Top 5 books.

[nifan]

Im about to reread catch-22 which is my favourite ever book.

[Canalman]

1 The Godfather
2 Name of the Rose
3 Day of the Jackal
4 All Quiet on the Western Front
5 Bonfire of the Vanities

Mostly read non fiction like Biographies or History Books, but won't recommend any as they are too subjective.

Found the following novels useless (failed to even get past the early chapters)

1 Ulysses
2 Satanic Verses
3 Any Stephen King novel

[Main Street]

Off hand

One flew Over the Cuckoos Nest   
Guerrilla Days in Ireland 
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Darkness At Noon

a spare space for one book yet to be written

Monaghan, the rocky road to Sam glory.

[pintsofguinness]

The Rainmaker, love it!

[john mcgill]

Birdsong

[ziggysego]

1. Yes Man
2. Silent Bob Speaks
3. Billy
4. Around Ireland with a Fridge
5. Anne Frank

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Ziggy you just reminded me of an excellent book - McCarthys Bar.
The guy who wrote the book is now dead god rest his soul, but a great story and will probably mention a few watering holes you will all know. Think that the authors name was "pete?" McCarthy

[The Real Laoislad]

Ziggy you just reminded me of an excellent book - McCarthys Bar.
The guy who wrote the book is now dead god rest his soul, but a great story and will probably mention a few watering holes you will all know. Think that the authors name was "pete?" McCarthy

Brilliant book..couldn't believe it when i heard he was dead.I read a good few of his books.What a legend

[blast05]

I mentioned it somewhere before with a bit of a review but i thought "Mao: The Unknown Story" is the most powerful biography i have ever read, indeed the most powerful book, period.

On a completely different level, reading "Should have got off at Sydney Parade" at the moment. Have never read as much as a paragraph of any of the Ross O'Carroll Kelly stuff before either in a previous book or in the Sunday Tribune but i think it is absolutely hilarious. Just after leaving it down with a paragraph ending with a line describing how hard this rugby full back was:
"the goy was harder than a blind lezzer's nipples in a fish morket"   

[Dutch]

Get this;
Minister of magic
Mad eye Moody
and wait for it Snape himself dies in Harry Potter.

Apparently Harry and Ginny have kids as do Ron and Hermione.

Gluck

[Tubberman]

Just ordered a John Steinbeck box set from Amazon.

Contains:
The Grapes of Wrath - Been meaning to read for years
Of Mice and Men - One of my all-time favourites
East of Eden - Also been meaning to read this
The Pearl - Heard it's v good
Cannery Row
Travels With Charley
In Search of America

[his holiness nb]

McCarthys bar was great but will stick to fiction here.

1) Lord of the Rings
2) As the Crow Flies (Archer)
3) Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
4) Kane and Abel (Archer)
5) Life of Pi

As with songs and films, no doubt I am forgetting some real classics, Jules Vernes are still a pretty good read in this day and age.

[Moose]

Remember thinking about this a while back and these are my five favourite books that I came up with, some of them are well known classics, but then they are classics for a reason

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Amongst Women (John McGahern)
Sweet Liberty:Travels in Irish America (Joe O'Conner)

[Davitt Man]

i bought both jack o connors and davy fitz's book yesterday, cant wait to tear into them id say they will be good especially davy fitz's book. Has anyone read these??

[his holiness nb]

I'm not a soccer fan at all, but got the Paul McGrath book at christmas as a kris kindle present.
Is it worth bothering with as a non soccer fan?

I have heard good reports, but would you need to be a real fan to appreciate it?