What was the last book you read?

Ooh. That's still on my list actually >_>

I really loved Memoirs. I think you'd like it, so make sure it moves up that list.

I just want to read it again and get a refresh of it.

Took me about a month, but I just finished The Lord Of The Rings (well, I finished the actual story, then skimmed the appendix section, which contains much in-canon backstory not covered in the story proper - I might give that a good look later). It can be pretty ponderous reading due to an excess of detail, but said detail is mainly Worldbuilding and adds to the book feeling like it takes place in a very real universe. Plus, I realized while reading it that it's sort of appropriate that reading a book about a long, epic journey should feel like being on a long, epic journey.

...And now I'm reading Scott Pilgrim, which I've finished two volumes of already - I bought the complete run due to a store's month-long three-for-two comic book sale, then started up LOTR before I even touched it. Plus I very much wanted a faster, more lightweight read after that.

edited 22nd Oct '13 10:13:57 PM by MikeK

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.

edited 22nd Oct '13 10:15:54 PM by Mort08

The Zombie Survival Guide.

A teeny bit on the dry side sometimes, but a fun read overall. I especially loved the historical recounts of zombie outbreaks at the end of the book. A very nice touch.

Onto 1984!

edited 23rd Oct '13 12:58:32 AM by TopographicOcean

The Harlot, by Saskia Walker. One of the Mills and Boone Spice books. Pretty racy stuff but nowt I haven't read before in the Black Lace library or Nexus books. And it's set in 17th Century Scotland which is nice for me as I live in that country. Oh yeah, and it's a really good book. Just thought I would throw that out there.

The Divine Comedy. As most classical novels are, it suffers from Values Dissonance from time to time, and theological discussions can be a bit bore, but man, the descriptions were truly divine.

edited 23rd Oct '13 3:13:47 PM by dRoy

I have yet to read that, or the Decameron. I feel a tad deprived.

Neverwhere

edited 23rd Oct '13 3:27:29 PM by Ultimatum

It's an absurdly long and often digressive book (at least, it felt like it). Unless you are a literature or theology major or something, I wouldn't recommend it.

The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya

Man, I can't believe that I actually read through all 11 Haruhi novels.

Waste of my life, on the retrospect.

Oh, they're vapid, but they are fun to read.

True enough.

VALIS. A lovely mindscrew.

The Babysitter by R.L. Stine.

Well, I have read all of Fallout Equestria and most of Project Horizons, so long books don't really scare me. It's just books that are translated into English when the original authors had no idea that would ever be done in recorded history that scare me.

Valis? Any good?

edited 24th Oct '13 2:38:00 PM by TamH70

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.

I mentioned starting Scott Pilgrim and by now I've finished it. Not without its flaws, but a quick, fun read and I enjoyed the humor and multiple genre shifts.

That one sounds interesting. But the kindle edition is way overpriced.

Definitely worth reading if it you see it in a Second-hand book store

edited 25th Oct '13 2:53:14 AM by joeyjojo

Just finished Divergent two days ago and man, was that violant. I mean this book is adrdaline, action pucked and gore. I love it~ Tris is my favorite. She and Four makes a good couple :P

Cults Of Horror, which is a short story collection themed around fictional cults... Though whether they're truly horror stories or have more than a loose connection with cults varies from story to story: For instance, in Overkill by Edward Wellen, a cult leader has his nemesis assassinated during one of his sermons... But that all happens within the first six pages and the story is really about a dystopia where there's a state-run lottery with the prize being one legal murder of the target of your choice. And interestingly, that's the only story that isn't reprinted from another source, so maybe the author took an idea he already had and threw the cult element in so it could be included in the anthology. Regardless, this was a pretty fun read: the most well-known authors included were HG Wells, Jack London, and Robert Louis Stevenson, but my favorite story was Sticks by Karl Edward Wagner, which loosely ties into the Cthulhu Mythos.

edited 8th Nov '13 4:48:39 PM by MikeK

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.

It was a kickass book.

The Harlot, by Saskia Walker. Mills and Boone book but by heck it isn't old school Mills and Boone where the characters only kissed and so on until a very chaste off screen sex scene.

Instead there is copious amounts of well described debauchery and since it is set in 1715 Scotland, its characters speak in the dialect of the time to an awesome level. Put it this way, it would make a really good manga series - the yaoi fangirls and fanboys in particular would lap that up like it was cream.