armin_Tamzarian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭Armin_Tamzarian


    Teutorix wrote: »
    Yes, what a man indeed :pac:

    Surely TIME magazine couldn't have gotten it wrong...


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    #224
    Fad
    Registered Users Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    Teutorix wrote: »
    oh well im almost 17 now
    You can still read it, and you could well enjoy it, but just dont expect it to change you outlook on life............


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    #225
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Fad wrote: »
    tbh it completely depends when you read it, you have to be the right age to enjoy it properly.

    Hmm true i suppose.


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    #226
    norwegianwood
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭norwegianwood


    The Kiterunner- i'm not that far into it yet but it's a really good book.
    I just finished reading the book version of Slumdog Millionaire- I can safely say its the only time i ever saw a movie based on a book that was actually better than it.


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    #227
    denashpot
    Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭denashpot


    McMafia by Misha Glenny.


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    #228
    cautioner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 862 ✭✭✭cautioner


    norwegianwood wrote: »
    The Kiterunner- i'm not that far into it yet but it's a really good book.
    I just finished reading the book version of Slumdog Millionaire- I can safely say its the only time i ever saw a movie based on a book that was actually better than it.

    Wait, which one's better now? Like the book, haven't seen the movie yet.


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    #229
    norwegianwood
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭norwegianwood


    cautioner wrote: »
    Wait, which one's better now? Like the book, haven't seen the movie yet.


    Yeah, sorry, could have been more clear about that.I thought the book was good, but the movie was way better.


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    #230
    RHRN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭RHRN


    The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon


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    #231
    Brien
    Registered Users Posts: 233 ✭✭Brien


    Are you Dave Gorman by Dave Gorman


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    #232
    Jello
    Registered Users Posts: 2,739 ✭✭✭Jello


    Watchmen. Film is out on Firday so I should be finished it by then. I'm not into comics/graphic novels usually but it's a great read.


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    #233
    cautioner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 862 ✭✭✭cautioner


    The Kingdom of Infinite Space by Raymond Tallis. It's more philosophical than I'd expected but very interesting. About the brain and consciousness and all that jazz.


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    #234
    marzabar
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    of Human Bondage by Maugham... It's amazing. (Nothing to do with like sex and chains bondage...)


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    #235
    [Deleted User]
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    Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"

    after which my girlfriend is going to let me read The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (can't wait!)
    Brien wrote: »
    Are you Dave Gorman by Dave Gorman

    Brilliant book. Read "Googlewhack Adventure" next.


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    #236
    Michellenman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Brilliant book. Read "Googlewhack Adventure" next.

    His stand up version of this is one of the funniest things I've ever watched! I was in stitches throughout the entire thing!

    Reading: The Turn of the Screw - Henry James.
    It's never as much fun to read for college as it is for pleasure, regardless of what book it is :(


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    #237
    Crumble Froo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    i had a weird habit of starting to read hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, then discovering i had some big state exams to do, only getting halfway through it, and then it having to go back to the library.

    so i've finally finished hitchikers guide to the galaxy and am most of the way through the next book, the restaurant at the end of the universe.


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    #238
    cocoa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭cocoa


    i finished mostly harmless, the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named hithchiker trilogy recently and am now readin Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency which is also by douglas adams :)

    Now if only I could get starship titanic to run on my comp...


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    #239
    EmoMatt15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭EmoMatt15


    I'm reading 1984 by George Orwell again
    Definitly my fave book by him


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    #240
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    marzabar wrote: »
    of Human Bondage by Maugham... It's amazing. (Nothing to do with like sex and chains bondage...)
    Suuuuuurrreeee it isnt ;)


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    #241
    marzabar
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭marzabar


    Ultimate Chin wrote: »
    Suuuuuurrreeee it isnt ;)


    haha! I tried to pretend I was a good upstanding girl... Damn you foiled that anyway!

    1984 is fantastic ! One of my favourites. :D


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