# What is the latest book you have read? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2001, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535 "2001-10-05T07:15:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Solomon7t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Solomon7t](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solomon7t)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/1 "2001-10-05T07:15:17Z")
The latest novel that I have finished is The Moon Is A Harsh Mistrss by Robert A Heinlein. I thought it was a very excellent novel. I have also read several graphic novels including Lone Wolf And Cub Vol.13, Torso by Brian Michael Bendis, and Akira Vol. 3. I thought every single one of those novels was excellent and worthy of my approval. I would love to hear what everyone else has read lately and if anyone has any questions/opinions about the books I just listed then shout them out please ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/2 "2001-10-05T07:16:43Z")
Last I have completed - A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger One I’m reading currently - Hearts in Atlantis, by Stephen King ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/3 "2001-10-05T07:20:18Z")
Many Sherlock Holmes stories. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/4 "2001-10-05T07:31:14Z")
Just finished Spike & Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row, by Christopher Golden. A Buffy The Vampire Slayer novel (As were the last few books I read…what can I say? Obsessive Fanboys R Us.), and, it’s DAMN good - follows Spike and Dru (and the Slayer of the time, and a Norse demon) during World War II. I reccomend it to any Buffy fans, and, actually, anyone who’s not a fan, but doesn’t actively dislike the show. ---
**Author:** ![Solomon7t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Solomon7t](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solomon7t)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/5 "2001-10-05T08:01:10Z")
Badtz Maru- what is A Fire in the Sun about? thats a cool title. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/6 "2001-10-05T08:06:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Solomon7t \* > \*\*Badtz Maru- what is A Fire in the Sun about? thats a cool title. \*\* It’s a cyberpunk detective story, second in a series that began with ‘When Gravity Fails’. Very good stuff, better than most of the genre. It’s set further in the future than most cyberpunk (at least a couple of hundred years) and is set in a predominantly Muslim city. ---
**Author:** ![Solomon7t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Solomon7t](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solomon7t)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/7 "2001-10-05T08:21:38Z")
sounds very cool, I may read that soon. Ive always like the cyberpunk theme. Is it part of a series, a trilogy, or what? ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/8 "2001-10-05T08:28:00Z")
Just finished _Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot_. Went to Cambodia at the begininning of the year and had to find out more. I’ve just started _Merchant of Dreams : Louis B. Mayer, M.G.M., and the Secret Hollywood_ ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/9 "2001-10-05T09:02:21Z")
Just finished _Of Human Bondage_ by W. Somerset Maugham, and am currently reading _Razor’s Edge_ by the same author. I’m way into him. Early- to mid- 20th century British author. Immensely rewarding read. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/10 "2001-10-05T09:21:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Solomon7t \* > \*\*sounds very cool, I may read that soon. Ive always like the cyberpunk theme. Is it part of a series, a trilogy, or what? \*\* I think it’s a trilogy so far, but I think one could read ‘A Fire in the Sun’ without having read ‘When Gravity Fails’ and still enjoy it - the story is fairly self-contained, and Effinger doesn’t assume that you know who the recurring characters are and what has gone before, though I imagine the characterizations for some of the minor characters who were more important in the first one are pretty light - yeah, on second thought try and read ‘When Gravity Fails’ first if at all possible. ---
**Author:** ![bagkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@bagkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bagkitty)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/11 "2001-10-05T10:11:55Z")
Finished four this week (I’ve been alternating amongst them) _House Corrino_ by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (and what is the latin term for raiding your father’s grave?) _India: a History_ by John Keay (I love historians with a sense of humour, and I laughed a lot at this book.) _Glue_ by Irvine Welsh (and I still have a little scots voice popping up in my head) and _Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939_ by Alvin D. Coox (normally I avoid military history books like the plague, this book was **not** a good reason to start reading them, when will I learn?) ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/12 "2001-10-05T10:23:07Z")
right now, i’m rereading Robot Dreams by Issac Asimov (one of my favorite authors) and The Seven-Percent Solution, i forgot the author. it’s a Sherlock Holmes book, but not by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Watson’s trying to get Sherlock to stop his cocaine habit. and i think that’s it… ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/13 "2001-10-05T12:17:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cougarfang \* > The Seven-Percent Solution, i forgot the author. it’s a Sherlock Holmes book, but not by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. \*\* A very good [movie](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0075194) aswell. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/14 "2001-10-05T13:06:20Z")
Just read for the first time - Bridget Jones’s Diary. I enjoyed the movie, bought the book. Just re-reading for the umpteenth time Tale Of The Body Thief. I’d like to be able to swap bodies some days. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/15 "2001-10-05T13:27:14Z")
For the second time in two weeks; _American Gods_ by Neil Gaiman. Great story by a great writer. I hope there are more in this line- I was worried because I liked _Neverwhere_ so much but was very pleasantly surprised. I started the Chronicles of Amber trilogy recently, read a couple hudnred pages, skipped to the end, read the last chapter and don’t feel cheated one bit:) I also just re read Susan Coopers’ _The Dark is Rising_ series again. It’s a young adults’ fantasy set in Wales and involves Arthurian mythology. I love it. I read the entire Robert Jordan series, all 9000 plus pages of it a month or so ago and I’m now waiting for the next one. Ditto for Terry Pratchett. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/16 "2001-10-05T13:45:59Z")
actually I just played a computer game based on the when gravity falls series characters it was on a old activision sci/fi collection For a mid 80s computer game it was rather risque Its supposed ot be a original story by the author As for books ive read recently heres a partial list : once a eagle anton meyer The contiental op ( short story collection) by Hammet A mike hammer colection a perry mason collection But I read a book a day or so and im not picky when I was in school and so Ill read anything once in detention I read the dictionary ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/17 "2001-10-05T13:46:24Z")
The First World War Martin Gilbert. WOrking on The Second World War and The Return of the King ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/18 "2001-10-05T13:48:44Z")
All Tomorrow’s Parties-William Gibson. It’s the sequel to Idoru. Very nice, I really love his writing voice. I picked it up at the local bookstore’s bargain table, hardcover, for $4.95. I think that I got a great deal. ---
**Author:** ![Enore\_Tsotset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/2bfe46/32.png) [@Enore\_Tsotset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enore_Tsotset)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/19 "2001-10-05T14:46:40Z")
Just finished “Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden It’s a little slow getting started but once you get into it you’re hooked. ---
**Author:** ![deepbluesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba9def/32.png) [@deepbluesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deepbluesea)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535/20 "2001-10-05T15:31:43Z")
Last night I finished _The Vintner’s Luck_ by Elizabeth Knox. Not at all what I was expecting when I picked it up (it was a library book, and I just take those by whim), but good. Currently reading: _The Mirror_ by Sabine Melchior-Bonnet (_love_ that name) - my non-fiction book _Sean and David’s Long Drive_ by Sean Condon - my light reading book _Tigana_ by Guy Gavriel Kay - my fiction book Oh, wait - do rereads count? If they do, then I also finished _The Boat Who Would Not Float_ by Farley Mowat and _Neither Here Nor There_ by Bill Bryson last night. (Couldn’t sleep…) Oh. And _The Three Musketeers_ by Alexandre Dumas. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-book-you-have-read/85535.md?page=2)