Read any good books lately?

[Pesty]

The Golden Compass!? Is that the Americanised version of the Title of that book? Though, I suppose it's keeping in line with the titles of all the books in the series... but The Golden Compass just sounds a little silly to me...Ã,  (It's called, 'Northern Lights' here, by the way).

Last book I read, and I've been slack,Ã,  but I just read Fahrenheit 451.

Yes, 'Northern Lights' makes more sense, story wise. But the title goes along with the other titles, so I never questioned it.

[evenatsisters]

I was reading Hitchhiker not too long ago.  The humor in that book will be hard to replicate in a movie script.

Speaking of scripts, I read Mike Judge's new script which they are about to start filming here.  I got called in to read for a part. 

I've been turned off from reading books lately. But I bought Shopgirl, that Franken Book, and this awesome thing with Hitchcock's old production notes, storyboards etc.

[Vel]

I read 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' by Stevenson lately. Before that, I read everything I could find by Steinbeck - and it's wonderful.

[DGMacphee]

I'm reading a book about creative writing called 'Sometimes You Just Have to Stand Naked' by David Bartholomy.

[Pet Terry]

At the moment I'm reading Orson Scott Card's 'Seventh son' which is really good. Before that it's a long while when I last time read any books.

[Queen Kara]

I haven't actually read the whole thing yet , but my last book purchase is called something like "Carravagio...the man who became M" .  I researched a bit at some point because the name was unfamiliar to me and it turns out he's an artist.
I have at least two other books , probably packed away right now , that  I haven't read yet , one is called "The Jester" and the other is about Shakespeare. ( which is funny because I still don't have any of his plays yet...I love his works but don't even have "Much Ado About Nothing" which is one of my favorite stories )
Oh , and I haven't read all of the mythology book I got as a Christmas present and I haven't read much in the horse book either. ( It lists all the horse breeds and such )
I love to read the Catfantastic series over and over  , same goes for "The Ragwitch" , even though it's a "kid's" book it's very nice.  Books like "A Swiftly Tilting Planet" are very nice too.  Oh , and horror books ( mainly Stephen King ) are fun.
I've not read any LOTR or Harry Potter , ect. yet but plan on doing that someday. I love to just sit and read through dictionaries sometimes.  A good adult fantasy book is the first Keepers of the Flame ( I haven't been able to find the rest of the series yet ) ....it's about a bunch of dnd players who suddenly find themselves in the world that they were playing in ...I know my little summary probably made it sound geeky but please give it a chance because I think it's one of the best books I've ever read. I also love Net of Dreams and Wizard War.  Some of the stories in Catfantastic are a bit adult.
Cat on the edge is good. Back to "kid" stuff - Alice In Wonderland , Alice Through The Looking Glass , Z is for Zachariah ,  Wizard of Oz ( and nearly any other Oz related books you can find ) , the Narnia series , and Girl With Silver eyes.  There's a book called "Mask" that is pretty good which should be in "kid" / "teen" section. Unfortunately,  I haven't found that one again either.  I haven't read them yet but I hear the Neverending story books are better than the movies and the Gormenghast series might be good reading too.
For a good vampire book , "The Night Inside".
Even though it's been a long time , I once read The Count of Monte Cristo and I recently saw the movie.
Turns out my dad had read the book too so we were discussing wether or not the movie followed the book / if his motives were more about  showing off his new wealth or revenge.  I also had read Don Quixote when I was younger.
"Cruel Sister" or whatever the title you might find it under nowadays is a good read too. If you can't find the book , buy the Loreena McKennit CD that has the song "The Bonny Swans" in it and the lyrics match the story nearly word for word.

[Lazy Z]

Having read too many books that are considered "classics" for my English lit class lately, I wanted to read something more contemporary in my spare time, so I went for "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown. And I find it to be really damn good.

I don't really care much about his style of writing, to be honest, and his characters aren't that great, but the guy knows how to weave a story. I haven't been this hooked with a book in years. I always want to read "just one more chapter". Plus, it's filled with puzzles and riddles, I'm thinking that people who like adventure games would probably find this book amusing.

[Kweepa]

I still enjoy HitchHikers too.
As for the movie script, I don't think it'll be too difficult, since it started out acted, as a radio series. I love the TV series the BBC did, though partially because of its low budget. All the guide's "computer" animations were great.

I have to agree that the Pullman books are great. I think I prefer the Sally Lockhart books to the Dark Materials. That's probably because I'm a Sherlock Holmes fan.

Hmm, recent books:
"Galactic Odyssey" by Keith Laumer is a terrific old-school sci-fi adventure.
"Masters of Doom" is a great book about the history of iD software.
"Quicksilver" by Neal Stephenson was entertaining. I'm looking forward to "Confusion".
I'm currently reading "Maya Cosmos" as research for my game.

[Babar]

I just finished "The DaVinci Code" and your absolutely right. I started reading it, and then I just could not stop. I read right through the night and finished sometime in the morning. I guess I need to learn self controlÃ,  . I have read 3 or 4 of the Xanth books, and wish to get some more. I LOVE the hitchhiker books, and read them all 5 or 6 times. Of course, I cannot compete with my peers here, as I just got them about 2 years ago. Another book I read from Douglas Adam was Long Dark Teatime of the soul. Although it was slightly confusing, I still found it a great read and really funny. I also read a few books by Dave Barry, which I also found really funny.
I had started the LOTR series when I was 12 (courtesy of my father, who read it about the same age, and read it 12 times since(really)), but HAD to stop in the 2nd book. I hate stopping reading books that I have started, so I started again two or three years ago, and enjoyed it much more. I was wanting to read the "Wheel of time" books, but I saw one of the books from later in the series at an old bookshop, and could not resist the price so I got it. A big mistake, that. I read the Harry Potter books too, and I liked them too. Three others that might be considered "kiddish" but I still enjoyed are "Chronicles of Chrestomanci", "Redwall" and "Morrigan"
I am now reading into war stories (also courtesy of my father). I read "Goodbye to all that" by Robert Graves, and now am reading "Emden" about the ship. I even read a lot of "Flashman" booksÃ,  , which give a hugely distorted, but amusing version of many historical events.
Of course, my most read book, and still one of my favourites is....."Dotty Dolphin". I mean who can resist the incredible allure of the book, the fat, plastic coated, drool proof, flexible, illustrated pages, and the short, though incredibely deep text:
....................
Dotty Dolphin likes to be
besides the ships upon the sea
The sailors all look out and hope
to see her in their telescope...
For if a ship should go astray
Dotty helps them find the way.
Dotty dolphin loves to care
for ships and sailors everywhere
.....................
Just wow

[Dart]

Well, lately I haven't been reading quite a lot, but here's a rundown of what I can remember reading (and liked) in the past seven years:

- Discworld Series
- Banned and the Banished series (Wit'ch Fire, Wit'ch Star, etc)
- All of the old classics like Oliver Twist, Tale of Two Cities
- Anything about Robin Hood, even those children books with the cartoon illustrations

Also, Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, and Lord of the Flies. I've tried reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but I just can't get into them. I hope I'm not missing out on much...

[Andail]

I recently read Coetzee's (the nobel prize winner) novels "Waiting for the barbarians" and one called something like "Years of youth"....with a big reservation for the proper english titles.
Especially the barbarian book was really good.

It seems most people enjoy rereading the hitchhiker's guide on regular basis...and I'm no exception, I read it last autumn, and it's amazing to see how many details you forget, after each time you read it.

[Peter Thomas]

The DaVinci Code is great, yes! It's the sort of book that had the potential to be really REALLY crappy and fake and unbelievable, but it was pulled of well!

For one of my Eng Lit courses at uni I had to read "I'm not scared" by Niccolo Ammaniti. It's not the sort of book I'd choose to read of my own accord, but I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

As sad as this sounds, I'm about halfway through the Encyclopedia Britannica Series, as well.  Volume 14: Arctic - Biosphere. It's not INTERESTING, but I promised myself I would do this. I don't know why. Maybe I just don't have a life....

[AGA]

I like how you say 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is one of your favourite books, Peter, when you don't even know its name properly But yes, it is a brilliant novel.

My favourites include:

Anything by Terry Pratchett
Anything by Joseph Heller ('Catch 22' foremost)
Anything by Louis de Beniers (don't let the appalling film adaptation of 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' put you off...)
'Fast Food Nation' and 'Reefer Madness' by Eric Schlosser. Two books that really expose what's bad about America (apart from the obvious...)
I also read a whole assortment of fantasy authors, that I'm not gonna mention for fear of starting LasNaranjas off on a rant.

[Ashen]

Pesty:

Anything by Tom Holt. Most of his books are out of print,

Oddly, I've just finished reading 'The First Tom Holt Omnibus' No problem getting hold of his stuff here.

[Fuzzpilz]

Am reading:

Gormenghast (the one actually called that, i.e. the middle book), by Mervyn Peake. Very much recommended, though the edition I have is filled with printer's errors (edit: such as bad bbcode). I've never seen so many of them in one book before.

Control Theory And Its Applications, by E. O. Roxin. As is obvious from the title, this is a charming fairy tale about a village of gnomes, deep in a magical forest.

Read recently:

Monstrous Regiment, which I think is still the newest Pratchett.
Various other Discworld books I have lying around.
Volume 8 of History of Middle-Earth, "The War of the Ring".
Der Wettlauf zum Jahre 2000 ("The race to the year 2000"), by Fritz Baade. Hilarious futurology thing from 1960.
Various stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann, from a ~1910 complete edition we have at home.

[DanClarke]

Terry Pratchetts Wee Free men was the last good book i read. Was probably the last book i read come to think of it.

[magintz]

I've just finished ready Small Gods - Terry Pratchett" that was a good read, but I finished it way too quickly. I'm moving onto my re-read of colour of magic unless anything else interesting comes up...

I wholeheartedly reccomend the following if you havent already read them -

- Discworld, all of them are good i spose, cept equal rites, what the hell was that about. Colour of magic, light fantastic and mort are always a good read.
- Lord of the rings is good, but i could never finish reading it, I found it good, but too serioous and slow and dull to read until you get to the good bits.
- Lord of the flies was a good interesting book, but I studied it for school so it put me off reading it EVER again.

Looking for something discworld like to read at the moment...

[Las Naranjas]

I too enjoy the Titus Groan [Gormenghast books], but I like humanistically miserable books.

[MrColossal]

Oh yes, allow me to also recommend Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris... Hilarious

[LGM]

I've seen that at Borders.. I couldn't tell if it was a serious book or not.