What's the best book you've read lately?

[BROOKMYRE]

Mine is The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. It's the first book since the Kite Runner I have been buying as a present for everyone! No matter their tastes

[SUPERHEROSHOP]

Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
Recommended by a friend and was great from start to finished, read the follow up, broken angels and woken furies and they were excellant too, would recommend to any Science Fiction readers.
Cheers
Jimmy

[merlin]

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[BLOXBOOKS]

I just dont know, I can not define what could make any book "The Best", is it a feeling, idea, insperation or a collection of words thats takes us to another place, on a plain with new thoughts and ideas.
Can best be a dark disturbed place or a realm of magic full of things we can't find in this reality, so many books leave bits and pieces behind in the growing ruins of our memories, like an infinite collection within finite minds, what was new and wonderous, with the passage of time fades to grey has we add more to The Library of Babel, I wish also to find an index, without a memory like Funes I can get lost in clutter of my mind.
Some books only become clear a after reading, days, weeks or even years later, yesterday, well the day before, it is now, a news story, the sort of news that gets into your head and just stays ricocheting around while some sense is trying to be made of it, and I could'nt, it took me down a terrible hopeless path, from a vision of a beautiful young woman with a beaming smile and a future of hope and promise, to a desperate reality, this reality where lifes bright light can be extinguished by no other reason than the way we look, Sophie Lancaster murdered for what?, I can only imagine Kafka understood where his society was leading and if he were here now shock with a retrospective view would be no less.
The Metamorphosis
was when I first read it a gripping tale but the deeper alienation it portrayed dawned like a wet stormy mornings sunrise, the light slowly ebbing into the vision of my minds eye.

The best books may be the books that take us far away or the books that bring us home, after all we are just people alone with the words we read, hope should be we are human beings with others.
A book I never finished, it was'nt my book and I had to be moving on, but one of those rare books that is best read aloud, some pictures from this book can be seen here.

[ArtisanUK]

Just reading Last Light by Alex Scarrow. Not one for those who like fantasy and escapism, but a sure fire winner for those who appreciate a reality check.

[inversions]

Just finished Harm by Brian Aldiss. The guy hasnt lost his ability despite his advancing years. Recommended.

[leadhillsonline]

The last new book I read was "The Elves of Cintra" by Terry Brooks. I can't wait for the next one to come out.

[nykmedia]

I've just read 'My Epileptic Lurcher' by Des Dillon. Not my normal sort of book and I cringe at some of his writing but forget "Lassie" and everybody say aaaaaaaaaaaaaw, this one's a bit of a tear-jerker for big softee animal-lover types, so have the tissues at the ready.

PS: BROOKMYRE - Interesting name, I have signed copies of all of his books - are you related?

[Lemsol]

Really sad I know but Object-Oriented Systems Analysis And Design Using UML by Bennett, McRobb and Farmer.

[nykmedia]

Really sad I know but Object-Oriented Systems Analysis And Design Using UML by Bennett, McRobb and Farmer.

Did yours make you cry, too?