What's the Last Book You Read/Finished? - Part 1 Page 1 Chapter 1 Paragraph - Part 3

[KevanG]

I finished James Clavells Shogun and am rereading the Game of Thrones books. I watched a few theories online about Jon Snows mother and reading the books with that in mind gives various scenes a new twist.

 

[squeekness]

A Cold War -- Alan Russell

 

[ripse]

Veronica Roth - Divergent

 

[hammerhedd11]

Our Culture, What's Left of It by Theodore Dalrymple

 

[blueharvest]

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

 

[DeadFan]

The Book of Speculation -- Erika Swyler

 

[squeekness]

Bind Torture Kill -- Roy Wenzl

 

[DeadFan]

Black Man In A White Coat -- Damon Tweedy, MD

 

[C. Lee]

DOC SAVAGE: The Flaming Falcons

 

[antsman41]

The Magician King by Lev Grossman [Book 2 of the Magicians Trilogy]

As I maybe stated when I read the first book last summer... these books are amazing. I've never been a magical/fantasy guy, being a Batman fan I always loved how science was the root of his fantastical themes and villains. When I was in elementary school I barely made it half way into the first Harry Potter because it bored me, I'd rather read Hatchet again and again. Something about fantastical characters usually missing that human aspect, our faults and all.

That's why I love these books. You can easily enjoy them just on the aspect of Less Than Zero meets Harry Potter, but seeing myself in Quentin's failures, hopes, and dreams is what makes me actually enjoy the magical aspects. It's crazy, I never figured myself to read books like this but they are so fun and engaging. They remind me more along the lines of Asimov, Dick, etc. while also giving hints of Bukowski, Hornby, and Dumas.

 

[Rain in Gotham]

David baldacci / memory man

 

[squeekness]

Biblical Commentary on Joshua -- David Howard

 

[squeekness]

Library of souls -- Ransom Riggs

 

[DeadFan]

The Magician King by Lev Grossman [Book 2 of the Magicians Trilogy]

As I maybe stated when I read the first book last summer... these books are amazing. I've never been a magical/fantasy guy, being a Batman fan I always loved how science was the root of his fantastical themes and villains. When I was in elementary school I barely made it half way into the first Harry Potter because it bored me, I'd rather read Hatchet again and again. Something about fantastical characters usually missing that human aspect, our faults and all.

That's why I love these books. You can easily enjoy them just on the aspect of Less Than Zero meets Harry Potter, but seeing myself in Quentin's failures, hopes, and dreams is what makes me actually enjoy the magical aspects. It's crazy, I never figured myself to read books like this but they are so fun and engaging. They remind me more along the lines of Asimov, Dick, etc. while also giving hints of Bukowski, Hornby, and Dumas.

Thanks for sharing! Been trying to get back into sci fi/fantasy and was wondering about this series. Sounds like it is something I will want to try once I've worked thru some other books on my list....

 

[Great Cthulhu]

Just finished reading Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James

 

[dude stannis]

Egyptomania by Bob Brier

 

[tzarinna]

Push by Sapphire.

 

[DawnWarrior]

Frank Herbert's Dune

 

[squeekness]

The song of Achilles -- Madeline Miller

 

[ComicChick]

started Fallen by Lauren Kate

 

[Victarion]

The Final Programme by Michael Moorcock:

A rockstar-physicist that works as an assassin and a scientist go out into a world falling apart at the seams to find a computer programme that will create a Messiah to the Age of Science.

 

[DeadFan]

Cure - Jo Marchant

 

[Lobo]

Half way through The Navigator by Clive Cussler

 

[blueharvest]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

 

[hammerhedd11]

Stalin: Breaker of Nations by Robert Conquest