What's the Last Book You Read/Finished?

[mongoose-mania]

Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O'Malley.

 

[ComicChick]

juliet by anne fortier

it's so good i don't want to put it down but i have to be at work in 3 hours so i need to try and get some sleep

 

[ChickenScratch]

Wow, even the cover screams chick-lit.

 

[ComicChick]

it's a tie-in to the shakespearean play.

it's more dan brown-esque than anything

 

[Yodaman]

Adam Bede by George Eliot

 

[ComicChick]

finished Juliet today.

sooo good

 

[mongoose-mania]

Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone by Walter H. Gibson.

 

[Yodaman]

Wild Cards Book 1 edited by George R. R. Martin

 

[Figs]

Wild Cards Book 1 edited by George R. R. Martin

I haven't read those books in years. What did you think of it?

Last book read...

 

[Yodaman]

I haven't read those books in years. What did you think of it?

I was actually pretty surprised. I wasn't expecting a whole lot, but I really enjoyed how well they were able to infuse their superhero plotline so well with historical events. Definitely original for print or for superhero stories in general. I'll have to see how well it holds up as the series goes on, though. I can see the idea getting old after a while.

 

[Figs]

Yeah it did get a bit old but the first 3 books were pretty good. I think it was the 4th or 5th that I started to lose interest. I can't remember how many they went up to, I think 6.

I always wanted to see some movies or a TV miniseries made from those books.

It's like an adult X-men type world. Some people got powers while others got mutated and deformed from the radiation. While not wholly original it was a cool concept I think George R. R. Martin did well.

 

[Yodaman]

Yeah it did get a bit old but the first 3 books were pretty good. I think it was the 4th or 5th that I started to lose interest. I can't remember how many they went up to, I think 6.

I always wanted to see some movies or a TV miniseries made from those books.

It's like an adult X-men type world. Some people got powers while others got mutated and deformed from the radiation. While not wholly original it was a cool concept I think George R. R. Martin did well.

There's 19 of them

I'll check the next two out, because my library also has the third book and I was able to get the second relatively cheaply (the first 6 or so fetch outrageous prices on the secondary market). I also think the addition of the alternate history elements helps the concept to remain fresh, even if you can't help but compare it to Watchmen at times.

 

[Axl Van Sixx]

The Great Depression 1929-1939 by Pierre Berton. I can't believe I've never read this guy's stuff before. You know he's an incredible writer because he takes Canadian history and makes it interesting. Of course, these were very "interesting" times. What stands out to me are the similarities between now and then. In each case, in the face of staggering unemployment and untold human misery, the main concern of the politicians is the deficit, the deficit, the deficit (or so they tell us). Who cares if people are starving...we've got to BALANCE THAT BUDGET! It's during bad economic times that the capitalist state becomes exactly what Marx and Lenin said it always was: an instrument for the oppression of one class by another. You only need to look at the G20 protests in Toronto last June to see that.

 

[.Rorschach.]

House Of Leaves

 

[Figs]

There's 19 of them

I'll check the next two out, because my library also has the third book and I was able to get the second relatively cheaply (the first 6 or so fetch outrageous prices on the secondary market). I also think the addition of the alternate history elements helps the concept to remain fresh, even if you can't help but compare it to Watchmen at times.

Damn, I was way off. I guess I only saw up to the 6th book around when I started to lose interest.

 

[Dark Victory]

All the Pretty Horses


Fourth time I've finished it.

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Professor Van Helsing was awesome... now I see where Setrakian from The Strain trilogy comes from.


A little over halfway through Let The Right One In, then I'm gonna start on The Fall.

 

[darkseid26]

The Aleph and other stories by Jorge Luis Borges

 

[mongoose-mania]

Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes.

 

[nite-owl]

Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the World by Mark Curtis

 

[p.marlowe]

"The War Within" by Bob Woodward

 

[squeekness]

The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo ~ Stieg Larsson

 

[maenalus]

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[Crockett]

just finished with The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

 

[Crockett]

Oh, btw I'm currently reading Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Anybody else here that have read the series? Is good so far but I'm just wondering if it's a good series that's worth spending time getting the other books or if it gets worse later on, like no progression etc.?