What was the last book YOU read?

Question

Would you recomend it?

Answer 1

Oedipus the King, by Sophocles. Bernard Knox translation.

Yes, it's a quick read and this particular translation really brings out the tension and intensity of the play. It's hard to believe it was written in Ancient Greece!

Answer 2

Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison. Yes I would, but since it's a 4th book in a series I would recommend reading the first 3 before starting it:
Dead Witch Walking
The Good, The Bad and The Undead
Every Which Way But Dead

Answer 3

I'm currently reading Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland And the End of the World - not sure about it yet, though I've read more than half of the book. In a way it's kafkaesk, but more colourful. I'm not sure if I like the idea of Kafka going Agfa color! And I don't like fantasy books that are populated by more or less implausible creatures - I prefer the Hard-Boiled Wonderland to the The End of the World parts....
Anyway if I may recommend another book, it is Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go - that's a future classic!

Answer 4

I just finished The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards. It actually was a pretty good book.

Now I have moved on to a good old Janet Evanovich, Stephanie Plumb novel.

I also recommend Fern Michaels Vendetta series, also Seasons of Her Life, Fern Michaels.
Between Friends- Debbie Macomber

Answer 5

Guilty Pleasures, by Laurell Hamilton. This is the first of a series with a young woman that is known as the Executioner - she's a vampire hunter, but her primary occupation is an animator - she raises the dead (but doesn't do it very often, since other things usually come up.)

I would probably recommend it. I read a few others by her and wanted to go back to see how it all began. I didn't get the history I was hoping for, but still, it was pretty good. It can get gory, but the thing I like most is how vampires and werewolves and all other kinds of monsters are considered people, too. In one part, a vampire clouds the mind of a police officer, but she knows she can't feed off of him, since he's the law. Very polite.

Answer 6

Today I read 'The Zombie Survival Guide' by Max Brooks. I don't normally read books like this, but I just couldn't resist. Not sure I'd recommend it to everyone.

Other than that, the last truly recommendable book I read was 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' by Susanna Clarke. In fact, a buddy of mine saw it on the floor and asked about it. I told him how much I liked it, so he went and got a copy and ended up loving it too.

Answer 7

Buffalo Soldiers by Chris Bojalian... I didn't think it would be very good but it was recommended to me by someone else so I gave it a shot. It turned out to be one of the best books I have read lately, one of those books where the characters stay in your head for a long time after you've finished the book.

It is about a wife and husband whose 9 year old twin girls die in a flood, and their troubles dealing with the loss of their children. They take in a foster child (who is black, though the small area where they live is dominated by whites) and this book tells the tale of how they take in this child and deal with many obstacles in their relationship. Really an excellent book, I would recommend it to anyone.

Answer 8

Currently reading At Risk by Stella Rimington former head of Britain's MI5. Synopsis from back of the book:

"A terrorist is set to strike at the heart of Britain. And to make matters worse it;s an "invisible"-- someone traveling under a British passport. Virtually impossible to find before it's too late. The job falls to Liz Carlyle, the most resourceful counterteror agent in British intelligence. Tracking down this invisible is a challenge like none she has faced before. It will require all her hard-won experience, to say nothing of her intelligence and courage. Drawing on her own years as Britain's highest-ranking spy, Stella Rimington gives us a story that is smat, tautly drawn, and suspenseful from first to last."

And yes, I do recommend it.

Answer 9

I recommend almost every book I read. I think that a good book has to form its own movie in your head.

So anyway, my answer to the question. The last four-and-a-half books that I have read are in a series called The Sword of Truth, written by Terry Goodkind

The story begins with Richard, a woods guide, wandering through the forest,when he sees Kahlan Amnell being stalked by four assassins. Together they escape to the Midlands on their way to Aydindril, the capital city,but they don't get there as quick as they had hoped. Richard gets captured by D'Haran people, and is brought to the People's Palace.There, Darken Rahl, a bad guy, and Richard find out that Darken Rahl is Richard's father. Richard returns to the Midlands, where he meets three Sisters of the Light, who tell Richard that he is a wizard, and he must go with them to the Old World, separated by a magical barrier. He destroys the castle and the barrier. Richard and Kahlan return to Aydindril, where the black plague is brought by magic, and Richard must travel through the underworld to reverse the effect. After that, Richard and Kahlan go to the Mud People to get married.

And that's pretty much where I'm at.

Answer 10

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. Book one in the Mars colonization triology. Excellent book, should appeal to more than just Sci-fi fans. The science was very well done, but the human interaction, the politics, the futility of human endeavour when it gets in its own way--which it inevitably does--are depicted so well and believalbe.. A fully realized story, with real people, real developments. High marks. I eagerly anticipate the next two books, which have already been published, so I don't have to wait.