What was the last good book that you've read?

[misle]

My last books:
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all 6 books)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Looking for a new book. I've heard good things about Assassin by Ted Bell.

What have you been reading?

 

[spacelord]

whats a book?

 

[Psycho18]

I've been reading Salem's Lot.

 

[amcdonald]

hocus pocus - vonnegut

 

[Ameesh]

i finsihed the the Warlord Crhonchiles by Cornwell, they were pretty good but if you havent read the song of fire and ice series by martin or the Dune series you are missing out. check out my sig for more suggestions

 

[nakedfrog]

The Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams' posthumously published book. It's not a novel, but rather a collection of his writings and what there is of an unfinished Dirk Gently novel that he'd said he wanted to change into a Hitchhiker novel.

 

[Feanor727]

The Illuminatus Trilogy

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: Feanor727
The Illuminatus Trilogy

I'm sorry. I read about 400 pages into that thing and quit. It was just too fscking scatterbrained to keep my interest.

 

[yankeesfan]

Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar

 

[BlueWeasel]

The DaVinci Code....started reading it about a month ago, and read the entire book in about 4 days.

 

[Wallydraigle]

The Silmarillion. I've read it a few times before, but I picked up a nice hardcover copy of it and read it again.

 

[jlarsson]

Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson

I'm working my way through Moneyball right now (that's if you like baseball).

 

[vshah]

The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay

very very good

-Vivan

 

[vi edit]

Oh, as far as me, I just wrapped up Clancy's Rainbow 6 the other night. Don't know if that is considered a "good" book, but it was entertaining.

Before that was Pattern Recognition by Steve Gibson. Don't know what I thought of that book.

 

[torpid]

Start and finished? Return of the King. Start and intend to finish at some point? "Beauty and Sadness" by Yasunari Kawabata

 

[xEDIT409]

The Color of Water by James McBride

It was actually a reading assignment given to me by Michigan State before we start classes.
I thought it was gonna be a bore, but it was a really good book.

 

[ActuaryTm]

This Perfect Day, Ira Levine.
Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley. (also recommend Brave New World, but read it ages ago)

 

[JDub02]

Tom Clancy - Teeth of the Tiger

 

[Schadenfroh]

stephen king's "skeleton crew"

 

[Kelemvor]

Hunter's Blade Trilogy book 2. Sequel to The Thousand Orcs.

Can't remember the name though.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
The DaVinci Code....started reading it about a month ago, and read the entire book in about 4 days.

me 2.

Best book I have read in last year in Gates of Fire - Pressfield

 

[booger711]

a storm of swords by george rr martin (a song of ice and fire book 3)

a feast of crows comes out soon (hopefully)!!

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
The DaVinci Code....started reading it about a month ago, and read the entire book in about 4 days.

me 2.

Best book I have read in last year in Gates of Fire - Pressfield

It's been recommended to me to read Brown's "Angels and Demons" if you enjoyed "The DaVinci Code". Have you read A&D before?

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
The DaVinci Code....started reading it about a month ago, and read the entire book in about 4 days.

me 2.

Best book I have read in last year in Gates of Fire - Pressfield

It's been recommended to me to read Brown's "Angels and Demons" if you enjoyed "The DaVinci Code". Have you read A&D before?

Angels and Demons was excellent too. The curious thing is that if you describe either book in general terms in a paragraph, it is a dead on description of the other.

"Our hero is woken in the middle of the night and summoned to solve a curious mystery...."

The two books follow the same basic storyline, but are different enough and well written enough that you won't care - they are that good.

 

[Coquito]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
The DaVinci Code....started reading it about a month ago, and read the entire book in about 4 days.

me 2.

Best book I have read in last year in Gates of Fire - Pressfield

It's been recommended to me to read Brown's "Angels and Demons" if you enjoyed "The DaVinci Code". Have you read A&D before?

A&D was much better then TDC. Both were somewhat enjoyable because of the trivia, but A&D had more of a gripping story.

They are written very similar & can get boring if you don't enjoy the constant facts being thrown at you. I read A&D first off & have yet to get completely through TDC, simply because it is much of the same thing: interesting facts, without nearly as much detail put into the story itself.