last book you read/ currently reading

[john_uk]

what book are you reading, or the last book you read, and would you recomend others to read them??

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currently in the process of reading
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

great read, and a good account of the battle of stalingrad from both sides (in a way)

john

[Alonso]

I reccomend The Alchemist, by Paulo Cohelo, very reflexive reading...

[expat]

Jeremy Clarkson....Born to be Riled.

Matt

[beaky]

Just polished off two books in my recent travels:

Flyboys by James Bradley (no, not that one- it's about a group of USN fliers in the Pacific inWWII... Bradley also wrote Flags of Our Fathers). When I saw the title on the spine, i grabbed it just to laugh at it: "Good lord, not another "novel based on the movie" book..." but once I saw what it was about, I had to buy it.
It's very thoroughly researched, a fitting tribute to some airmen whose fates were kept secret for many years, and he gets into some larger-picture stuff about war and politics in the last 150 years or so that I found very educational. Let's just say that there is plenty in there that should be in American public-school history books, but isn't.
 The only thing wrong with that book is that he uses the word "Flyboys", with the capital "F", way too often for some reason...aside from that, I recommend it highly.


Also read Michael Crichton's  State of Fear, which is a pretty bold and well-supported stab at the current obsession with global warming... cleverly disguised as just another silly action story. Classic Crichton. I enjoy his stuff in general, but this was very though-provoking.

[Stormtropper]

I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell

Honestly, my favorite book. If I ever get elected to any government position, I'm so gonna be sworn in on that book...

[ozzy72]

Jasper Carrott - Sweet 'n Sour Labrador
Just about to start Bill Bryson - A Walk In The Woods

[expat]

Just about to start Bill Bryson - A Walk In The Woods

A truly outstanding book. The mental image of his friend "Kat" that I had whilst reading, I laughed until I cried.
In fact anything by Bill Bryson ( I have read them all)  would get my vote.

Matt

[Wing Nut]

"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Siebold...

No, it's NOT a horror book.

[ATI_7500]

My last book was a book about the east german airforce and before that, I've read "History of the Waffen-SS".


Good books? All by Matt Ruff.

[dcunning30]

Just polished off two books in my recent travels:

Flyboys by James Bradley (no, not that one- it's about a group of USN fliers in the Pacific inWWII..

What's that word, skillydo?  Good book!  I didn't appreciate Bradley's moralizing from time to time, but overall, good book, highly recommended!

BTW, I didn't like the movie, Flags of our Fathers, not at all.   :-?

Book I finished last,  Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze.  Excellent book!  It does the best job I've read yet in getting inside the head of kamikaze pilots and sailors.  It goes very far in understanding, and shall I say, respecting them for what they did.  They don't compare with the current group of suicide bombers, and they don't appreciate being compared to them.

[waspiflab]

Playboy

[geckos_ftw]

*snickering* i started reading my friend's copy of "Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas. typical gossipy book about a girl going out with a sex-god and how when he goes off to london courtesy of a possible record deal, she starts thinking of going off wih an ex etc...methinks im gonna have to buy "Angus, Thongs And Full Frontal Snogging" though. i cant start a book halfway through the series...  ;D

[Stormtropper]

Playboy

Ma man!

(Next issue: 1 week... )

[Souichiro]

Last read book...

Dunno exactly..

I think The world according to Clarkson.... and then some.

Still busy with 1984 though.. and also got some others waiting to be read

[stuart1044]

Where to start!!

As i am currently finishing off my final year prject for uni, i have been reading various PHP and MySQL books, along with database systems books!!!

On the other hand i have also been reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in anticipation for the final book, this is the second time i have read this book