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

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Hankerton

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

Same here. Awesome book.
 

slunk

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Tobias Wolff's Old School
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David Sedaris's Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Both were excellent. Dress Your Family is hilarious.
 

psiu

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Reality Dysfunction series by Peter Hamilton. Just finished the 6th (and final) book this morning
 

blackdogdeek

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

Same here. Awesome book.

i enjoyed it as well. after i finish the alienist by caleb carr i'm going to read dan brown's angels and demons which i heard was even better. we'll see.
 

LeonarD26

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For those who care, the final Dark Tower book by Stephen King comes out in NINTEEN days!
 

asm0deus

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Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Hunter's Blade Trilogy book 2. Sequel to The Thousand Orcs.<BR><BR>Can't remember the name though.

hell yeah, im reading a trilogy before this one Path of Darkness, just finished all the other books before it.
Dark Elf Trilogy, Crystal Shard Trilogy, Legacy Series.. lots of reading.. salvatore is teh good stuff

Originally posted by: Beau
Ender's Game Quadrogy

I read those I finished Ender's Shadow a couple months back, was a good read.
 

RollWave

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Originally posted by: asm0deus
Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Hunter's Blade Trilogy book 2. Sequel to The Thousand Orcs.<BR><BR>Can't remember the name though.

hell yeah, im reading a trilogy before this one Path of Darkness, just finished all the other books before it.
Dark Elf Trilogy, Crystal Shard Trilogy, Legacy Series.. lots of reading.. salvatore is teh good stuff

Originally posted by: Beau
Ender's Game Quadrogy

I read those I finished Ender's Shadow a couple months back, was a good read.



Here here! I'm reading em all but out of order. Read hunters blade books and the icewind trilogy, orderd the path of darkness and finishing the dark elf one hehe. Salvatore is great


EDIT: I'm aching for EQ2 or some other MMORPG to come out so I can do some Dark Elfing :)
 

Gurck

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Last good book I read was a Stephen King novel. But since everyone already knows that King kicks sooooooooooo much ass, I'll comment on Lee Child's series of Jack Reacher novels. At the very least, take one out from the library (it's free!) and give it a try. It's a stereotypical series on a badass mofo (ala Cussler's 'Dirk Pitt') but given a badass twist due to Child's awesome style and fearless attitude toward different writing styles (one novel is even in the first person).
 

TitanDiddly

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Don't read 'I Will Fear No Evil' by Robert Heinlein. It will screw you up.

Plot in the nutshell:
Old cretin has hot secretary
Old cretin realizes he's dying, arranges a brain transplant when a body is ready
Hot secretary is killed
Cretin brain transplanted into hot secretary
Cretin wakes up, hot secretary is still living inside his(her) head
Cretin lives by WWHSD
They go sex0r up teh town, including all the old cretin's friends, who are still old cretins
They get artificially inseminated by the old cretin's juice at a sperm bank
They sex0rs some more
Assumably end of book (haven't finished it, no real desire to)
 

djheater

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Mar 19, 2001
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The last "good" book I "read" was Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters by J.D. Salinger Since then I've read some criticism and assorted biographical essays about Jerome David. Oh wait, I also read The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway and a book of collected quotes by Papa about writing. That was, it goes without saying, quite good. I've also "listened" to audio renditions of The Iliad, Medea, The Imaginary Invalid and The Tempest, all of which were quite good.

I'm trying to educate myself about Salinger, there's something in his works that appeals to me on a fundamental level. I've read EVERYTHING he's ever published and am still highly interested in him. I can say without compunction that Hemingway (by way of example) was a better writer, but Salinger still can get me and I don't quite know why... It's his characterisations, I think. At any rate, I think it's time for another run through on the Salinger. This time I plan on picking out all his references to other works, writing them down then reading them in order of appearance. That'll be interesting.
 
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I have been working through charles sheffield's stuff lately. its good stuff, but not great. Last great book i read was Stephonson's Cryptonomicon.
 

kyutip

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Finishing up on "Stiff - The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach", one chapter left.
Very interesting book but not for people who easily get a bad dream :)