# Your last, current and next book **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 5, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235 "2007-11-05T01:09:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/21 "2007-11-05T04:49:08Z")
Last: _The Nanny Diaries_ (shut up) Current: _Wicked_ Next: _Saving Fish from Drowning_ ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/22 "2007-11-05T04:59:35Z")
Last: _Vaccine_ by Arthur Allen - I thought it was well-done and interesting. Now: _Why People Believe Weird Things_ by Michael Shermer - Liking it so far, and am tempted to purchase a copy (I mostly borrow from the library) because it has some things I’d like to refer back to. Next: _A Thousand Splendid Suns_ by Khaled Hosseini - Loved Kite Runner, and so I’m looking forward to it. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/23 "2007-11-05T05:25:03Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] Last: Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge Current: The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy Next: probably the new Michael Chabon [/QUOTE] Is The Forsyte Saga the same that was made into the Masterpiece Theater production? I really liked that one and considered reading the book. Any good? Edited to add.. Last Book: English Passengers by Matthew Kneale Current book : Same- I’m re-reading it already- its that good!! before I lend it to my dad. Next Book: Dearly Devoted Dexter (if I get a Borders gift card for my b-day 🙂 !) ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/24 "2007-11-05T05:25:46Z")
Last: **Rage** by Stephen King. Complete and utter crap. The only reason I finished it was because I thought it couldn’t possibly get worse. I should have remembered that even though it was a Bachman book, it was still Stephen King. Current: **The Sunrise Lands** by S.M. Stirling. Not bad so far, but every time jump in the series leaves more and more of my favorite characters out of the loop. Next: **The Year of Living Bibically** by A.J. Jacobs. The Know-It-All was great, I have high hopes. ---
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Last: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless by Robert Musil Current: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll Next: The Dark Tower series by Steven King ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/26 "2007-11-05T08:23:13Z")
Last: William Gibson - Spook Country Current: Grad school hinders reading for fun. Next: Hmm., perhaps Neil Gaiman - Stardust. Or Dune. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/27 "2007-11-05T14:14:51Z")
Last: _Flashman_, by George MacDonald Fraser. It was pretty good - I’ll look for more of these. And I’m going to have to read up on the history of the British in Afghanistan. Current: _Have His Carcase_, Dorothy Sayers. I like this series, but to me, the murder mystery sometimes gets in the way of the story I want to read, about Lord Peter and his friends and family. It’s like watching the TV show _House_; usually I just want to see interaction between House and Cuddy and Wilson, and never mind about the patient of the week. **HazelNutCoffee** , _Five Red Herrings_ has been my least favorite so far. Too much dry, boring whodunnit, and not enough Peter and Co. Next: Don’t know yet. I was restless this weekend and started a couple of different books, but I couldn’t get into them. So I picked up some favorites and re-read sections of them. When I’m in a better mood I’ll go back and try the ones I put down again. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/28 "2007-11-05T14:16:54Z")
Last: The Last Pharoah Current: The Book of Malicon Next: sequel to “The Book of Malicon.” Oh, you mean books I’m _reading_. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/29 "2007-11-05T14:30:58Z")
Last: **Mark Twain’s Letter from Hawaii** Current: **The Annotated Huckleberry Finn** (and the second of the Series of Unfortunate Events book, at my daughter’s insistence) Next:Not sure. Just ordered **The Brothers Kip** , a Jules Verne novel published in 1902 but just translated into English for the first time this year. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/30 "2007-11-05T14:32:26Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] Last book: _The Miserable Mill_ Current book: _The Austere Academy_ Next book: _The Ersatz Elevator_ I gots me a little project goin’. [/QUOTE] I hope you’re listening to the audio versions read by Tim Curry. The kids and I loved those books, but I think half of it was because of his performance. Last: Raising a self-disciplined child: help your child become more responsible, confident, and resilient, by Robert Brooks Current: Not That You Asked: rants, exploits, and obsessions, by Steve Almond. This is a book of short humorous essays. I’ve just begun to nibble this and haven’t decided yet whether to gobble it or spit it out. Next: Tales from the Teacher’s Lounge: what I learned in school the second time around-- one man’s irreverent look at being a teacher, by Robert Wilder. ---
**Author:** ![MarcusF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@MarcusF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarcusF)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/31 "2007-11-05T14:56:15Z")
Last: Reread **Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy L Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh**. Enjoyable follow on from \*\*Busman’s Honeymoon \*\* - definitely plenty about Peter and Harriet to divert \*\*Eleanor of Aquitaine \*\* from the “Who dunnit?”. (Note - don’t bother with Jill Paton Walsh’s other Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane book **A Presumption of Death** , it was rubbish.) Current: **Armageddon by Max Hastings**. Brilliant history of the end of the war in Europe and the fall of Nazi Germany. Next: Probably \*\*Rubicon by Tom Holland \*\* (history of the fall of the Roman Republic) but might go for a fiction book instead. Arms are tired holding up massive history tomes - however readable. **Justin\_Bailey** : Hope you enjoy **The Sunrise Lands**. One thing to bare in mind is that it is very much the first part of a four part series and significantly less self contained than the three volumes of the \*\*Dies the Fire \*\* series (which I thought were brilliant). I’m now wondering if I can wait until all four parts are published before reading any further :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/32 "2007-11-05T15:08:04Z")
Forgot one. Current audiobook is My Antonia, by Willa Cather, read by George Guidall. It’s too soon for me to form any opinion, but I do love George’s voice. ---
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[QUOTE=Smokinjbc] Last Book: English Passengers by Matthew Kneale Current book : Same- I’m re-reading it already- its that good!! before I lend it to my dad. [/QUOTE] I did that too. First the book book, then the audio book, which was brilliantly done. IIRC, there was a different reader for each of the 20 voices and the Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley guy was absolutely perfect. Beware the more recent abridged one. ---
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Last Book: \*I Am America (and so can you!) \* Currrent Book: The Illuminatus Trilogy Next Book: Probably _Making Money_ by Pratchett. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/35 "2007-11-05T17:01:37Z")
Last Book: _Perfect Strangers_ (Danielle Steel) Current Book: _Pastime_ (Robert Parker) Next Book: \* Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Revised Edition\* (James H. Jones) ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/36 "2007-11-05T17:07:22Z")
[QUOTE=Smokinjbc] Is The Forsyte Saga the same that was made into the Masterpiece Theater production? I really liked that one and considered reading the book. Any good? [/QUOTE] Oh yes. I’ve had the book for a few years. The first time I tried it, my anti-upper-middle-class bias got the best of me and I didn’t get very far. But after reading _New Grub Street_, I didn’t want to leave the late 19th century, and Forsyte was the only book at hand. And after Grub, I wanted to see that time period from another point of view, spend time with people who weren’t struggling just to survive. I expected lots of detail and excellent characterization and I’m getting that, but Galsworthy also knows how to turn a phrase. Some of the prose is absolutely poetic. When I pick up the book, it’s not to read, it’s to spend time with the Forsytes. I’m already sorry that it has to end. ---
**Author:** ![Cemetery\_Savior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Cemetery\_Savior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cemetery_Savior)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/37 "2007-11-05T17:15:57Z")
Prior Book: \*Earth, Air, Fire and Custard \* -Tom Holt. Funny real-life meets Fantasy book. If you like Pratchett…give him a try. Current: Cruel Wind -Glen Cook. It’s an omnibus collection of his earliest work, I think. It’s pretty darn good. I’m glad I found another fantasy author I can read. Next: I think \*The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and ID \* -Johnathan Wells. I like to see how the other half “thinks”. -Cem ---
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**Last fiction** : King Rat by China Mieville. **Last nonfiction** : The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain. **Current fiction** : The Scar by China Mieville. Almost done. **Current nonfiction** : The Roman Near East by Fergus Millar. Almost done. **Next fiction** : Dunno. Maybe John Varley’s Red Lightning, but I’ve avoiding that one for awhile, so I might continue to do so. **Next nonfiction** : China Marches West:\* The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia\* by Peter C. Perdue. I’ve read the intro on this one - looks good. ---
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> [@](#): > > I have to ask, is either of those is a first time for you? If so, you are one lucky bastid. Yes on both. K&C has been on my “get around to it” list for a while, and I’m extremely late to the party on Pratchett (but catching up). ---
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[QUOTE=stegon66] Last: Haruki Murakami’s _After Dark_ Current (almost finished): Andrea Barrett’s _The Air We Breathe_ Next: Charles Frazier’s _Thirteen Moons_ [/QUOTE] Did you like After Dark? Have you read any other Murakami. If so which ones. I love Murakami particularly Kafka on the Shore but some of his books such as Hard Boiled Wonderland are just kinda blah blah blah blah. I’d be interested to hear what you thought. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235.md?page=3)