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What's the Last Book You Read?

What's the Last Book You Read?

We talk about movies and TV, so why not have a discussion about the books we read!  Let us know what's the last book you read, and feel free to recommend it or expand on what it's about.

I mostly read through my Kindle and get most of my eBooks through Amazon.

The book I recently finished was Inside the Real Area 51: The Secret History of Wright Patterson.

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I haven't read it yet, but I've been wanting it and Amazon put the Kindle version on sale for just $3.99 so I grabbed it.

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Atlas Shrugged.  I can see things like this happening in this day & Age.

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Quoting ScubaDan, reply 52

Atlas Shrugged.
  .... I read a few of Ann Rands books in the 1960's ... after what you wrote, ScubaDan, maybe I'll read Atlas Shrugged again!

 Read "Adultery" by Arthur Coelho and Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke ....  both very good!! 

 

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And now, three months down the line, just finished reading this novel by Anthony Doerr called All The Light We Cannot See. The storyline goes like this: Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan, destined to labor in the same mine that claimed his father's life, until he discovers a knack for engineering. His talent wins him a place at a brutal military academy, but his way out of obscurity is built on suffering. At the same time, far away in a walled city by the sea, an old man discovers new worlds without ever setting foot outside his home. But all around him, impending danger closes in. A must-read.

And the next one on the cards is Andrew's Brain by E.L. Doctorow.

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Quoting Rusty23, reply 54

All The Light We Cannot See
 ...It is on my list. I have several friends and my mother who read it, and just loved it!  

 

I just finished "Jesus out to sea"... a collection of short stories written by James Lee Burke.   Now I am reading "The Neon Rain" by J. L. Burke. This one is a detective novel. 

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It was on sale for $2.50 on Amazon this weekend, so I had to grab it. Still want to see the movie, but the book was excellent.
 

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alastair campbell diary vol 3... starting on 4 now..

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And another.

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Jeff Carlson - Plague Year Trilogy

 

  Given our current scientific mindset of "We can do a thing, so therefore we should do it",  I can totally see this happening.

 

We should start a death pool;  which will wipe us out first,  development of Nano Technology (without quadruple-checking the veracity of your descrim keys), or the development of true "AI"

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I finished the series and the last book was the best.

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The Last Man in Europe by  Dennis Glover .  Excellent

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Believe it or not, the last book I read [some of, not all] was the Bible.  And it wasn't because I'm deeply religious or anything.... I wanted to check on Bible accounts of various other histories that I'd had seen documentaries about on the History Channel

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Finished the Thrawn book. This was a great Star Wars book.

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I think it was back in the 1970's, don't even remember the name. LOL

 

Actually, it was an HTML Programming book in the 1990's. :-)

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The last book I read was "The Other Boleyn Girl" by Philippa Gregory. A bit of historical fiction which I do not usually read but the almost 700 pages seemed like three hundred.

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The Stand, by Stephen King.

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Way back before the mini series. I don't read much these days.

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"The Bull and the Spear" by Michael Moorcock

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still 7 more library books sitting in the house waiting to be read XD

seeing as i tend to read when in transit or walking, the stay at home thing has cut my reading time by a fair bit.

currently reading some robin cook thing (that's the us author who writes medicine related fiction and not the late british politician) and steve berry (just started cotton malone bk 4)

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Currently reading Joni Mitchell - In Her Own Words by Malka Marom. I am a BIG Joni Mitchell fan so it's great to get her story from her!  <3  <3  <3  <3  

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Quoting RedneckDude, reply 67

I don't read much these days.

Same here!  Although I have reading glasses, my eyesight isn't that great when trying to read print on paper, yet I can read text on a PC screen without issue.  Therefore I don't purchase or borrow books from the library these days.  Besides, I was never really into fiction that much, usually preferring non-fiction books on history and geography, etc. I do, however, like the Stephen King novels and did read 'The Stand' and others before reading became somewhat difficult in my later years; hence I now watch the movies and TV series' of his works.

As for actually reading a paper book, I recently had to go through the manual for my MSI TR4 X399 SLI Plus mobo to better understand some of its options and BIOS adjustments.

 

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I honestly had been meaning to get into more of Neil Gaiman's works for a long time, and recently I finally got around to starting Neverwhere. So far, not at all disappointed. I do love his writing tone and cadence a lot.

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just started another robin cook. it's called pandemic. apparently it came out in 2018..  sounds like gene editing and flu-like disease.

talk about timing..

the other book i'm reading atm is by john sandford (2 more of his to start, plus a fairstein.. yeah, the one dumped by her publisher)

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Killer Charlie Seiga

About a man who grew up in Liverpool in the 1950s. Not A Big Or Intimidating Guy, but a man who needed to fight for things his family did not have in those times, and for him that meant stealing,  starting very small, but very quickly moving up to Safe Cracking In Movie Theatres, putting him at the top of the Criminal Hierarchy by the age of 18. Jewellery Thief and "Money In Transit" Blagger in his 20s and 30s.

Then in the early 90s, he was accused Of The Contract Killing (He Always denied it, but those in the know, knew the truth) an Underworld "Taxman" A Huge Drug Dealer Who Tortured Other Drug Dealers for their Drug and Money  Stashes. From Then On He Was Known As Killer. Only Then, to Be Later Kidnapped himself by The Taxman's Crew. Tortured, Beaten but set free when he refused to talk. He spent the next few years Hunting Down The Taxman's Crew, but that is another story and Book.