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What book are you reading atm??

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    #5432
    Miss Demeanour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Miss Demeanour


    EoghanIRL wrote: »
    Nope but a family member has them.
    Worth reading ?

    Yes! .....I did...loved them....and not my 'normal 'type' of book.


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    #5433
    Deranged96
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    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    At least Robin Hobb doesn't make us wait 5+ years between instalments like some fantasy writers.

    Apply snow to the burnt area.

    Just finished "Revival" by Stephen King. The end of the book is straight up, served cold, freaky sh*t. Classic King.

    Think I'm going to hit "Go Set a Watchman" next... But I hesitate before opening that Pandora's box.

    Maybe just another King instead


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    #5434
    Belle E. Flops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Belle E. Flops


    Deranged96 wrote: »
    Think I'm going to hit "Go Set a Watchman" next... But I hesitate before opening that Pandora's box

    I wouldn't bother. I read this a couple of days ago and really didn't like it and I loved To Kill a Mockingbird. Apparently this was just a draft that ended up being changed a lot to become TKAM.

    I wish I hadn't read it so I'm going to pretend I didn't because it would taint TKAM when I read it again. If that makes sense.


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    #5435
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Menas wrote: »
    Just finished "The truth about the Harry Quebert affair'...all 614 pages of it. Not a bad read but a few too many twists and turns for my liking.

    Have started 'The Goldfinch'...sure its only 860 pages long...should be finished by christmas.

    Only 540 pages to go.:(
    Its not a bad read though...just a bit cumbersome


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    #5436
    LenaClaire
    Registered Users Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭LenaClaire


    Read day of the truffles based on the suggestions here and really enjoyed it. Also working on All Hell Broke Loose for a bit of history.


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    #5437
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Just starting The Long way. Bernard Moitissieres account of sailing around the world, alone, twice... He was meant to turn left and go up the Atlantic and said nah f*ckit, and just went around again 😳

    Should be an interesting one.


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    #5438
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,859 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Eventide by Kent Haruf. I'm only on page 8, but so far it's very well written and makes you want to keep reading. A very good start indeed.


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    #5439
    wylie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 462 ✭✭wylie


    Lee Child, A Wanted Man. Usual lee child stuff.


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    #5440
    Shenshen
    Registered Users Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    LenaClaire wrote: »
    Read day of the truffles based on the suggestions here and really enjoyed it. Also working on All Hell Broke Loose for a bit of history.

    Day of the truffles?

    Is that a comic rip-off of Day of the Triffids, or predicitve text?


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    #5441
    Barna77
    Registered Users Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    Finished The Heat of the Day, over 300 pages and nothing happens. Couldn't finish it early enough.


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    #5442
    deaddonkey15
    Registered Users Posts: 3,575 ✭✭✭deaddonkey15


    Just finished The Stranger by Harlan Coben - not great.

    Just started Grey Mountain by John Grisham - intriguing thus far.


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    #5443
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,317 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    'The Cartel', Don Winslow's amazing follow up of the equally amazing 'Power of the Dog'.

    If you have any interest in El Chapo's prison escape in Mexico I'd highly recommend it, basically very influenced by his life and the whole mad sh!t between the cartels and the U.S.'s War on Drugs.

    Some breathtaking set pieces in it.

    A review:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/books/review-the-cartel-by-don-winslow-continues-a-drug-saga.html?_r=0


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    #5444
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Birneybau wrote: »
    'The Cartel', Don Winslow's amazing follow up of the equally amazing 'Power of the Dog'.

    If you have any interest in El Chapo's prison escape in Mexico I'd highly recommend it, basically very influenced by his life and the whole mad sh!t between the cartels and the U.S.'s War on Drugs.

    Some breathtaking set pieces in it.
    Reading 'Power of the Dog' atm and reading about 'Shorty' Guzman escaping from jail in Mexico in the paper, i assume he was the character than Adan Barrera was based on?


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    #5445
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Literally on first page of The dice man by luke rhinehart,bought this immediately after reading the synopsis.


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    #5446
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,317 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Reading 'Power of the Dog' atm and reading about 'Shorty' Guzman escaping from jail in Mexico in the paper, i assume he was the character than Adan Barrera was based on?

    That's my impression anyway, could be wildly wrong but there are some stories that correlate with Guzman's life.


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    #5447
    LenaClaire
    Registered Users Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭LenaClaire


    Shenshen wrote: »
    Day of the truffles?

    Is that a comic rip-off of Day of the Triffids, or predicitve text?

    It is bedamned predictive text :o No more posting from my phone :(


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    #5448
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    the evasion_kid wrote: »
    Literally on first page of The dice man by luke rhinehart,bought this immediately after reading the synopsis.
    Excellent book, I've read it a few times now.
    There is a sequel to it as well which is pretty good too.


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    #5449
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Excellent book, I've read it a few times now.
    There is a sequel to it as well which is pretty good too.

    Must check it out after this boom_bap,this sounds like an interesting book.


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    #5450
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou.


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    #5451
    the_monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭the_monkey


    2001: A space odyssey


    Arthur C Clarke.

    Really amazing


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    #5452
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,317 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    the_monkey wrote: »
    2001: A space odyssey


    Arthur C Clarke.

    Really amazing

    The sequels are well worth a read as well. What a writer.


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    #5453
    the_monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭the_monkey


    Birneybau wrote: »
    The sequels are well worth a read as well. What a writer.


    I'll check them out too ... I think Childhoods End was the finest Sci Fi I ever read.


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    #5454
    bbsrs
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    Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum. Very entertaining read.


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    #5455
    gutenberg
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭gutenberg


    Halfway through Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, about the 1996 Everest disaster. I don't often read non-fiction (my day job is doing essentially that), but this is gripping and fascinating.


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    #5456
    Ayls
    Registered Users Posts: 58 ✭✭Ayls


    The Zoo by Jamie Mollart.


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    #5457
    Urbex
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭Urbex


    Sail by James Patterson


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    #5458
    baron von something
    Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭baron von something


    Brewing Up a Business: Adventures in Entrepreneurship from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery - Sam Calagione


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    #5459
    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Has anyone read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? Any good.

    Finished HHhH...excellent book.


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    #5460
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,177 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Has anyone read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? Any good.

    Yes. And yes, it is rather good. It's less about transcendental meditation and doing the valve-clearances on an EXUP, and more a treatise on the origin of Western thought through the ages, featuring a cast from Plato and Aristotle to Hume and Kant, though. :pac:


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    #5461
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,859 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Has anyone read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? Any good.

    I read it too, at the insistence of a good friend of mine, and I'm very glad that he did insist, I thought it was excellent. It will take a while to get into it - in my case, a few attempts, I kept picking it up, stopping after a few pages to read something else, but eventually I stuck with it and I couldn't get enough of it, it's one of those books that makes you think about things, whether you like it or not.

    READ IT! :cool:


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