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Scottish Dubliner Posted Mon 16 Feb, 2009 3:55 PM |
Irish Myths and Legends or... The Hound of Culcuchlain
It's deadly, it's actually a kids book but I wanted to know the legends/mysticism of Ireland and what better way to find out the basics than to read a kids book, all the details none of the bumff. Plus Setants's a fuckin' nutter!!
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kiwi Posted Mon 16 Feb, 2009 4:00 PM |
McCarthy's Bar - Pete McCarthy.
About his travels around Ireland in search of where he belongs. It's hilarious. It's so funny having lived there to read these silly scenarios that seem made up, but if you live/lived in Ireland you know they aren't. Damn good book! |
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Scottish Dubliner Posted Mon 16 Feb, 2009 4:05 PM |
There's another couple of these in the same sorta type of style...
Is Shane McGowan Still Alive - Tim Bradford (It was this books description of the Compromise Rules series that ot me into the GAA)
Round Ireland with a Fridge - Tony Hawks (not the skateboarder!!!)
Dubz
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lilly Posted Mon 16 Feb, 2009 4:07 PM |
currently re-reading
- "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens, for my exams (to memorise everything, hahaha...)
and
- "Watching the English" (it's hilarious and I can at least pretend I'm reading it "for uni".)
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erm, and I have to admit I've just finished reading "Remember Me" (by Sophie Kinsella), which, of course, has nothing to do with my exams at all. |
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I Came in Through the Bathroom Window Posted Mon 16 Feb, 2009 4:25 PM |
| Genocide as a social practice: between nazism and the argentinian experience, by Feierstein. |
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Moray Posted Mon 16 Feb, 2009 4:50 PM |
| Reading "Dreams of my Father" by Barack Obama. It's excellent. He has a real way with prose. Up next is his other book! |
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kiwi Posted Mon 16 Feb, 2009 5:08 PM |
Scottish Dubliner wrote:
Round Ireland with a Fridge - Tony Hawks (not the skateboarder!!!)
Dubz
I've heard about that one for years... still haven't got round to reading it. Must do. |
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lilly Posted Mon 16 Feb, 2009 6:27 PM |
Hm. I got "The Audacity of Hope" as a bring-along from a friend (who apparently caught "Obama-fever" travelling the U.S. this year ;) )
haven't started reading it yet, but maybe I should...
yep... I will.
"Hard Times" bores me to death at the moment, anyway (though I remember liking it back in 2006, hm...) |
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Chiito-chan Posted Mon 16 Feb, 2009 6:30 PM |
Eclipse, Stephanie Meyer.
I can't stop reading. |
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Monica Posted Mon 16 Feb, 2009 6:58 PM |
| The Da Vinci Code :) |
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alanistradi Posted Mon 16 Feb, 2009 7:36 PM |
| Blindness - Jose Saramago :D |
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Rammsfer Posted Mon 16 Feb, 2009 8:39 PM |
A series of unfortunate events
Best books ever! |
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Helen *the original* Posted Mon 16 Feb, 2009 8:43 PM |
Skulduggary Pleasant: Playing With Fire by Derek Landy
Me and my kids books :-) |
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fenchurch Posted Mon 16 Feb, 2009 11:23 PM |
I've just finished Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles. I loved it and I got a book of Sherlock Holmes short stories today for €2.50 :)
And I've started The Malayan Trilogy by Anthony Burgess (the guy who wrote A Clockwork Orange). It's good so far. |
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Lemon Grinner Posted Mon 16 Feb, 2009 11:24 PM |
| Four Four Two. |
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