What's the Last Book You Read?

[ChosenofMystra]

Simple eh? 🙂 Just post the title and the author - and if you wish rate it. Here's mine.


Strange Wine - Harlan Ellison
8.5/10 rating

If you like surrealistic short speculative fiction reminescent of Lovecraft, you're love this tome 🙂

 

[milagros317]

"Forge of the Elders" by L. Neil Smith

 

[bass]

'black house' - stephen king & peter straub
8/10

prerequisite - 'the talisman' by stephen king & peter straub.. without reading the talisman first, it wont make as much sense.. and the talisman i give 9.5/10.. great book

now its on to the dark tower series by stephen king.. 7 books to go

 

[ChosenofMystra]

'black house' - stephen king & peter straub
8/10

prerequisite - 'the talisman' by stephen king & peter straub.. without reading the talisman first, it wont make as much sense.. and the talisman i give 9.5/10.. great book

now its on to the dark tower series by stephen king.. 7 books to go

Dude...you'll LOVE the Dark Tower series 😀 They're better than The Stand in my opinion.

 

[bass]

Dude...you'll LOVE the Dark Tower series 😀 They're better than The Stand in my opinion.

sweet, thats the first opinion ive gotten that wasnt printed on another book haha.. im not exactly sure what to expect, but i have no doubt i will love them.. i got parts I-IV in a set, and then i bought V just so i would have it once i tore through the first four.. and then by the time i get to V, i will have bought VI and VII haha

its weird.. my taste in books is so varied and it changes all the time.. before getting back into stephen king, i read all of dan brown's work (not starting with the da vinci code, i read angels & demons first), and before that i read 'around the world in 80 days' and 'journey to the center of the earth' by jules verne.. and once i finish the dark tower series, i have robert ludlum and vince flynn lined up next with like 3 or 4 books each.. and then from there, the newest michael chrichton novel.. and from there.. i have no idea.. thats as far as i have planned haha

 

[OnnaOtaku]

Jarhead...

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Book: Going Overboard by Christina Skye
Rating: 8/10
If you're a romantic/adventure kinda person, I recommend Christina Skye's books. They're pretty good.

 

[ThatPercussionGuy]

The Richest Man in Babylon

 

[Bugman]

The World Was Going Our Way-The KGB and the battle for the Third World.

Christopher Andrew/Vasili Mitrokhin

Rating 2-3.Could have been a great book,but i found the writing as dry as dust.Very difficult to stay with.

 

[Strider]

The World Was Going Our Way-The KGB and the battle for the Third World.

Christopher Andrew/Vasili Mitrokhin

Rating 2-3.Could have been a great book,but i found the writing as dry as dust.Very difficult to stay with.

Really? I enjoyed it quite a bit. But then again, sovietology's one of my biggest interests. One thing that really stuck out was how in it up to his neck with the USSR Allende really was. Something of a vindication for Cold Warriors.

Anyway, just finished:

Gost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001-Steve Coll

The Age of Roosevelt Volume I, 1919-1933:The Crisis of the Old Order-Arthur Schlesinger

A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1979-1990-Robert Kagan

Currently reading:

Six Days of War:June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East-Michael Oren

Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies-Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit

The Chilean Economy: Policy Lessons and Challenges-edited by Barry Bosworth, Rudiger Dornbusch, and Raul Laban

*sigh*

I'm such a fucking poli-sci geek.

 

[hiltopoius]

" The 48 Laws of power"...by robert greene....great read!, 8.5 rating

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Book: Point Blank by Catherine Coulter
Rating: 9/10

It was really good. Keeps your interest and keeps you guessing on who the murderer is and why.
It was a guaranteed good read or your money back, and it was a good read. 😀 I recommend it.

 

[ChosenofMystra]

Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman
8/10

Excellent collection of short speculative fiction. Most of it dark and twsited some quirky and some very beautiful. Highly recommended!

 

[Babbles]

Horns & Wrinkles

Ok, Horns and Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson and Nicoletta Ceccoli
is an older child's or young young adult's book, but I love books for all ages & the cover art grabbed me... As I hate bullies, that meshed just perfectly too. Pinochio meets Mississippi River magic, very imaginative. 9/10

(I love Harry Potter too, though apparently many of those ideas were, er, "borrowed..." Not all, but too many.) 🙁

Now back to Blood Work by Michael Connelly --- If you enjoy crime mystery he is *the must read ---
I'd just recommend reading in the order he published them, since the plots intertwine later... I didn't, and am going back to catch up before going forward. 10/10, brilliant stuff, hasn't disappointed yet.

http://www.michaelconnelly.com/

 

[huskys]

Red Storm Rising - tom Clancy

 

[bass]

hey chosenofmystra, just thought i would let you know..

i just finished the first book in the dark tower series, and it gets a 10/10.. i think im definately going to enjoy this series.. i was drawn into it from the first paragraph all the way to the end.. i read like 165 pages last night and finished it, starting part II tonight..

just thought i would let you know since you said you thought i would enjoy them.. you were definately right

 

[ChosenofMystra]

hey chosenofmystra, just thought i would let you know..

i just finished the first book in the dark tower series, and it gets a 10/10.. i think im definately going to enjoy this series.. i was drawn into it from the first paragraph all the way to the end.. i read like 165 pages last night and finished it, starting part II tonight..

just thought i would let you know since you said you thought i would enjoy them.. you were definately right

Great man, I knew you would like them 😀 truth be told they're actually one of my favorite series to read.

 

[Bugman]

Really? I enjoyed it quite a bit. But then again, sovietology's one of my biggest interests. One thing that really stuck out was how in it up to his neck with the USSR Allende really was. Something of a vindication for Cold Warriors.

Anyway, just finished:

Gost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001-Steve Coll

The Age of Roosevelt Volume I, 1919-1933:The Crisis of the Old Order-Arthur Schlesinger

A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1979-1990-Robert Kagan

Currently reading:

Six Days of War:June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East-Michael Oren

Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies-Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit

The Chilean Economy: Policy Lessons and Challenges-edited by Barry Bosworth, Rudiger Dornbusch, and Raul Laban

*sigh*

I'm such a fucking poli-sci geek.

Strider,i also am very intrested in Soviet/Russian history.I did learn a lot from this book,and for serious students of that era it would be a good read.I just find most British historians hard to stick with,i'm used to a somewhat faster pace i suppose.I love everything John Barron has written about the KGB,more of a narative style i guess.

I have got to learn to cut and paste damn it. 😱

 

[milagros317]

"Gone" by Jonathan Kellerman

It's a well written mystery novel by the author of many such books.

 

[kered]

On A Pale Horse.......Peirs Anthony Jacob

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Book: Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice
Rating: 10/10

This is the first book I've ever read by Anne Rice and it was wonderfully written. I highly recommend it to everyone, no matter what your creed is. I could actually picture the people and the place, picture Jesus as a young boy grappling with the mysteries that surround him.

 

[Jenn]

Children of the Night by Mercedes Lackey

 

[ChosenofMystra]

1984 - George Orwell

10/10

My favorite novel of all time. It needs no synopsis or explanation. 'Tis a divine gift birthed from the forebrow of the great Orwell and that's all you need to know 😛 😀

 

[Strider]

Just started: The Assassin's Gate: America In Iraq - George Packer

 

[bass]

on part IV of the dark tower series by stephen king..
all i can say..
is..
wow great books