Good book/series you've recently finished reading?

**Kaleohano** · 04-02-2012 01:11 AM

Hey guys!
Simple enough thread.
Name a good Book/Series (Fiction, nonfiction, manga, whatever) that you have recently finished reading.
If you see some mentions similar to what you like, throw out some suggestions! i always like having a good book to read!
I love fiction that has pretty much no connection to reality at all. dragons, superpowers, magic, all that nerdy stuff that to my displeasure, will never happen in real life. or at least not during my time.
I (just about 10 min ago) finished reading the 4th Book of the Eragon/Inheritance cycle. Its easy to follow, a little more Political than i'd like, but it totally pushes all the right nerd buttons in me! Moreover, its one of the few books that managed to sway my emotions as greatly and as often as it did. I'd be a liar if i said i wasn't at least somewhat choked-up when reading the last few pages.
However emotional the series was, the ending was so well done that for once, i'm not silently begging and pleading the the story to continue! Many books leave you wanting more. But this one gives you an excellent Feeling of closure, while still leaving it open to be continued if Christopher Paolini diced to so.
Any other dragon nerds out there with me?!

**Munchman** · 04-02-2012 03:56 PM

Ive just finished reading Caim by Jose Saramago (Portuguese Nobel Prize winner). Really weird book , essentially , Caim murders his brother Abel , and as God is going to punish him , he thinks it is unfair , since God , being omnipresent could have stopped him and as he didnt then he is an accomplice to the crime , so he wipes out human race as vengeance... As i said , really weird book.

**Haloguy13** · 04-02-2012 06:38 PM

I got done reading best master and bloody monday they are both good mangas to read but beast master has a lepord cover so dont take it to a group

**Jacob's Ladder** · 04-02-2012 06:46 PM

The "Aliens: Earth Hive" trilogy is good.

**Hakoshi** · 04-02-2012 07:28 PM

well, I've read some ok books I guess, might just.. list them here

Memoirs of a Geisha (watched movie first, but when I read book, it was different, better I guess)
14 (its an odd book, well for me it was since, it was my first time reading a mystery novel.. lol)
Carrie (confusing book due to all the references.. orz )

all others I forgot/can't remember from the top of my head..
wish I could read more horror novels though, just don't know any good ones out there lol

**Hollow Ichigo** · 04-03-2012 02:32 PM

The Hunger Games Trilogy. Dont let the hype fool you. This is one of the most BRUTAL book I have ever read. Kids fighting kids fighting werewolves people getting torn to shreds, light that causes you to bleed from every hole in ur body. Its crazy

**Matt~** · 04-03-2012 04:21 PM

Wolf Brother 1 and 2 epic books

I like how its quite detailed about how they live

**Kaleohano** · 04-10-2012 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by Munchman

Ive just finished reading Caim by Jose Saramago (Portuguese Nobel Prize winner). Really weird book , essentially , Caim murders his brother Abel , and as God is going to punish him , he thinks it is unfair , since God , being omnipresent could have stopped him and as he didnt then he is an accomplice to the crime , so he wipes out human race as vengeance... As i said , really weird book.

that actually sounds totally badass!

---------- Post added at 09:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:39 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Hollow Ichigo

The Hunger Games Trilogy. Dont let the hype fool you. This is one of the most BRUTAL book I have ever read. Kids fighting kids fighting werewolves people getting torn to shreds, light that causes you to bleed from every hole in ur body. Its crazy

sounds like something i could get in to

**TheAsterisk!** · 04-10-2012 07:29 PM

Just finished Eaters of the Dead. It's a Michael Crichton book, written as part of a wager that Beowulf couldn't be made interesting by any means.

Part historical fiction, part mythology, part sci-fi. Basic premise is that the character of Grendel (and its mother, too, I suppose) in the epic was really based on groups of relict hominids/hominins raiding small settlements and killing and eating Norsemen. Fun stuff, with pretty good fight scenes. Very odd writing style in this one, though.

I usually enjoy subversive or completely bizarre reinterpretations of myth, though.