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    #32
    Scruff
    Registered Users Posts: 4,222 ✭✭✭Scruff


    Originally posted by Kolodny


    Cool. It's a favourite of mine. I've recommended it to so many people.

    tis deadly alright.
    Have ye read Cryptonomicon?
    I'm going to read that next. Just read the review of it at amazon uk. looks good. my flat mate has it and he said it is way better than Snow Crash :eek: :)


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    #33
    Bloody Drunkard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭Bloody Drunkard


    Gotta love Bill Bryson I am currently re-reaing Notes from a small Island. His books are all quality

    I'm also reading A Season With Verona where Tim Parks follows Hellas Verona and theri fans for a season ala Joe McGuinness did with Castel di Sangro. Anyone read ths book or McGuinness's ???


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    #34
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,702 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Joe McGuinness did with Castel di Sangro
    Indeed I did, and I found it excellent. I thought McGuinness played it a bit too American-Innocent but still the ending is the most unexpected yet in retrospect right for that Italian soccer team, 8/10.


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    #35
    DapperGent
    Registered Users Posts: 4,838 ✭✭✭DapperGent


    Against a Dark Background Iain M. Banks and a stupid dumb annoying Visual Basic Book.


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    #36
    Kolodny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Kolodny


    Originally posted by DapperGent
    Against a Dark Background Iain M. Banks and a stupid dumb annoying Visual Basic Book.

    Read Against a Dark Backgroud recently, what do you think so far?


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    #37
    Raskolnikov
    Registered Users Posts: 10,148 ✭✭✭✭Raskolnikov


    That book someone mentioned, 'The Third Way' i don't suppose you fancy telling us something about that? I was going to buy it a few days ago there but ended up buying something entirely different


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    #38
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 19,514 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    King of the World - by David Remnick. Very good it is too...


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    #39
    Lenny
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    lies of silence - brian moore


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    #40
    CodeMonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭CodeMonkey


    Northern Lights - Phillip Pullman


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    #41
    Thanx 4 The Fish
    Registered Users Posts: 15,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭Thanx 4 The Fish


    Just Re-read Northern Lights - Cracking book
    A Beautiful mind - Bout Halfway - Not too bad
    Valkyries ride out - Nearly finished - V good SF from Australia


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    #42
    Rufus T Firefly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭Rufus T Firefly


    Just finished "Them: Adventures With Extremists" by Jon Ronson and also recently finished reading "The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx. Both were well worth the time.

    Next up I think I'll have a lash at "Sex Art And American Culture" by Camille Paglia.


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    #43
    pyure
    Closed Accounts Posts: 427 ✭✭pyure


    im between books atm...gonna finish the last few david gemmell books, then i might read into the james bond books - read casino royale a while back, wasnt bad

    i read northern lights last year - and to be honest i thought it was the biggest load of ****e ive ever read :p

    lookin forward to the next age of chaos book...sigh, to many books, just not enough hours in the day...


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    #44
    deco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 620 ✭✭✭deco


    Montaigne's essays


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    #45
    Samson
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    I have just started reading Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder.


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    #46
    Johnny_the_fox
    Registered Users Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Johnny_the_fox


    Im not a big reader... but decided to read something that I have alot of interest in

    Phil Lynott: the Rocker - Mark Putterford


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    #47
    potlatch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭potlatch


    I suppose I'm starting Fast Food Nation now. But I have 'Manuel Castell's Reader of Social and Urban Theory' which should be fun. Going to also buy Thomas Pynchon's 'The Crying of Lot 49' as well.


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    #48
    alb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭alb


    Anthony Burgess - Earthly Powers
    Hunter S. Thompson - Hell's Angels


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    #49
    Monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 927 ✭✭✭Monkey


    An Accidental Diplomat by Eamon Delaney
    and as always a book about art


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    #50
    rob1891
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    Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse.

    Bought it in an airport last year, we had been making our way home for 30 hours and had to wait another 12 in London for the last leg .... I could barely put the freakin sentences together I was so tired.


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    #51
    Corega
    Registered Users Posts: 857 ✭✭✭Corega


    Just finished Trusted Mole by some guy whos name I can't spell from the top of my head, true story about an interpreter in the Balkans during 92'/93' and far too heavy reading for me.

    Now starting Tripwire by Lee Child about 6'5 ex-military policeman Jack Reacher. Predictably enough always getting into scraps.


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    #52
    CodeMonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭CodeMonkey


    Now reading The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman which is the 2nd book in the Dark Materials trilogy or the sequel to Northen Lights.


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    #53
    PPC
    Registered Users Posts: 2,396 ✭✭✭PPC


    Just started War of the worlds on an iPaq.
    Found a site with loadsa free (legit) books.


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    #54
    mise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,147 ✭✭✭mise


    just finishing off the appendices at the end of Lord of the Rings, and then im gonna get stuck into The Silmarillion. Also reading U2: A Conspiracy of Hope.


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    #55
    Venom
    Registered Users Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
    Fuhrer - Allan Prior
    Fatherland - Robert Harris


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    #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 242 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Friedrich Neitzche - Beyond good and evil (again)

    im also planning on writing a biography of Frank Feery, my musical hero


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    #57
    yellum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭yellum


    The Ice Harvest - Scott Philips

    Disappointing so far, hoping it picks up. Its meant to be a gritty crime noir story..


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    #58
    Spunog UIE
    Registered Users Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭Spunog UIE


    Warlock by Wilbur Smith. Not usually my thing but is good about pharaoh's, Egypt, battles and all that. Like an old epic film really. Nearly finished it, pretty damn good.

    Gid.


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    #59
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    Just Read: Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho (Interesting light read for some one who hadn't picked up a book for a few months)

    Re-Reading ATM: The Godfather by Mario Puzo (forgot to bring home my next choice for the weekend so I grabbed it from my nearest pile at home)

    In Pipeline: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert
    M. Pirsig (Don't know what to expect yet)


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    #60
    [nicK]
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭[nicK]


    "Killing Pablo" - Mark Bowden
    "The Mind Game" - Hector Macdonald (again)


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    #61
    genie
    Registered Users Posts: 975 ✭✭✭genie


    Just finishing 'In pursuit of the Proper Sinner' by Elizabeth George and about to start the next in the series called 'A Traitor to Memory'...


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