What's been your latest read?

[neoman10]

The Communist Manifesto and some Two Treaties of Government thrown in

 

[crunchieman]

The Dark Tower by Stephen King :3

 

[Queen Michael]

Aaaanyway. Other than that, I'm sorry for the poor guy reading the Divine Comedy (honestly, it's like reading the 14th century phonebook. You'd think that the guy would put people in afterlife that lived more than three blocks away from him...). Take it from me, it's cool to say that you've read it, but it's only worth it if you're writing a disseration on the birth of European languages. Also, you can lie about it and nobody will check because they are also lying about it.

Or you can do what I did, and read it because you like it and it's on your top three list of the best books ever written.

I just finished The Book Thief - Markus Zusak which is one of the best books I have ever read, and I'm not going to read another book for a few weeks because I need my homework to go away momentarily.

I love that book! It's touching without being sentimental, it's innovative without resorting to cheap gimmicks, and the style is great.

Yesterday I finished Islands in the Stream by Hemingway, and today I'll finish Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett. And I'll be honest with you - I spent some time earlier this week reading a couple of Princess Diaries books. Not exactly the best there is, I admit, but they do have a certain charm, and what I don't like about them is so bad it's good. And to top it all off, they're so short it doesn't take me any time to finish them at all, so they're not a waste of time.

 

[JokerCrowe]

If anyone cares; I'm reading Insomnia by Stephen King at the moment. also good on you people reading Terry Pratchett books! they're awsome in a can! (or book...)

 

[EeveeElectro]

I'm currently doing an English essay, so I have some Carol Ann Duffy poems and The Handmaid's Tale in front of me which I'm reading over. The last book I read in my own time was Jingo by Terry Pratchett on the train to my boyfriends. It's funny because it is similar to the racism in the world today, and how stupid people get about it.

 

[Tethalaki]

Recently finished re-reading books 10, 11 and 12 of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time.

Reading through Book 13 (The Gathering Storm*) currently - it's great so far!

*Written by Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan.

 

[David_G]

I'm currently reading the complete Sherlock Holmes Collection, it's going very slow, but it's a very nice read.

 

[Alphavillain]

I've just started "This Is Paradise! My North Korean Childhood". The title's ironic.

 

[ninjapenguin981]

Animal Farm - George Orwell.

Great book, and is really short. I'd recommend it to anyone.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

The sight - David Clement-Davies

Good read, I was actually rereading it before I read the sequel.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Animal Farm - George Orwell.

Great book, and is really short. I'd recommend it to anyone.

Was that made into a play?
My drama class went to go see it in Leeds on Thursday. Unfortunately, I couldn't afford it but it sounds so good.

 

[Dyp100]

I just finished Eisenhorn, great, great, GREAT book, excellent pacing.

Also finished Scourge the Heretic (or whatever) which was okay.

Now I'm reading Ravenor, and bloody loving it.

You noticed a trend? (I'm GMing a 40k RP, I need inspiration. >.> Don't judge me, I got a TP book to read as well.)

 

[Lukeje]

Elementary Theory of Angular Momentum by M.E. Rose; a graduate-level text on angular momentum theory in quantum mechanics. It's very good, but the concepts are rather difficult.

 

[linwolf]

Men At Arms - Terry Pratchett

 

[Fellwarden]

I finished Stephen King's The Dark Tower series a while ago. I've intended for some time to read 1984 after that, and Catch-22.

I do think sometimes that I should stop reading fiction and start reading factual books, but I enjoy fiction, and probably won't stop anytime soon. It would be hipocritical anyway, considering that I enjoy games a lot, and definately won't stop playing them anytime soon either.

 

[Dwarfman]

Just finished reading HG Wells The War of the Worlds again. Easily my favourite book.

Currently I'm in a horror frame of mind and am part way trough The Call of Cthulhu and other wierd stories by HP Lovecraft. After that I'll be embarking on Dracula's Guest and other wierd stories, The Lair of the White Worm and The Jewel of Seven Stars all by Bram Stoker.

 

[Dwarfman]

Animal Farm - George Orwell.

Great book, and is really short. I'd recommend it to anyone.

Was that made into a play?
My drama class went to go see it in Leeds on Thursday. Unfortunately, I couldn't afford it but it sounds so good.

It was also made into an animated feature. I first saw it when I was about 9 or 10. Blew my little mind to bits! Either my Dad or Brother have a copy of it and I need to read it. Two other Orwell books that need reading are 1984 and Down and Out in London and Paris. I'm looking for the latter but can't find it anywhere! It's quite vexing really...

 

[Triscut900]

just finished "practical demonkeeping" by christopher moore
now reading "i am america (and so can you)" by stephen colbert

 

[ben---neb]

Before that, it was And Another Thing... Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part 6 of 3. by Eoin Colfer.

It is considered polite not to mention that so called 'book' in public.

OP: Bulldog Drummond - a Victorian style James Bond book, great fun, very Tory, loved it.