What's the last book you've read?

[Riedquat]

Doing a bit of a Terry Pratchett re-read at the moment, they're always good when I just want to pick something off the shelf. Finished Making Money the other day and am reading The Truth at the moment. I should probably get around to some of the books I've had sitting there for a few years and not read yet, "A History of Tin Mining and Smelting in Cornwall" is still there.

[Mecha82]

Spear of the Emperor by Aaron Dembski-Bowden. I was told that this author does great job with writing Space Marines as actual characters so of course I had to read that one from him since it's newest one he has written to see of that's true. Turns out that's indeed case.

[Steve]

Just finished reading "Mycroft and Sherlock" by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (yes, the NBA's leading all-time scorer) and Anna Waterhouse. It's the second book in a series, haven't read the first, that acts as a prequel to the original Holmes stories. It's 1872 (apparently the first book is 1871), with Mycroft as a 26 year old civil servant acting as a special counsel to the War Office, and Sherlock is 19 and attending a college at Cambridge. It was an enjoyable read, giving Mycroft deeper characterization than Doyle did and depicting an inexperienced Sherlock who, for all his deductive talents, has yet to grasp some of the social niceties involved in the line of work he's so interested in.

[ChrisTheLovableJerk]

Reread The Disaster Artist. A funny, and interesting book about the making of The Room. Me personally I wasn't too happy with how the movie adaptation changed things. I plan on reading Zhan's Thrawn books, Good Omens, and Peter Straub's Ghost Story in the near future.

[Beelzquill]

I just reread The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan in the wheel of time series because amazon is making a tv show about it, though I personally think Wheel of Time is just not feasible for live action. Maybe animated would work better because the magic system is flashier than Game of thrones and if I remember correctly all fourteen books take place over three years which is just not practical for live action.

[ChrisTheLovableJerk]

Just finished reading the first two of the canon Thrawn books. Both were quite enjoyable reads, though I think the first one was better.

[clearspira]

Unlike a lot of people I suspect I do very much enjoy trawling the 99p books for Amazon Kindle as you can often find a gem or two and if you don't you've wasted little more than the price of a can of coke. In my experience finding serious drek on KDP is not only rarer than you might think its actually the place where you will find the books with truly original and outlandish concepts that traditional publishers would be a bit weary of touching, stuff that on paper sounds ridiculous and yet in practice works beautifully. Plus there is also something a bit special in knowing that you've probably just made some new author's day.

My advice if you are going to take up my current hobby would be to always read the preview; you can always tell from how a book begins just how truly amateur its going to be.

Anyway I'll recommend some if I come across a good one in my current stack of 99p books.

[Madner Kami]

Thanks to a wierd mental tangent from the thought of playing the Neuromancer-game, to listening to the title theme (a version of Devo's song named "Some Things Never Change"), wishing it would be remade and being overcome by nostalgia, I just started re-reading the original Neuromancer trilogy. Technically I have not yet finished this read-through, but since I already read the books like 5 times, I'll count it as "last book read".

[sayla0079]

Just finished one of the Trek Day of Honor books and started Captain's Table book five.

[Laeril]

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways To Cure Everything by Lydia Kang, MD and Nate Pedersen.