# The last book you read

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-book-you-read/116125>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 26, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-book-you-read/116125 "2002-06-26T23:20:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-book-you-read/116125/41 "2002-07-01T03:23:55Z")

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\*Originally posted by Nacho4Sara \*  
\*\ ***LolaCocaCola** - isn’t Gibran amazing? I absolutely adore his work, especially the piece - “On Marriage” I think it’s called. I recommend it to a lot of customers. You might want to check out the poet Rumi as well - I think you might like him a lot, though he’s got nothing on Gibran.

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I have read snippets of Rumi’s work on the net, but have never owned a book.

Any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![Banger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Banger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banger)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-book-you-read/116125/42 "2002-07-01T03:40:41Z")

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I almost always read paperbacks. The last hardcover I read was Johnny Rotten’s autobiography _No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs_, and that was several years ago.

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**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-book-you-read/116125/43 "2002-07-01T03:55:04Z")

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_Widow’s Walk_ by Robert Parker in hardback (I had a gift certificate) and _P is for Peril_ by Sue Grafton. I got a kick out of the Grafton because some of it involves arcane medical-records and billing stuff – I got it figured out long before Kinsey did. 🙂

Robin

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**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-book-you-read/116125/44 "2002-07-01T04:06:33Z")

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Just finished The History of Pi by Petr Beckmann. Interesting book, though when his personal biases come out, they come out hard. Petr doesn’t think much of the Romans, that is for sure. 🙂 It is an older book, publication in the 1960’s, and is hardcover.

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**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-book-you-read/116125/45 "2002-07-01T06:19:23Z")

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Hardback-  
The Giver by Lois Lowry. It’s a young adult book I read in about three hours to prepare a lesson plan for my daughter.  
I enjoyed it though!

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**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-book-you-read/116125/46 "2002-07-01T06:57:00Z")

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**FNRFR** , I loved _No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs_! It was one of the few new hardbacks I ever bought, because I couldn’t wait for it in paperback.

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