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[hero]

the title says it all, its about the last book you read.
plz no comic or manga I mean BOOKS!!!
its ok to post what the book is about, but plz no major spoiler. plz also tell us if you enjoyed the book and obviously its name.

ok, here is the last book I read:
Crime and Punishment.

it was one of the best books I have read until now.
its about a former student that lives in a tiny garret. he is short on money and is sick. he is thinking about commiting a crime but we (the reader) do not know what the crime is.

so, I really don´t want to say anything more about this book, because I fear I would spoiler too much.


Now I am curious to read the ones from you

[Colour]

Guessing Light Novels are also out of the Question? If so..

Last book I read was What happened to Cass Mcbride

[danield21]

PHP A Beginner's Guide
Wait... You mean as in a story,
The Incredible Shrinking Man

[ALL HAIL TREBOR]

ok, here is the last book I read:
Crime and Punishment.

lol this happens to me a lot on this forum

anyways, I'm currently reading Crime and Punishment.


Last book I read (completed) was Kite Runner (re-read)


Yeah, definitely check out The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who befriends Hassan, his father's young Hazara servant. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime

Edited by A Kid Named CuDi, 14 December 2011 - 06:16 PM.

[Buttock Follicle]

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

lol @ above xD

[Cesc]

Gone with the wind, by Margaret Mitchell.

[ValorantX]

Crime and Punishment huh, everything by Dostoevsky is good. =]
And I'm rereading Language Instinct by Steven Pinker.

[hero]

could you all also say what the books are about and if you would recommend it.

[αɖα- ɕɧαɲ]

Series of unfortunate events volume 1 & 2

[ValorantX]

could you all also say what the books are about and if you would recommend it.

Language Instinct
"In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct,wired into our brains by evolution."
Steven Pinker is currently the head professor of psychology and linguistics at Harvard and former professor of cognitive science at Stanford and MIT; I thought he was a genius the first book I read from him.

[LittleMelon18]

The last book I read and still reading:

Chance by Amir D. Aczel

The blurb at the back says:

'Chance and time are intimately linked in our universe. Every day, chance occurences take place that present us with new opportunities, challenges and perils. To make the best of them requires a knowledge of how to make decisions in sequence.'
-Does the bus always seem to take longer than average to arrive? There's a mathematical reason for it.
-Have you invested in real estate, or bought stock in a blue-chip company? what type of return can you expect?
-How do political polls work, and what is a margin of error?
-What's the best way to bluff at poker, or count cards in blackjack?
-If you absolutely had to gamble, which strategy ensures the highest probability of success?
Find out the answers to these and many more questions in Chance....perhaps the most important book you'll ever read.

[darkhunter]

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

well im into SF/fantasy mostly but if the book is good i might read it

[Colour]

Since I'm a huge fan of the Series Dexter & I heard the books are different from the show. I just picked up the first novel, Darkly Dreaming Dexter.
And Plan on reading it tonight

[Zero King]

Son Of Neptune by Rick Riordan

[freekidd]

of mice and men by john steinbeck

[αɖα- ɕɧαɲ]

i forgot to describe the book I last read.

Series of unfortunate events by Lemony Snicket, as the title implies was about the misfortunes of the sibling Violet, Klauss and sunny Baudielaire. It started in the incident when their parents died when their house was arsoned and when they are adopted by their uncle count olaf.

Reading this will make you feel pity with the siblings and anger with the bad uncle olaf. The story is promising that even though it's a children book/novel, I found myself attached to it and classified it as one of the best that i read.

[ValorantX]

I've read that series a long time ago when I was a kid, I was kind of disappointed with the last book but the series was overall pretty good.

[αɖα- ɕɧαɲ]

You mean the book "letter for beatrice?" I'm the opposite. I liked it ;>

[ValorantX]

hmm well it's not like I didn't like the book but I felt like the ending was too open.

Spoiler

I definitely didn't expect a happy ending or a tragic one but the kind of conclusion where it's like "And their journeys continue," kind of threw me off.

Edited by Saphsin, 16 December 2011 - 04:05 PM.

[hero]

hmm well it's not like I didn't like the book but I felt like the ending was too open. I definetly didn't expect a happy ending or a tragic one but the kind of conclusion where it's like "And their journeys continue," kind of threw me off.

plz put that in a spoiler tag.