What are you reading now

[the 12 th man]

just finished back to back harlen cobens and now reading "blowfly" by patricia cornwell.

[Dublin12]

I'm going on holidays soon,can anyone recommend a good read that I can take with me,something easy on the head like.

[fosterdollar]

I'm going on holidays soon,can anyone recommend a good read that I can take with me,something easy on the head like.

Last summer i read The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night and one of Ross O'Carroll Kelly's while on holidays. Perfect for light, humourous reading.

[Paulie]

I'm reading "On Another Man's Wound" by Ernie O'Malley. It's the story of his part in the Irish conflict from 1916-1921. While it paints a clear picture of the country at the time, of the mindset of the people and of what it would have been like to be around then, he tends to contradict himself sometimes when giving factual information which is a bit irritating. Also, the punctuation at times is quite poor which can mean having to reread a sentence 2 or 3 times to make sure you are interpreting it correctly. I'll stick with it for the time being though.

[Neish]

Reading "The Stone Rosses" by John Robb at the moment good book which give a detailed history of the band. Would recomend it to any Rosses fan.

Before that I was reading "A Million little peices" by James Frey. One of the best books I read in a long time. It describes the writters struggle to get clean from several types of drug in his own way not adopting the so called 12 steps. When he was admitted to rehab at the age of 23 he was the youngest ever to enter the program with one of the longest addiction lists. The scene where he describes having to get dental work with out any anesthesia make you cringe

Would recomend it to anyone

[drummerboy]

Just read a novel by Sebastian Barry’s Far Far Away . Its about young Irish teenager who signs up in 1914 in the British Army to free Belgium in the Great War. Its not a bad read, if a little cliched. Paints the picture of a very confusing time for Irishmen in the British army as they go away heroes and come back to a completely different Ireland, like forgotten men.

[GavinZac]

i'm reading "the resteraunt at the end of the universe" by douglas adams, sirhamish sent it to me

i should really be reading my college textbooks, ive a SAD exa m tommorrow morning

[holidaysong]

I just started the 'A Secret History of the IRA' & potential is good so far.

Read that last month, thought it was excellent.

I'm reading "Gigantic - Frank Black & Pixies Biography".. Legend of a musician..

[Dotsy]

Just finished Anne Applebaum's GULAG - a history. A frightening read on the ability of humans to be cruel, careless and plain stupid. Imagine being charged, tried, convicted and sentenced to 20 years hard labour for blowing up a bridge that never actually existed....madness.

Read it a couple of years ago. Good book but I found it hard going to stick with it.

Reading Ghost Wars - A secret History of the CIA. It deals with the CIA's involvement in Afganistan from the start of the Soviet invasion until 2001. IT amazed me to find out just how long the CIA were tracking and trying to kill Osama before 9/11 and how many pointers they had that AL Queda were interested in using commercial aircraft as missiles.

[Mad Moose]

I'm going on holidays soon,can anyone recommend a good read that I can take with me,something easy on the head like.

Depend's where your going. I went to the Balkan's last year and so while their which a natural interest in history and particularly that of the Balkan's I read a book before I went just to get a feel for the place.Its always important you don't get led to the places most frequented by creating your own journey. Scary as that seemed in my instance.

I'll be heading to Nottingham for a game in the new season so naturally since I haven't got a round to it i'll take the Lonely Planet's Travel Guide Europe and likely 'Cloughie'. Not that Forest will be in Europe anytime soon. I guess I just like to have an insight into the place I may travel to.

I would really like to go to Peru and Chile I reckon i will do so in the future.I've read quite a bit on the places I'd like to go.Just haven't got away just yet.

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[hamish]

i'm reading "the resteraunt at the end of the universe" by douglas adams, sirhamish sent it to me

i should really be reading my college textbooks, ive a SAD exa m tommorrow morning

Hey GavinZac = glad it arrived. Had an unbelievable job getting someone to bring it to post office.
Now, Corky Boy, put that book down RIGHT NOW and get back to yer study or I'll be round with a large stick and beat the hole off ya!!!

[hamish]

Reading 'Hegemony or Survival' by Noam Chomsky.
Basically it's a critique of American foreign policy from the late 1950s to the present, for anyone not familiar with Chomsky.

Just finished 'Star of the Sea' by Joseph O'Connor.
Highly recommended.

You just reminded me tiktok, I've three Chomsky books - must get round to reading them.

[Bluebeard]

Juggling a couple of books at the mo, might get back to reading them soon.

The Middle Mind - how consumer culture turned us into the living dead is one, can't remember the author - it's a take on how there is a dearth of imagination in politics, entertainment and academia in US life owing to the rush to mass produce - somewhat applicable here in Ireland. Enjoying it, his style is delightfully bitter.

Blinded by the Light a play by Dermot Bolger - I'm meant to be doing the lights for it, so I'm meant to be reading it. Currently just read page one - very promising so far I like a few of his plays, so I'm looking forward to sitting down and reading it properly.

Hedda Gabler a play by Henrik Ibsen - ditto, but I have read it before and done the lights for it not 10 months back, so that one is a real skim job. Cracker of a play though - really cuts through you in a good translation.

Ulysses by some dead white Dub - coming around to bloomsday, so I generally start reading and re-reading chunks at this time of year. SOme of it I love, other parts I find tedious and tiresome.

Don Quixote by Cervantes. Currently re-reading the first and greatest novel, in the new American translation, seeing as it turned 400 this year, hence the earlier trip to La Mancha. My favorite novel. An, by the way, the whole windmills thing lasts a grand total of one page!

[tiktok]

My favorite novel. An, by the way, the whole windmills thing lasts a grand total of one page!

I share your pain.
'Gulliver's travels' is one of my favourites.

them - "is that the one where the tiny people tie down the giant?"
& me - "yes, but other stuff happens too"

[Cosmo]

Not a great book reader but read the odd one - prefer factual stuff myself or true stories.

Would be interested in reading about someones struggle to beat the booze? Any recommendations ?

Btw also read a secret history of the ira - would recommend it big time