Last book you've read

[AndyOdish]

Hey peeps!
Just wondering what the last book you all read was and what you though.

I've just finished reading Lorelei's Secret by Carolyn Parkhurst (published in the US as The Dogs of Babel).

It's about a man who's wife died in the garden and the only witness was their dog, Lorelei. The husband decides to try and teach Lorelei to speak so he can find out what happened.

Its a really strange book, and very similar to lovely bones by sebold in the way it talks about life and death.

Really really good book and worth a read!

Anyway tell me about what you guys (and gals) are reading!

 

[SubKamran]

Can I be still reading it? 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers.

I like this book...it's pretty good.

Last book I finished, LOTR: The Return of the King.

 

[ComradeBadger]

I'm reading the Seven Ages of Paris, by Alistair Horne. Before that I read Early Modern France 1560 - 1715 by Robin Briggs.

As you may have guessed I'm rather into my early modern French history :E

 

[AndyOdish]

Must admit, being a manager of a shop that happens to sell books (along side pretty much everything else!) I get a shed load of freebies that I never bother reading normally. Being stuck in bed ill this weekend though I thought I'd give it a try.

Book I'm counting the minutes till is Stephen King, Dark Tower 6. The 5 have been fantastic. I think its released on June 7th (under strict strict embargo).

 

[Murray_H]

Blood Data by Lury.Gibson

Quite an interesting book, the next one after Dangerous Data (not read that), it's about how people can be traced by data trails they leave on t'internet and things like that. There is a piece of data on every other page and what you read is what the investigator reads also. It's interesting but i thought the ending was too rushed :/

 

[Shippi]

Last book I read was James Herbert: The Magic Cottage. It's a good book, but nothing seemed to happen until towards the end. When I read it, it just felt like the introduction all the way through. I was suprised when I put the book down and realised that I was 3/4 through it because it had only just started to get 'good'. But I think my mind was half on other things when I was reading it, so I should probably read it through again some other time because I think I missed out.

Anyway, I'm currently reading Stephen King: Bag of Bones

 

[Direwolf]

Finished Deception Point by Dan Brown, and am reading Digital Fortress by him and Shooting Under Fire (amazing war photography).

 

[AndyOdish]

Blood Data by Lury.Gibson

Quite an interesting book, the next one after Dangerous Data (not read that), it's about how people can be traced by data trails they leave on t'internet and things like that. There is a piece of data on every other page and what you read is what the investigator reads also. It's interesting but i thought the ending was too rushed :/

Sounds intresting Murray! Might give it a go

 

[AmishSlayer]

Tracon

Good book about Air Traffic Control.

 

[gh0st]

im reading the decline and fall of the roman empire, and band of brothers

 

[mchammer75040]

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
A very intresting book on how the Holocaust happened. I think its a perfect reminder of how fragile our civilization really is.

 

[CrazyHarij]

I finished Look To Windward a while ago, don't remember the writer, but it's an amazingly great sci-fi book, although the ending is not as good as the rest of the book is..

 

[torso boy]

i just finished 1984 and Cryptonomicon a short while ago

 

[Eejit]

Last one was New Spring by Robert Jordan. A man who creates characters that make the g-man look simple and completely lacking in mystery.

 

[ray_MAN]

I just finished Fox on the Front. It's a book about World War II. It is fiction and it is very interesting because many elements of World War II are different. IE: Hitler is dead, Himmler is the Fuhrer, etc. I am now reading Understanding Physics: Volume I, by Issac Asimov.

 

[Gir]

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. I made a report about it, I'll get it back on 4th of June

 

[nicrd]

I just finished the first two Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I strongly recommend these books to anyone who likes absurd litterature. I also read Rhinoceros by Ionesco (in french) not long ago.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

^^^ Agreed!

I read Michael Chrichton's Airframe, and it's damn, damn good.
Definitely his best novel.

 

[DarkStar]

I read Michael Chrichton's Airframe, and it's damn, damn good. Definitely his best novel.

Wow. I thought that was his absolute worst novel. Hmm...Have you read Sphere? Or The Great Train Robbery? Or Jurassic Park even? Those are all much better books IMO.

I just got done reading a book called The Uncloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell.

 

[AndyOdish]

Anyone read Jordans biography yet?

 

[Gir]

Anyone read Jordans biography yet?

Katie Price?

 

[dfc05]

Last few books I read were Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams), Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury), and As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner).

Something Wicked was ok; some parts were a bit freaky and I thought the end was kinda cheesy, but overall it was alright.
As I Lay Dying was good, but most of it was really sad and disturbing.

 

[Gir]

What's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy about?
If I'm not wrong they're making a movie out of the book, but what's it all about! TELL ME! TELL ME NOW!!

 

[AndyOdish]

Yeah the one with the big tits basically

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Wow. I thought that was his absolute worst novel. Hmm...Have you read Sphere? Or The Great Train Robbery? Or Jurassic Park even? Those are all much better books IMO.

I just got done reading a book called The Uncloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell.

I own all his books. I'm not just a HL fanboy.
Sphere was definitely his other best one, and I've read the Jurassic Parks at least 3 times. Eaters of the Dead was also very well done, and the Andromeda Strain is muy cool.
I think (almost) all his books are the best I've ever read. Airframe's just the best of the best, IMO. I found that the entire thing had a very good flow, and a great conclusion.

 

[Eejit]

What's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy about?
If I'm not wrong they're making a movie out of the book, but what's it all about! TELL ME! TELL ME NOW!!

It's pretty hard to explain adequately... the plot goes all over the place. I do recommend that you (all) read it though.

Yep they're making a film, and it should be good.

 

[Direwolf]

What's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy about?
If I'm not wrong they're making a movie out of the book, but what's it all about! TELL ME! TELL ME NOW!!

The movie actually looks like it may have a chance, which is somewhat surprising. Check out the site: http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/hitchblog/blog.htm
As for the books they're about...um...uh, well...stuff. Suffice it to say they are patently hilarious and involve the Earth being blown up multiple times.

 

[CrazyHarij]

the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-books are among the most fun books ever.

 

[Gir]

The movie actually looks like it may have a chance, which is somewhat surprising. Check out the site: http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/hitchblog/blog.htm
As for the books they're about...um...uh, well...stuff. Suffice it to say they are patently hilarious and involve the Earth being blown up multiple times.

Someone likes Invader Zim too, huh!?

So my birthday is just around the corner and I feel like reading a nice book, so I want Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...but which one do I pick?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/104-4158383-6585537

 

[Direwolf]

That was quick...just changed my avatar like 1 minute ago. And yes, I very much like Zim.
Edit: Darn it, was probably your avatar that subconsciously made me want to use Gir. Might have to find someone else sometime.

 

[Gir]

...sorry to be changing the subject but have you got the Invader Zim DVD? It's just been released...now go buy...doom...doom...doom!

 

[Direwolf]

Checked for it at Borders today...not there yet. When it comes around I'll pick it up.
Anywho....literature anyone?

 

[Frank]

Checked for it at Borders today...not there yet. When it comes around I'll pick it up.
Anywho....literature anyone?

You can keep the avatar, I'm back to my old user...

 

[Hazza]

Last book I read was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, it's really good. I actually bought it for my mum for her birthday but read it myself and she still hasn't got around to reading it. It's the story of a boy called Christopher - "Christopher is an intelligent youth who lives in the functional hinterland of autism--every day is an investigation for him because of all the aspects of human life that he does not quite get. When the dog next door is killed with a garden fork, Christopher becomes quietly persistent in his desire to find out what has happened and tugs away at the world around him until a lot of secrets unravel messily." http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...0115/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_11_1/202-2514566-0310215

 

[IchI]

I just read the first Transmetropolitan book and now need to buy the other 9 :-/ I need some money so badly. I am having like withdrawl simptoms from them LOL!

 

[leadfish]

Eye of the World by Robert Jordan - the first of 10 or so books - and I'm into the second book now. I'm also a Raymond E. Feist fanboy, and have almost all of the books he has written by himself, and one or two he's co-authored.

 

[slinter]

"for whom the bell tolls" by ernest hemingway. this novel rocked! nice athmosphere and all, hemingway is a genious with that!
also neat is, that metallica made a song also called "for whom the bell tolls" \o/

i still have and always will have the image of the wounded soldier named "robert jordan" in my head, as he sits behind a tree on a green meadow next to a neat forest waiting for the facists to come, clenching his gun, all alone ...

 

[Eejit]

Robert Jordan is like a god among authors....

 

[slinter]

hmm funny, my protagonist was called robert jordan :O
what a coincidence that is

 

[CptStern]

Kurt Vonneghut: Breakfast of Champions