What's the last book you read?

[blackrazor1]

Last few months, I've using the the kindle and ibook apps on my phone to read more lately. Just finished The Magicians by Lev Grossman and SEAL Team Six by Chuck Dixon.

The Magicians is about a secret college for magicians and what's your motivation when you have the power to alter reality.

SEAL Team Six is about the a group from the team tracking the mastermind of a number of domestic terror incidents springing up around the country.

[Owner of a Lonely B.A.T.]

Well I tend to read alot.

Just recently like last few weeks banged out...
Star Trek: Typhon Pact - Plagues of Night
Star Trek: Typhon Pact - Raise the Dawn
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations - Forgotten History

Working on Star Wars: Choices of One

And before that last month I knocked out all nine Star Trek: A Time to... books.

[Zarana]

Currently reading: south of the border; west of the sun by haruki Murakami.
The last book I finished was walking dead v15

[Python Viper]

Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter

Yes, we all make mistakes......

[Headman]

The bible.

[bandonov]

I bought the Dan Brown book, the Lost Symbol ro read but I'm still reading:

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

http://www.amazon.com/Lamb-Gospel-According-Christs-Childhood/dp/0380813815

[sonofdestro]

Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin. It was excellent. It came out in 1982, I cant believe I had been missing out for 30 years.

[CornDog_The_Ninja]

I'm currently reading Mockingjay, the last book in the Hunger Games trilogy.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cc/Mockingjay.JPG/200px-Mockingjay.JPG

My wife and nieces asked me to read them. So far, it's better than Catching Fire (the 2nd book), which I thought was absolutely horrible.

[Joe Fan 1]

The last book I read was the manga Train Man (Densha Otoko). I'm currently starting on WWII book called the Bomber Boys by Travis Ayres.

[urrutiap]

I finished reading the last 100 pages of the Game of Thrones novel yesterday. GOod book but it sure was a long and book.

Now Im reading the Star Wars Force Heretic I novel

[red4]

A bunch of Calvin and Hobbes collections. But in terms of novels, the last I read was Sphere, which I read about once a year - it's kind of awesome that way.

[blackrazor1]

Just finished reading The Magician King(the sequel to The Magicians) and I listened to the audiobook of Ready Player One.

[Zarana]

Finished: Kafka on the Shore

Current: Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa

[pig iron grenadier]

Llana of Gathol.

[blackrazor1]

Just finished The Black Company by Glen Cook. Fantasy novel about a company of mercenaries that enter the service of a cabal of undead wizards. Interesting story but the writing style makes for a slow read.

[gnawhyde]

Jesse James American Outlaw great story.

[Zarana]

Last: Indiana jones omnibus vol 1

Next: something awful for sociolinguistics.

[Crimson Rage]

J. G. Ballard's Concrete Island... strange

[Fred Broca]

I don't follow wrestling, but to my knowledge String has never been in the WWE. If he still isn't int he WWE, why has he never worked for Vince?

[Jinx723]

"What's the last book you read?"

Do comics count?

[Zarana]

"What's the last book you read?"

Do comics count?

Only if it has an isbn

[blackrazor1]

Finished Princess of Mars, the first of the John Carter series. Seems like the movie could have been better if they just stuck to the story.

[bantor2]

Finished Princess of Mars, the first of the John Carter series. Seems like the movie could have been better if they just stuck to the story.

My favorite book series of all time! I hope you stick with the series, you will love them.

For me the last book I read was Night of the Crabs by Guy Smith. Pretty nice little B movie type monster book featuring giant crabs that cut through tanks like butter.

[Owner of a Lonely B.A.T.]

Star Wars: Choices of One
Star Trek Titan: Fallen Gods

[sg3]

Being George Wahington. Getting ready to crack open Cowards next.

[sg3]

Well I tend to read alot.

Just recently like last few weeks banged out...
Star Trek: Typhon Pact - Plagues of Night
Star Trek: Typhon Pact - Raise the Dawn
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations - Forgotten History

Working on Star Wars: Choices of One

And before that last month I knocked out all nine Star Trek: A Time to... books.

The Time to series was excellent. I also like the New Frontier series as well. Had a whole bookcase that was nothing but Trek books couple of years ago. Most I had read 2 or 3 times and got to the point had to thin out some things and books are the hardest to move when you have bookcases full. Donated the entire novel collect to my local VA for the troops to enjoy as well.

[Owner of a Lonely B.A.T.]

The Time to series was excellent. I also like the New Frontier series as well. Had a whole bookcase that was nothing but Trek books couple of years ago. Most I had read 2 or 3 times and got to the point had to thin out some things and books are the hardest to move when you have bookcases full. Donated the entire novel collect to my local VA for the troops to enjoy as well.

Quoted for sheer awesomness of VA Support


New Frontier is good stuff.

[blackrazor1]

Just finished Starship Troopers. I thought I had read as a teen, but it seems I never finished it the first time.

[gyrapados]

I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies this summer.
I am currently reading Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.
Then I would like to read Unholy Night.

anybody seeing a pattern yet? lol.

[Crimson Rage]

A collection of short stories by Shirley Jackson. The underlying, 'banal' menace of The Lottery is terrifying.

[blackrazor1]

Finished the Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle. Some interesting difference from the movies and it's about half as long as most of the novels I've read lately.

[blackrazor1]

Finished Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. Sort of a behind the scenes look at the Wizard of Oz. Covers the Witch's childhood, here college years, and time as an anti-government radical.

[bantor2]

Finished the Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle. Some interesting difference from the movies and it's about half as long as most of the novels I've read lately.

I loved the ending.

*KINDA SPOILERS*

Not as epic as the movies ending, but still cool. Humans able to write, how asinine.

[gyrapados]

Just finished Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. Loved it.
think I'm going to read Unholy Night next

[blackrazor1]

Finished Wicked 2: Son of a Witch. I'm slowing working my way through George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons.

[Konigstiger]

In The Dark. Currently reading The Corruption Chronicles and am thinking of starting Midnight in Peiking.

[soundwave84]

snowblind by robert sabbag,a early account of the life of one of the first cocaine smuggler's/dealers,zachary swan.

[blackrazor1]

Finished A Dance with Dragons and read the prequel short stories The Hedge Knight and The Sworn Sword.

[USAgent]

Finished The Walking Dead:Rise of the Governor in about a day- now back to reading the paperback version of Salvations Reach (I like to show my support to the author buying and reading both hardback and paperback) Good thing the Gaunt's Ghosts books are so damn good :)

[Owner of a Lonely B.A.T.]

Well we had no power for 5 days so I read ALOT.

-Claudia Christian: Babylon Confudential
-James Bond: Devil May Care
-James Bond: High Time to Kill
-James Bond: Doubleshot
-James Bond: Never Dream of Dying

Also all 13 issues of the X-Men crossover X-cutioners Song.

[Troynos]

Near to finishing S.M. Stirling's Dies The Fire.

It's okay. I don't like how the main characters just happen to come across people that have exactly the skills they need. They come across someone that is a trained fencer, a blacksmith and the girl just happens to know trained renaissance re-enactors who know how to make leather armor, bows, swords, etc..

[soundwave84]

falling angel by william hjortsberg[1978,later made into a movie angel heart 1987,with mickey rourke and robert de niro].an occult -laden murder mystery in the style of raymond chandler.worth the read!

[RolandofGilead]

"Heart Shaped Box" by Joe Hill (Stephen King's son)

Fuckin' excellent book. I highly recommend it.

[blackrazor1]

Finished Drift by Rachel Maddow. Starting Cloud Atlas.

[Zarana]

Basho's on love and barley

[CG Steve]

Recent reads:

No Easy Day - the infamous SEAL Team 6 book about killing bin Laden
The Fountainhead - one of two pivotal works by Ayn Rand
The Devil's Highway - infamous desert journey of a band of illegal aliens where most of them died and the political aftermath that ensued in AZ
Dark Horse comics new Conan TPB - The Black Colossus
Dark Horse comics new Conan TPB - Road of Kings

Currently reading The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

[soundwave84]

less than zero by bret easton ellis[a cult classic and mr ellis's debut from 1985].

[UNDERCOVER]

Life, Keith Richards

[blackrazor1]

Finished Cloud Atlas, Lee Child's Killing Floor and No Easy Day by Mark Owens.

Cloud Atlas starts kind of slow for the first 1 1/2 chapters. Runs through five different time periods (three in the past, two in the future). Most of it seems to deal with power dynamics between different groups of people. I'll have to see the movie to see how the filmmakers handled it.

Killing Floor is the first of the Jack Reacher novels. A recently retired military pollice officer ends accused of murder in a small Georgia town. As he clears himself, a larger criminal enterprise is revealed.

No Easy Day is a shorter read. Not bad, but probably a bit too long for what it is.

[Konigstiger]

Nearing the end of Midnight in Peking, thinking of starting the Harry Potter series again.

[blackrazor1]

Finished Cold Dish by Craig Johnson. First in the Walt Longmire novels about a Wyoming sheriff, his Native American best friend and his quirky staff.

[Lifeline 71]

I just finished reading Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy. It's about a trade war between the US and Japan that becomes a real war. I just started reading the sequel, Executive Orders.

[blackrazor1]

Finished

Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - Must be the last person to read this book.

His Robot Wife by Wesley Anderson - Short story about a guy fighting a proposition that will nullify his marriage to a robot. Kind of forgettable.

Semper Mars by Ian Douglas - Story set in a future where the US and Russia are no longer part of the UN. The UN sends the French Foreign Legion to take over a US research base on Mars. It's up to 23 Marines to take it back.

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K Dick - Short the Total Recall movies are based on. Interesting read considering some of the outcry about the second movie. There is a small but important plot point that both movies ignored.

[PFunk]

"I Owe Russia $1200" by Bob Hope. Read it every Christmastime.

"Holidays in Hell" by PJ O'Rourke.

[soundwave84]

less than zero and the informers by bret easton ellis.

[blackrazor1]

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson - This is the last book of The Girl With Dragon Tatoo trilogy. Interesting over all plot, but a bit clunky in execution. There's a lot of going over things from the previous two books as new characters learn Lisbeth's history. There are a few sideplots that don't really go anywhere. The product placement isn't as noticeable as in the first two books. This series can feel a bit weird due to cultural differences (what's shocking in Sweden vs. in the US and vice versa).

Death Without Company by Craig Johnson - Another Walt Longmire novel. A woman dies at an assisted living facility. Turns out he was the wife of the former sheriff and it's not natural causes.

[soundwave84]

just started reading american psycho again...also by bret easton ellis.

[blackrazor1]

Finished The Passage by Justin Cronin - The military uses a new virus to create a human superweapon. They end up creating a "vampire" apocalypse that wipes out the US. The book deals with human survivors.

[DarkParsifal]

Brain Droppings by George Carlin. Picked it up on clearance at a local bookstore a while back, just finally got the free time to read through it, and it's funny as hell. Love Carlin, like him I hate it when people put creases in their jeans too

[UltimateVersion]

The last book I read was Nemesis, by Isaac Asimov.

[soundwave84]

"no beast so fierce" by edward bunker.

[blackrazor1]

Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton. About an Arab envoy that gets pulled into a Viking quest. It's the book that The 13th Warrior is based on. The beginning and ending read like someone's history thesis. The middle reads like a novel. It gets into more detail about Norse culture. The book has an alternate theory about who the Eaters really are as opposed to the movie. There is also a touch of the supernatural that I don't remember being in the movie.

Black Site: A Delta Force Novel by Dalton Fury. The story is about an ex-Delta operator that gets called in for a disavowed mission to find POWs from his last failed mission with Delta. Pretty good action story.

[blackrazor1]

Finished The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. The happen's after a religious coup in the US. Women are striped of all property and are forbidden to read and write. Story is told from the point of view of a "Handmaid". Handmaids are like nuns whose sole purpose is to have babies for the ruling class. It reads more like a diary than a novel. Kind of a slow read for the first half. Thought provoking, but doesn't get interesting until the second half.