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What book are you reading atm??

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    #6722
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Reading a treatise on toleration by Voltaire - Sales of the book skyrocketted in France after Charlie Hebdo. One of the best books you can ever read in my opinon and is more potent now than ever before. You can find a lovely Penguin classic with this lovely painting by Francois Dubois on the cover.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Francois_Dubois_001.jpg




    Now that I look at the painting , I realise that it's not so lovely as its a depiction of Catholics gorging out the insides of protestants with swords and piercing weapons.


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    #6723
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Finished a novel and need more; easy reading. There is a huge bookcase here full of educative books but not my scene these days. Picked out one ."The Land I Live" by Stephen Longstreet, so will see what like it is..


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    #6724
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,317 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    UsedToWait wrote: »
    If you didn't enjoy Pilgrim, you'll find it dull and repetitive.

    Easily one of the worst books I've ever read.


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    #6725
    heathledgerlove
    Registered Users Posts: 114 ✭✭heathledgerlove


    schofferhofer wrote: »
    Just read Sense of an ending by Jules Barnes. Great book very tragic end.
    Would recommend reading it before the hollywood movie comes out.

    Read that last year, it was so brilliantly written, fascinating to see the cause-and-effect of people's actions and reactions within relationships. Also, very ordinary main character but just portrayed so engagingly.

    Am reading An Evening of Long Goodbyes; it's great, very like PG Wodehouse with a funny turn of phrase but also a sharp eye on modern Ireland. If it's even half as good as Skippy Dies I'll be happy, SD was amazing, I'm still gobsmacked over it :)


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    #6726
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    John Porter of Kingsclere, An Autobiography (publ. 1919)


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    #6727
    Jayop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,388 ✭✭✭✭Jayop


    Just fine Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer. One of my favorite books was his Prisoner of Birth and this was a really good long read too. Pure hard to put down page turner.


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    #6728
    Shenshen
    Registered Users Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Waiting, waiting, waiting for amazon to deliver the 2nd book to The Three Body Problem...
    and re-reading all my Neil Gaiman books while waiting. American Gods was actually better the second time round, Neverwhere wasn't quite as good as I remembered.


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    #6729
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,713 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    No easy day, the US Marine corp assault on the Iraqi city of Falujah.


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    #6730
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Joined the local library which is incredibly well stocked.. AND visited the local charity shop who have books at 4 for a euro.. the library also had a great table of freebies..RICHES!

    Started a Jodi Picoult but the subject matter of this one is not to my taste. We shall see. She researches in too much detail often I am finding. I read "Lone Wolf" recently and it became almost a text book on wolf behaviour.


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    #6731
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,935 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Manach wrote: »
    No easy day, the US Marine corp assault on the Iraqi city of Falujah.
    Is No Easy Day not Seal Team 6 going after Bin Laden?

    https://www.amazon.com/No-Easy-Day-Autobiography-Firsthand/dp/0525953728


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    #6732
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    I'm reading The Hobbit, starting Chapter 4 and enjoying it so far.


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    #6733
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,221 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    About one third of the way through Justin Cronin's The Passage. Thoroughly engrossed in it.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #6734
    sarah88
    Registered Users Posts: 502 ✭✭✭sarah88


    I've just started Win or Learn by John kavanagh. I'm enjoying it so far, the quality of writing is much better than expected.


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    #6735
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    Bought "An Astronauts Guide to Life on Earth" by Chris Hadfield. I'm delighted he so far has only spoken of what it takes to become an astronaut and his experiences in Space but I think it's meant to be a self-help book; how to be an astronaut in your everyday life kind of thing.


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    #6736
    Putt it there
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭Putt it there


    Re-reading Catch-22 , a classic !


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    #6737
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Ploughing through "The Son" by Jo Nesbro. Took a long time to get into with so many names...


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    #6738
    2ygb4cmqetsjhx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 564 ✭✭✭2ygb4cmqetsjhx


    I'm listening to the audiobook of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K Rowling read by Stephen Fry. I read them all years ago as a teenager but listening to the narration again is great. I am enjoying it as much as the first time through and understanding the plot much more. Actually my first time ever rereading a book.


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    #6739
    SeaFields
    Registered Users Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    Around 100 pages into "all hell let loose" by max Hastings. A complete guide to WWII. Very interesting and depressing at the same time.


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    #6740
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    Night Watch, by the late great Terry Pratchett. I read it at least once a year. Still laugh at the jokes and see new nuances ) Its about an old cop (the legendary Sam Vimes) that goes back in time and meets his young self, just starting out as a cop. And he teaches him(self) how to walk a beat, see whats going on around him, and when to hold on to the beast within us all..... And when to let it loose.

    Oh, and there magic, dwarves, and trolls (only in first chapter) and the birth of Sam's son.


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    #6741
    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,495 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Going to start The miniaturists.


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    #6742
    Kurtosis
    Registered Users Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Kurtosis


    GLaDOS wrote: »
    About one third of the way through Justin Cronin's The Passage. Thoroughly engrossed in it.

    I finished the third book in the series, City of Mirrors, yesterday...I envy you just starting out :pac:


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    #6743
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,221 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Kurtosis wrote: »
    I finished the third book in the series, City of Mirrors, yesterday...I envy you just starting out :pac:

    Are the follow up books good?

    I'd heard mixed things about the second one.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #6744
    Widdershins
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    GLaDOS wrote: »
    Are the follow up books good?

    I'd heard mixed things about the second one.

    The third was a bit..ridiculous


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    #6745
    Kurtosis
    Registered Users Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Kurtosis


    GLaDOS wrote: »
    Are the follow up books good?

    I'd heard mixed things about the second one.

    I enjoyed them all, not necessarily gritty realism, but have to say they are serious page turners!


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    #6746
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Just finished "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" by Tim Weiner
    https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-History-Tim-Weiner/dp/0307389006/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1485870816&sr=1-1&keywords=legacy+of+ashes


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    #6747
    Parchment
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Parchment


    Paul Kalanithi - When Breath Becomes Air


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    #6748
    dragona
    Registered Users Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭dragona


    Parchment wrote: »
    Paul Kalanithi - When Breath Becomes Air

    It's a wonderful wonderful book.


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    #6749
    badabing106
    Registered Users Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭badabing106


    Comrades, I am reading "all the kremlin's men-a look inside the court of Vladimir Putin


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    #6750
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Another Picoult about whales but finding it a confusing read as it hops from one time to another....

    Did not though know that whales do not sleep.


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    #6751
    Hugo Stiglitz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,891 ✭✭✭✭Hugo Stiglitz


    I've started reading Digging Up Mother: A Love Story by Doug Stanhope. Only a chapter in but am enjoying it so far. :)


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