What was the last book you read?

Accer · Post by **Accer** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:02 am

[quote="coyote blue";p="454505"]A child called "It". It is a sad, hard book to read. [/quote]

I read "It" and the two books that came after it. I thought it was okay, not really very well written at all -- it basically got by on strong subject matter alone. The other two are a lot more boring, because his life is a lot more boring yet not better written.

Jezebel · Post by **Jezebel** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:06 am

Just finished the 6th book in the Dark Tower series, starting on the 7th and last. I'm going to be crying my way through the entire thing too probably.

Arc Orion · Post by **Arc Orion** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:38 am

[quote="EvilPanda";p="454525"]I might have already posted it, but "Jennifer Government". Really good, I liked it.[/quote]That was a good book, but I kept trying to compare it to books like 1984 and Brave New World and damn it, the thing kept falling up short. Of course, it's my fault I tried to do that; they really aren't similar beyond the description of what might be if "X" happened. In this case, this X was totally unrelated to the X of the other two. Oh, and did you ever try out the NationStates game?

Currently, I'm rereading the Foundation trilogy and The Annotated Brothers Grimm. The last book I finished was The Princess Bride, which was, as the cliché goes, "Better than the movie."

kaiju01 · Post by **kaiju01** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:13 am

[quote="Arc Orion";p="455778"]
The last book I finished was The Princess Bride, which was, as the cliché goes, "Better than the movie."[/quote]

Lies...

Arc Orion · Post by **Arc Orion** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:22 am

The movie was great, true - and lived up to the book, but I still think the book was better. For one thing, it put more description on one of my favorite characters, Fezzik, and was far more detailed and interesting. I like having more detail, and you can't get that in a movie - at least not easily.

kizba · Post by **kizba** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:42 pm

Pratchett... Pratchett... I know I've heard that name before. Any good books you recommend? I swear I've heard good things about that name.

Any of his stuff is good. I really like the novels with Death in them: Mort, Reaper Man, and HogFather. The ones with The Watch are good too: Feet of Clay and Guards, Gaurds! are my favorite. It's a series but after the first three they really can stand alone.

One more suggestion is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Excellent, even if the rest of the series didn't really compare to the first one.

Phoenix Talon · Post by **Phoenix Talon** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:20 pm

I just finished Treasure Island at the begining of the semester, and have now moved on to Phantom of the Opera.

I've been in a classic book mood lately...

Murrin · Post by **Murrin** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:40 am

Mountain of Black Glass.

Raven · Post by **Raven** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:48 am

Details? Sounds like it could be an interestring book Murrin.

And is the your sig quote from a book? It sounds fairly interesting.

coyote blue · Post by **coyote blue** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 4:48 am

Accer, it is a detail account of his life, it isn't meant to entertain you. The subject matter is suppose to make others aware of abuse...

Tasty Biscuit Toothpaste · Post by **Tasty Biscuit Toothpaste** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:03 pm

I don't have time for The Prince and the Pauper now, so I won't be able to finish it until Spring Break. I'm having to read The Count of Monte Christo for school, which was, coincidentally, next on my reading list.

Murrin · Post by **Murrin** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 5:16 am

[quote="Raven";p="458075"]Details? Sounds like it could be an interestring book Murrin.

And is the your sig quote from a book? It sounds fairly interesting.[/quote]
Ah; it's the third book in the Otherland series by Tad Williams, about a bunch of people trapped in a very realistic and dangerous virtual reality network. Very long, though, the final volume of the series (four volumes total) is 1200 pages.

My sig is a quote from Lord Foul's Bane, first book in the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R Donaldson.

ajaxrynu · Post by **ajaxrynu** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 3:47 pm

Hogfather - Terry Pratchet

I also finished the first book of Otherland and will begin on the second soon. Great series.

andvari_7 · Post by **andvari_7** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:42 pm

Ask me in a few hours, and the answer is Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:27 pm

William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition".

The book was very good, and very interesting, though I think that the ending was too simple, straightforward, and alltogether neat for the rest of the book.

And on the one hand, while my favorite character is rather less cool once he shows up in person, I can't help but wonder if that was intended as a deliberate comment or not ...

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