Last 5 books you've read

[Jedieb]

Do people still read? Anyway, not your favorite books of all time, just what you've read lately:

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (in the middle of it but I should finish it by Sunday)
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Traitor (SW EU novel)
The Two Towers by Tolkien
Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand (SW EU novel)

Animal Farm and TTT were my favorite of that group. I've got the Truman biography by McCullough lined up and then I may go back to some Shakespeare. Something I read years ago like Macbeth or maybe I'll try something I never got around to reading like King Lear.

[darth_mcbain]

1. Darksaber
2. A collection of short horror stories
3. Desert Solitaire
4. Fahrenheit 451
5. Starship Troopers

[JMK]

The last 5 books I've read would be reaching back at least 5 or 6 years.
LOTR is the first book I've read in ages...

[ReaperFett]

Traitor, Rebel Dream, Dark Journey, Starfighters of Adumar, Wedge's Gamble.



Non SW? Cripes, been a while. Fight Club, Starship Troopers, Bruce Campbell's autobiography

[Jedi Master Carr]

I try to read as much as possible I read
Traitor
I, Jedi
Silence of the Lambs( Weird I never read until a couple of weeks ago)
Rebel Stand
The Two Towers

[Jedieb]

How was F -451 McBain? I've always wanted to read it. I may check it out when I return my latest bunch to the library.

[imported_QuiGonJ]

1. A Pirate Looks at Fifty - Jimmy Buffett
2. Where is Joe Merchant - Jimmy Buffett
3. Jingo - Terry Pratchitt
4. Art of Episode II
5. The Last Continent - Terry Pratchitt

[Daiquiri Van-Derveld]

I used to be an avid reader, something always in my hand and my nose buried in a book or a zine..something. But now.....

Lets see...the last 5 books...do they have to be books per se? these arent in any order, just from memory :)

1. All the Harry Potter books

2. A collection of ghost stories

3. The Complete Book of Swords (not about real swords)

4. Can I count my National Geographics that I receive every month? :)

5. Not a clue

Sorry, its the best I could do :(

[Gabran Darkysa]

1. Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
2. Stone of Farewell by Tad Williams
3. Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
4. Death of an Necromancer by Martha Wells
5. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson


A fair mix of sci-fi and fantasy! And presently reading Green Angel Tower pt. 1!

[Quadinaros]

1. The Great And Secret Show by Clive Barker
2. Star Wars Episode II: AOTC by R.A. Salvatore
3. Lucky Guy by Michael J. Fox
4. Star Wars: A New Hope by George Lucas
5. The Han Solo Adventures by I Forgot

:crack

[Lilaena De'Ville]

1 is the last one I read/am reading. 5 is the fifth one..duh... Are you following me? ;)

1. Executive Orders -Tom Clancy
2. Merlin -Stephen Lawhead
3. Taleisin -Stephen Lawhead
4. Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu -I forget who, and I'm too lazy to get up and look
5. The Hutt Gambit -*Han Solo Trilogy* by ??

[ReaperFett]

Quad, Brian Daley. LD, AC Crispin for the Han one :)

[darth_mcbain]

Originally posted by Jedieb
How was F -451 McBain? I've always wanted to read it. I may check it out when I return my latest bunch to the library.

Really good - I highly recommend it... Kind of in the same vein as 1984 (one of my all time favorites.)

And I guess as far as favorites go, for me so far it would be:
Les Miserables - Hugo
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
1984 - Orwell

All three are incredible books - check them out if you haven't already...

[Jedieb]

I read 1984 earlier this year. Thoes last 4 words are just amazing. I'm familiar with the themes 451 deals with which is why I'm looking forward to picking it up soon. I read Crime and Punishment a couple of years ago. It's really is an amazing novel. There's just tons of great Russian literature out there. Have you ever read Don Quixote? It's one of my favorite novels. I might try to read it in Spanish one day, but I don't know if I could handle it.

[Doc Milo]

1. The Remnant (Left Behind #9)
2. Star Wars: Episode 2: Attack of the Clones
3. Star Wars: Cloak of Deception
4. Star Wars: Dark Journey
5. The Mark (Left Behind #8)

[Wei Wu Wei]

1. the Two towers.

2. The Tao of Pooh.

3. The Bible.

4. The whipser of the River

5 Apollo 13

[darth_mcbain]

I can tell you five I'll be reading in the very near future...

The Gunslinger
The Drawing of the Three
The Waste Lands
Wizard and Glass
Wolves of the Calla

I absolutely love Stephen King's Dark Tower series - now that book five is due out next year, I'll start reading books 1-4 again for the fourth time so that by the time I'm done, book 5 (Wolves) will be here...

[JediBoricua]

Don Quixote...ugh.

I was forced to read it, maybe that's why I did not enjoy it, having to read 10 chapters for every wednesday. I will pick it up someday. And the spanish is tough, even for spanish speaking people.

[JediBoricua]

Oh yes Last five books:

1. Traitor
2. Enemy Lines II: Rebel Dream
3. Enemy LInes I: Rebel Stand
4. Neuromancer
5. The Family-Mario Puzo

[Jedieb]

I really don't think I could handle the Spanish version. But the English version I read was an excellent translation. It's not light reading, but it was pretty good. I thought their exploits were just hilarious.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Don Quixote..I remember seeing that on an episode of Wishbone when I was about 7 or 8...It was pretty cool.

[Gav Mortis]

It's good to see some Orwell up there. Animal Farm and 1984 are amazing books.

In order from most recent to fifth most recent.

1. If this is a Man - Primo Levi
2. Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
3. The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling
5. Hard Times - Charles Dickens

[imported_Lance Stormrider]

Sh-t I dont think Ive read 5 books in my entire life :lol

[Angelica Shin]

ah...Mine that I've read most recently are quote "Young People" books......:p But they're good books!

1-Tris' Book by Tamora Pierce

2-Daja's Book by Tamora Pierce

3- Briar's Book by Tamora Pierce

4-Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce

5-Cold Fire by Tamora Pierce

All within the past four weeks too.

[Jedieb]

In between those 5 "adult" books, I've read a few young adult novels while on the job this summer. I squeezed in Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, Wayside School is Falling Down, and There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom. All by Louis Sachar. They're very funny and great books to read out loud to kids.

[Sejah Haversh]

Well, I do love the clearance bin at bookstores, and that's where most of my books come from.

Sadly, I often buy a new one and start it before finishing the last, so, these are the last five I've gotten mroe than halfway into.

1. <u>The Art of War</u> by Sun- Tzu
2. <u>The Canterbury Tales</u> by Geoffrey Chaucer
3. <u>Bartlett's Familiar Quotations</u> (Okay, so it's not really a novel, but I think it counts. It's frikkin huge...)
4. <u>Usagi Yojimbo: Grasscutter II</u> Drawn, inked, and written by Stan Sakai. No, it is not manga.
5. <u>The Long Patrol</u> by Brian Jacques

And I also have been pickign away at varios Rudyard Kipling stories, and trying to work through <u>The Talisman</u> by Sir Walter Scott, as well as a large book on Feudal Japan. Boy, do I ever finish books?

[Kaytor Surna]

1: Royal Assasin.
2: Assasins Apprentice.
3: LotR: FotR.
4: Dragon Lance
5: Star Wars: TPM