What book are you reading atm??

Igotadose

"Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever." by Rick Wilson. Entertaining. Nothing new in it that's not been covered ad naseum, but fun to read anyway.

batgoat

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

We can discuss any genre here and, tbh, we don't get enough recommendations on historical fiction and fantasy.

Currently on Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett and The Scottish Clearances by T.M. Devine

I see what you did there.

Foweva Awone

Foweva Awone wrote: »

The Killing Lessons by Saul Black. Best crime novel I've read in a while. Grisly stuff!

Just finished LoveMurder by the same author. Very clever and funny and dark and addictive. Would recommend!

McMurphy

I work for myself, usually it's fairly rural based (I work in a specific engineering sector, that's seldom urban based) and had - minutes earlier complained about the particularly rural location I was carrying out my services this morning (piggery in Westmeath) to s supplier when minutes later I listened to a fairly moving interview given to P.K on Newstalk by an Irish Doctor, Dom Colbert.

In the interview, this particular doctor (whom I never heard of before) described to PK various aspects of his life's works (certain aspects of which he never even told his wife about, so hunted were some of them) including - a starving man in Africa die in his arms with a jelly baby he had just placed in his mouth, amputating a Sudanese prisoners hand (with no anaesthetic), delivering "Satan's child" and curing a "mentally disturbed man" in Canada with a "frog in his head"

Put that particular work location into context in comparison.

Tried to find an ebook version of it (not much luck) but his book is the next I'll be reading.

No Tears Left: Biafra to Bosnia https://www.google.ie/search?kgmid=/g/11f79446jx&hl=en-IE&kgs=257e4d7f1c2e7eda&q=No+Tears+Left:+Biafra+to+Bosnia&shndl=0&source=sh/x/kp&entrypoint=sh/x/kp

Purple Mountain

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

I work for myself, usually it's fairly rural based (I work in a specific engineering sector, that's seldom urban based) and had - minutes earlier complained about the particularly rural location I was carrying out my services this morning (piggery in Westmeath) when minutes later I listened to a fairly moving interview given to P.K on Newstalk by an Irish Doctor, Dom Colbert.

In the interview, this particular doctor (whom I never heard of before) described to PK various aspects of his life's works (certain aspects of which he never even told his wife about, so hunted were some of them) including - a starving man in Africa die in his arms with a jelly baby he had just placed in his mouth, amputating a Sudanese prisoners hand (with no anaesthetic), delivering "Satan's child" and curing a "mentally disturbed man" in Canada with a "frog in his head"

Tried to find an ebook version of it (not much luck) but his book is the next I'll be reading.

No Tears Left: Biafra to Bosnia https://www.google.ie/search?kgmid=/g/11f79446jx&hl=en-IE&kgs=257e4d7f1c2e7eda&q=No+Tears+Left:+Biafra+to+Bosnia&shndl=0&source=sh/x/kp&entrypoint=sh/x/kp

Thanks. I'll order it from the library.

4Ad

For The Good Times by David Keenan.
Young IRA volunteers in 1970's Belfast..
Irvine Welsh could of written it, funny, tragic, gruesome but BRILLIANT..
Def worth a read.
I cant wait to read his other books...

Stevecw

A Life Too Short - The Tragedy of Robert Enke

Finished it today and wow, what a book. Amazing and even though you know how it is going to end, it still shakes you.
Best book about a footballer I have ever read. He had it all, but had serious demons.


Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, the biography of Robert Enke, the international footballer with the world at his feet who took his own life

Here, award-winning writer Ronald Reng pieces together the puzzle of his lost friend's life. On November 10, 2009, the German national goalkeeper, Robert Enke, stepped in front of a passing train. He was 32 years old. Viewed from the outside, Enke had it all. He was a professional goalkeeper who had played for a string of Europe's top clubs, including Jose Mourinho's Benfica and Louis Van Gaal's Barcelona, and was destined to be his country's first choice for years to come. But beneath the bright veneer of success lay a darker story. Reng brings into sharp relief the specific demands and fears faced by those who play top-level sport. Heartfelt, but never sentimental, he tells the universal tragedy of a talented man's struggles against his own demons.

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Too-Short-Tragedy-Robert/dp/0224091662

JupiterKid

The Outrun by Amy Lipcott.

Excellent read.

_Godot_

Just finished The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. Glad I got it from the library rather than buying it, it was fine, an enjoyable enough read, but not something I'd reread, and no interest in the rest of the series.

EmmetSpiceland

Mile High Club by Kinky Friedman. A fun read, nothing too serious and he keeps it short and sweet.

mikemac2

King Leopolds Ghost

About the King of the Belgians who personally owned the Congo region. Not the state, he owned it. Don’t make the rubber quota....get your hand introduced to a machete

Plently of familiar names. Explorer Henry Morton Stanley of “Dr Livingstone I presume” gets savaged

Roger Casement was praised by friend and foe. The issue of his diaries is discussed and he was pretty reckless which would haunt him later. Paying young men for sex and recording it including how much he paid. What was he thinking???

The writer Joseph Conrad worked there

I like it , thumbs up

Heckler

SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers

True story about the allied plan to liberate Tobruk by having German Jews pose as Afrika Korps soldiers escorting POWs (in reality armed soldiers of the newly formed SAS) into Tobruk ahead of a sea and air assault in order to wreak havoc while at the same time freeing and arming thousands of actual POW's in the process to help the fight.

You couldn't make it up. It would make a great mini series. How these lads could walk with balls that big......

Foweva Awone

"Beautiful Boy" by David Sheff. I've been meaning to watch the movie, but saw the book in the library so decided to read it instead. It's very good, very insightful. I'll be giving it to my parents to read when I'm finished it - I'm a recovering addict myself, and I think they'll get a lot of identification.

arybvtcw0eolkf

quickbeam wrote: »

I have the Emperor series in my to read list too. I look forward to it if the WotR series is anything to go by.

Btw I have the whole Emperor series in paperback, if you're anywhere in Dublin I can drop them off for you if you wish.

Going back through the thread to see who recommended Philippa Gregory.. I've just bought Gregory's three 'The Constant Princess', 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Boleyn Inheritance'.

The first book covers Catherine of Aragon and its gripped me from the start

Finished 'Beat' by Rowan Somerville. The story of the 2001 suicide bombing massacre of 21 mostly teenage girls by a Palestinian suicide bomber at the Dolphinarium, Tel Aviv.

Somerville is an Irish author who travels to Tel Aviv and the West Bank to cover the victims and the story behind the murderer to strapped a bomb to himself, walked in among the crows of teens and blew them up.

A very good read.

quickbeam

Noel Some Cornbread wrote: »

Btw I have the whole Emperor series in paperback, if you're anywhere in Dublin I can drop them off for you if you wish.

Oh, I'd love that thanks. What parkrun are you doing this Saturday? I could meet you there.#

(Preferably one I've not done yet, so I can cross it off my list )

arybvtcw0eolkf

quickbeam wrote: »

Oh, I'd love that thanks. What parkrun are you doing this Saturday? I could meet you there.#

(Preferably one I've not done yet, so I can cross it off my list )

Father Collins, St.Annes or Malahide are all good for me

quickbeam

I've done them all, so whichever you like so.

arybvtcw0eolkf

quickbeam wrote: »

I've done them all, so whichever you like so.

Since the weather is suppose to be lovely I was thinking St.Annes, its beautiful on a sunny morning. I'll PM you.

Ipso

kimokanto wrote: »

Paul Kingsnorth wrote an interesting book set just around the Norman invasion of England. "The Wake" I really enjoyed it.

Reading this now. The language he created is a bit distracting, I would have preferred it in modern English as the story is very interesting.

signostic

The Lost German Slave Girl by John Bailey, extraordinary true story of Sally Miller and her fight for freedom from slavery in New Orleans in the 1850`s. America did not only have black slaves but white as well.

"the slave is bound to risk his safety in the service of his master, cannot deline service, still less leave the service, but is wholly absolutely, and unreservedly under the absolute control, nay caprice of his master"
Judge Albert Duffel of Louisiana, 1860

Purple Mountain

Just finished The Woman in the Window in two sittings.
Brilliant stuff.
Its very Gillian Flynnesque.
Highly recommended.

I finished two very underwhelming books. One of them is called The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson. I had high hopes for this little book because I'm a big fan of crime, particularly Nordic noir. It wasn't great at all at all. Woman detective on the brink of retirement etc.
The other one was called House of Ghosts. A convuluted plot about espionage during World War 1 and ghosts. Very dull and disappointing because I love ghosts!

Hopefully Stephen King's Pet Semetary shall be much much better. I'm only a few pages and am already excited about what might be coming

rushfan

Just started "Becoming " by Michelle Obama, which I was really looking forward to. Certainly hasn't disappointed so far.

adox

Deleted User wrote: »

I finished two very underwhelming books. One of them is called The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson. I had high hopes for this little book because I'm a big fan of crime, particularly Nordic noir. It wasn't great at all at all. Woman detective on the brink of retirement etc.

I’ve just recently read the second in the series, The Island and I loved it. I haven’t read the first one.

It’s a trilogy(two released so far) that goes backwards.

Sleazy Rider

I've just finished the Bobiverse trilogy by Dennis E Taylor.
Bob gets frozen upon death and awakens as a disembodied artificial intelligence, is turned into an intelligent starship/ Von Neumann probe, and proceeds to replicate and spread around the galaxy.
Thoroughly enjoyable and witty. Rattled through them.

Just started Fup by Jim Dodge. Some American modern fable involving a permapissed owld fella, his gigantic grandson, and some kind of demented superintelligent duck. Seems promising.

Dial Hard

Deleted User wrote: »

I finished two very underwhelming books. One of them is called The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson. I had high hopes for this little book because I'm a big fan of crime, particularly Nordic noir. It wasn't great at all at all. Woman detective on the brink of retirement etc.
The other one was called House of Ghosts. A convuluted plot about espionage during World War 1 and ghosts. Very dull and disappointing because I love ghosts!

Hopefully Stephen King's Pet Semetary shall be much much better. I'm only a few pages and am already excited about what might be coming

My thoughts on House of Ghosts (from this very thread, a month or so ago):

Dial Hard wrote: »

Followed that with A House of Ghosts by W.C. Ryan. Very standard "something going bump in the attic of a haunted house" potboilery stuff. You'll spot the "twist" about a quarter of the way in.

Deleted User wrote: »

Hopefully Stephen King's Pet Semetary shall be much much better. I'm only a few pages and am already excited about what might be coming

Pet Sematary is King at his absolute scariest & finest. I've read it five or six times and it still scares the bejesus out of me every time.

Daisy78

Mort by Terry Pratchett.

Lillysue99

Skin Deep by Liz Nugent.
All of her books are incredible. This being by far the best . Most unique author.

Autosport

The Plea by Steve Cavanagh. I can’t get enough of this author I love finding a new Irish author

Foweva Awone

I'm going for the classics this weekend ... I reread "Animal Farm" this morning, and now I'm halfway through "The Exorcist". :eek: Never read it before, and have only ever seen bits and pieces of the movie.