Books. Whats the best one you have read lately?

[bstacy1974]

I loved Pillars of the Earth, and I also loved World Without End. They're not the same, but they're both great. I also really enjoyed Fall of Giants, but it's a totally different book, nothing like Pillars of the Earth. But I didn't know much about WWI, and it was pretty enlightening.

Hunger Games was a good read - it was a good page-turner, but ultimately I didn't like the ending. Glad I read it though.

Other than Palmer's How to Brew, and 100 Classic styles, and Brewing up a Business, I'm reading 1Q84, which so far, is pretty interesting, but I'm only 1/3 through, so it could go either way.

I'm not much of a reader, but my wife got me a Nook for Valentines last year (2001). I've read more in one year than my entire life.
Hunger Games was good.
I've read two of the three Maze Runner books. Ok.
I'm currently trying to finish the Skin Map. Its ok I guess.
Looking at reading the Hobbit before the movie comes out.

 

[Hop_machine]

Tearing through some orsen scott card Enders game series, finishing the fourth book. I really enjoyed this series. My favorite before this was the dark tower series. I think king really does become all the characters...

 

[rifraf]

Tearing through some orsen scott card Enders game series, finishing the fourth book. I really enjoyed this series. My favorite before this was the dark tower series. I think king really does become all the characters...

Ender's Game is one of my all time favorite books, and is the single item I've gifted most in my life. Loved the next three + Ender's Shadow but never got around to reading the ones after that.

 

[Rubes]

Has anyone read far into the Dune series? I read the original Dune and loved it, but I never went any further. There's so many, I wasn't read to commit to another huge series. Maybe I'll look into it again if the rest are worth the time.

 

[Paulielow]

Okay, on your behest I googled it and found out there is a TV show! It is very good, almost like Scrubs but with a kitchen instead of a hospital. I managed to waste most of the afternoon watching all the season 1 episodes.

Ok I didn't even know they had made a sitcom out of it but I'm sure it would be a fictional series of events based on the non fictional book, so I'd read the book first before I let the show bastardise my idea of what the book should be like.... That being said I've read the book four times and think I might be ready to see the show so thanks for pointing that out.

 

[rexbanner]

Tearing through some orsen scott card Enders game series, finishing the fourth book. I really enjoyed this series. My favorite before this was the dark tower series. I think king really does become all the characters...

Dark Tower is awesome. Ender's Game is a classic. I highly recommend Ursula K. Leguin. She is a phenomenal writer. I've read her Earthsea books as well as The Dispossessed. Check them out.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. Great fantasy series, kind of similar to A Song of Ice and Fire.

I just finished reading Best Served Cold by Abercrombie and it was a great book. I had never heard of him until I found this big hardback book for $1 at the Dollar Tree. Very gritty book. Definitely glad I bought it.

 

[Rubes]

I just finished reading Best Served Cold by Abercrombie and it was a great book. I had never heard of him until I found this big hardback book for $1 at the Dollar Tree. Very gritty book. Definitely glad I bought it.

I'm currently reading Best Served Cold, it's great so far. Definitely go back and read the First Law Trilogy, it takes place in the same world and some of the same characters are in it (though the main characters are completely different). Best Served Cold is a stand-alone novel so you didn't miss anything by not reading the trilogy first.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

I will check it out. Thanks.

 

[passedpawn]

Fiction:
Best book of 2012 (so far): American Assassin - Vince Flynn
Best book of 2011: Gold Coast - Nelson Demille
Best Book of 2010: The Road - Cormac somethingorother

Non-Fiction
McCarthy's Bar - Pete McCarthy - If you like beer and Ireland, here's a travelog that will make you LOL!

I read loads of classics. If anyone really likes them, here's a few of the best of the best that I read recently:
How Green Was My Valley - one of the best books ever written
Far from the Madding Crowd - T. Hardy - unbelievable prose. just genius

 

[spearko520]

Has anyone read far into the Dune series? I read the original Dune and loved it, but I never went any further. There's so many, I wasn't read to commit to another huge series. Maybe I'll look into it again if the rest are worth the time.

i read them all in high school - and lots of frank herberts other stuff too. i loved dune when i read it, and got sucked in - i couldn't get enough of that universe. i reread all of them a few times since then. i like them- the plot gets long and twisted with forays into some of the worlds and characters that we just caught a glance of in the earlier books, but good stuff if you are into that. I'm always looking for the judiac links...

 

[Kaotica]

Past month or so I read:

Unbroken, astounding read of Louie Zamperini's ordeal of drifting at sea and being at POW in WWII Japan.
Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, meh, it was ok. Some formulaic stuff that annoys me, but maybe just me.
$hit my Dad Says, pretty darn funny but short and reads more like an article than a book.

 

[rifraf]

Unbroken, astounding read of Louie Zamperini's ordeal of drifting at sea and being at POW in WWII Japan.

Received that for Christmas, impossible to put down

 

[TheBreweryUnderground]

I've been reading Debt: The First 5,000 Years - Anthropological look at debt, money, and their connection with violence and slavery. As well as How Nonviolence Protects The State - anarchist activist book about diversity of tactics and a more balanced history of nonviolence movements. I also really digged Origins by John Zerzan - a collection of primitivist essays critiquing civilization. I will be surprised if anyone else here would be interested in these, but thought I'd throw them out there anyway.

 

[spearko520]

I've been reading Debt: The First 5,000 Years - Anthropological look at debt, money, and their connection with violence and slavery. As well as How Nonviolence Protects The State - anarchist activist book about diversity of tactics and a more balanced history of nonviolence movements. I also really digged Origins by John Zerzan - a collection of primitivist essays critiquing civilization. I will be surprised if anyone else here would be interested in these, but thought I'd throw them out there anyway.

primitivist essays always pique my interest. anthropology is to me what architecture is to george costanza- the fictitious careers we use to impress women...