Topic: Rate the last book you just read

[DG]

I'm reading Flim Flam (James Rand) on the Kindle.

A recent review by someone you know.

Yeah - What JohnnySlick said. Not a poor book, but an aged one. 

[goodthink]

Asleep, Molly Caldwell Crosby 8/10


Ms Crosby is an incredible writer. Really enjoyed this book and found it terrifying. A highly recommended read.

[Jolimont]

I just finished a book I was sure I'd hate (but it was for the book club so I tried it regardless) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. A great book, touching, informative, well written, great characters, I couldn't put it down!

[amysrevenge]

Memories of the Future, Vol. 1; Wil Wheaton

10/10

I'd already listened to the podcasts, but the book holds even more fun, snark, and anecdotes.  It helps that I'm already a huge @wilw fan, and a long-time Trekkie, but I think that anyone with a fondness for ST:TNG would enjoy this (especially those who think that the show didn't really take off until the second season and really struggled in the first season).

[Monster92]

History of Western Philosophy


http://www.amazon.co.uk/RC-Bundle-Philosophy-Routledge-Classics/dp/0415325056/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329345905&sr=1-1

Awesome book. Changed my views on life

[MikeHz]

History of Western Philosophy


http://www.amazon.co.uk/RC-Bundle-Philosophy-Routledge-Classics/dp/0415325056/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329345905&sr=1-1

Awesome book. Changed my views on life

Read that years ago, but I don't recall much about it other than liking it.

[goodthink]

The Strain 3/10 : goodthink said smilingly, "The writing was badly done. With achingly badly poorly done adjectives and unnecessary redundancies". However, gets marks for concept.

[MikeHz]

Just finished Capt. William Anderson's "The Ice Diaries," an excellent account of the first trip to the North Pole by the USS Nautilus,--a venture much more risky and challenging than I'd realized.

[Lyk]

"Herr aller Dinge" ("Lord of all things") by Andreas Eschbach.

10/10

Honestly, one of the best SciFi-books I have ever read, and I read A LOT. The story feels extremely credible and authentic, yet deals with nano-technology, grey goo scenarios, the most devastating sad ending ever, and is after all a love story.

Unfortunately it has not been translated yet and is of now, only available in German. For some reason his works usually get translated into russian, french, chinese, and whatnot, but not English. If you want really good SciFi, write to your publisher and demand a translation, you have no idea what you folks are missing out there.

http://www.amazon.de/Herr-aller-Dinge-Andreas-Eschbach/dp/3785724292/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329619411&sr=8-1

[lonely moa]

"Feynman's Rainbow", Mlodinow.  9/10.  Great insight into life at Cal Tech and the last few years of a great individual.

[pandamonium]

A Game of Thrones. wtf/10. This wasn't my first time reading it, but I TOTALLY forgot the end scene. 

[T.A.P.O.R.]

A Game of Thrones. wtf/10. This wasn't my first time reading it, but I TOTALLY forgot the end scene. 

I've read it a few times, NFI what happens at the end.

[pandamonium]

A Game of Thrones. wtf/10. This wasn't my first time reading it, but I TOTALLY forgot the end scene. 

I've read it a few times, NFI what happens at the end.

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Dany walks into Drogho's funeral pyre, her clothes get burned off, Martin describes Dany's nipples squirting milk and then she's found nursing dragons. The clothes getting burned off and the milk thing is just surreal.

[T.A.P.O.R.]

A Game of Thrones. wtf/10. This wasn't my first time reading it, but I TOTALLY forgot the end scene. 

I've read it a few times, NFI what happens at the end.

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Dany walks into Drogho's funeral pyre, her clothes get burned off, Martin describes Dany's nipples squirting milk and then she's found nursing dragons. The clothes getting burned off and the milk thing is just surreal.

Oh that!

I thought that was book two.

[Neutral Milk]

Have you tried the Prince of Nothing series?

Sounds interesting. I may give it a go, even though it means (yet another) fantasy series.

Another well written series is S. M. Stirling's Emberverse series (8 books and counting), which imagines a present day world in which all machinery stops working. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emberverse_series

Just started reading this. Really enjoying it so far. I love post apocalyptic stuff. Read mixed things about the progression of the series, and that makes me sad because the concept has so much potential.

I'll keep reading, though.