Thread: Last Book You Read

The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart.

Very very good, I'm soon finished it's 543 pages long

I am so inundated with good books to read it causes me anxiety.
Between the magazines that I subscribe to as well as the book I have to read ..AHHHHHHHHHH!

I am reading two different ones at the moment
> CG Jung "The undiscovered Self."
>"Big weather." A gift from Peregrinus. It is about storm chasing, by Mark Svenvold.

House of Sand and Fog --Andre Dubus, III (My son brought it home from his Eng. Lit. class)

I'm currently reading American Psycho. It is a great book. You will enjoy it if you liked the movie, and vice versa.

I'm reading Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. It's totally different to the movie. To me the movie feels like communist propaganda, the book however tells the story better and is written a totally unique style. I must have read it 20 times.

The last book i read was "The Voyage of Jerle Shannara: Morgwar" by terry brooks, one of the 3 book series. but theres actually like 13 books in the Shannara series. The best book ive ever read was either the Hobbit or the first king of shannara.

I prefer the Heritage series to the First King, although the latter was most excellent.

Warrior Soul- Chuck Pfarrer
It's a memoir of a former Navy SEAL. The things that our soldiers do to defend the U.S. is nothing short of astonishing.

The Art of Dreaming by Carlos Castaneda
its one of the last books in the series of a Non-fictional account of his apprenticeship with an Yaqui Indian Shaman.......I have felt myself falling through reality reading these amazing accounts....highly reccomended

Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams.
It had both the best and worst ending I ever read.

The last book I read was The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett. The author wrote a paragraph that, instead of dedicating the book to someone said:

Discworld is a world and a mirror of worlds. This story is not set in Australia but it may, here and there seem a bit... Australian. Still... No worries[/b]

I am currently reading the next Discworld book "Carpe Jugulem" for those of you who understand Latin I am sure that you know what I mean when I say it is his first book starring vampires.

Deception Point ~ Dan Brown
Great book so far...

The Foundation by Isaac Asimov.
kind of strange sci-fi, reaches over a pretty long time.
you only follow a specific person for a short time, but besides from that, it was good.

The Drifters
~ J.A. Michener

I finished Carpe Jugulem on Wednesday so I then re-read A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve and finished that today so I'm now re-reading Mortal Engines also by Philip Reeve.

Jakten på tillvaron eller att leva i harmoni.

English title: The pursuit of life or living in harmony. (although I don't know if that book is actually translated, I merely translated the title...)

Fiction - The Wizard by Gene Wolfe

Non-Fiction- Creator, Protector, Destroyer

Yup, you've heard of this one before...
Lord of the Flies
William Golding

Finished reading it a few days ago

During my short holiday I finished Mortal Engines and also read:
Predator's Gold - Philip Reeve
Infernal Devices - Philip Reeve
and the next book I will read will be The Fifth Elephant - Terry Prattchet (when I get hold of a copy)

Originally Posted by Kaniaz

Oooor they're both your independent opinions which can both be equally right!

I'm reading Atlas Shrugged.[/b]

By Rand, correct?
I have yet to read that one, her other books are rather decent.

Lately I've been reading short stories and essays; the last book I've read was The Iron Heel by Jack London.

1984 it's kind of boring at the moment. I'm at the part where Orwell describes social stuff. It's dull.[/b]

If you try to understand his message you will not be bored by it.

At the moment I am reading the Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo. Its actually a pretty good book so far, once you get past all the annoying medieval language.

I'm reading A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking

Well, I'm in the process of trying to read/finish reading seven book in the next few weeks. Can we say panic? They include:
"The Cold War: a New History" by John Gaddis - a very good book so far! Easy to read for a history book.
"13 Days" by Robert Kennedy - a good book for someone who wants to know what was going on during the Cuban Missle Crisis from the view point of President Kennedy's brother.
"A New Era".... another Cold War book. Haven't started it. Not looking forward to it.

"Luther" by Heiko Oberman - very good so far, but not chronological. Not stellar, but enjoyable.
"Protestants" by Stephen Ozment - read the preface and am really not interested, but I have to read it.
"The Burgermeister's Daughter" by Stephen Ozment - no idea.
and another small book on the Reformation.

I'm also reading a skazka (a Russian fairy tale), only this is like a series of small fables, and the title translates to "Charming Adventures". I'm going to finish my translation on it soon and then start to analyze it, since I was smart and picked a story without an English translation. It's a fun little story by Bulat Okudzhava and I can post my translation and later my "brief" analysis when I'm finished.

*Necroed because I didn't want to create a new thread.

Last book I read was "A Cetain Slant Of Sunshine" by Laura Whitcomb. Short but a good book, very unique.

"What Dreams May Come" by Richard Matheson(last name might be spelled wrong)

It was very interesting. I suggest you read it.