What was the last great book you read and why was it so great?

Answer 1

intellectually the best book i read last was Decipher by Stel Pavlou....fast paced, but took alot of concentration - definately not an easy read, really makes you question yourself, your beliefs, and society in general...and scarily close to truth. its got a LONG bibliography at the back of it too.

entertainment wise, i have to say either Laurell K Hamilton or Kelley Armstrong...vampires, werewolves, witches, violence, love, romance, and bad *** chicks...they ROCK!!!!

Answer 2

The last great book I read was "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire. The reason it was great was that it was well written, it took a story that I was slightly familiar with and turned it on it's ear (The Wizard of Oz), and it took a character who none felt sympathy for in the original and made her if not a heroine, at least someone that the reader didn't hate.

Answer 3

Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel".

A really readable popular science book that explains why some areas of the world seemed to do really well (Western Europe and China) and some barely made it out of the Stone Age. His argument, which he backs up in full with interesting detail, is that it's only in certain areas of the world that the plant and animal life were adaptable to agriculture and it's only where there are lots of other people nearby that you can learn from, that people progress.

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Answer 4

I have so many favorite books, so this is really hard to choose, but after recently reading "The Importance Of Being Earnest", I read it again, and again, and again. It's technically a play, not a book, but it is so witty and sarcastic! I love it. It's not my favorite writing in the world; honestly, I can't choose what is, but I could pick it up anyday, read it, and still laugh and love it. "Sophie's World" was also great, especially because one learns so much reading it.

Answer 5

"The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days" by Jonathan Alter. While Alter's viewpoint of the current world is not one that I agree with, his story about FDR is great background information for anyone wanting to understand recent history. Many of the things that we currently accept as "entitlements" were started under FDR, but in this book, we learn about a deeply flawed man who got to be president despite his shortcomings. It was a much different time that helps us better understand the current one.

Answer 6

Have just finished Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. I thought it was better than the Da Vinci Code. It had a good twist at the end, and I like that in books.

Answer 7

The Labyrinth by Kate Mosse, very evocative, not normally my kind of book, chick lit, but a grail book far better than Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code.

Answer 8

the book was called butterfly and it was great because all the charecters were well developed and the storyline was so great i could read it a million times and never get bored and in some times u just want to cry. it a well developed and writen book .

Answer 9

I just finished reading " Memoirs of a Geisha" ( which was way better than the movie) and I loved it because it really captured Japenese culture. It had great detail also. Someone spent a long time researching.

Answer 10

Sophie's World.
A Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder.

Not a recent book and one somebody handed to me to try.

Very easy to read and learn the basics of philosophy whilst reading a quaint story.

Answer 11

The Da Vinci Code! Nothing has compared since! i read the book in about 7hrs (i was in hosp at the time) i have read alot since but nothing has left me compelled to turn to the next page as much as this book did, dont think i could do the film.