Last book you read?

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Slaughter House 5. It was interesting in the very least.

I am currently reading Catch 22 and its really good.
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Mr.White555 wrote:Slaughter House 5. It was interesting in the very least.

I am currently reading Catch 22 and its really good.
Keep reading the old Vonnegut books, they're good stuff. I've read SH5 about 5 times myself and wrote (completely new) book reports for it in high school and college English. Don't bother with the movie though, it wasn't very good.
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just finished Thomas Ligotti's my work is not yet done which was a brilliant read. Looking forward to his new book out in april- A conspiracy against the human race

This month's reading is all irish stuff in honor of my heritage :)
Guiness history book by bill yenne 250 years in search of the perfect pint
and a travel book (mcarthys bar) and a nice fat work of fiction. Gonna be a great month! Partying reading nice weather coming back etc whoo!
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Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant - Karen Traviss
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.
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Hobie-wan wrote: Keep reading the old Vonnegut books, they're good stuff. I've read SH5 about 5 times myself and wrote (completely new) book reports for it in high school and college English. Don't bother with the movie though, it wasn't very good.
Second that notion.
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I just finished reading Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind. It's part of the Sword of Truth series and I highly recommend it to anyone remotely interested in fantasy novels.

Then I started reading Fleet of Worlds which was co-written by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner. It was so dreadfully confusing I had to stop reading at chapter 14. I understood almost nothing of what was going on.

Now I've started reading Times Eye by Arthur C. Clarke. I'm pleasantly surprised by it because usually I find time travel stories to be very camp and uninteresting (An exception to this is Doctor Who). But so far it's actually very very good.

Interesting story for those interested (Both of you). It's actually thanks to the video game Dead Space that I learned of both Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. In fact specifically it was due to the review of Dead Space by Yahtzee Croshaw. After learning that the protagonist of Dead Space was named after the two authors (His name being Isaac Clarke) I did a Wikipedia search of some of there work. Then went to my local library and found a collection of the Foundation trilogy by Asimov and was forever hooked. He is now (And perhaps forever) my absolute favourite author and I've read tons of his books. Only now with Times Eye am I for the first time trying out a Clarke book and, like I said, so far it's going very well.
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MrEco wrote:Interesting story for those interested (Both of you). It's actually thanks to the video game Dead Space that I learned of both Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. In fact specifically it was due to the review of Dead Space by Yahtzee Croshaw. After learning that the protagonist of Dead Space was named after the two authors (His name being Isaac Clarke) I did a Wikipedia search of some of there work. Then went to my local library and found a collection of the Foundation trilogy by Asimov and was forever hooked. He is now (And perhaps forever) my absolute favourite author and I've read tons of his books. Only now with Times Eye am I for the first time trying out a Clarke book and, like I said, so far it's going very well.
Whoa, whoa, whoa...you'd never heard of Asimov and Clarke before? Two of the big three from the golden age of science fiction? You've surely heard of Heinlein, right?

Anyway, last book I finished was Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris. I do so enjoy my books about serial killers, and it was good to see where all the Hannibal Lector movies came from. I've picked up Silence of the Lambs, but it'll have to wait, as I'm currently reading through a collection of horror short stories by one of my all time favorite authors, Robert E. Howard.
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Just came out in paperback

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Samurai Shodown Anthology manual.

...that counts, right?
Maybe now Nintendo will acknowledge Metroid has a fanbase?
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"Glow Pucks and 10 cent Beers: The 100 worst ideas in sports history"

Great little bathroom book. Full of humor, full of facts and stats.

If comics count, I just read the Deadly Foes of Spider-man.
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