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    #152
    murrayp4
    Registered Users Posts: 969 ✭✭✭murrayp4


    Dubliners.....great little read.


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    #153
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users Posts: 10,972 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Four


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    #154
    celj
    Registered Users Posts: 409 ✭✭celj


    Insomnia-Stephen King.

    He IS the King!


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    #155
    Sooopie
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭Sooopie


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    But it's something that should be read. People should know precisely what these bastards did. E.G...

    HUGE SPOILER HERE...
    A few weeks after the abuse started, Sean, aged just 8, tried to commit suicide by jumping out a window, but couldn't open the lock

    However, this guys story actually has a somewhat happy ending. He grew up to be a very happy and successful man with a loving family.


    I'd find something like that harrowing to read & it would have me upset, so I'll avoid - but am glad to hear he's doing well in life.


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    #156
    oneill787
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭oneill787


    I'm reading come what may by donal óg cusack. I'd recommend it for anyone who likes sporting autobiographies.


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    #157
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    If anyone's into autobiographies may I recommend 'My Wicked Wicked Ways' by Errol Flynn. He must have lived the equivalent of about 5 lifetimes during his one. How much is exaggerated is open to speculation, but it's pretty entertaining none the less.


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    #158
    Mr.zac
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭Mr.zac


    'The Leader Who Had No Title' - Robin Sharma
    :)


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    #159
    py2006
    Registered Users Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭py2006


    black francis wrote: »
    If anyone's into autobiographies may I recommend 'My Wicked Wicked Ways' by Errol Flynn. He must have lived the equivalent of about 5 lifetimes during his one. How much is exaggerated is open to speculation, but it's pretty entertaining none the less.

    Yea I heard that was a good book alright!


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    #160
    Vicxas
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    Just finished "War of the Dwarves" by Marcus Heitz.

    Brilliant book!


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    #161
    SpannerMonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 2,106 ✭✭✭SpannerMonkey


    Generation Kill ( the book the mini series was based on )

    quite good


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    #162
    Red Hand
    Registered Users Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    The Green Woman by Peter Straub.


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    #163
    tskk
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭tskk


    Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright. I really enjoyed it. Should be read if anyone is thinking about having an affair!

    The Sea by John Banville. I have to admire his fantastic way with words. The way he can describe a simple scene is amazing but I found the ending a bit of a let down. I've heard its being made into a movie in Rosslare next year.

    The Benjamin Black books written by John Banville. Very good easy read all based in Dublin in the '50's. Very enjoyable. Again these are being made into a tv series.

    My favorite book which I just read again is A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.


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    #164
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Anything by Lee Child or Michael Connolly is brilliant. Love their books and have read each 4-5 times.


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    #165
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Just finished 'The Passage' by Justin Cronin. If anyone liked Steven Kings 'The Stand' or is into vampires or post apocalyptic dealies they should check it out. 7.5/10 on the Strobe rating system.


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    #166
    Darkginger
    Registered Users Posts: 695 ✭✭✭Darkginger


    I don't think I've ever given so many thanks in one go as I just have reading through this thread - so many of you are reading all my favourites (Tale of Fire and Ice, Stephen King, Chaucer and so on!).

    I'm still ploughing through the Fire and Ice series, also reading a FREE fantasy trilogy on my Kindle..erm.. the Delver series if anyone knows it - pretty good and original but I get a feeling there's some Christian allegory going on which puts me off a bit. Recently read Stephen King's 'Under the Dome' - which had him back on form again after far too many years of just being plain nasty as opposed to being a master of the art of suspense and horror (I find it difficult to explain why I hate Dolores Claibourne and Needful Things but love Salems Lot and It - apart from the ending - guess it's like the difference between Hammer Horror and the beginning of Robocop, I prefer my horror to suggest rather than be graphic).

    I am always reading either The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings trilogy - dip in and out of them between other books, and always find something new in there.

    Hang on a sec - this is AH, right?


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    #167
    py2006
    Registered Users Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭py2006


    Darkginger wrote: »

    Hang on a sec - this is AH, right?

    Yes, I thought I would bring a bit of culture to AH! :D


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    #168
    locked_out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 112 ✭✭locked_out


    http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing/dp/0307452417

    Shocking account of how the Mental Health Industry is abusing their position of power. The information is unbiased, which is a plus. Report the facts as raw data, not manipulate the figures to suit your interests...


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    #169
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Miri5 wrote: »
    Meant to say, all you guys reading Stephen King should read The Talisman by him and Peter Straub. Such a good book :)

    That one is in my still to read pile:). I read Black House years ago, not realising that it follows on from The Talisman..


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    #170
    donkey oatey
    Registered Users Posts: 254 ✭✭donkey oatey


    I finished Dance With Dragons last weekend and started to re-read the series then but as George R R Martin is a master of making me angry and sad, I'm also going to re-read Hal Duncan's Book of all Hours books as well. Or maybe re-read Scott R Bakker's Warrior Prophet series before I read the next trilogy from him and I want to re-read the Malazan series. Gah! Too much to choose from!


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    #171
    g5fd6ow0hseima
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,787 ✭✭✭g5fd6ow0hseima


    South Africa's Brave New World The Beloved Country Since The End of Apartheid

    A bit of a gruelling read as it's over 600 pages of one unpronounceable african name after another. Still very interesting though.


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    #172
    needadvi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 151 ✭✭needadvi


    The Bible


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    SheFiend
    Registered Users Posts: 362 ✭✭SheFiend


    jackie1974 wrote: »

    I'm reading 'Those in Peril' by Wilbur Smith, it's O.K. the romantic tripe ruins what could be a good read.
    Here here! I love Wilbur Smith, but more-so the older novels. WAY too much soppy stuff in the newer stuff. The Egyptian books and the Courtney books were brilliant.


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    #174
    Johro
    Registered Users Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    'Youth in Revolt', by C. D. Payne.
    Here's a description:
    Told as the diary of an oversexed 14-year-old, this three-part comic-novel deals with the usual adolescent bugbears: divorced parents, rebellion, virginity. Set in the cultural wasteland of trailer-park northern California, the episodic plot involves arson, car theft, police brutality and more. Nick tries to win an even more precocious girl his age, Sheeni Saunders, by means of allusive letters and screwball schemes which eventually backfire. Payne gives his narrator an overblown literary voice that contrasts with the attendant embarrassments of his age (e.g., the problems of finding a place to masturbate privately in an R.V.), but the narrative strains for comedic effect. With its Woody Allen-like punch lines, double entendres and overall high-school atmosphere, the novel reads like YA fiction: a nihilist Daniel Pinkwater. And for all Nick's intellectual pretension and artificial speech (qualities echoed, oddly, by nearly all the teenaged characters), he seems devoid of imagination or any redeeming qualities; nor does he care about anything other than satisfying his pubescent desires. And, though in the book's final third the boy comes alive in his drag persona of Carlotta (and Payne admirably brings home his convoluted plot), it is too late to revitalize an ultimately unsympathetic hero.

    Hey, I liked it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_in_Revolt


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    Johro
    Registered Users Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Oh yeah, ''Vernon 'God' Little'' by D.B.C. Pierre.
    Well worth reading, cool story, think it won a Man Booker Prize too when it came out.


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    #176
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Im re-reading Endymion as i seen it on this thread and got an itch :D


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    #177
    triseke
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭triseke


    Reading "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman.

    Its alright so far, hope it picks up soon.


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    #178
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,234 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    I'm reading 'The Authoritarians' by Robert Altemeyer

    It's basically a synopsis of Prof Altemeyer's studies as he was developing a psychological profile of the subgroup 'Right Wing Authoritarians'
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism

    It's pretty interesting, available for free online http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians.pdf?bcsi_scan_3B62C3B9CDE81008=1


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    #179
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    cant believe this is still running in AH


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    #180
    Johro
    Registered Users Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    x in the city wrote: »
    cant believe this is still running in AH
    We're an eclectic bunch. :D


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    #181
    Cú Giobach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭Cú Giobach


    The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer (for the 4th or 5th time).
    About the history of climbing the North Face of the Eiger, great book.

    Will finish it tonight and have Moscow 1941 by Rodric Braithwaite lined up next.


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