What's the Last Book You Read?
Thursday, May 8, 2014 by Island Dog | Discussion: Books
We talk about movies and TV, so why not have a discussion about the books we read! Let us know what's the last book you read, and feel free to recommend it or expand on what it's about.
I mostly read through my Kindle and get most of my eBooks through Amazon.
The book I recently finished was Inside the Real Area 51: The Secret History of Wright Patterson
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Reply #42 Saturday, June 28, 2014 1:18 PM
I'm rereading the Wheel of Time series, except that I'm finally getting to read all 14 books for the first time. It's been a good time so far!
Am currently just over 300 pages into Path of Daggers, and am pleasantly surprised by the pacing. I remembered books 7-10 being a slog, but aside from a couple chapters, CoS wasn't bad at all, and thus far, PoD has moved along just fine as well. Perhaps it's more WH and CoT that move along so slowly. Either way, I'm enjoying the journey in the meantime. 
Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series. Great books, innovative magic system in it.
Agreed. I found the pacing to be very uneven (it seems to be a Sanderson trademark in my experience), but it's an excellent series with an amazing storyline.
Reply #43 Wednesday, July 2, 2014 11:25 AM
Since we are on the subject of books and reading, I am reading, The Case for Books by Robert Darnton, the celebrated historian. He writes about the future of the printed book in this digital age and is a good read.
Reply #44 Wednesday, July 2, 2014 2:27 PM
Stephen King - Under The Dome.
1200 page mofo/doorstopper.
Reply #45 Tuesday, July 8, 2014 10:28 PM
Since we are on the subject of books and reading, I am reading, The Case for Books by Robert Darnton, the celebrated historian. He writes about the future of the printed book in this digital age and is a good read.
Can you get that on kindle? Joking! Kind of.
edit: the answer is yes, and it is now on my wish list.
Reply #46 Thursday, August 7, 2014 7:09 AM
"All our Names" by Dinaw Mengestu ...... Takes place in Africa and the USA in the 1970's. A very good read.
Reply #48 Saturday, August 9, 2014 10:15 AM
Game of Thrones by George RR Martin. Finally started the books after realizing how much the tv series diverges in the latest season.
Reply #49 Saturday, August 9, 2014 10:36 AM
'Lamb' by Christopher Moore, very funny.
Just started 'Run, run, run away' by C. R. Cummings.
Reply #50 Friday, September 26, 2014 9:07 AM
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows... Probably for the tenth time.
Reply #51 Friday, December 5, 2014 10:17 AM
I haven't read it yet, but I've been wanting it and Amazon put the Kindle version on sale for just $3.99 so I grabbed it.
Reply #52 Friday, December 5, 2014 1:38 PM
Atlas Shrugged. I can see things like this happening in this day & Age.
Reply #53 Friday, December 5, 2014 2:52 PM
Atlas Shrugged.
Read "Adultery" by Arthur Coelho and Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke .... both very good!!
Reply #54 Wednesday, December 17, 2014 1:49 AM
And now, three months down the line, just finished reading this novel by Anthony Doerr called All The Light We Cannot See. The storyline goes like this: Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan, destined to labor in the same mine that claimed his father's life, until he discovers a knack for engineering. His talent wins him a place at a brutal military academy, but his way out of obscurity is built on suffering. At the same time, far away in a walled city by the sea, an old man discovers new worlds without ever setting foot outside his home. But all around him, impending danger closes in. A must-read.
And the next one on the cards is Andrew's Brain by E.L. Doctorow.
Reply #55 Wednesday, December 17, 2014 6:43 AM
All The Light We Cannot See
I just finished "Jesus out to sea"... a collection of short stories written by James Lee Burke. Now I am reading "The Neon Rain" by J. L. Burke. This one is a detective novel.
Reply #56 Tuesday, January 6, 2015 2:12 PM
It was on sale for $2.50 on Amazon this weekend, so I had to grab it. Still want to see the movie, but the book was excellent.
Reply #57 Wednesday, January 7, 2015 2:44 AM
alastair campbell diary vol 3... starting on 4 now..
Reply #59 Wednesday, January 14, 2015 10:45 PM
Jeff Carlson - Plague Year Trilogy
Given our current scientific mindset of "We can do a thing, so therefore we should do it", I can totally see this happening.
We should start a death pool; which will wipe us out first, development of Nano Technology (without quadruple-checking the veracity of your descrim keys), or the development of true "AI"
Reply #60 Friday, January 26, 2018 4:36 PM
I finished the series and the last book was the best.
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Reply #41 Wednesday, May 28, 2014 12:26 PM
Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series. Great books, innovative magic system in it.