Last book you read?

Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:59 am

I'm currently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray. After that, I'm going to try and get through The Fountainhead. :read:
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:49 pm

Strong Men Armed by Robert Leckie
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:34 am

The last book I read was, Seal Team 6: Memoirs of an Elite Navy Sniper. It is a very good book if you ask me.
The next book I plan to read is Metro 2033. Well, after I buy it that is.
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:02 am

A system of logic, ratiocinative and inductive -John Stuart Mill

Still need to read anolysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic -Stebing
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:56 pm

The last book I read was in highschool; It was the great Gatsby. It's probably the last book i'll ever read.
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:15 am

The last book I read was in highschool; It was the great Gatsby. It's probably the last book i'll ever read.


Aww :( Well, I suggest you read Animal Farm and 1984 if you don't read often. Amazing books. Or anything by Faulkner. :disguise:
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:40 am

Currently toward the end of A Dance with Dragons by G.R.R. Martin (book 5 in the A Song of Ice and Fire series...the one that starts with A Game of Thrones). Just before that was Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, which was a little unfocused, but still a fun and interesting read if you're into cyberpunk. I've been tearing through ISBN's like a fool since I got my Kindle.
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:26 am

Aww :( Well, I suggest you read Animal Farm and 1984 if you don't read often. Amazing books. Or anything by Faulkner. :disguise:


I don't like to read books. Thats why its the last book i'll ever read. The only reason I read it was because it was required of me for English class! :P
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:41 pm

CCNP: Implementing Cisco IP Routing (ROUTE) Foundation Learning Guide.
It's great! No more boring Communications or Project Management, back to good old networking :D
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:29 am

I don't like to read books. Thats why its the last book i'll ever read. The only reason I read it was because it was required of me for English class! :P


I know, but it's much more enjoyable when you know that you won't be tested on the book. :thumbsup:
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:03 pm

Extinction Chronicles. Bet you never heard of that trip. Soon to be THE TEQUILA DIARIES: Organ Donor(hit the nail on the head with that short). Bet you never read that one, you square! I bet you won't read that one or the other one because they aren't mainstream... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nba3Tr_GLZU

ORGAN DONOR is the DIRT of short stories. If you don't like that one, YOU DON'T LIKE HORROR!

ORGAN DONOR IS LIKE THE ALBUM DIRT YOU CAN'T NOT LIKE THAT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAZcFVuSo0M

If you don't like ORGAN DONOR, then your an [censored], it's that good!
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:47 pm

I could barely get through it the first time, man I am surprised someone has the patience to go through that book again in the first place. Poor Gardener.


It has some hooks that appeal to me, though it is generally a bit heavy to read.

Poor Gardner indeed.

My favorite King book, strictly for the characters rather than the plot.


:foodndrink:

Although, I did somewhat like the plot too. It was, in a peculiar way, childish enough and not taking itself too seriously to really bother me.
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 2:42 pm

Bram Stoker's Dracula. It was pretty good.
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:48 am

Extinction Chronicles. Bet you never heard of that trip. Soon to be THE TEQUILA DIARIES: Organ Donor(hit the nail on the head with that short). Bet you never read that one, you square! I bet you won't read that one or the other one because they aren't mainstream... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nba3Tr_GLZU

ORGAN DONOR is the DIRT of short stories. If you don't like that one, YOU DON'T LIKE HORROR!

ORGAN DONOR IS LIKE THE ALBUM DIRT YOU CAN'T NOT LIKE THAT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAZcFVuSo0M

If you don't like ORGAN DONOR, then your an [censored], it's that good!


I hate to say it but honestly even if you're avoiding directly advertising yourself with links to your work and such you are leaning heavily on the shameless side of self publishing here, at least I think so. I can't quickly find a single post by you where you are partaking in the discussions on these forums without advertising your own work. And honestly that rather puts me more off from checking it out than gives me an incentive to take a peek at it.

As for the last book I read that was "A game of thrones" by George R.R. Martin. And it counts as the last "book" but not "series". I′m currently reading through "A clash of kings" and I′m enjoying it quite a lot. As for future books, when I′m done with what George R.R. Martin has written then if the next book after "The infernal city" is out then I will read that, else I may look at how the future books that come after R.A. Salvatore′s Gauntlegrym are coming along and if they are not out (which I doubt) I may quite likely delve into something different. Perhaps if I′m lucky the last 7 books in the 82 book series by Margit Sandemo will be out in Icelandic and I will then read that.

So that′s the past, current and future books that are on my agenda.
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:53 pm

The last book I read was probably George Orwell's 1984. It was quire frankly one of my favorite books I've touched. At the moment I'm reading Stephen King's The Tommyknockers and another book of his Dreamcatcher. I watched Dreamcatcher the movie but my uncle turned me onto the book to read. Both are very enjoyable reads, I like King's style.
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:50 pm

Last book I read was 1984. I didn't read it for school, I just read it because I liked what I heard about it. I think it's excellent.

I am currently in the process of reading Beowulf, Antigone, and Siddhartha for my AP English class. I also need to read some annotated guide to the constitution for my government class. I have A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords as well as The Infernal City sitting around, but it may be a while before they get read.
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:27 pm

Few mentions of 1984, don't forget Brave New World everyone. Brutal regimes are ok, but there is always room for a cheerily ignorant dystopia.
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:16 pm

The last book I read was Scarlett Fever by Maureen Johnson. Its a sequel to another book. I was recommended it by Hank Green of the vlogbrothers so I read it without question. It was really good but its a girlish sort of book because it has romance in it. Other than the romance though it was really interesting because its about this girl who helps run an acting agency as a part time job and her brother who is an actor is very interesting too. I mainly read it because I was interested what happened to the brother.

I am currently reading The Maze Runner by James Dasner ( I think thats his name). Its really good. Its about a young man with other boys stuck in this big courtyard surrounded by a giant maze that changes its configuration and has these deadly creatures that are half robot monsters. Its about them trying to find a way out. As well as that I'm sort of reading The Great Gatsby for the nerdfighter bookclub but its hard for me to read two books at once so Its shelved until I finish The Maze Runner.
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:58 am

Mine is a little less... advlt... than many posted here at this time, but I picked it up one day and decided it was alright.

Foundling by D.M. Cornish.

But I am now currently reading To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:24 am

This should include e-books, why not?

Last one I read was http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/72998 It's short, really good, and free, in case any of you are interested.
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:42 pm

Few mentions of 1984, don't forget Brave New World everyone. Brutal regimes are ok, but there is always room for a cheerily ignorant dystopia.


That one's on my summer reading list, right after my King books. A friend turned me to books like 1984 and that one was on the top.
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:10 pm

Ender's Game.

I confess I had never read the book until about a week ago, when I had a 6 hour waste-my-life-staring-at-a-wall-all-night watch. I read through the entire book in one standing, and was pleased with it. It's not often I like Fantasy or Sci-Fi books, because too many end up like the one I read about a quarter of before deciding staring at the wall was better (The Pillars of Creation, from The Sword of Truth series). Unlike that one Ender's didn't have terrible cliche mary-sue characters, had a very interesting plot, and a pretty wild twist. At least I thought it was wild. :P


I love that book, the author of it actually lives about an hour from where I reside.
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:25 pm

I just finished Fight Club. At first it seemed like a bit of a waste of time - I've seen the film plenty of times (once recently) and it's actually fairly faithful to the book early on - but as the characters and plot developed, and especially after the big reveal, the story ended up having a lot more depth than I expected. And no one can deny Palahniuk's writing style is gripping.

Before that I read Bad Science by Ben Goldacre, which is a book I think everyone should read. If everybody understood science and science journalism a little better, the world would be a much better place.

I've also been working my way through Homer's Odyssey, and really enjoying it, not just for heroic exploits but also for the way it explores Ancient Greek society and culture. And today I picked up an old book (1918) of poetry by Walter de la Mere which I bought in a charity shop a couple of weeks ago - it's simplistic and sentimental stuff about pretty birds and snow mostly, but there's some good stuff in there too.
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:31 pm

I don't like to read books. Thats why its the last book i'll ever read. The only reason I read it was because it was required of me for English class! :P

*heart attack*

I can't even begin to imagine the wealth of experience and philosophy that you're now cut off from. I genuinely pity you. Not in a patronising way or anything - I just really think you're missing out.

Last book I read was Flatland. It was pretty interesting but never blew me away. I'm currently reading The Catcher in the Rye, which is hilarious but I'm nearly halfway through and am not yet feeling much direction to the story. Regardless, it's an immensely enjoyable read.
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Post » Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:41 am

Just finished A Game of Thrones and am currently reading A Clash of Kings. Amazing books.
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