Last book you've read

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Comfortably Numb - The Inside Story of Pink Floyd by Mark Blake

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[Ruaidhri]

Just finished The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle.

Still reading Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations by Craig Nelson.

 

[Canadave]

Just re-read The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson, in which he drives around America being alternately happy and curmudgeonly.

I adore Bill Bryson, he would be a major guest at my imaginary dinner party. Just about to start his "At Home".
I just love the way he writes, it's like listening to a friend.

I've only read A Walk in the Woods, which I absolutely loved, so I plan on tracking more of his stuff down.

And I just finished Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks, my first venture into the Culture universe. I quite enjoyed it.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

Just re-read The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson, in which he drives around America being alternately happy and curmudgeonly.

I adore Bill Bryson, he would be a major guest at my imaginary dinner party. Just about to start his "At Home".
I just love the way he writes, it's like listening to a friend.

I've only read A Walk in the Woods, which I absolutely loved, so I plan on tracking more of his stuff down.

And I just finished Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks, my first venture into the Culture universe. I quite enjoyed it.

'Notes From a Small Island' when Bryson potters around England is a great insight to our little country, it's definately comfort reading and I do LOL on occasion to his observations. I reckon he'd be a great bloke to have a beer with.

 

[Holdfast]

I've also been reading Atlas Shrugged for a while now. That is one LONG book.

Just skip to Galt's multi-chapter speech towards the end.

Consider the Lobster, an essay collection by the late David Foster Wallace. It was superb, but on the downside: footnotes.

Sounds interesting.

For those not famliar with TPT let's just say the ghost wasn't even a writer

She may have made teh fundamental error of trying to write it herself...

I've been reading bits of all sorts of random books recently in order to find interesting passages for a textbook I agreed to write. Chinese economics, celestial navigation, wine tasting, Plato, Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, zombie feeding schedules... no, I'm not kidding...

 

[iguana_tonante]

I go first: Carlos Ruiz Zafon: Las luces de septiembre( september's lights)

I loved his La sombra del viento, it's one of my favourite books but haven't read any of his other stuff.

The Shadow of the Wind was really a powerful experience for me. I read a few months after I came back from a wonderful time in Barcelona, and recognizing all the places in the book from my memories really added to the poetry of the setting.

Currently I'm reading La campana dell'arciprete (The Archpriest's Bell) by Danila Comastri Montanari, a detective novel set in the Italian countryside just after the Napoleonic Wars.

 

[doubleohfive]

I usually can be found in the middle of a few books at once; I blame this on my ADD-afflicted short attention span.

Right now, reading three books:

007: Carte Blanche by Jeffrey Deaver

Star Trek: The Rift by Peter David (actually, re-reading it as I read it when it was first published and just got a used copy a few months ago)

The Greatest Stuntman In The World: My Life as Indiana Jones, Superman, James Bond and Other Movie Heroes by Vic Armstrong

 

[mari]

I've just finished the ST:COE collection Wounds, enjoyed it very much. Before that, the Duggar family's two books (does anyone not know who they are? The family with 19 kids). Currently reading The Hunger Games, almost done so I'm trying to track down the sequels. I have a pile of half-started non-fiction as well, should probably try to work through those. :P

 

[Maestro]

Just finished Dresden #13 Ghost Story. Very, very good, even if one of the main characters isn't quite all there.

Also about five pages shy of finishing Rick Harrison's autobiography, Pawn Stars. Great insight into Rick, his family, and the pawning world. Old Man, Big Hoss, and Chumlee each get a chapter, and while the ghostwriter has certainly cleaned up and professionalized their submissions, you can certainly tell that they took providing the material seriously -- it's in their tone of voice.

 

[boco]

I go first: Carlos Ruiz Zafon: Las luces de septiembre( september's lights)

I loved his La sombra del viento, it's one of my favourite books but haven't read any of his other stuff.

The Shadow of the Wind was really a powerful experience for me. I read a few months after I came back from a wonderful time in Barcelona, and recognizing all the places in the book from my memories really added to the poetry of the setting.

Currently I'm reading La campana dell'arciprete (The Archpriest's Bell) by Danila Comastri Montanari, a detective novel set in the Italian countryside just after the Napoleonic Wars.

The Shaddow of the wind is another GREAT book of Zafon!
did you read The Angel's Game or Marina? Those are also wonderful!
I suppose that if you visit Rome, at your return you'll read Angeli e demoni- Angels and demons-Dan Brown

 

[Capn Flukie]

I am ashamed to admit I haven't read anything lately, and I work in a bookstore no less.

 

[boco]

I am ashamed to admit I haven't read anything lately, and I work in a bookstore no less.

Shame on you!!!
I recommend Dostojevski: crime and punishment- I've read that at least 5 times..
Oh..question.. are you following me? I thought that wearing that camouflage would help me, I guess I was wrong..

 

[Capn Flukie]

It's a college bookstore, so only read when it's on the syllabus.

Not following you, just up late at night here west of the Atlantic.

 

[sidious618]

The last book I read was The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis. I'm currently working on A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin and a book titled Broken but I can't recall the author's name.

 

[boco]

It's a college bookstore, so only read when it's on the syllabus.

Not following you, just up late at night here west of the Atlantic.

Hey, I did put a wink there...

 

[Capn Flukie]

I saw that, just being logical.

 

[ITL]

I adore Bill Bryson, he would be a major guest at my imaginary dinner party. Just about to start his "At Home".
I just love the way he writes, it's like listening to a friend.

I've only read A Walk in the Woods, which I absolutely loved, so I plan on tracking more of his stuff down.

And I just finished Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks, my first venture into the Culture universe. I quite enjoyed it.

'Notes From a Small Island' when Bryson potters around England is a great insight to our little country, it's definately comfort reading and I do LOL on occasion to his observations. I reckon he'd be a great bloke to have a beer with.

Made In America has to be my favourite, but they're all great.

...Machiavelli, Sun Tzu...

Uh-oh. When exactly are you planning on World Domination? Right, right...keeping schtum right now is a good idea...My Lord.

And on that note, I recommend Shogun by James Clavell. You want machinations? Oh, you'll get 'em!

 

[Capn Flukie]

I plan on dominating the world. Right after my nap.

 

[iguana_tonante]

The Shaddow of the wind is another GREAT book of Zafon!
did you read The Angel's Game or Marina? Those are also wonderful!

Not yet. I bought Il gioco dell'angelo, ma I haven't found the time to read it yet.

I suppose that if you visit Rome, at your return you'll read Angeli e demoni- Angels and demons-Dan Brown

I have been in Rome a few times, usually for work.

As for Angels and Demons, I did read it a few years ago and, opposite to Zafron's book, the only powerful experience I had was the need to throw it away and drink heavily.

 

[RJDiogenes]

i really enjoyed it, it's continuing the story of Voyager's return to the Delta Quadrant as flagship of a fleet of nine ships and follows up on a plot point from the Destiny trilogy. great stuff.

Just out of curiosity, who's crewing Voyager these days?