What's the Last Book You Read/Finished?

[mongoose-mania]

The Stranger by Albert Camus.

 

[nite-owl]

The new rulers of the world by John Pilger

 

[squeekness]

Cerulean Sins ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Vampire porn, booyah!

 

[Rukus]

Splinter Cell: Barracuda - David Michaels

 

[Arbiter]

just got world war z and the zombie survival guide by max brooks .

just finished The strain and am now starting under the dome

 

[ChickenScratch]

Devil May Care, Sebastian Faulks

How did you like it? I was one of those Lit Bond fans waiting like a madman for it. As it turned out, it was just ok, not great, not bad. Certainly not the best of the continuation authors.

 

[The Navigator]

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier.

I didn't really like it as much as the first two. Moore's idea to combine every single piece of fiction into the same universe is an idea that can't really be distilled into a piece this short. He also glosses over (in a very funny cautionary pamhplet) an extremely intriguing idea of the "1984" government existing and then being overthrown and modified into something more subtle. The 3-D at the end wasn't done very well, either, what with the glasses being red and green and the print being red and blue. "Jimmy" is a humorous bright spot as a womanizing thug, but making him completely inept and whipped seems a little unfair to the character. Ah, well.

 

[Dark Victory]

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier.

I didn't really like it as much as the first two. Moore's idea to combine every single piece of fiction into the same universe is an idea that can't really be distilled into a piece this short. He also glosses over (in a very funny cautionary pamhplet) an extremely intriguing idea of the "1984" government existing and then being overthrown and modified into something more subtle. The 3-D at the end wasn't done very well, either, what with the glasses being red and green and the print being red and blue. "Jimmy" is a humorous bright spot as a womanizing thug, but making him completely inept and whipped seems a little unfair to the character. Ah, well.

I bought the first book today; pretty excited to read it.

 

[percoset]

The Graveyard Book

Excellent.

 

[The Navigator]

I bought the first book today; pretty excited to read it.

First one's great.

 

[Double Down]

Nick Hornby / Not a Star

 

[The Navigator]

Finished "Redclaw." Quite poor, unfortunately.

 

[LEX]

Night Fall by Nelson DeMille

Overall an engrossing tale, with a few spots that felt a little plodding, and oftentimes hilarious. 600+ pages felt short and I burned through them in three or so sittings. The writing is electric-quick, tight, and to-the-point. If not for the cop-out ending that resolved near nothing, it would've been a great book. John Corey FTW. 3.5/5.

 

[Punisher Rising]

Friday The 13th: Hate-Kill Repeat

 

[squeekness]

Incubus Dreams ~ Laurell K Hamliton

I like vamp porn as much as the next gal, but this got to be a bit much for me. Read the reviews and many had the same complaint. I like a bit of meat with my potatoes, you know? Hope the next book will be better.

 

[Victarion]

Servant of the Shard by R.A. Salvatore. It was no where near as good as I'd imagined it would be, but it wasn't terrible. I prefer Entreri and Jarlaxle as antagonists, I think. Having finished this one, I feel I can better appreciate the Entreri-Drizzt rivalry a bit more. It just didn't seem as big a deal to me as fans of the Drizzt series made it out to be.

Much of this book, I feel, could have been included in Salvatore's Drizzt novels if WOTC gave him more freedom with his wordcount limit.

 

[Yodaman]

Star Trek New Frontier: Gods Above by Peter David

 

[ComicChick]

finally finished book 2 of The Green Mile by King.

hope to start book 3 this weekend

 

[LEX]

Timeline by Michael Crichton

His passing still feels unreal.

Spoiler

Also, the film changing Doniger's ending was one of the rare incidents of adaptation-done-right, if I may be so bold. The one in the book, while undoubtedly chilling, not only felt anticlimactic, but made those who decided his ultimate fate little better than him, which was rather unfulfilling to read. :/

Aside from that, the book was in top form on the whole, though not nearly as great as the Jurassic Park books. It was still a considerable page-burner, however. What weak bits existed were easily ignored in favor of the abounding upsides of the book.

The medieval world was so fascinating to read about with all its rich descriptions and intricacies of the people of the court. I rather liked how this time round, Crichton glorified history and put science on the back seat. My favorite quote from the book: "If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it was part of a tree." An inescapably apt analogy that immediately made me feel self-conscious of my recent lack of interest in history.

3/5.

 

[Alexia Dark]

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber. I bought it because it is about a prostitute in Victorian England, and I am writing a script involving one. It was not a very entertaining read, had no closure, the only decent subplot was destroyed by the death of a character, and the ending was pure random madness. Overall, not very useful. I am profoundly disappointed.

 

[Sloth7d]

Finally forced myself to finish reading NeverWhere by Neil Gaiman. I guess it's okay in the end. Didn't like the prose that much or the characters, and some of the dialogue is down right cheesey and/or stilted. Trying to force a [BLACKOUT] Pan's Labyrinth [/BLACKOUT] didn't really work either. Passable, though I heard Gaiman's other works are much better. 6/10

 

[Harleen Quinzel]

I read alot, so I'm entirely sure, so I'll just list ones I remember reading this week.

Nikki Sixx-The Heroin Diaries
Apt Pupil-Stephen King
Fluke-James Herbert
Moon-James Herbert
Some random book about the Nazis, some random book about Sid Vicious,
About five Jacqueline Wilson books (xD)

 

[Rukus]

Splinter Cell: Checkmate - David Michaels

 

[ComicChick]

The Bone Chamber - Robin Burcell

it was ok. the ending really fell off for me though

 

[squeekness]

Angel Time by Anne Rice. Wonderful as usual for her.