What book are you reading atm??

baron von something

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby

great little book and great film too

Auldloon

RoboRat wrote: »

Really? Think i'll give it a wide berth so. I heard the interview on Matt Cooper and it sounded interesting.

I enjoyed it and would say its worth a read. (City of bohane)

david75

Mars Bar wrote: »

I haven't read Lord Of The Rings and always held a weird smugness about the fact.
I might just though. See if it's a fantasy land I could lose myself in...

You should. It's wonderful. He needed an editor badly in work sections but overall it's fantastic.

Merkin

The Sea Sisters by Lucy Clarke, seems quite good so far

rock chic

beano345 wrote: »

Anyone read that book "the alchemist?and would you recommend it?

by peter james yes its very good i love any book hes written my favourite author crime, mystery and supernatural brilliant

diomed

Empty Mansions - the Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguette_Clark

She died aged 104 in 2011.
Her father, W A Clark, was born in 1839, and was the second wealthiest man in the USA - railroads, copper mines, electric power, sold most of the lots in Las Vegas, newspapers, bank.

Amazing houses
The Clark mansion on 5th Avenue and 75th Street, New York, cost $180 million in today's dollars, and was only occupied for 14 years.
Le Beau Chateau, New Canaan, New York state, was empty for over sixty years. Huguette didn't live there.
Bellosguardo, Santa Barbara, California, was inherited by Huguette in 1963, kept unchanged in perfect condition, Huguette never visited.

A $10 million Degas painting of a ballerina was stolen from Huguette's New York apartment - in the possession of a well known collector. She refused to sue to get it back, as she did not want publicity.
She gave $30 million to her nurse during her life, a similar amount in her (contested) will.

Huguette's last public photo was in 1928. She died in 2011 after spending her last 20 years in hospital although perfectly healthy until near the end.

baron von something

The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman

Vojera

baron von something wrote: »

The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman

I really enjoyed that book. I found it really charming. I would love to see a spin-off or more stories set in the same world.

ruthloss

A Dance with Dragons.1: Dreams and Dust .( Game of Thrones. George R.R. Martin)

I also have 2:( After The Feast) to read when I finish the Dreams and Dust.

Santa knows how to make me happy.:D

Alf Veedersane

Hyperbole And A Half.

A collection of stuff from the blog but I hadn't known about the blog when I got it. Plenty of lolz.

Birneybau

Recently finished "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon and "Fleshmarket Close" by Ian Rankin.

Currently reading "Them: Advenures With Extremists" by Jon Ronson and "Stoner" by John Williams, really enjoying both.

GLaDOS

Halfway through Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, right up there with his best work.

IvyTheTerrible

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Halfway through Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, right up there with his best work.

Just finished it, really excellent sequel.

iwantmydinner

Birneybau wrote: »

Recently finished "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon

One of my all-time favourites.

I got Pat Leahy's "The Price of Power" for Christmas. Only just started it, reads very well so far. I'm a fan of Leahy's SBP work anyway so it was a pretty safe bet that I'd like this.

iwantmydinner

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Hyperbole And A Half.

A collection of stuff from the blog but I hadn't known about the blog when I got it. Plenty of lolz.

This was on my Christmas list but I didn't get it must get it myself. Love the blog.

Alf Veedersane

iwantmydinner wrote: »

This was on my Christmas list but I didn't get it must get it myself. Love the blog.

The wife bought it for me. I've no idea how...it wouldn't be her humour and she'd never heard of it.

But managed to pull out a whammy like that.

Ilyana 2.0

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Hyperbole And A Half.

A collection of stuff from the blog but I hadn't known about the blog when I got it. Plenty of lolz.

My boyfriend got that for Christmas and from the snippets I've read, it's just hilarious!

willmunny1990

270 pages into Stephen Kings IT and I am enjoying it so far, I have never been into reading and I don't think this was a great first choice to be honest, its so long and sprawling in parts it makes it difficult at times to get through.

However I have never once found it boring, its consistently absorbing for the most part, I've yet to come across this controversial part either which is supposed to be pretty bad by all accounts. Ill definitely keep going with it as it enjoyable but I feel it'll take me forever to finish!

ItsNoAlias

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

--Kaiser--

Over Xmas I picked up No Way Down by Graham Bowley, about a somewhat disastrous attempt on K2 where a number of people died. I literally could not put it down nor could I be tempted away from it by booze, poker games or sleep. And now I want to climb some tall mountains

astonaidan

Just finished Zlatans Autobiography, now Im starting on Ronan O'Garas

Paco Rodriguez

A Great Game; a history of hockey in Toronto by Stephen Harper.

Really really interesting if you are into ice hockey.

newmug

Scent of roses, by colm Keane. It's a collection of eye witness accounts, specifically from Irish people, relating to miracles and cures from Padre Pio. A curious read, especially for the non-believer.

ItsNoAlias

ItsNoAlias wrote: »

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

I read all his books last year, fantastic. Some brilliant characters.

calanus

Simon Singh - The Simpsons and their mathematical secrets

baron von something

Vojera wrote: »

I really enjoyed that book. I found it really charming. I would love to see a spin-off or more stories set in the same world.

my favourite gaiman book so far

ItsNoAlias wrote: »

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

and part my joint-favourite trilogy of recent years

GLaDOS

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Halfway through Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, right up there with his best work.

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Just finished it, really excellent sequel.

Finished it last night. Was sceptical when I head he was doing a sequel to The Shining but he really proved me wrong. Best thing he's written in a while.

Got a load of books over Christmas

Catch-22
World War Z
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy of Four
Cracked.com's The De-Textbook
Shadow of a Dark Queen (Raymond E Feist)
The Fifth Elephant (Pratchett)
Hannibal and Hannibal Rising
Collection of Short Stories by Egdar Allen Poe
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)

Also found The Book Thief lying around the house so added it to the pile

Will keep me busy for a good while

Vojera

I'm reading Season 8 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I'm halfway through. I like that it carries on from the tv show but sometimes the dialogue tries too hard.

blue note

A Prayer for Owen Meaney and The Lord of the Rings at the moment. Both superb.

I read a couple of Stephen King ones before that - the long walk, shawshank, apt pupil. Its hard to go wrong with Stephen King!

roro1990

Just finishing The Slight Edge, by Jeff Olson. A brilliant read.

judgefudge

Just started 11.22.63

sadie06

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Got a load of books over Christmas


The Road (Cormac McCarthy)

Also found The Book Thief lying around the house so added it to the pile

Will keep me busy for a good while

Leave that one till last, as there's a high probability you will top yourself after reading it, and then never get to read the others.

GLaDOS

sadie06 wrote: »

Leave that one till last, as there's a high probability you will top yourself after reading it, and then never get to read the others.

Sounds intriguing!

Censorsh!t

Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

mosstin

Over half way through 'The Goldfinch' by Donna Tartt. Really enjoying it.

Call Me Jimmy

Censorsh!t wrote: »

Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

Snap.

Also the Yoga Sutra.

bnt

Just read A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story. It's quite short, and fairly weird in a way I wasn't expecting.

I wasn't expecting the whole Mormons interlude, for example.

Witchie

Finished reading a lovely book that my 16 year old son suggested I read coz he really enjoyed it called "The Fault In Their Stars" by John Green. A really moving story well told. Was shocked that my son loved it so much. Passed it on to my sister and she just sent me a message today to tell me that its my fault she was crying in work today, well the fault of the book! She loved it too.

Just started reading One Day by David Nicholls but not having much time for reading with loads of college work to do. Oh well.

Mars Bar

Witchie wrote: »

Finished reading a lovely book that my 16 year old son suggested I read coz he really enjoyed it called "The Fault In Their Stars" by John Green. A really moving story well told. Was shocked that my son loved it so much. Passed it on to my sister and she just sent me a message today to tell me that its my fault she was crying in work today, well the fault of the book! She loved it too.

Just started reading One Day by David Nicholls but not having much time for reading with loads of college work to do. Oh well.

It's "The Fault In Our Stars"

It's coming out in the cinemas this year. I love the Vlogbrothers but haven't been able to bring myself to read that book. I don't want to be crying myself to sleep at night!

Witchie

Mars Bar wrote: »

It's "The Fault In Our Stars"

It's coming out in the cinemas this year. I love the Vlogbrothers but haven't been able to bring myself to read that book. I don't want to be crying myself to sleep at night!

Doh you are right. Silly me. Was too blinded by tears to read the cover!

Lennyzip

Heffo - A Brilliant Mind
A Biography Of Kevin Heffernan
By Liam Hayes


Kevin Heffernan was a giant amongst GAA men. A giant with a brilliant mind. An unforgiving giant. A giant who repeatedly warned everybody that he would not let his own mother get in the way of him winning one more game of football. Heffo was deeply admired and absolutely feared like no other. And like no other manager in the history of the GAA, his strength of mind and brutal toughness as a leader raised an army that was called his own - Heffo's Army. His fierce desire to win, and the forcefulness he displayed in the privacy of the Dublin dressing-room was often shocking. Nobody was spared. Everybody knew that Heffo took no prisoners. No cowards, no weaklings, no deserters. Heffo: A Brilliant Mind tells the Kevin Heffernan story for the first time. It's the story of a boy with the biggest dreams, and a man who lived with triumphs and the greatest regrets. It's the story of a club, and how Heffo and St Vincent's GAA club revolutionized the game of Gaelic football and changed the face of Dublin football forever. It's the story, too, of a great war. Heffo: A Brilliant Mind dramatically re-enacts the battles that Kevin Heffernan fought over four decades as a footballer and a manager in a long and punishing war with Kerry. A war waged by one man with the courage and fearlessnes of a true giant.

Vojera

Mars Bar wrote: »

It's "The Fault In Our Stars"

It's coming out in the cinemas this year. I love the Vlogbrothers but haven't been able to bring myself to read that book. I don't want to be crying myself to sleep at night!

I didn't know it was Vlogbrothers John Green! That makes me want to read it now.

Courtesy Flush

Stephen King
Salems Lot

Witchie

Vojera wrote: »

I didn't know it was Vlogbrothers John Green! That makes me want to read it now.

That's why my son bought it. Its beautiful and so well written. The first few chapters are a bit meh but then you just get sucked in and can't put it down and if you don't tear up a little your heart is made of stone.

HalloweenJack

Currently reading Doctor Sleep, the sequel to the Shining.

It's pretty good so far. Similar and different to the Shining, with a lot of references to the first one in it. Also, it's interesting how Stephen King has expanded on some of the peripheral ideas in the Shining.

stoeger

The damage done by warren fellows just finished it again after first reading 15 years ago

stoeger

The damage done by warren fellows just finished it again after first reading 15 years ago

Oregano_State

90 pages into Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel as of ten minutes ago. Entertaining so far, has caused me to spend some time on Wikipedia reading around the history of the Tudors and the reformation.

FouxDaFaFa

Witchie wrote: »

Finished reading a lovely book that my 16 year old son suggested I read coz he really enjoyed it called "The Fault In Their Stars" by John Green. A really moving story well told. Was shocked that my son loved it so much. Passed it on to my sister and she just sent me a message today to tell me that its my fault she was crying in work today, well the fault of the book! She loved it too.

Just started reading One Day by David Nicholls but not having much time for reading with loads of college work to do. Oh well.

If you enjoyed TFIOS, you should try one of his earlier books, "Looking For Alaska". It's my favourite of his.

Witchie

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

If you enjoyed TFIOS, you should try one of his earlier books, "Looking For Alaska". It's my favourite of his.

Cheers thanks for the tip!