What was the last book you read and how was it?

[Clive Howlitzer]

You heard the topic! What was the last book that you finished and what did you think of it? For me, it was Elder Scrolls: The Infernal City, by Greg Keyes. I was expecting it to suck horribly like most video game novels but it was surprisingly good. I am working on the second book in the series now but then sadly that is it.
-EDIT-
I have now finished the second book, Lord of Souls. Not as good as the first and the ending felt unfortunately rushed. Now I am sad there are no more books in the Elder Scrolls universe.

 

[x-machina]

I just finished The Grail Quest by Bernard Cornwell, I highly recommend it. It follows an English archer during the 100 years war. Cornwell writes fantastic historical fiction. It's not only enjoyable, but you also learn a helluva lot.

 

[GamerKT]

Ender's Game was pretty good. Really glad that production on the movie is just now starting to advance, for real. Also, I have the same feelings for The Hunger Games, which I read just before it.

 

[Jfswift]

The last full book I can remember reading was the final book in the Dark Tower series. It wasn't that great although it had some interesting ideas going and I didn't care much for the end of the book, save the very last page. I actually felt the ending was.. appropriate

Edit: (first four books were really good I felt. They used unconventional characters set in multiple scenarios and worlds. Hard to explain without ruining anything but I really enjoyed reading those.)

 

[Phyrophobia]

The last book I read would have been The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror.

Normally I'm a fiction guy, but if politics are your thing I'd recommend that book. It was written in '04 I do believe, and some of the things it predicts are quite close to happening. Some of the good and some of the bad. Fun fact about it, it was written by Michael Ignatief, who ran for Prime Minister in Canada and came damn close to bringing his own party to its knees. He's too much of a professor to be a politician, which is a shame.

Before that would have been Animal Farm, which I found endlessly enjoyable to read.

 

[Ytomyth]

Salute the Dark, 4th one in the Shadows of the Apt series.
Best new fantasy series for me, quite original as well.

 

[redmoretrout]

Currently reading Homage to Catalonia... well listening to it on audiobook actually. Haven't heard enough to give a proper recommendation yet, but it is George Orwell. So that should be all the recommendation you need.

 

[Aidinthel]

I just finished Mistborn: The Final Empire a few minutes ago, actually. It's very good.

 

[the_korova_milkbar]

The last on I read was Jurassic Park. I know I'm like 20 years late, but I saw it in a book store a couple of weeks ago and had to get it. Its actually a lot better than the movie, if you can believe that. There's a couple of more characters, the story is better, and its more intense. I think the best part about it was Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum). In the movie he was just a ass, but he's the smartest one in the book.

 

[HassEsser]

Fight Club

Still reading it actually, about 70% through. Book before that was Requiem for a Dream, and it was an amazing book.

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

Just polishing off a set of books. Major Problems in American Foreign Relations (Dennis Merrill and Thomas G Paterson, eds), U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900 (Robert D Schulzinger), Diplomacy (Henry Kissinger), and just finished rerererereading the Lord of the Rings novels.

For the non-fiction books, they are pretty good as long as you take the authors' biases into account.

I never said my tastes in books made much sense

 

[Dimitriov]

Reading a Clockwork Orange for my Eng Lit class... It's interesting.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.
Were it not for it, I'd still be fruitlessly trying to get a job in the Computer Graphics industry and probably be pretty wrung out of trying.
Here and now I stand at a pretty important axiom of learning instead.

 

[dimensional]

I usually read fiction but the last one I read was called Dewey which is about a library cat I have had the book for ages but didnt get around to reading it, turns out it was quite nice and even touching in places. I have almost finished the life of Pi which I am really enjoying reading.
After these it will be back to my stack of fiction books probably.

 

[Mrmac23]

A Game Of Thrones. An utterly brilliant series with a very vast plot. Just a piece of advice if you choose to read it: i hope you like the books always ending with everyone either unsatisfied, dead, utterly unlikeable or a Bolton. This series can get pretty damn depressing at times. Of course, Tyrion's still awesome.

 

[Deadyawn]

2001 a space oddessy and yes it was good, although it got a bit wierd at the end. Athur C Clarke was quite the visionary.

Right now I'm reading Titus Groan and...well it's a rather unorthodox novel but it's absorbent and very well written.

 

[burn e]

Mogworld by our very own Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw.
I've read it 5 times now and he stilll never seizes to humor me.

 

[Kurt Cristal]

Yotsuba&! Volume 1. It's so cute it hurts.

 

[savageoblivi0n]

I've been reading the Necroscope series by Brian Lumley, and I'm on Deadspeak right now, which is book 4..Love the series so far and need to get the rest of them. Last series i finished was re-reading the Dragonlance Chronicles again.