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  • #182
    cocokay
    Registered Users Posts: 160 ✭✭cocokay


    the crimson petal and the white...its huge with small print but loving it so far, its like a "pretty woman" but set in victorian times. and no its not chicklit! read "room" and "the help" and couldn't put them down. love a good book to take ur mind off things at the end of a sh!tty day!


  • #183
    fearbainne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 149 ✭✭fearbainne


    Feast for Crows, George RR Martin.. its a bit of a let down, not got a patch on what the rest of the series were like!


  • #184
    Daith
    Registered Users Posts: 4,933 ✭✭✭Daith


    Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon.

    Absolutely gripping.


  • #185
    Hootanany
    Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    The Men that stare at Goats Jon Ronson very very good have not seen the film
    City of Thieves David Benihof reads like a movie hope there is one


  • #186
    Johro
    Registered Users Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Hootanany wrote: »
    The Men that stare at Goats Jon Ronson very very good have not seen the film
    I've seen the film, not read the book. Film was good though, but will read the book anyway. Kinda wish I hadn't seen the film now, it spoils the book a bit, if ya know what I mean. Your mind kinda fashions the characters from written description and that wouldn't usually tally with the film version.
    Film versions of books tend to disappoint, I guess you can only fit in so much, and there are other obvious limitations, it's rare a film runs close to the book version. 'One flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' is an example of one that worked.
    I'll look out for this one anyway


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  • #187
    x_Ellie_x
    Registered Users Posts: 513 ✭✭✭x_Ellie_x


    Jane Casey's third crime novel The Reckoning.


  • #188
    Hootanany
    Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    Johro wrote: »
    I've seen the film, not read the book. Film was good though, but will read the book anyway. Kinda wish I hadn't seen the film now, it spoils the book a bit, if ya know what I mean. Your mind kinda fashions the characters from written description and that wouldn't usually tally with the film version.
    Film versions of books tend to disappoint, I guess you can only fit in so much, and there are other obvious limitations, it's rare a film runs close to the book version. 'One flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' is an example of one that worked.
    I'll look out for this one anyway



    The book is informative journalism so I would not say the film was anything like it his first book Them was another blinder.


  • #189
    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,358 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Solace by Belinda McKeon, its good but a bit over written I think.


  • #190
    py2006
    Registered Users Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭py2006


    x in the city wrote: »
    cant believe this is still running in AH

    Read a book will ya!! :rolleyes:


  • #191
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    fearbainne wrote: »
    Feast for Crows, George RR Martin.. its a bit of a let down, not got a patch on what the rest of the series were like!

    You know I just literally read the first 4 and after book 1 it all just got samey. Everytime a character starts doing 'well' he either kills them or severely ****s them over and you have to start all over again. Struggled to read 3 and 4 as a result.

    Currently reading Consider Plebas by Iain M Banks. Felt like some Sci Fi for a change. It's alright.


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  • #192
    x_Ellie_x
    Registered Users Posts: 513 ✭✭✭x_Ellie_x


    I'm reading Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner

    *awaits jokes about the title of the book & the author's name*


  • #193
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    None of you would have heard of it as it hasn't even been written yet.


  • #194
    Spread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭Spread


    The Greatest Story Never Told.


  • #195
    Stench Blossoms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,390 ✭✭✭Stench Blossoms


    Dennis Lehane - Darkness, Take my Hand.


  • #196
    scotty_irish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 427 ✭✭scotty_irish


    just starting alive! looking forward to this, should be a good read.


  • #197
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan :cool:


  • #198
    willmunny1990
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭willmunny1990


    the shining!


  • #199
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    My Life With Aspergers by Megan Hammond.

    Because my daughter has Aspergers.


  • #200
    pavb2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,890 ✭✭✭pavb2


    Originally Posted by I Heart Internet viewpost.gif
    Penguin History of the United States of America - by Hugh Brogan.

    Just started it. The Indians are not faring well right now. I'm sure after this it'll be plain sailing for them.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by LumpyGravy viewpost.gif
    Bedtime read on the Kindle: A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.



    Which is the better out of the two?

    Currently reading the Forgotten Highlander- Alistair Urquhart recommended on boards


  • #201
    Truley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Truley


    'We Need to Talk About Kevin' by Lionel Shriver. I'm enjoying it, the movie looks like it will be good too.


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  • #202
    the west wing
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭the west wing


    Truley wrote: »
    'We Need to Talk About Kevin' by Lionel Shriver. I'm enjoying it, the movie looks like it will be good too.
    I thought it was a great book. Can't wait to see the movie!


  • #203
    Cork boy 55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    The Green Book

    by

    Colonel Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi
    Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution of Libya


    http://www.mathaba.net/gci/theory/gb3.htm

    Fasinating new way of doing politics,i.e. the Third International Theory



  • #204
    foxinsox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    The Abduction - Mark Gimenez

    I've recently read all his other books, he is being hailed as the new Grisham.

    Remember the first few Grisham books were really good?

    Mark Gimenez's books are very much in that style - best thrillers I've read in a while.

    The Perk
    The Common Lawyer
    Accused

    All worth a read.


    Just finished The Help by Kathryn Stockett

    Based in Mississippi in the early 1960's a inside view of the life of maids.
    Excellent excellent book.


  • #205
    stripysocks85
    Registered Users Posts: 1,877 ✭✭✭stripysocks85


    Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Played With Fire.


  • #206
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Filth - Irvine Welsh

    Hard going with the guttural phonetic conversational scots but funny as hell ultimately rewarding like his other works.

    Have Gulliver's Travels going on a kindle app on my phone after promising myself I'd read the full version someday (read abridged one as a child)

    Been stuck trying to finish Song of Susannah in the DT series for nearly a year now, have lost a lot of momentum on DT series which is a shame, mostly due to reading the disappointment of others at finishing it...

    py2006 wrote: »
    The Dark Tower are the only books I can't seem to touch by King. I started the first one but couldn't get into it!

    I read Pet Semetary when I was about in my early teens and never turned back!

    To go against what I said above, you should try and finish Gunslinger and then start the second book...it's a definite step up and the rest of the series are page turners...
    willmunny1990 wrote: »
    tommy knockers

    One of my favourite ST works.
    So many good books and stories...probably my favourite of all is The Long Walk under his pseudonym. That said, most of his more recent stuff simply hasn't done it for me...thought Cell was especially bad.


  • #207
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,469 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Last Man In Tower - Aravind Adiga


  • #208
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    I'm reading War & Peace at the moment. Its very good, but very daunting I've read 200 pages and I'm less than a quarter of the way through.


  • #209
    JMSE
    Registered Users Posts: 896 ✭✭✭JMSE


    The Flight of the Earls by John McCavitt


  • #210
    Andy-Pandy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭Andy-Pandy


    The skinner by Neal Asher


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  • #211
    JMSE
    Registered Users Posts: 896 ✭✭✭JMSE


    Wertz wrote: »
    Have Gulliver's Travels going on a kindle app on my phone after promising myself I'd read the full version someday (read abridged one as a child)

    Read the hardcopy a few months ago, found it tough going, lots of rambling tedious stuff thrown in, he keeps saying he wont bother the reader with lots of mundane details and then proceeds to bother the reader with other mundane details. That said, for a book written so long ago, it must have been a great way to spend an evening reading it.


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