Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

What book are you reading atm??

Options
1…102103105107108…316

Comments

  • Options
    #3122
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    Me too. Have you read Philip K Dick's "The Man in the High Castle"? Similar scenario; if Germany and Japan had won WW2. Well worth a read.

    Yes, a great read and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes Alt History. I've read every word Dick has ever written, he's a favourite :)

    Robert Harris' Fatherland is along the same lines, also a great read.


  • Options
    #3123
    SeaFields
    Registered Users Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    Just finished "Hidden Soldier" by Padraig o Keeffe.

    Its about a Cork man who, unable to get into the Irish army, ends up on a whim joining the French Foreign Legion. Ends up in Bosnia with the legion and eventually Iraq as private security escorting convoys of supplies. Gets ambushed and is the only guy to survive even after being shot a few times.

    Its is a gripping read, I literally had it done in a few hours, just couldn't put it down.


  • Options
    #3124
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    "The Driver" by Alexander Roy. It's about his search for this driver, who did a speed run through Paris and recorded it as a film called "Rendezvous," as his fathers dying wish. He sought to accomplish this by doing various rallies himself, such as Gumball and whatever took the place of Cannonball.

    It's quite hilarious. And yer man from Fast N'Loud features in it here and there.


  • Options
    #3125
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Read tad william's final book in the Shadow quadrilogy, and a brandon sanderson book about an emperor
    Both were great


  • Options
    #3126
    hsanz114clayton
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭hsanz114clayton


    FouxDaFaFa wrote: »
    Really enjoyable series.
    So good.I read Stephen Kings the running man there quite recently as it has been called before 'The original Hunger Games' Its not as good but its an enjoyable quick read roughly 200 pages if I remember.
    Which in the hunger games trilogy is your favorite?Im trying to think of mine now but I just cant decide!:rolleyes:


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #3127
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    hsanz114clayton wrote: »
    So good.I read Stephen Kings the running man there quite recently as it has been called before 'The original Hunger Games' Its not as good but its an enjoyable quick read roughly 200 pages if I remember.
    Which in the hunger games trilogy is your favorite?Im trying to think of mine now but I just cant decide!:rolleyes:

    The running man is my favourite book read it umpteen times I see a lot of myself in the main character pity the film was nothing like the book!


  • Options
    #3128
    hsanz114clayton
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭hsanz114clayton


    beano345 wrote: »
    The running man is my favourite book read it umpteen times I see a lot of myself in the main character pity the film was nothing like the book!

    Cool :cool:, I didnt know it was adapted to the big screen.il check that out, Thanks:o
    Id love to know what books of your favorites you would reccommend for me to check out?


  • Options
    #3129
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    Deus Irae - PK Dick and Roger Zelazny.

    Actually thought I'd read everything Dick wrote. Turns out I hadn't.
    Score :pac:


  • Options
    #3130
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

    Utterly engrossing. Also interesting reading as a fan of The Wire seeing some of the situations and characters that inspired that show.


  • Options
    #3131
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    hsanz114clayton wrote: »
    Cool :cool:, I didnt know it was adapted to the big screen.il check that out, Thanks:o
    Id love to know what books of your favorites you would reccommend for me to check out?

    Yeah with arnie as the main character it was made more for hollywood than keeping true with the book heres a few of my favourites :

    The count of monte cristo-alexander dumas
    Papillion- henri charriere
    1984- george orwell
    Dune-frank herbert
    Enders game-orson scott card
    The talisman-stephen king
    The prisoner-thomas m.disch

    Mostly sci-fi or prison break/adventure books


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #3132
    diograis
    Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭diograis


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Started Neil Gaiman's American Gods this morning. Have enjoyed some of his other work and this seems to be his most well known novel.

    is it good? got to the part where a couple are having sex and she like eats him from the vagina or something really weird like that, i was like DONE


  • Options
    #3133
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    diograis wrote: »
    is it good? got to the part where a couple are having sex and she like eats him from the vagina or something really weird like that, i was like DONE

    It's excellent. Try again ;)


  • Options
    #3134
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,202 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    diograis wrote: »
    is it good? got to the part where a couple are having sex and she like eats him from the vagina or something really weird like that, i was like DONE

    Only a chapter in, spoiler aleart :pac:

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



  • Options
    #3135
    diograis
    Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭diograis


    Will dooooo


  • Options
    #3136
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Reading It by Stephen King for the first time. Surprising considering I've read so many of his books. Loving how long it is. Feel like it should be nearly finished, and I'm only halfway through.


    I've seen so many people recommending The Count of Monte Cristo in here, and I'm intrigued. Is it a very complex book or anything? I get bored with those :o


  • Options
    #3137
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Reading It by Stephen King for the first time. Surprising considering I've read so many of his books. Loving how long it is. Feel like it should be nearly finished, and I'm only halfway through.


    I've seen so many people recommending The Count of Monte Cristo in here, and I'm intrigued. Is it a very complex book or anything? I get bored with those :o

    Their is a lot of characters in it, but once you suss whos who and get used to reading in that French aristocrat manner of the time its a quality read fairly long book too


  • Options
    #3138
    Kilgore__Trout
    Registered Users Posts: 454 ✭✭Kilgore__Trout


    Recently finished the Sprawl Trilogy by William Gibson. Neuromancer was first rate, twisting plot, a well developed cyberpunk world world inhabited by interesting characters. Liked second one too, but third was a slog with a few highlights.

    Reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons at the minute. Very impressed. Sci-fi with similar structure to Canterbury tales. Each pilgrim's story is exceptionally well thought out and written, and very distinct from the others.


  • Options
    #3139
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    'The Great and the Good' by John Giles, Its OK nothing great, pardon the pun.


  • Options
    #3140
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,664 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Starting to re-read "Space Captain Smith", on the resurgent British Space Empire and its battle with the ghastly Antmen and Lemming hordes.
    Slightly surreal fun.


  • Options
    #3141
    rustedtrumpet
    Registered Users Posts: 339 ✭✭rustedtrumpet


    FHM new one, pretty good


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #3142
    saltyjack silverblade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 480 ✭✭saltyjack silverblade


    Has anyone read Goldfinch? Would appreciate any feedback.


  • Options
    #3143
    RoboRat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,454 ✭✭✭RoboRat


    I am reading the 'The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared' Its very far fetched but enjoyable nonetheless :-)


  • Options
    #3144
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,223 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon.

    A modern great of a writer, this one won the Pulitzer Prize.

    Highly enjoyable.


  • Options
    #3145
    RoboRat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,454 ✭✭✭RoboRat


    Does anybody know of a book that is based around a fictional Irish town which is seedy and dangerous - don't know the name of the book and author but he was on Matt Cooper a couple of months ago?


  • Options
    #3146
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    RoboRat wrote: »
    Does anybody know of a book that is based around a fictional Irish town which is seedy and dangerous - don't know the name of the book and author but he was on Matt Cooper a couple of months ago?
    City Of Bohane?


  • Options
    #3147
    RoboRat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,454 ✭✭✭RoboRat


    City Of Bohane?

    Yep thats it, thanks a mill :-)


  • Options
    #3148
    Vojera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    I'm reading The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo. I've never read any of his before but I like it so far.


  • Options
    #3149
    RoboRat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,454 ✭✭✭RoboRat


    Love Jo Nesbo books - get the Snowman, its my favourite


  • Options
    #3150
    ghogie91
    Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭ghogie91


    I dont read at ATMs

    I find it very unsafe putting in my details and reading at the same time.

    I lose where I am in the paragraph at the best of times


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #3151
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,202 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Started Neil Gaiman's American Gods this morning. Have enjoyed some of his other work and this seems to be his most well known novel.

    Just finished this, really enjoyed it, fantastic book.

    Moving onto Thomas Harris' Red Dragon

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



This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement