Last 3 books you read

[TN_Vixen]

I'm currently reading one of Ann Rule's true crime fiction books "...And Never Let Her Go" the Thomas Capano story.. and the second installment of the Harry Potter series to my son at bedtime.

Before that I read "24 Hours" or something like that about a pregnant woman being abducted from a shopping mall.

I'm looking to get "The Bluest Eye" by Tony Morrison for my bday. smile

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Okay........

Tourist Season/Carl Hiaason - The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Tiem/John M. Shanahan - A Vast Conspiracy/Jeffrey Toobin.

 

[Ambrosious]

The Terrible Truth About Liberals-Neal Boortz
Eye of the World series-Robert Jordan
And The Cradle Will Rock-James Patterson

 

[Silverlily]

Obsidian Butterfly - Laurell K. Hamilton
The Sorcerer's Stone - J. K. Rowling
Leadership Secrets of Atilla the Hun - I'd have to look up the author and it's way too early for that.

 

[Rand al'Thor]

Recently I've read:
Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan
Green Rider by Kristen Britain
A Spell for Chameleon by Peirs Anthony
Ogre, Ogre by Piers Anthony

Currently I'm Reading:
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Rand al'Thor
The Dragon Reborn

 

[Aranian]

Do calc and econ textbooks count?

 

[Earthmuffin]

Hop on Pop - Dr. Seuss
Green Eggs & Ham - Dr. Seuss
Rainbow Fish - don't remember.
Maternal Child Nursing
Psych Nursing
ummm.....need to add a run to B.Dalton to my list of things to do today! LOL

 

[KillerMuffin]

Just 3?

how about in the last day?

Chronologically:

• The Oxford Companion to the English Language - Edited by Tom McArthur
• The Dictionary - Webster
• The Korean to English Dictionary - Sisa yunguhsa
• Daddy Christmas (Harlequin #257 or something) - Judith Arnold
• The one with the naked viking on the cover - Sandra Hill
• The other one with the naked viking on the cover - Sandra Hill
• The one with the naked Cajun on the cover - Sandra Hill
• Manhunter - John Pascucci
• Where The Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
• The Best of Penthouse Letters Volume 7 - Everybody
• Rommel's Army in Africa - Dal McGuirk
• The Hill - Leonard B. Scott

To be fair, I haven't made it through all of the Oxford book, nor do I read the dictionaries lengthily, but I do actually read them (insomnia) and I skipped most of the stories in the penthouse book. And I read Maurice Sendak every single night sometimes 4 times.

 

[Savage Kitten]

I just finished reading "Pillars of the Earth" (don't recall by whom-sorry) a great book, almost 1000pg but it was hard to put down. It's a historical novel based on Kings, Queens, Knights, Bishops, Earls, war, greed, sex, and love.

Before that, I read "Velvet Whispers" by Joan Elizabeth Lloyd, an erotic novel about this sophisticated phone sex business and one woman's creativity.

Before that, I read "Brotherhood of the Rose" which was a spy and espionage thiller

 

[R Nitelight]

War And Peace. The Great Gatsby. Ulysses.




Okay, I'm lying. It was the Naughty Cheerleaders Trilogy.

 

[Bushido71XS]

I just finished Atlas Shrugged a few weeks ago. (A little LITE reading, huh Rand?)

Currently I'm rereading F. Paul Wilson's The Keep

but my last three were:

1: Atlas Shrugged\Ayn Rand

2: Kink\Susan Bakos

3: Predators\Jim Starlin

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I've read "Pillars of the Earth" three times -- it's a fantastic book (by Ken Follet who also wrote "Eye of the Needle"). I loved it so much I once called the publishers because I wanted to write a screenplay verison, but the rights had already been sold. It's an amazing book, isn't it? What a great read.

Unfortunately, the last couple of books I've read are all technical manuals for things like Dreamweaver and Adobe Illustrator.

Before that it was "The Discoverers" by Daniel Boorstin, and I got halfway through a pedestrian novel called "1812" before I just stopped. It was turning into Early American Soap Opera.

I keep going back to old books that I loved, like "Ragtime." Hmm. Guess it's time to pick up "The Lord of the Rings" again.

 

[Gaucho]

Danse Macabre by Stephen King
Dr. Sheehan on Running by Dr. George Sheehan
The Chill by Ross McDonald

btw - Dixon, may I recommend the Thomas Covenant Trilogy (actually there are two separate trilogies) by Stephen R. Donaldson? If you haven't read them, they are incredible!

Of course, you can't beat LOTR. Especially with the movie coming out next year.

 

[Mustang Sally]

Right now I'm reading The Pilgrim, by Timothy Findley. I waited for a long time for it to come out in soft cover and I'm enjoying it immensely.

Before that it was Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler, and The Colour Purple by Alice Walker.

The first two are Canadian authors. A fairly large percentage of the books I read are Canadian. Blame my Grade 12 English teacher.

 

[Ambrosious]

Gaucho, were you an unbeliever, Lord of the Land, or Lord Foul? God I loved both of The Cronicles.(sp?)

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

btw - Dixon, may I recommend the Thomas Covenant Trilogy (actually there are two separate trilogies) by Stephen R. Donaldson? If you haven't read them, they are incredible!

Believe it or not, I've read them four times! I love them, turned my whole family onto them, and will probably read them again one day. It's like Tolkien for grown-ups.

 

[Gaucho]

DCL - I also loved the Daughter of Regals series (2 books) which followed. I have to admit, though, that I'm having a bit of trouble getting into his "Gap" series.

Ambrosious - I would definitely fall into the category of an unbeliever.

By Hell!

 

[Weird Harold]

Like CreamyLady, I have to ask "just three?"

Unlike her though, I tend to read one thing at a time. So the last three I've finished are:

Amazons Edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (anthology)
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein.

Currently reading Acorna's World by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

(Two Heinlein books in sequence is the tail of end of a binge on Heinlein's books)

 

[Danger Box]

i'm currently reading the Fletch series by Gregory Mcdonald. It's the series that the Fletch movies were based off. damn funny stuff.

 

[Cheri]

This is one of those threads I want to print out and have on hand when I visit my beloved bookstore.
Mine are Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins (I love him and every hysterical word out of his mouth), Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden and right now Building Left-Brain Power by Allen Bragdon and David Ganon as well as the collected poems and plays of Rabindranath Tagore. I need to go buy Robbins latest book, just haven't done it yet.

 

[CreamyLady]

Harold, it was Killer Muffin who said just 3, not me.

However, I have to agree with her.

Also, unless it leads to a discussion, is there a point to listing what books we read?

That said, I have finished re-reading The Consolation of Philosophy. I've also re-read The Pilgrim's Progress, and am making my way through the Book of Job. It is every bit as tedious as it ever was, but I will persevere.

I've also been reading, in a sporadic fashion (bouncing from book to book) a series of works about the evolution of the Adversary, The Devil in Massachusetts, and Entertaining Satan.

As a break, I read Tom Clancy's The Bear and The Dragon, Nora Roberts' Tears of The Moon (ack. gag. eeeewwwww), and part two of The Story of O. Also, Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire

I can't find my copy of The Varieties of Religious Experience, so I have to buy another.

Amazon.com just loves me.

 

[Weird Harold]

Harold, it was Killer Muffin who said just 3, not me.

However, I have to agree with her.

Also, unless it leads to a discussion, is there a point to listing what books we read

OOps. Sorry about that.

As far as a point, I've picked up a couple of ideas for what to read next. It also gives a little look into the people who post. What a person reads is an indication of their likes and dislikes are, and sometimes an indication of how they think.

 

[Latina]

Parent In Control (have an angry 13-year-old son)
Java for Dummies (I want to make better web sites)

Read a lot of books on real estate and stock investing.
Hey, this hottie chick has a BRAIN, too, y'know! Parents
retired broke, we will NOT do the same! (Best line
I read lately: JOB stands for Just Over Broke)!

Penthouse Forum column religiously every month (but
that's a magazine column, not a book). We both read
it for entertainment and sometimes to get new ideas.

Reader's Digest, again religiously every month, again
not a book. I laugh at their ultra-conservative philosophy,
but the articles do make me think about stuff.

NO romance novels: sappy, and they hint at sex without
ever really getting to the good stuff.

-- Latina

 

[Always]

Does the one I'm currently reading count?

If so, then:
(in order of most recent)
Sign of the Unicorn
The Guns of Avalon }by Roger Zelazny
Nine Princes in Amber

Ciara's Song, by (gods I don't remember)

 

[Juliangel]

The last three I have finished are:

Vespers by Jeff Rovin
Gone South by Robert McCammon
King Kelson's Bride by Katherine Kurtz

I am currently reading At All Costs by John Giltrap

Everyday, at nap and bedtime, I read Good Night Moon to my daughter.

[Edited by Juliangel on 09-28-2000 at 12:42 PM]