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Books you've read or are reading

Discussion in 'TC Media' started by Kayal, May 28, 2011.

Discuss Books you've read or are reading in the TC Media area at TalkCeltic.net.

  1. Taylor1

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    This is a must read if you work in sales. The techniques can also be used in everyday life.

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  2. neilly1987 Do I look happy? Do I look settled? Gold Member

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    I'm reading Dracula too. Finding the style quite hard to read and keep losing interest and keep dipping in and out so it's taking me ages.
     
  3. eire4

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    Loved Bram Stoker's Dracula myself. Have read it a few times over the years.
     
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    Finished Michael Connelly's The Gods of Guilt which is from his Lincoln Lawyer crime series and another good read in that series.

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    After 3 years and multiple attempts a finally finished John Crows Devil by Marlon James.
     
  7. KRS-1888 Scott La Rock

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    What’s it about?
     
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    Finished John Connolly's A Time of Torment. Another very good entry in his Parker Thriller series.

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  10. Pearse67*

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    Any good books regarding the iraq war? Maybe something with a view to what went on regarding war crimes and behind the scenes so to speak.
     
  11. StPauli1916 Gold Member Gold Member

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    I enjoyed The Spymaster of Baghdad which looks at it from the point of view of Iraqi families. Two brothers who joined the Iraqi police ( 1 went undercover in ISIS) n a girl who left uni to join ISIS.
    I have put it on the previous page of this thread.
     
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  12. Pearse67*

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    Will check it out mate.

    any other reads you’d recommend, even away from this topic?
     
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  13. StPauli1916 Gold Member Gold Member

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    Just looking through what I have put in this thread.

    The man with the poison gun
    Stasiland
    Tunnel 29 ( again this is about escaping East Germany.)

    So these are all pretty much Spy/intelligence books.

    On Ireland maybe The lost Revolution.
     
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    I pretty much never read fiction but I did enjoy the Richard Osman books as well.
     
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    Finished a couple of Michael Connelly books. With Ballard and Bosch. The Dark Hours and the Desert Star which was almost vintage Connelly
     
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    aye it seems Ballard is the future of the Bosch series, Connellys writing is superb, I regularly have to slow down or I can race through his books in a few days
     
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    Speaking of I just Finished Michael Connelly's The Burning Room. Another good entry in his Bosch crime drama series.

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    My da was reading 'Killers of the Flower Moon' and he was about 3/4 through it when he passed in January. Might pick that up and read it for him. Has some really good reviews.
     
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    Finish Tana French's The Witch Elm. Another really good mystery novel from her. She really gets in lots of twists and develops the characters really well. What was extra interesting in this one for me was how much I disliked the constant self indulgent self pity of the main character. One of her best books I have read so far.

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    ‘Fiasco’ by Thomas E. Ricks is really good even if the author is a bit establishment.
     
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