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20-08-2008, 08:54 PM
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The "Last Book You Finished" thread
I present to you good folk this, a companion thread to the "Last Movie You Watched" thread (one of the longest running I might add), if you will, inspired by my recent completion of Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas, which was very good indeed apart from a bit of filler. I think I've finally found my genre in space opera
 Reading it makes me want to try writing it So anyway, what was the last book you finished (including graphic novels) and what are your thoughts on it? 
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20-08-2008, 09:57 PM
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the book i juuust 5 mins ago finished was, A breath of snow and ashes - by Diana Gabaldon.
the last book in the 'Highlander' series. really good book (as are they all) but moderately annoyed at the ending  not what i wanted to happen at all!!! other than that it was great.all her books are highly recommended by me
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20-08-2008, 11:54 PM
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Cobra 405 by Damien Lewis, before that the whole Mcnab series now reading Bravo two zero
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21-08-2008, 12:16 AM
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My Favourite Wife - Tony Parsons.
Can't say I was a fan. Prior to that I had just finished 'Vanish' by Tess Gerristen. Now that WAS a good book
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21-08-2008, 01:06 AM
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As for myself, the last book I finished was the 4th Harry Potter (currently reading the 5th). But the last book I finished having read it for the first time was Terry Brooks's The Elves of Cintra. Good continuation of the story from Armageddon's Children, and the fact that it's a good mix of LOTR-like fantasy with the present world makes it interesting.
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21-08-2008, 10:27 AM
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The Autobiography of Malcom X. Fascinating read. It's as much a page turner as any work of fiction i've read.
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21-08-2008, 10:36 AM
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Barabara Cleverly - Tug of War
An unknown soldier from the Great War is stuck in a French asylum with no memory of who he is. When he speaks a few words of English Joe Sandilands of Scotland Yard is sent over to help solve the mystery. In the course of his investigations he comes across a murder committed in 1916. Hardly anyone has heard of Joe Sandilands, but I think they're top rate whodunnits. The early ones were sent in 1920's India, though they've now moved back to the UK (and France). There's lot of little historical details, which I love (including the roaring trade in recovering French bodies for burial).
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21-08-2008, 11:06 AM
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Maus - the graphic novel. Was extremely powerful, amazingly illustrated and well written.
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21-08-2008, 01:09 PM
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Last book I finished was Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I need light easy reading at the moment that I can skim through. Last new book I read was Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre, which was fab.
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21-08-2008, 04:13 PM
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The last book I finish was The Catcher in the Rye.
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21-08-2008, 04:43 PM
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Become a fan of TheSite.org on facebook "I don't believe in romantic love, soul mates and all that jazz. I think that we are animals. At the same time, I think we do bond, sometimes quite beautifully and that we can choose to call that 'love'." Namaste "I love standing on a crowded platform in a tube station and feeling like I'm insignificant in all of this. All these people and lives I have no idea about. Gives me a sense of better perspective." clementine_the_tangerine
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21-08-2008, 07:23 PM
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Just finished Blood and Thunder by Hampton sides - a history of New Mexico and surrounding states centred on Kit Carson. Not bad, but for a narrative history it was disjointed and the author keeps going off at weird angles, before returning to main story.
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23-08-2008, 07:11 PM
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i just finished reading the novel LIFE SUPPORT by Tess Gerritsen..it good, the author is really on of the best in her genre!
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