What's the last book you've read?

[tylerxian]

One of the books I've finished was 'The Da Vinci Code', it was okay in my opinion. Currently reading a newspaper.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

I Am America and So Can You!: Because I'm a real patriot. Incredibly good read (for a book) and made me laugh my ass off a few times.

I'm currently reading Founding Brothers for my US I Honors class next year. It's incredibly boring, if you were wondering. I need to read it, annotate it, and write about 20 paragraphs of analyzation for it. Not cool.

 

[KingdomBlade]

Bud, not Buddy was the last one that was not repeated.

I just finished Twilight for the 10th time and Breaking Dawn for the 7th. The other 2 were 5 times.

 

[vhunter]

Despite the overall mood of the story,The Child Called it. Tought me some good lessons.

 

[DSGamer64]

The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi, good stuff on life lessons and how to improve yourself as well as your focus on work and stuff.

 

[tinymonkeyt]

Kite Runner and currently reading A Prayer for Owen Meany. It's for school though. I stopped reading on my free time in high school :/

 

[Devante]

1984 by george orwell
hated the ending

reading through dracula right now

That's funny. I just clicked on this thread to post my last book was "Brave New World Revisited".

"Brave New World" is like "1984" except even more true about what's going on today.

Another thing is I think Orwell was a student or apprentice of Aldous Huxley, the author of "Brave New World."

 

[thebigboss14]

The ones I read because I have to in High School were the Crucible, Catcher in the Rye, Macbeth, Anthem, V for Vendetta and 1984. Have anyone read any of them?

PS: That was my junior year I'm going to be a senior next school year

AP would be hard but I think I could handled it.

 

[Cermage]

Just finished up the earthsea quartet (not sure if this classifies as one book?) by ursula k le guin. really enjoyed it despite the, what i found odd, writing style of the first book.

 

[Shakraka]

Animal Farm by George Orwell.

 

[Veho]

"Brave New World" is like "1984" except even more true about what's going on today.

Are you sure? I mean, I wouldn't go calling them polar opposites, but they're really not all that alike. And today's world looks more like Farenheit 451.

 

[Devante]

Well I just mean they are alike in that they both portray the world as controlled by a single world government and control the populace into submission.

The means which they do it are completely opposite, though.

For instance, in 1984, they control society through punishment and fear.
Punishing independant thought through pain and humiliation.
No one questions the establishment because they are too afraid.

In Brave New World, people are controlled by giving them pleasure and telling them how special they are.
They are constantly overwhelmed by entertainment, sex, and even handed drugs daily to escape reality.
No one WANTS to question the establishment because they are content in their lives of constant distraction.

I haven't read Farenheit 451, but I do know of it.
While Farenheit 451 seems to be the same as Brave New World in that everyone is made content by induldging their pleasure, it also seems to be the same as 1984 in that they keep us ignorant by destroying and censoring information. And the threat of war.

But they main theme of Farenheit 451 is that they burn books to keep people from becoming too enlightened.

In Brave New World, there is no need to burn books because no one wants to read them.
They'd rather play video games, watch movies, go to parties, have sex, watch TV, etc..

 

[Satangel]

I can list half a dozen fantasy series that you would like:

- Inherittance Cycle (Eragon, Eldest,...)
- Night Angel Trilogy (Way of Shadows, Shadows Edge....)
- The Edge Chronicles (Back to the Deepwods, Stormchaser, Midnight Over Sanctaphrax...)
- Rangers Apprentice (Riuns of Gorlan, Burning Brige...)
- Keys to the Kingdom (Mister Monday, Grim Tuesday, Drowned Wednesday...)
- Deltora Quest (Childish but quick and easy to read)

Thanks for this post!
I'm now midway in Eragon, and I'm indeed loving it.
Very good book, started a bit slow, but now I'm absolutely hooked on it.
To anyone who liked Harry Potter, read this one and the Darren Shan saga.

 

[geminisama]

I'm currently reading Fitzpatrick's War.

 

[Smash Br0]

I used to be an avid reader, but it's been a long time since I've read anything new... v_v

 

[kevenka]

Brisngyr (the third book of the eragon series)

 

[dudenator]

last book i read was hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Amazing book i give it 4.5/5.

 

[supermodchips]

Just finsihed a couple of Ludlum books. As good as the Bourne series are, his Covert-One novels are better IMHO. Unfortunately he only wrote one before he died
the books are:
- The Hades Factor
- The Cassandra Compact
- The Paris Operation

I have also read others like:
- Hovercar Racer
- Way of Shadows
- The Shadows Edge
- Beyond the Shadows

 

[legendofphil]

The last book I used was a Japanese cookbook.
Before that, printed and bound, Bleach volume 27.
Last novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, it's been sat on my shelf since launch and I finally finished it.

 

[Satangel]

I completed Eragon a while ago, and I finished Eldest a few days ago.
Great books, can't wait for the finale!