last book

[lozzzz]

What was the last book you read?(no harry potter please)was it any good? should I read read it?

The No.1 ladies' detective agency by Alexander McCall smith.  yes you should.

An upbeat story set in Botswana,colourful narrative about a female detective solving petty crime in africa.apparently the first of 7 books.

[lilpixie]

I am reading Maeve Binchy's "the glass lake" at the moment and it is very good. I also read "No Greater Love" by Danielle Steel, recently, which was brilliant but a bit of a tear jerker (depends if you like that sort of thing). Hope this helps.

[shaneystar]

I have just finished ..With no one as Witness..by Elizabeth George.The latest in the Inspector Lynley series.
There was a cruel twist at the end though and am wondering what she will do with the characters ,now ,in her next book.
Enjoyed the book but it has left a bit of a cliffhanger!

[kick3m0n]

I've just finished reading The Deeper Meaning of LIff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd.  Must be about the 12th time I've read it, and it still makes me laugh out loud.  It would certainly be one of my desert island books (if such a thing existed).

[Aschenbach]

I liked that book too. The twin doctors and the crocodile mystery. The next book in the Ladies' Detective Series is Tears of a Giraffe which I plan to read soon. My favourite African book is Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.

I'm reading Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarner a novel which also takes a look at the history of philosophy.

Before that I read Stalingrad by Antony Beevor -
a historical book on WW2. It's a heavy read but altered my anglocentric view of events and depicts atrocities on both sides.

[fatcat]

I've just finished Susan Hill's The Pure In Heart. It's a crime story/character study, part two out of three. It's kind of like The Empire Strikes Back in that it doesn't really stand up in it's own right but provides a platform to bring you to the final stage of the story. If that makes any sense.

[sddsddean]

I'm afraid it was HP6, but before that I read 'War of the Worlds' by H G Wells and 'The Time Travvellers Wife' by Audrey Niffenegger (which I thouroughly recommend)

[fatcat]

I recently read The Time Traveller's Wife too. It sagged a little bit in the middle for me but there's one chapter that slightly confuses me, the one where Henry ends up in the cage at the Newberry. Maybe you could clear it up for me sddsddean. The chapter's dated 28 June 2006 and Henry is 43 and 43 but the present day Henry is going to work and says it's a September morning. Shouldn't it be a June morning?

[Peri]

I like Sydney Sheldon books. They are very easy to read and always have a bit of a twist.  Nothing too taxing.

[LeMarchand]

Michael Crichton's "State of Fear". I wouldn't recommend it. Lawyer gets embroiled in a lawsuit that hinges on whether global warming is fact or fiction. It was a page-turner, but I found some of his theories and conclusions to be suspect - particularly the bits where he suggests that animals become extinct naturally, so it's OK for us to be the cause of their extinction. Plus he has two or three mouthpiece characters hammer home his arguments to others ever few pages.

Currently on Stephen Donaldson's "The Runes of the Earth", a new fantasy sequel series. I loved the preceding books, but I'm finding this one hard going. Far too Tolkeinesque: constant stops for history lessons and songs - fortunately the songs are far shorter than Prof. T's - and not enough going on. Plus he has his heroine run through what's happened so far 1/2 way through the book as he has obviously realised that his readers may have lost the plot as well!

[sddsddean]

I hadn't noticed that fatcat. Obviously he is 43 for a whole year and presumably he arrives in the cage on June 28th, but if it was the Sept 2005 he came to work he would know he was going to end up in the cage in June 2006(which he feared but seems quite surprised to find himself there) and if it was Sept 2006 he would not have been surprised to come to work and find himself there as it had already happened. Guess Audrey slipped up.

[Test4]

Hi there,

 

One of the last one was "Miss Smillas feeling for snow"

by Peter Hoeck (not sure of the spelling of the name) Danish writer.

The book became a film later (90 ?)

Good book, try it.

[loobie]

I am reading "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold. It really is pretty great. I would definately recommend it.