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What book are you reading atm??

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    #6482
    PowerToWait
    Registered Users Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭PowerToWait


    boobar wrote: »
    If I'm thinking of the same book...Saturday is a great read.

    I'd have to call it one of the most overrated books I've read. I could not stand the characters, their incredibly wonderful lives, each family member wondrously endowed with esoteric talents.

    Slow, monotonous, self satisfied and bloated.

    Maybe that was the point. It totally turned me off though.


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    #6483
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    William Shatners Tech Wars.

    It's great.


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    #6484
    yellowcandle
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭yellowcandle


    The Lives of Women by Christine Dwyer Hickey. Quite dark, but am very much enjoying it.


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    #6485
    Rioghain
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭Rioghain


    Just finished Dominion by C S Sansom. It's set in a world where Nazi-Germany was victorious, and centres on the resistance movement in England. I had high hopes, having previously read Fatherland by Robert Harris. However it was a bit disappointing and nothing in comparison to Fatherland, which was wonderful.


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    #6486
    Ilyana 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    Rioghain wrote: »
    Just finished Dominion by C S Sansom. It's set in a world where Nazi-Germany was victorious, and centres on the resistance movement in England. I had high hopes, having previously read Fatherland by Robert Harris. However it was a bit disappointing and nothing in comparison to Fatherland, which was wonderful.

    I actually got pretty bored during Dominion, and I gave up. For something that should have been fascinating, it just wasn't.

    I got a present of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child that I can't wait to get started on. Apparently I'm still a big kid at heart!


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    #6487
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood By Fatema Mernissi. It's a memoir of the authors childhood, having been born in the fifties in a Moroccan Harem.

    It's an brilliant book, and captures the mood and resignation of the harem women perfectly, and makes me think of some old saying about never being able to enslave the human mind, even if their bodies are imprisoned.


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    #6488
    hairyprincess
    Registered Users Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    yellowcandle wrote: »
    Lying in wait by Liz Nugent. She wrote Unravelling Oliver. Great second book. Her books leave the reader shook!

    Read it in less than 24 hours! Really loved it, she's an excellent writer.


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    #6489
    spud82
    Registered Users Posts: 654 ✭✭✭spud82


    hairyprincess wrote: »
    Read it in less than 24 hours! Really loved it, she's an excellent writer.

    Same here she is amazing. Just started Liane Moriartys new book, it's a bit if a slow start but looking forward to getting into it.


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    #6490
    northgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,434 ✭✭✭northgirl


    In a dark dark wood by Ruth Ware. About half way through, quite slow so far.


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    #6491
    spud82
    Registered Users Posts: 654 ✭✭✭spud82


    northgirl wrote: »
    In a dark dark wood by Ruth Ware. About half way through, quite slow so far.

    I was going to get her book with yesterday but choose Liane Moriartys instead looks like i made the right choice


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    #6492
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    Finished reading "Harry Potter & The Cursed Child". I enjoyed it immensely!
    About to start reading Sam Blake's "Little Bones".


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    #6493
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,344 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    McChubbin wrote: »
    Finished reading "Harry Potter & The Cursed Child".

    What's this? How did I not hear about a new Harry Potter book?


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    #6494
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Collie D wrote:
    What's this? How did I not hear about a new Harry Potter book?

    They published the rehearsal script for the new play.


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    #6495
    Autosport
    Registered Users Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    McChubbin wrote: »
    Finished reading "Harry Potter & The Cursed Child". I enjoyed it immensely!
    About to start reading Sam Blake's "Little Bones".

    I've read Sam Blakes "Little Bones" very enjoyable, great twists :)


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    #6496
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Charley Boorman.
    By Any Means.


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    #6497
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users Posts: 3,709 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

    Physics explained to you as if you were a 5 yr old and let's face it for most of us we are permanently 5 yrs old when it comes to theories of physics.


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    #6498
    [Deleted User]
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    Candie wrote: »
    Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood By Fatema Mernissi.

    Finished that, absolutely enthralling book.

    Now just starting Hotspot: The Chilling True Story Of An Ebola Outbreak
     by Richard Preston.

    It examines the Ebolavirus outbreak of 2014 and traces it's path and impact. Looks like a promising read.


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    #6499
    BobbyT28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,440 ✭✭✭BobbyT28


    Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent. 30 pages in a pretty good so far.

    Also just finished Behind closed doors by B.A Paris. Good read


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    #6500
    yellowcandle
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭yellowcandle


    Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff. Really enjoying it so far. Engrossing.


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    #6501
    yellowcandle
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭yellowcandle


    BobbyT28 wrote: »
    Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent. 30 pages in a pretty good so far.

    Also just finished Behind closed doors by B.A Paris. Good read


    Read both in a day, great reads!


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    #6502
    sorifinh
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭sorifinh


    Ian McEwan Sweet Tooth

    I love the way he writes women... Atonement was wonderful..


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    #6503
    curiousoranje
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭curiousoranje


    Content Provider by Stewart Lee. I love the notes that give an insight into how he writes. Highly recommend it to any fans of his.


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    #6504
    northgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,434 ✭✭✭northgirl


    spud82 wrote: »
    I was going to get her book with yesterday but choose Liane Moriartys instead looks like i made the right choice

    Read the second half yesterday and I actually really enjoyed it. Starting Dead Wake next.


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    #6505
    gutenberg
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭gutenberg


    Re-reading Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres. Loved it when I first read it, and loving it again now that I'm re-reading: I'd forgotten how funny it is too! :)


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    #6506
    chases0102
    Registered Users Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭chases0102


    Just finished Liz Nugent's 'Lying in Wait'.

    Thoroughly enjoyed it. Will read her first book next.


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    #6507
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Just finished 'The Bone Clocks'. I should have read 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet' first (I started reading both at the same time and there's a recurring character) but it just confirmed to me once again that David Mitchell is amazing. The last part was eerily plausible and too close for comfort, but... wow.


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    #6508
    8mv
    Registered Users Posts: 418 ✭✭8mv


    New Home wrote: »
    Just finished 'The Bone Clocks'. I should have read 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet' first (I started reading both at the same time and there's a recurring character) but it just confirmed to me once again that David Mitchell is amazing. The last part was eerily plausible and too close for comfort, but... wow.
    I've never read any David Mitchell, but I'm aware of him. You've convinced me to check him out.


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    #6509
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Salems Lot. Felt like some vampire action and surprisingly whilst I've seen the movie (as a child which terrified me for weeks afterwards) I've never read the book and I've read a lot of King.


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    #6510
    Autosport
    Registered Users Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Chris Carter : The Death Sculptor, if you like crime/thrillers I recommend Chris to you :)


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    #6511
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    8mv wrote: »
    I've never read any David Mitchell, but I'm aware of him. You've convinced me to check him out.

    Oh good!! :) Start with 'Ghostwritten' and 'Cloud Atlas'. :)


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