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Kerry 17-02-2011 11:57 PM

Currently Reading
 
Say's it all - What are you currently reading? :)

seanraff07 17-02-2011 11:58 PM

NME Magazine... does that count :D

Benjamin 17-02-2011 11:59 PM

The Ode Less Travelled - Stephen Fry :love:

Kerry 18-02-2011 12:08 AM

I'm a bit inbetween books at the moment. Not got anything new so looking through some old ones. Might have a dig through the drawers though. Sure my OH has a couple I haven't read yet

GypsyGoth 18-02-2011 12:09 AM

God Stalk by Patricia Christine Hodgell.
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1953/69169.jpg

Benjamin 18-02-2011 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by GypsyGoth (Post 4122181)
God Stalk by Patricia Christine Hodgell.
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1953/69169.jpg

What's the synopsis?

GypsyGoth 18-02-2011 12:57 AM

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Originally Posted by ukturtle (Post 4122197)
What's the synopsis?

It's part one of five, and they've been written over the last thirty years. I only started it the other night. Might do a review when I finish.

Anyway I bought the fifth one in a second hand store, not knowing it was part of a series, I really wanted to read it but I've a compulsion to start series from the beginning. So I got the others from amazon.

Benjamin 18-02-2011 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by GypsyGoth (Post 4122231)
It's part one of five, and they've been written over the last thirty years. I only started it the other night. Might do a review when I finish.

Anyway I bought the fifth one in a second hand store, not knowing it was part of a series, I really wanted to read it but I've a compulsion to start series from the beginning. So I got the others from amazon.

Oh cool. I love it when there is a series of books. My favourite for that is Stephen Kings 'The Dark Tower' which goes over 7 books.

So that is the first book?

GypsyGoth 18-02-2011 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by ukturtle (Post 4122235)
Oh cool. I love it when there is a series of books. My favourite for that is Stephen Kings 'The Dark Tower' which goes over 7 books.

So that is the first book?

Yep, and I found out after I bought them on amazon that I could have gotten the first three in a compilation.

Benjamin 18-02-2011 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by GypsyGoth (Post 4122240)
Yep, and I found out after I bought them on amazon that I could have gotten the first three in a compilation.

Urgh no! Compilations are rubbish. The individual books are much better. :hugesmile:

Lee. 18-02-2011 01:17 AM

Reading some shite book called "Trespass" by Rose Tremain just now.. Bought it as it was in the bestsellers list and her last novel won some award but so far not doing much for me. Bought a Mark Billingham book today (Bloodline) though so may start that instead.

Chuck 18-02-2011 02:01 AM

http://i51.tinypic.com/iqh43o.jpg

For my trip in June :)

Shaun 18-02-2011 02:04 AM

Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing", only half a scene in because I read all the introductions too :(

Niamh. 18-02-2011 09:27 AM

Just started Room by Emma Donoghue
It's told by a five year old boy, it's quite sweet so far but I think it will get a bit disturbing. It's a Frtizl type story
http://www.eason.ie/jaceidi/medium/9780330519014

Jessica. 18-02-2011 09:29 AM

I'm not reading anything at the moment but when I finish watching glee I'm gonna read Catching Fire, the second book of The Hunger Games series. :love:

BigBrotherfan4ever 18-02-2011 10:54 AM

Im reading The Hornborn Tree by Susan Lewis its part of series of five books, i just love this author.

BigBrotherfan4ever 18-02-2011 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 4122480)
Just started Room by Emma Donoghue
It's told by a five year old boy, it's quite sweet so far but I think it will get a bit disturbing. It's a Frtizl type story
http://www.eason.ie/jaceidi/medium/9780330519014

I actually looked this book a few weeks ago when i was in Waterstones, but decided not buy it cause, i've got loads of books in the house, still to read but will definatly go & buy it when run out of reading material.

Princess 18-02-2011 11:03 AM

Just started 'Ralph's Party' by Lisa Jewell,I've loved all the other books I've read by her so hoping it's good,enjoying it so far.

Niamh. 18-02-2011 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by BigBrotherfan4ever (Post 4122570)
I actually looked this book a few weeks ago when i was in Waterstones, but decided not buy it cause, i've got loads of books in the house, still to read but will definatly go & buy it when run out of reading material.

Well, I've literally only just started it, I've only read a few pages so far cos I was really tired when i started it but I'll let you know if it's worth buying

BigBrotherfan4ever 18-02-2011 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Princess (Post 4122571)
Just started 'Ralph's Party' by Lisa Jewell,I've loved all the other books I've read by her so hoping it's good,enjoying it so far.

Just looked at this authors books they all sound great.

MTVN 18-02-2011 02:30 PM

http://bookcoverarchive.com/images/b...olls.large.jpg

Re-reading this, enjoying it a lot more second time round

Lee. 18-02-2011 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by MTVN (Post 4122755)
http://bookcoverarchive.com/images/b...olls.large.jpg

Re-reading this, enjoying it a lot more second time round

Somebody recommended that to me just recently.. WHat's it actually about??

MTVN 18-02-2011 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by happyland (Post 4122833)
Somebody recommended that to me just recently.. WHat's it actually about??

An American volunteer for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War, he joins a band of guerillas in the mountains to prepare to blowing up an important bridge. I'd recommend it although Hemmingway's writing style is a bit unorthodox, took me a while to get into it

Lee. 18-02-2011 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by MTVN (Post 4122845)
An American volunteer for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War, he joins a band of guerillas in the mountains to prepare to blowing up an important bridge. I'd recommend it although Hemmingway's writing style is a bit unorthodox, took me a while to get into it

DO you know what? Just ignore me; I'm talking shite as usual!

Don't askwhy I get the two confused but it was asctually "To Kill a Mockingbird" that was suggested to me! :laugh:

Kerry 22-02-2011 09:27 PM

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg

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The QI Book of the Dead is a book about life. What an awful thing life is. It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Around 90 billion people have existed since the human race began. From this huge number, the bestselling QI team selected 600 of the finest examples of our species and researched them in depth, distilling this immense banquet of life into an exquisite tasting menu of six-dozen crisp, racy mini-biographies, where the internationally and immortally famous rub shoulders with the undeservedly and (until now) permanently obscure. The object is to learn something about what it means to be alive and how we can make the most of the time we have. The QI Book of the Dead compares and contrasts the different ways individual human beings cope (or fail to cope) with the curves that the uncaring universe throws at us. Collected into themed chapters with thought-provoking titles such as ‘There’s Nothing Like a Bad Start in Life’, ‘Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone’ and ‘Is That All There Is?’ here is a chance to share the secrets of the Dead, to celebrate their wisdom, to learn from their mistakes, and to marvel at their bad taste in clothes. The man who is not dead still has a chance. LEBANESE PROVERB *We don’t rule out the alternative possibility of a compassionate God whose motives are beyond our ken

spitfire 22-02-2011 10:01 PM

Voices from the grave.

Kerry 22-02-2011 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by spitfire (Post 4131568)
Voices from the grave.

Sounds like we're on a similar theme!

Shaun 23-02-2011 02:10 AM

finished Much Ado About Nothing...was a bit farfetched. Even by Shakespeare's standards. Did like Beatrice and Benedick's banter though, even if a lot of it was a little too obsessed with the cuckolding jokes.

patsylimerick 23-02-2011 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 4122480)
Just started Room by Emma Donoghue
It's told by a five year old boy, it's quite sweet so far but I think it will get a bit disturbing. It's a Frtizl type story
http://www.eason.ie/jaceidi/medium/9780330519014

I heard her interviewed on radio a few weeks back, sounded good, but disturbing. It was inspired by Fritzl, apparently.

I'm reading Eat, Love, Pray. Meh. If the dog ate it before I finish, I wouldn't be devastated, I'll put it like that. s'aalllriight.

Shaun 24-02-2011 01:20 AM

Just started Wuthering Heights...oh god this is going to be an ordeal.

'Conor 24-02-2011 01:23 AM

Nuts magazine.

Angus 24-02-2011 07:14 AM

James Patterson - Big Bad Wolf
a gripping read about an internet site where those rich enough can order "people" to be kidnapped to order in order to sexually abuse them, and ultimately kill them (a twist on the Hostel type theme).

Shaun 24-02-2011 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by angus58 (Post 4135021)
James Patterson - Big Bad Wolf
a gripping read about an internet site where those rich enough can order "people" to be kidnapped to order in order to sexually abuse them, and ultimately kill them (a twist on the Hostel type theme).

James Patterson :love: I have a few of his...Along Came a Spider, a few other Crosses.

Princess 24-02-2011 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Princess (Post 4122571)
Just started 'Ralph's Party' by Lisa Jewell,I've loved all the other books I've read by her so hoping it's good,enjoying it so far.

The sequel to this called 'After the Party'. The first was brilliant and am loving the sequel so far.

Angus 25-02-2011 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Shaun (Post 4136102)
James Patterson :love: I have a few of his...Along Came a Spider, a few other Crosses.

I've only just started reading his Cross books, though I've seen Morgan Freeman in Along Came A Spider and Kiss the Girls which I thought were really good films. Love his writing style. About to start reading Violets are Blue.

Kerry 25-02-2011 09:32 PM

Gone back to Neil Warnocks autobiog - Made in Sheffield. Personally autographed for me might I add :D It says "To Kerry, from one true Blade to another. Be lucky. Neil Warnock" :dance:

Ahhhh my claim to fame :joker:

Beastie 25-02-2011 09:38 PM

I have started reading "I never fancied him anyway" by Claudia Carroll. It's a good read so far. About a 28 year old woman who can see into other people's futures. Her and her friends are trying to find a "DSM" lol!

Beastie 25-02-2011 09:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 4122480)
Just started Room by Emma Donoghue
It's told by a five year old boy, it's quite sweet so far but I think it will get a bit disturbing. It's a Frtizl type story
http://www.eason.ie/jaceidi/medium/9780330519014

Jack, Patrick and Steph will love that story! lol

Niamh. 25-02-2011 09:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by patsylimerick (Post 4132606)
I heard her interviewed on radio a few weeks back, sounded good, but disturbing. It was inspired by Fritzl, apparently.

I'm reading Eat, Love, Pray. Meh. If the dog ate it before I finish, I wouldn't be devastated, I'll put it like that. s'aalllriight.

I've finished it now, was really good. It makes you think afterwards a whole lot

Niamh. 25-02-2011 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by thebeast (Post 4139364)
Jack, Patrick and Steph will love that story! lol

yeah, might make them think abit and cop on:nono:


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