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    #32
    Panda
    Registered Users Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Panda


    The Catcher in the Rye

    just started it, always meant to read it just because it was one of those classic type books.

    or something


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    #33
    Psychedelic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭Psychedelic


    Just finished reading "So Long and Thanks For The Fish" by Douglas Adams, the 4th book in the Hitch Hiker series. probably my favourite of the books, though i haven't read Mostly Harmless yet.
    Dunno what to read now though-another Bukowski novel would be good (read "Ham On Rye" a while ago-brilliant)- or some Freud or Jung would be nice


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    #34
    johnnynolegs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭johnnynolegs


    am just finishing Talon of the Silver Hawk by Feist and am just starting stormrider by david gemmell
    Just finished Marian Keynes 'last chance salon'. So thedrowner don't worry I think she's brilliant and very funny too.

    yep i read this last year and i was actually very surprised cos it was sooo good


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    #35
    Unjaku
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭Unjaku


    'The Lathe of Heaven'
    Ursula le Guin

    Just finished reading Phillip Pullman's 'Dark Materials' trilogy.


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    #36
    johnnynolegs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭johnnynolegs


    finished silver hawk am halfway through stormrider and have just started murder in lamut


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    #37
    davej
    Registered Users Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭davej


    I'm 3/4 way through the last book in the Pullman Dark Materials trilogy.
    I've really enjoyed them it has to be said. I took them on holiday with me last week and got through them quite quickly. Your eyes are opened to the richness of his universe very nicely as the story progresses.

    Davej


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    #38
    ThenComesDudley
    Registered Users Posts: 519 ✭✭✭ThenComesDudley


    Just Finshed THE STRAW MEN by MICHEAL MARSHALL
    and AMERICAN GODS by Neil Gainman
    ( I Highly recomend you all check this book out. its the bees knees)


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    #39
    roxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 702 ✭✭✭roxy


    At Swim Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill. About two gay teenage boys in south dublin around 1916.

    The syntax is just classy - I'd say this guy has read plenty of flann o'brien in his time: it's of a similar vain.


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    #40
    yellum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭yellum


    William Gibson - Pattern Recognition

    Set this time in the present, has mentions of Sept 11th. Just started it, saving it for my flight tomorrow.

    Book released in Feb 2003 btw :)


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    #41
    SandraP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭SandraP


    Joseph Conrad - Nostromo


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    #42
    roxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 702 ✭✭✭roxy


    Originally posted by yellum
    William Gibson - Pattern Recognition

    has mentions of Sept 11th.....saving it for my flight tomorrow.


    way-hey!! sounds like fun.


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    #43
    Pigman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭Pigman


    Originally posted by Mythago
    , but does demonstrate the somewhat narrow minded view some people have of Ireland!

    Which reminds me ...... just finished 'An Intelligent Person's guide to Modern Ireland' by John Waters.

    A must read if you've never had faith in our governments and their 'solutions' of selling us as cheap intellectual labour to multinational corporations, then similtaneously insulting us by saying we are a progressive and autonomous nation whose destiny remains in our own hands.


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    #44
    adnans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭adnans


    Originally posted by yellum
    William Gibson - Pattern Recognition

    Set this time in the present, has mentions of Sept 11th. Just started it, saving it for my flight tomorrow.

    Book released in Feb 2003 btw :)
    explain yourself?

    adnans


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    #45
    LoGiE
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 2,968 Mod ✭✭✭✭LoGiE


    Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden.
    This guy was one ruthless bastard..


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    #46
    xern
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭xern


    Nemisis by bill napiar.

    Great book. i'd recommend it!


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    #47
    johnnynolegs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭johnnynolegs


    just started the wheel of time looking forward to it


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    #48
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    the wheel of time rocks :) be prepared for a long wait between books though.. but if you'reonly starting you have another 10 books before that becomes an issue for you.

    i'm reading a book called Sabriel, by Garth Nix .. anyone ever heard of it? only on page 4 now :)


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    #49
    johnnynolegs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭johnnynolegs


    exactly i am only on book 1 and it has 700+ pages so it will be at least a week before i get to book 2


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    #50
    oeNeo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,299 ✭✭✭oeNeo


    Finished reading the Rama collection a few months ago, then read The Catcher in the Rye (for about the 3rd time). Just finished reading The Stand last night, excellent read! :)


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    #51
    Waylander
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,832 ✭✭✭Waylander


    The Horse with My Name by Colin Batemen, quite enjoyable. Just finished Espedair Street by ian banks, thought it was Ok but it took me a while to get into it.


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    #52
    Dr. Loon
    Registered Users Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭Dr. Loon


    Black House - Stephen King & Peter Straub.
    Quite enjoyable.


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    #53
    Makaveli
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    Lord of the Flies - William Golding


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    #54
    xern
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭xern


    Stupid White Men by Michael Moore

    Its pretty good, funny and serious at the same time!


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    #55
    Sticky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭Sticky


    I finished Perdido Street Station by China Mieville a while ago and it's a great read. I found it refreshing different for a 'fantasy' book, well worth checking out.


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    #56
    Chips Lovell
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    'A Frolic of His Own' by William Gaddis.

    Gaddis is a headwrecker. His style is all unattributed dialogue. Worth it though, despite the fact it's a long haul.


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    #57
    xern
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭xern


    Bravo two zero By Andy McNab.

    on page 81 now but its keeping my interest!!

    good so far!


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    #58
    DadaKopf
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    Just finishing Naomi Klein's new one, 'Fences and Windows: Dispatches From the Front Lines Of the Globalization Debate'.

    It doesn't come close to the scope No Logo but as a loosely themed collection of her lively and impassioned news articles and speeches, it's well worth reading. She gets across the problems, ideas and issues fuelling the movement with such accessible (and modestly polemic) clarity that even my Dad expressed an interest in reading it!

    Next on the chopping block is 'Why Do People Hate America?'.


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    #59
    shotamoose
    Registered Users Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭shotamoose


    Originally posted by DadaKopf
    ... lively and impassioned ...

    Are you reading that off the back cover? :D

    Just finished Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, liked it a lot. Gonna start Perfume by Patrick Suskind soon...


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    #60
    DadaKopf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    No, if I hadda been, I'd have used the word 'rollocking'.

    Wow, Perfume. That book's capital. It's un-notreadable.


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    #61
    stevoslice
    Registered Users Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭stevoslice


    coming up to the finish of matt reilly's area 7


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