OT: What's the last book you read?

Bong Sau · Post by **Bong Sau** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:41 am

1984 by George Orwell & Simply Wing Chun Kung Fu by Shaun Rawcliffe.

Komplex · Post by **Komplex** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:47 am

AdamJay wrote:Children of Dune and then God Emperor of Dune shortly after.

God Emperor was the last book I read too. But nothing beats the original.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:03 am

Komplex wrote:
AdamJay wrote:Children of Dune and then God Emperor of Dune shortly after.
God Emperor was the last book I read too. But nothing beats the original.

exactly!

http://images.juno.co.uk/full/CS92458-01B-BIG.jpg

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?what=R&obid=256877

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:13 am

"Do androids dream of electronic sheep" by philip k dick.

The whole "HHGTTG" by douglas adams. (for the second time)

Recently tried to read "fight club", but the book sucks if you remember how the movie ends

Currently reading the civil war in the comic universe. I was never a big fan of comics, but the current storyline kicks ass.

An accident happens, 600 people die. Including a whole school of children.
Every masked hero and villian must unmask, register and help capture the others. Otherwise they're considered enemy's of the united states.
You got tony stark on the one side, captain america on the other...

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:18 am

'MYOB Business Basics', 'Motion: Revolutionary Motion Graphics', 'Flash MX for Dummies', and the Live 6 manual.

I don't do fiction. There's enough reality for me, and so much to learn!

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:46 am

Dead Famous by Ben Elton

Bought in transit at Singapore Airport. Finished at London Heathrow tarmac. Customer happy.

lowmax · Post by **lowmax** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:55 am

h2g2 Douglas Admas.....again
The God Dellusion, Richard Dawkins

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:26 am

hoffman2k wrote:Recently tried to read "fight club", but the book sucks if you remember how the movie ends

There is NOTHING about the film that makes the book suck. IMHO.

Last book I read cover to cover was Ecological Imperialism by Alfred Crosby, I think his name was. It was quite interesting. There's a review and a quote here.

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:33 am

noisetonepause wrote:
hoffman2k wrote:Recently tried to read "fight club", but the book sucks if you remember how the movie ends
There is NOTHING about the film that makes the book suck. IMHO.

Last book I read cover to cover was Ecological Imperialism by Alfred Crosby, I think his name was. It was quite interesting. There's a review and a quote here.

Meh, if you know he's shizophrenic...
There's not much sense in the story of tyler (IMHO)

I prefer absurd stuff like the hitchhikers guide and discworld.
Which probably are the most unpredictable books i've ever read...

The "red dwarf" books are pretty cool too. I wonder if they'll ever finish the movie

pilcrow · Post by **pilcrow** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:03 am

ethios4 wrote:Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce (Incredible literary fun! A river of puns in 17 languages telling an archetypal dream tale!)

My hat's off to you. You're only the second person I know of who claims to have read FW. I love Dubliners, Portrait, Ulysses, but the first page of FW numbs me. I guess it's because I only know one language and a tiny part of a second. And Joyce can be obscure enough even when he's sticking to straight English.

For pure reading pleasure, it's hard to beat Charles Portis:
The Dog of the South
True Grit
Norwood
Masters of Atlantis
Gringos

http://www.amazon.com/Dog-South-Charles ... F8&s=books

Robert Henke · Post by **Robert Henke** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:05 am

T.C. Boyle: "Talk Talk"

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:12 am

Ableton Live 6
"a journey into sound"

ourapollo · Post by **ourapollo** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:16 am

bob dylan - chronicles part 1

grok · Post by **grok** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:25 am

"The Electric Cool Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe. I read it once a year. The language Wolf uses is brilliant
"The world is sound" a book I'me reading now, forget the writer (@ work now) it is brilliant ;he connects quantumfysica to tao. And shares his vision how all that we know is nothing more than sound or frequency. Tune in ;tune out ; on ; off ; yes ;no ; sound ; no sound. He proofs how the distance between the planets in this solarsystem are exactly in proportion as an E chord ; and so on.

nobbystylus · Post by **nobbystylus** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:32 am

Lunar Park - Brett Easton Ellis...