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Book you most recently finished?

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whiskey.roses

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Where are my fellow book lovers?
I'm always looking for a new book to curl up on the couch with, and prefer personal suggestions over questionable reviews.
What book have you most recently finished? Did you love it, hate it?
If you could recommend a book for someone else to read, what would it be?

I just finished It Ends With Us by Collen Hoover. It's book one in a short series (2), but I'm looking forward to getting the second book started. It was a week long read for me. I've read quite a few of her books, this one is sitting comfortably in the top 5. It kept me engaged, always anticipating what was happening next.

My recommendation: Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. If you haven't already, avoid watching the movie. It was a drastic let down compared to the book.
 
Just finished a reread of Dune. Fantastic book that none of the movie adaptations to date have been able to do justice. So much of what makes the book amazing just doesn't translate well to film unfortunately. Would definitely recommend with the caution that it's a dense and rich story that takes a bit to get going. Worth it though.

Old Man's War is another favorite that I recommend. It's shorter and much more approachable for someone who hasn't read much/any scifi. Definitely some adult themes though I don't suspect the users of this site to be put off by that.
 
Read Jurrasic Park this summer, thought it was great. The movie is good, but the book tells a bit different story. Highly recomend if you like the movie! :D
 
carnotic said:
Just finished a reread of Dune. Fantastic book that none of the movie adaptations to date have been able to do justice. So much of what makes the book amazing just doesn't translate well to film unfortunately. Would definitely recommend with the caution that it's a dense and rich story that takes a bit to get going. Worth it though.
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Herbert's is one of the most well- (and laboriously) described universes in all of SciFiDom. And while many would-be readers will likely stop after the second Dune novel, the ones that do continue will find a rich tradition awaiting them, continued beyond Herbert's death by Herbert's son, Brian and author Kevin J. Anderson.

carnotic said:
Old Man's War is another favorite that I recommend. It's shorter and much more approachable for someone who hasn't read much/any scifi. Definitely some adult themes though I don't suspect the users of this site to be put off by that.
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Old Man's War is awesome, and is but a taste of John Scalzi. If you like Old Man, you'll love most all of his stuff (and it is legion). I suggest continuing Old Man with Ghost Brigades (and there's plenty more where that came from). Once you're done with that, you've got either Lock In series (starting with Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome), or The Interdependency series (starting with The Collapsing Empire). All highly reccommended, as are pretty much all things Scalzi

In a related sense, see also Joe Haldeman's Forever War. Haldeman has a very special place in my heart, a combat vet out of Vietnam, his Forever War is scifi with a conscious, directly influenced by the reality and real life perspective of troops. It's the little things that he drops that make dogfaces and jarheads sit up and take notice.

Speaking of which, I just did a re-read on Tim O'Brien's most excellent The Things They Carried. If you decide to check in on O'Brien's seminal work, make sure to read all of the short stories included in the work.

Currently, I'm wrapping Carl Sagan's Contact (with vast and interesting differences btw the book and the movie), as well as Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind) The Labyrinth of the Spirits. Cemetery of Forgotten Books gets a little drawn out, but I was entranced by Zafón's new heroine.
 
I most recently finished reading Stephen King’s unabridged copy of “The Stand”. It took me a minute, but very worth it, far better than any video adaptation could be.

I’ve read most of his catalogue by this point, a few of them a couple of times. I’m also a pretty big Ray Bradbury fan.
 
MacCormac 's books are very southern....and they get made into movies because they're good stories. "Meridian" will get itself made, because its a story more people need to be aware of
 
saddlebum66 said:
MacCormac 's books are very southern....and they get made into movies because they're good stories. "Meridian" will get itself made, because its a story more people need to be aware of
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I was really rooting for success of the Ridley Scott adaptation, but it faltered. There's a current attempt from New Regency, and I have hopes that it will make it as film standards are changing (and have been for a while, with the commercial success of films like Saw, Human Centipede and Old Boy). I've read all of MacCormac's commercially released work, and am a huge fan. Huge recco for The Passenger, and only slight downgrade to the recco for Stella Maris. I sure wish Cities of the Plain was better than it turned out to be, other than just a mechanism to wrap the Border Trilogy with John Grady Cole and Billy Parham meeting in the same book.

Most recently, I wrapped Contact, then put down a re-read of King's *excellent* 11/22/63, and picked up The Book Thief.
 
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