What was the last book you read?

[Grey M@a]

Against A Dark Background by Iain M Banks

Currently Reading jPod by Douglas Coupland.

[Funkstar]

I'll wait until jPod comes out in a regular sized paperback. Not sure how it will compair to Microserfs, now that is an amazing book.

[dangel]

You know you got soul

Jeremy Clarkson.

Now back to J D Robb..

[Tumble]

Against A Dark Background by Iain M Banks

Incredible book tbh.. one of his best.

[Moonshade]

last book well its really my current book not finished it yet is

A Brief History Of Time by Prof Steven Hawking excellent read

yeah, heard of it..have read other books of him, really great!

[johnny02004976]

he's an absolute legend, the Einstein of the modern day, i thought it would get heavy but not at all

[Moonshade]

XA04: Nick Hornby is great it feels like his books are so..uhm, realistic in a way, but in another way they aren't. But you can recognize yourself pretty much in em'...I could recon feeling some of the feelings in A long way down.

Funkstar: Sorry, was thinking about the swedish title, it's edited..thank you . Nah, maybe not the best book, but so far I like it.

Johnny: Yeah he really is that's what I like about him, it's so cool and gets you interested too.

[Funkstar]

The tyhing i likie about Nick Hornby is that you get the feeling he is really just writing about himself, or at least reflects parts of his personality and interests. I think thats why i didn't like A Long Way Down as much, didn't seem as personal as his previous books.

I finished that Lee Childs book last night. Was very good, i think i'll have to get a few more of his.

Onto "All Fun and Games Until Someone Looses an Eye" by Chistopher Brookmyre now. It will be funny and well written but wildly outlandish if his other books are anything to go by.

I read a lot when i'm offshore

[Bazzlad]

The Bourne books. (so much better than the films)
and the Wilbur Smith Taita collect - River God, Seventh Scroll and Warlock.

Class.

[toomanycooks]

The Man in the High Castle, Philip K Dick.

[Steve B]

im with bazzlad and funkstar here. I love the wilbur smith books with Taita in them. I loved the Seventh Scroll, which is almost like those puzzle books u used to get as a kid.

Totally agree with Funkstar about Chris Brookmyre. Im listening to Quite Ugly One Morning on audio-book and its verging on pant-wettingly funny. Read by David Tennant, in a hardcore scottish accent, its the best book i've read/listened to in a long time.

[NightshadowUK]

I finally got around to reading 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', pure awesomeness although I'm uncertain as to how Rowling can satisfactorily polish this story off in just one book.

[Tumble]

^^ Quite agree... very intruiged as to how it's all going to pan out.. is it going to be a an Ian M Banks style ending - the smoke clears, and one person (possibly slightly worse for wear) emerges, picks him/herself up, shrugs and gets on with being whatever they are OR is it going to be a shiny fairy tale ending where everything turns out OK for everyone who;s still alive????

[Steve B]

or they all die, the end

[kasavien]

I can't remember the last book i read, which is a bit shameful, but i'm halfway though robert rankin's brightonomicon (sp?) and i'm getting phantom by terry goodkind in a day or so and i'll sit and read that till i'm done, love the sword of truth series.

[DerbyJon]

Read Angels and Demons on hols. Then moved onto Iain Banks' Wasp Factory. Now I'm home, I've sort of forgotten about the Wasp Factory and for some reason am having another go at A Brief History of Time which I hadn't picked up for several years. Thinking about it I'm also half-way through Billy Hopkins' Our Kid and a graphic novel my girlfriend keeps trying to get me to read. I think I should really try to finish books once in a while