What was the last great book/novel you read.

[Mister Benoit]

I'm currently reading through Neil Gaiman's Sandman, I'm on book 8 and wish I could read instead of work >.>

Also about to finish Y: The Last Man, although I feel like the series has lost steam and have the feeling that i'm going to be let down by the ending.

June 22nd = Trade #14 of The Walking Dead WOOT!

 

[Shymer]

Crytponomicon by Neal Stephenson. Dense work packed with description, but well worth it.

 

[The Last Nomad]

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. I'm not really a big reader but that was a fuckin' great book.

 

[craddoke]

Read the Name of the Rose last, but wouldn't recommend it. Same with 100 years of Solitude.

I disagree about Rose, but then that might have something to do with my medieval literature PhD. 100 years is a tough call - there are moments of brilliance in it, but quite a bit of WTF-ery, too. I guess that's magic realism for you.

 

[RedKurtain]

For me it would have to be "3" by Ted Dekker. I used to read a lot way back in middle school but ever since high school, college and beyond I've really slowed down. I read 3 in one day, I just couldn't put it down. A very very interesting read...

 

[Shymer]

I have never been so angry and anooyed at Redemption of Althalus and I don't know why I was so averse to it. It came across as the worst kind of cheesy 'knowing' romance wrapped in formulaic fantasy pap and the characters were awful despite promising much. I've read a lot of bad books in my time - but that one really took the biscuit. I quite enjoyed the Belgariad.

 

[Benarikun]

Not so much a single book, but the entire series of "The Lost Fleet" by Jack Campbell has been a blast for me. A good series with a solid, well thought out plot, coupled with a very realistic take on space ship combat in a far flung future of humanity.

 

[Littlewolfy]

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Annoying how she doesn't use quotation marks sometimes, but it is still a great classic.

 

[DSK-]

I believe it was 2010: A Space Odyssey or 2061 Odyssey Three. Not too sure. I read them back in secondary school, about 8 years ago :S

 

[blAAAm]

The Name of the Wind

 

[badmunky64]

I'm reading The Wise Man's Fear sequel of Name of the Wind. I guarantee it will one day become the next Lord of the Rings

 

[TheKruzdawg]

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Great novel about the Vietnam War and how to deal with what happened there, both as someone who experienced it and as someone who has no idea.

 

[w00tage]

C.J. Cherryh's Chanur series, again. I wanted to buy something for 20.00 from Amazon.com and they wanted 10.00 shipping, but it qualified for free Amazon shipping if I could get the purchase to 25.00. For some reason Chanur's Venture (the first three books compiled) showed up as "recently searched" (I think I was checking for new books by fav authors and she's one) and it also qualified for free Amazon shipping, so I hit the button and saved a few bucks on shipping, plus got a free book.

I'd almost forgotten how great a read this series is. Aside from a few slightly idiosyncratic grammatical choices to set pacing here and there, it's about the perfect sci-fi story.

 

[SideSmash]

Dunno if this counts, but I read Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five for school curriculum. Personally, I love Quintin Tarantino and his non-chronological storytelling, so this one hits home for me. Also, the symbolism and allusions to the ideas of existentialism are extremely profound. It's a fantastic book.

 

[godofallu]

The last epic gook I read was The Outlaw of Torn.

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If you like knights, chivalry, romance, and princess locked in castles this book is for you. Now in gruesome extra cruel!

The last book I read was The gunfight by one of my favorite authors, Richard Matheson. It was decent but not great, his Journal of the Gun years is his best western book.

I am Legend is his greatest work however.

 

[caselj01]

Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by Lawrence of Arabia.

 

[DiabloBub666]

Most definitely either "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" or "Awesome".

Jekyll and Hyde is really really good at character description, and it's pretty short in comparison to some of Stevenson's other novels, so it doesn't get too sluggish. The problem is that certain editions COMPLETELY GIVE THE MAIN PLOT TWIST AWAY on the back cover... grr.

Awesome is just... awesome. If you can stand dirty humor, it contains some of the funniest descriptions and scenes that I've ever read, up there with Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams.

 

[ZtH]

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. I know it's a children's book, but it is absolutely fantastic.