What non-science book have you read recently?

[bad virus]

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The last six books I have read in just a few weeks were all the resident evil novels by S.D. Perry.

I am now reading Resident Evil Nemesis (#6).

Before your brag meters go up and your judgementalness kicks in and labels me as a worthless sack of $hit, I have read more . . .

HOLD UP!!!!!

I ain't and don't gotta justify myself to no one (triple negative FTW).

 

[Charles English]

i actually just re-read alice in wonderland and through the looking glass. now i'm attempting to read it in french. it's good to keep the chops at least luke warm.

catch-22 is a fantastic book. i love the 'TS Elliot!' part. cracked me up.

 

[VanBrown]

A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller

good read.

 

[Carlin]

I just read The Westing Game (okay, I know, I know, it's 4th grade reading level, but I never got around to it before now!) and it was really good. Definitely a quick read, but extraordinarily clever!

If anyone is really into books with "pretty writing" (I totally am) then you should check out The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker. The story was good, but her writing style was absolutely beautiful.

 

[bad virus]

Ok, I will admit, Catch-22 started off super funny and all but midway through the book it just got old with all the sly sarcasm and nothing newness, it just started dragging.

/pissing in other cereal

Am I the only book snob here? before I purchase a book, if it doesn't catch my attention in the first 2 pages I toss it back on the shelf. Am I alone here?

 

[Charles English]

I just read The Westing Game (okay, I know, I know, it's 4th grade reading level, but I never got around to it before now!) and it was really good. Definitely a quick read, but extraordinarily clever!

you have just blown my mind. that used to be one of my favorite books when i was a little kid!!! HA!. that's great. you know, i re-read that book...maybe like 6-7 years ago just for kicks. great stuff. you have made my day...thank you.


*the ending was clever, wasn't it? 👍😀

 

[Grey Wind]

A Feast for Crows - Epic fantasy [part of the song of ice and fire series]

👍

Great series.

 

[Spiker]

I just ordered 3 books :

[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica][SIZE=-1]"Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis"
Tom Daschle; Hardcover; $9.59[/SIZE].

[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica][SIZE=-1]"Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse"
Thomas E. Woods Jr.; Hardcover; $16.77[/SIZE].

and

[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica][SIZE=-1]"The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care"
Clayton M. Christensen; Hardcover; $21.75[/SIZE].

anyone read any of those?

 

[funkymunkytoes]

👍👍👍 Slaughter House, The Road and OTR are so great. All of them, hard to put down.

To you I recommend The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolano. It's like an epic road novel meets Vonnegut's style of writing, with so many interesting characters. I think you'd love it. It's my favorite book, and by your list I'd say our tastes seem to overlap.

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Recently read novels that I would recommend to those who love interesting characters and a great story: The Savage Detectives, Divisadero, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Then We Came to the End.

Going to read 2666 over spring break, looking forward to it =)

Thanks so much! I will be checking it out from the school library first thing tomorrow!

 

[deleted202457]

I just started reading "Stiff". It's pretty funny considering it's about cadavers lol.

 

[BlueElmo]

Anyone read Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series? Those are amazing books, especially the first few.

 

[Bandu]

Just read Memoirs of a Geisha and loved it ...about to start reading Midnight's Children.

 

[Soba]

i just read "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell"

I wholeheartedly agree that it was freaking hilarious. It has been a long time since I laughed that much while reading a book. I am AWFULLY tempted to order a flaming Dr. Pepper this coming weekend...

 

[RySerr21]

i just read ethics for the new milllenium by the dalai lama. i read it for calss, but still a pretty amazing book/outlook on life.

 

[fastboyslim]

Recently finished Non-Violent Resistance by Gandhi, Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky, currently almost done with Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, and will shortly start Poor Folk, The Possessed, and The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky.

I read Gandhi over winter break, and I have a Russian Lit class on Dostoevsky. I also read like 8 books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for a class last semester.

Yeah, I'm a Chemistry major with too much time on my hands.