<p>Brave New World- Still processing this, so not so sure what I thought of it. I didn't read it all that thoroughly, but I was disappointed with the ending. For you readers out there, what was the last book you read and what did you think of it?</p>
<p>haha, I was just reading that, while browsing. I guess it doesn’t sound that promising?</p>
<p>Can’t read; never learnt =/</p>
<p>^I was disappointed with the end of Brave New World as well. Overall I didn’t think it was that great. </p>
<p>I will consider the book that I am about to finish the last book I read- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. It is excellent in so many ways.</p>
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No, it was pretty interesting; I just didn’t like the ending all that much.</p>
<p>EDIT: Well at least I thought so… There are probably so many nuances in that book that I didn’t pick up (as I read it pretty quickly).</p>
<p>Zeitoun. It’s our all-school read for the summer. I loved it, and it really hit home [but i was living in new orleans during katrina, so it might mean more to me than other students]</p>
<p>I thought BNW’s ending was fitting, though it could’ve built up more to it.</p>
<p>Last one I finished was *The Poisonwood Bible<a href=“Barbara%20Kingsolver”>/i</a>. It’s about the four daughters and wife of this crazed missionary, all of who visit Africa during the Congo Crisis (1960s). Each chapter’s narrated by a different sister, and the second half of the book rapidly speeds up the chronology to span years (up to like the 1980s) instead of months. This, and a certain narrator that I could not stand to read, dislodged TPB from being a great novel to a lukewarm-good one.</p>
<p>I think Brave New World has been overshadowed by 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 since the latter two were written</p>
<p>I recently finished the second book of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, and it was amazing. However, I can’t find a copy of Guermantes’ Way >:O</p>
<p>I finished Speaker For the Dead by Orson Scott Card today. I hadn’t read Ender’s Game, but I still found it very enjoyable. Not much more than enjoyable, and although it did explore interesting cultural issues, it was mostly just a fun sci-fi book.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t recommend poisonwood, it was nice, I liked it but it’s not really…something to read for fun?</p>
<p>I just finished John Dies at the End, it was freakin’ awesome.</p>
<p>^I hear that John doesn’t die at the end, eh?</p>
<p>^Grey out spoilers.</p>
<p>Brave New World = :eek: for me personally:/</p>
<p>I’m reading Tess d’Urbervilles and actually like it a lot so far. The last book I read was Let the World Spin by C. McCann because I saw the title on a thread in the parent’s forum and found it intriguing— didn’t finish it though, so you know how much I liked it.</p>
<p>Super Freakonomics. I’d highly recommend it. Completely changed how I looked at people’s behavior. I haven’t read Freakonomics, its predecessor, but it’s next on my list.</p>
<p>^freankonomics will blow your mind. levitt is a genius there is not other way to describe him. I just finished a prayer for owen meany and it was one of my favorite books of all time. i still can’t get over it</p>
<p>The Smartest Guys in the Room. A highly comprehensive and engaging overview of the Enron scandal. If you want to know about Enron, look no further than this book. Highly recommended, even if you have no experience in finance. The tone is a mix between the go-go 90s/business/energy company culture and scandalous investigative reporting.</p>
<p>The Kite Runner . Completely and utterly overhyped .</p>
<p>Bobos in Paradise
Meh, it was okay, interesting, sometimes funny, but not as funny as hyped.</p>
<p>I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max.</p>
<p>Hilarious.</p>
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<p>or, better yet, an e3e3e3 to white rainbow</p>