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[alwaysright]

Anyone read any good books lately?

[xXHalfSliceXx]

Ill post a big list here. later if i remember. :D lots of good reads.

[WingedPanther]

I just finished reading the last Harry Potter book, the His Dark Materials series, and am currently working on a book on Bayesian Theory.

[v0id]

Is the new Harry Potter book good? I've never read any of the books in the series, but I've heard a lot about them. I've seen the first four movies, though.

I haven't read any books lately, but I've been skimming, or reading som chapters of some books. I've been looking into some programming books; "More Exceptional C++" and "Practical Common Lisp." And two other computer-related books; "Cryptography Decrypted" and "Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering." And then I've read several chapters in the well-known book; "Hackers & Painters."

[shibbythestoner]

Most recently I read "The Inheritors", the latest "Harry Potter" book, and "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

[elaps]

Was the last Harry Potter book good? I've got it but haven't read it yet.

[WingedPanther]

The last Harry Potter is "Deathly Hallows". It does an excellent job of wrapping up the series, answering all the questions, etc. You have to save it for the last book, however, or it won't make any sense.

[CygnetGames]

If you want more heavy fantasy after Harry Potter, I would recommend the "Riftwar Saga" by Raymond E Feist. It's a trilogy: "Magician", "Silverthorn" and "A Darkness at Sethanon". I just finished the last one a few weeks ago - they are fantasy classics and are very good.

Also read "nineteen Eighty Four" this summer. It's rather disturbing at the end! Not what I expected at all, but very well written. Recommended if you can stomach some nasty torture scenes.

And I read "How Nature Works: the science of self-organized criticality" by Per Bak, for my university project. Recommended if you're interested in self-organised criticality or emergence, but probably not that interesting otherwise.

Book are cool - I would also recommend "Neverness" by David Zindell (but not any of the sequels) and "Earthsea Trilogy" by Ursula Le Guin.

[WingedPanther]

I'll definitely second "Earthsea Trilogy".
If you enjoy an interesting take on Dracula, Fred Saberhagen's Dracula series is a delightful read.
If you can find them, the "Wild Cards" is a great take on superheroes/superpowers.

[Tetra]

Currently reading
Castaneda - In search of Force)
Nice book. I recomend