Have the new Harry Potter and a couple of new Sherlock Holmes books sorted for my holidays on my new Kindle.
I’m reading year of the dog. The cartel is the second of the series.
They wore a bit thin after the first few.
Informative. Did not know that. Assume iv fucked the first one for myself now!
Harry Potter???
Isn’t that for 12 years olds?
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What’s the story with the Hatty Potter book, is it not just a playbook?
He’s some WUM, that lad.
I finished a book called ‘All the light we cannot see’ the other night, think it won a Pulitzer Prize and was a huge seller recently, tells the story of a blind French girl and a reluctant German soldier during WW2, excellent book.
I was gifted that book at Christmas. I found it incredibly heavy and turgid going, the fact that many chapters are written using local slang doesn’t help. I gave up about 50 pages in. Does it get better? Fiction isn’t my bag anyway.
@ChocolateMice how much is it join the library and is their collection worthwhile?
Does it come with crayons?
HELL’S GATES by Paul Collins
I’d sort of agree. The Jamaican slang doesn’t bother me too much, but most of the characters in the book I don’t find all that engaging. The writing itself is a bit loose and just doesn’t match up to the rave reviews the book got. As you get further into it though, you begin to appreciate all the angles tying together - I’m only half-way through but you get more of a sense of what the writer is trying to accomplish. I’d give it a 3/5 so far.
It’ll make a grand tv series.
The library in Limerick is excellent, recently refurbished as well, brilliant also for music and dvd’s.
As far as I know it is free, at least it doesn’t cost anything to renew yearly, maybe there’s a small initial fee but I don’t even think so.
I have it but haven’t started yet. Iv a thousand odd books in the house and I’m not sure I could start one that’s gonna be hard work like that!
Sounds like James Elroy book called the cold six thousand. Great book but took me guts of a year to read it!
If the writing requires concentration then I find it can take me an age to build up a head of steam reading a book. The last book I read was actually Blood Meridian, which is no Beano either. Similar to this one, it took weeks to get to the 100 page mark. I’m motoring nicely enough now though.
I found a copy of Stephen Baxter’s “Time” lately, one of his trilogy on the Fermi Paradox. I’d read “Space” a good few years back and it was one of the better sci-fi books I’ve read. Really looking forward to cracking into “Time”.
Anyone hear read the Justin Cronin trilogy?
Yeah its a script of the play or something. Haven’t been paying attention to what it is or what it is about, but I’ll read it anyway.
No mate, anyone can read any book they wish.
My 9 year old has read it and was underwhelmed in comparison to the books.
Maybe it was intended for an older audience 
The middle stretch of books is the best. The series starts fairly slowly tbh. I can see a lot of people not being able to deal with the huge amounts of difficult nautical terms being used. In terms of historical fiction the series is exceptional though, the best I’ve come across.
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