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"Last book you read..."

This forum has too few people talking about books, sadly enough.

What was the last book you read? Or what are you currently reading?

Go ahead, tell us. Mention anything you'd recommend if you want.

The Descent
Which was awesome.

Now I'm reading The Reality Dysfunction.

Seeing as it was the holidays (go back to college next week) I decided to buy a few books so i didn't get bored. one book i bought was "The da vinci code" by Dan Brown, It was sooo good I decided to go out and buy all his collection (luckily Borders had a "3 for 2" offer on their books so I bought the other 3 books in his collection) and also books by Chris ryan (but only Greed & his newest one)

Last Book : "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" - Philip K. Dick
Not bad.

Currently : "The Gods of Eden" - William Bramley
A surprise hit, very impressive.

Yeah Lord of the Rings is a harsh read, and i finished them all ages before the first movie came out. I read them all in sequence, starting with The Hobbit, Fellowship of the Ring, etc. Took me like 1 whole year to get through them.. i found that it dragged on a lot, not sure if the others who read the books also share the same view as that, but you also like need to understand a completly new language, as half the time you dont get the drift that Tokien is trying to say.. When i spoke to my grandad, when i had finshed reading them, he said that he had read somewhere that Tokien had practically invented his own language.

Halo - Fall of Reach

:p

Puddleface wrote:
> yeah ive got an old copy of Lord of the rings which I recently found
> in the loft. I read the first couple of pages, then thought, I may
> aswel jst watch the films again! I would love to read the book cos
> Ive heard theres so much more to it than the films, but I just havent
> got the patience or the time!

The books are better than the films. Yes.

Last book I read was The Dark Side of the Sun by Terry Pratchett. Not bad, but certainly not his best - it seemed somewhat too cramped and rushed for a story that had such an epic feel, and it would've been nice to have more exploration of the rich and imaginative world he created.

In the first half, he spent a little too much time on the science and not enough on the fiction - which is more noticeable when the book opens up into some good, solid adventure stuff in the second half. The characterisation was poor, bet it was the key principles and thoughts in the book that were the most interesting, such as future-predicting probability and limitations of thought.

Although not quite as funny as usual, his parody on the genre and humorous references towards other popular aspects and objects of the world we know are amusing if not laugh-out-loud. I wouldn't particularly recommend it, but if you're a Pratchett or science fiction fan, it might be worth considering given its rather small size.

god i've read so many books in the last month. I love reading; means that i can imagine what is actually going on than what is put into a movie. here is a list of the many books ive read over the last month:

- Cross of the Iron by Willie Heinreich
- Bram Stoker's Dracula
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- All Quite on the Western Front
- D-Day/Pegasus Bridge by Stephen E. Ambrose

You Shall Know Our Velocity : Dave Eggars

yeah ive got an old copy of Lord of the rings which I recently found in the loft. I read the first couple of pages, then thought, I may aswel jst watch the films again! I would love to read the book cos Ive heard theres so much more to it than the films, but I just havent got the patience or the time!