Last 5 (prose) books you've read

[Jet_Jaguar]

Here are mine:

The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan (A pretty good horror novel. Not great, but I liked it enough to look forward to the next book in this series.)

Mucho Mojo by Joe R. Lansdale (Great mystery novel. Lansdale's stories are both hilarious and gruesome in a way that makes his work unique.)

Savage Season by Joe R. Lansdale (An excellent hard-boiled crime novel with a great, brutal ending like something out of Sam Peckinpah. I plowed through this one in about two days.)

The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard (One of the great American practitioners of weird fiction.)

Sanctified and Chicken Fried: The Portable Lansdale (A terrific collection of stories that makes an excellent introduction to Lansdale's work.)

[Maka]

I'm embarrassed to say I'm not a huge reader. And I don't read a lot of prose but here are the last 5 books I read (out loud to our kids. We are like "books on tape" but live ):

More Adventures of the Great Brain - John D. Fitzgerald - great writer.

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread - Kate Dicamillo. It was okay but the ending was too neat and unbelievable for me. Kate's The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is fantastic and I highly recommend it.

Old Yeller - Fred Gipson - we like period pieces.

The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman - This was the only book I ended up reading to myself because the girls got too scared to listen to me after the first two chapters. I enjoyed it a lot.

I'm currently reading Travels in the Land of the Gods (1898-1907) The Japan Diaries of Richard Gordon Smith. Pretty cool journal (lots of photographs drawings) and interesting to see Japan through a westerner's eyes.

We read this last winter but I highly recommend Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata. It's a beautiful story that made my family (including me) cry. It's a coming of age story that focuses on a Japanese-American family move from Iowa to Georgia in the 1950s. It's told from the perspective of a kindergardener girl. Along the way her older sister gets lymphoma. Through all these struggles they still find beauty in life and love.

Peace, maka

[Fanfan]

Not easy to just put 5 books... i will just put ones you can find easily (that's a pity but some of important old french writers are not translated... and you can even find them hardly in french...) and not too boring (i read neuroscience studies, and strategic analysis, books about innovation, Sustainable IT... to help me in my work)

It was a great return to SciFi those last books...

Frederic Brown : several short novels
so funny ! non sense....

Nigel Lawson : An appeal to reason
a very clever analysis about climate change, far far away from idiot and ideological things we can hear and read on climate...

Philip K Dick : Galactic Pot Healer
This symbolic inner quest written in a mystical Sf style was very appropriate, after what happened in my life this last year...

Bret Hart : Autobiography (in english !)
the best book you can read about wrestling and life

Philip K Dick : The Man in The High Castle
Nazis and Japanese have won the second WW. A book has been published, describing how Japan and Germans have lost the war, and what the world became... an important book to read and to think about.

[Stan Sakai]

More Adventures of the Great Brain - John D. Fitzgerald - great writer.

I love the Great Brain series. I actually discovered them in high school, and still read them every few years.

Right now, I'm reading A Taste for Death by Peter O'Donnell, the fourth book in the Modesty Blaise series. I'm a Modesty Blaise fan, collecting the strip reprints as well as the prose books.

[Lubidius]

I've been on a sci-fi kick of late...

Neuromancer by William Gibson.

The Difference Engine also by William Gibson.

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

Another Fine Myth by Robert Lynn Asprin

Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind.

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Dear Readers,
Aside from comics
(yesterday i read "The Black Diamond Detective Agency a Rousing Tale of the Hunt for a Mysterious Train Bomber" by Eddie Campbell
and finished rereading the Watchmen in preparation for next weeks release of the director's cut on dvd) i rarely ever read prose.
My 5 most recent reading list is:
The Unfettered Mind by Takuan Soho (i like his pickles too!)
Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart (about remaking the way we make things)
The Sword and the Mind by Hiroaki Sato (watch your fingers when you sword fight!)
Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin (creating the best life for animals)
and
The Road Back to Nature by Masanobu Fukuoka (regaining the Paradise lost)
Thank you to those who share.
Best wishes to all!
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[Lubidius]

Ah- hah, a very good book... "The Sword and the Mind by Hiroaki Sato"... bravo for reading that one. I own that one and pull it out and re-read it every so often. A good book while we are on the topic of Samurai and Bujutsu is "The Secrets Of The Samurai" by Ratti & Westbrook; and of course, anything by Turnbull:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Tu ... historian)

[Colin Solan]

I just finshed Joker One an eye-opening memoir about a US Marine platoon's tour in Iraq. Powerful stuff that answers all the questions I could never ask my best friend (a Marine with 2 tours in Iraq so far) and that he never brings up.