POLL: What was the last book you read ? ?

Question

Thank you.

Answer 1

I usually read two at a time. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, and Jazz by Toni Morrison.

Answer 2

ok the last book was, a working girl! now I'm reading, gigolo!

its actually very interesting to see a glimpse in to why someone would do such a job! i realise that its not as great as reading shakespears sonnets but why read literature that will not challenge or open the mind! lol

Answer 3

The Book Theif. May be one of the top 10 books I have ever read.  

Answer 4

Hard to say, because as soon as I finish a book I start another one.

Answer 5

Actual hold-in-my-hands-and-read book "The Truth" by Terry Pratchett.  Before that, "Florida Roadkill" by Tim Dorsey.  Currently, I am reading "Night Probe" by Clive Cussler.

Mostly I listen to books on CD during my commute to work.

Answer 6

non fiction: Henry VIII: King and Court

fiction: Deception Point by Dan Brown (disappointing!!!)

Answer 7

Savage Justice - Ron Handberg - excellent story and plot!  

Answer 8

The Seer and The Sword by Victoria Hanely

Curently reading the Companian novel- The Healer's Keep

Answer 9

The cold moon by Jeffery Deaver

very good i have to say, twists n turns all over the place.

Answer 10

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

Answer 11

A great and terrible Beauty by Libba Bray.

Currently reading Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

Answer 12

I read a lot to my children and the book was a Sesame Street series my first manners Please and Thank you written by Elizabeth Clasing  

Answer 13

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd I read on Friday and The Pearl by John Steinbeck I read on Sunday and I am half way through Song of The Sound by Adam Armstrong today!

Answer 14

mysterious by nora roberts.

Answer 15

Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Summer assignment :p

But now I'm reading Year of the Griffin and it's really fantastic!

Answer 16

Vittorio the Vampire - Anne Rice

Currently engrossed in The Handmaidens Tale by Margaret Atwood

Answer 17

Robert Pennock - Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism

Answer 18

Romance of the 3 Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong

It's a long book.  Currently on chapter 84 of 120.

Last book I completed was A brief history of time by Prof S Hawking

Answer 19

Artemis Fowl, The Eternity code!!!

Answer 20

Last book I read to the end- Labyrinths, by Jorge Louis Borges

Last book I read part of- Wanderings Among Words, by Henry Bett

Answer 21

'Queen Camilla' by Sue Townsend.  Very funny!

Answer 22

I am currently reading "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand.  The last book I completely read before that was, disappointingly, Breaking Dawn.

Answer 23

Eragon by Christopher Paolini.

Answer 24

Standard of Honour by Jack Whyte - about the Crusades.

Answer 25

Not being dead, there is no last book I can said to have read.

At the moment I am reading:

"Leviathon" by John Birmingham;

William Gibson's 7th novel;

a book about Caesar's 10th Legion;

a book about Xenophon's expedition to and return from Persia;  

William Blake's "Jerusalem";

and maybe another one.

The last book I finished was, I think, a novel called "Slow Motion Riot" by an author whose name I do not recalll.

  

Answer 26

Murder On The Orient Express, from Agatha Christie! :-)

Answer 27

Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes"

Answer 28

13 Little Blue Envelopes

Answer 29

Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult.

And I have now moved onto Vanishing Acts by Picoult also.

I have almost read all of her books...she has to be my favourite author!

Answer 30

Shopaholic & Sister- Sophie Kinsella

Answer 31

David Beckham. By David Beckham. l Love Him............... Lol