Last book you read that made you go WOW!

[DefiantGoblin]

In found the thread about books that people read and didn't enjoy really interesting and was wondering, on a more positive note, what books people have read recently and really enjoyed.

One of the last books I have read is Solar by Ian McEwan. I thought this was fantastically written, with descriptions of trivial things like eating crisps made fascinating, and humorous to the point of being laugh-out-loud funny at times.

 

[Dandark]

I really enjoyed Jacqueline Carey's "Terre D'Ange" series of books. I just found them to be very well writen amd engaging to the point that I could hardly stop reading them. They also had pretty interesting characters and ideas, I really liked Terre D'Ange as a country, just found the way they treated sex and sexuality to be really unique although I don't tend to read that much so perhaps I am wrong about it being Unique.

 

[Kahunaburger]

The Odyssey is amazing as a story to this very day, and modern readers get an extra bonus: it's also fascinating from a historical perspective.

 

[bobmus]

I read the Hunger Games a while back, which was unexpectedly awesome. Game of Thrones would be the book before that though.

 

[Crumpster]

Jo Nesbo - The Snowman

The first book to ever make me feel disgusted because of it's amazing descriptions. It made me feel like a bystander looking at the events unfold in awe, the main character Harry Hole is just an astoundingly awesome character. Whenever you think you know who the murderer is, something comes up, making it impossible for it to be that guy - in the end though, it all falls together like a symphony of crime-fighting-goodness.

He is known as the next Stieg Larsson, to give you an impression of what kind of book it is.

Edit: Before that it must've been Yes Man by Danny Wallace, it's even more fun than the movie with Jim Carrey, the amount of times I've laughed out loud to that book is uncountable.

 

[DoPo]

Well, I'm halfway through it, but John Dies At the End by David Wong is really wow-worthy. That guy does not disappoint. I love him on Cracked, so I bought the book mainly because he wrote it. Man, that's good. It's a "comedy horror" genre and it manages to mix them well. Spooky, unnatural, frightning horrific on even a Stephen King scale, while still managing to be entertaining and fun at times.

 

[The Night Angel]

Going to have to go with 'The Way of Shadows' by Brent Weeks, as it's where I got my username from. I picked it up on an impulse, and absolutely loved it. If not, I'll say 'The Hunger Games', though that was more because I expected it to be bad (my sister recommended it), rather than it being superb.

 

[Professor Putricide]

Mogworld. Defiantly Mogworld.By the Escapists very own, Yahtzee.

The book itself is hysterical, but also extremely well-written and very clever. I couldn't put it down, and some parts with a certain elf had me laughing out loud. I honestly don't read very much, or very often, but this book might be the most fun I've had with a novel ever.

Oh Mr. Wonderful. <3

 

[Thatguyky]

The Hunger Games! I read it a while back before the movie came out, and now I've gone to see the movie five times
I decided to re-read the series again to... I may be a little bit hooked.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Not sure about the last book I read, but Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sure did blow me away as I read it.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

The Rommel Papers (Edited by B.H. Liddell-Hart) Its a collection of Rommel's writings from WW2. Its absolutely fasinating.

 

[Frostbite3789]

On book 3 of A Song of Fire and Ice and all I can think is "WOW! George, you sure hate happiness!"

 

[Belaam]

I really love Steven Brust's Taltos books. So much fun stuff and cross-referencing. Each stands as its own book, but can often be read out of order. Fun framing devices, like in one book, each chapter starts with directions to a cleaner as to what stains, rips, etc. in the protagonist's clothes need to be fixed and in the final chapter, he has to dress up to go to court. They aren't particularly deep, by and large, but fun little stories.

The WOW factor for me comes from in-universe jokes and the like. Like how in-universe, the number 17 is a mystical number. Then about five books in, I realize all the Taltos books have 17 chapters. Or when you later find out something important about a secondary character, realizing that it was foreshadowed in almost every book proceeding it. The only book in the series I don't love is Teckla (in which the protagonist gets a divorce - written as the author did so as well), which is obviously kinda depressing. Start with Jhereg or Taltos if you give it a whirl.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Dead Beat of the Dresden Files. Two words: Zombie T-rex

Actually, the whole series is like that.

 

[dragonswarrior]

Going to have to go with 'The Way of Shadows' by Brent Weeks, as it's where I got my username from.

Ha!! Nice!! Im rereading that series right now. It's pretty damn brilliant.

Well... Lotsa books blow my mind, but let me think which was the last one (reading for the first time otherwise I'd probably pick the Night Angel Trilogy too)...

Honestly? Tamara Pierce's Lioness Rampant series. They are kids books... But a coworker recommended them to me and so I gave them a try. They blew my mind because despite being for children, they are fucking awesome.

 

[dragonswarrior]

Dead Beat of the Dresden Files. Two words: Zombie T-rex

Actually, the whole series is like that.

That series is one of the best damn things that ever happened to the world...

 

[SomeBrianDude]

I'm reading American Gods right now, it's phenomenal. I've had it on the shelf for ages, but put it on hold while I went on a little Russian literature kick (by the way, 'Life and Fate' by Vasily Grossman is one everyone should read, along with a Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich).
I though there was no way it could top Neverwhere, which is my favourite novel, but if it keeps it up it might just. Neil Gaiman is a genius.

 

[Darklord008]

I've been working my way through the Game of Thrones series (or A Song of Ice and Fire, whatever), and they've all been amazing, but A Storm of Swords...Holy crap. So much stuff happened in the final half of that book, and all of it AWESOME.

 

[Something Amyss]

The Noble Fool (The Hungering Saga): I thought, "WOW, this book is really freaking dreadful!"

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

The new DC Supergirl series has been great so far really enjoying it.

I get so frustrated waiting for a new issue