Best book you've read recently?

[Everlong]

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

I just finished reading All the LIght We Cannot See and it was absolutely fantastic. Highly recommended to anyone, especially people interested in WWII-era stuff.

Also recently read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for the first time. While it started a little slow, it wound up being an awesome read, tough to put down.

[ShaneOfan]

Currently reading "Pedro" which is about and by former (Dodger, Astro, Red Sox, and Phillies) pitcher Pedro Martinez. Great book for baseball and even sports fans. Not the best writer on a technical level but an amazing story teller.

[AkydefGoldberg]

Read Roy Keane's second autobiography recently. Slacked off abit in terms of reading recently so might read it again just because lacking in options atm in terms of a new book to get out from the library.

[Daz]

I was literally thinking about posting this exact thread earlier, because I'm not reading enough lately and wanted to fish for suggestions.

[The Legend]

A little while back I read an autobiography called Bigger than the Game by Dirk Hayhurst. He was an MLB pitcher for a couple of years that has written four books both while he was playing and afterwards. It was an interesting inside look at a guy on the fringe of the majors and minors.

This particular book also covered most of a season where he suffered a shoulder injury. It was kind of interesting to look at the loneliness of an injured athlete who kind of becomes isolated from the rest of his teammates because he can't help them. We've all heard guys on a team reference an injured guy being invisible or whatever in citing next man up in the process of trying to win. It was very insightful to take the idea from the other perspective.

One final note on the book, As part of his recovery Hayhurst spends part of his time rehabbing at a Dr. James Andrews clinic. Well at about the same time, HHH was recovering at the same clinic from one of his quad injuries and there's a pretty hilarious chapter or two on their exchanges.

[Kirbi]

Volume 9 of Fables deluxe. It was magnificent.

[AkydefGoldberg]

Wasn't sure which book I was going to pick up but read Omid Djalili's autobiography, which was bit of a slow read but came across Chen Guangcheng's memoir, The Barefoot Lawyer, and early readings read like fiction novel with the way it describes how he escaped from his house arrest but amazingly, and wonderfully, it's true.

[Everlong]

I just finished the Martian and it was great. Highly recommended. Going to see the movie tomorrow, raelly looking forward to that.

[Str8Shooter]

I just finished the Martian and it was great. Highly recommended. Going to see the movie tomorrow, raelly looking forward to that.

I just finished the Martian as well, it picked up later on but didn't quite live up to hype for me. It felt too sciency for me at times, explaining how he's coming up with math and calculations for growing potatoes and what not. Maybe some people are really into that.

I actually feel like the movie I might find more entertaining than the book.

[Everlong]

I liked the science aspect, even though I'm not a real sciency guy. It was really cool to see how he worked his way through all these problems he encountered with a little ingenuity. Plus, it was a surprisingly funny book.

[UTK]

I'm about to finish re-reading the ASOIAF series. Which was an experience, because I missed an insane amount of details the first time.

[Hanley!]

The last Terry Pratchett book, The Shepherd's Crown. I did a review up here. It was pretty emotional just getting through the last Pratchett book I'd ever read for the first time, but the actual plot of the book made it that much harder. Not one of his very best reads, but it was a really fitting way to close the series.

I've been reading Emma by Jane Austen since too, which is surprisingly good. Austen gets a bad rep, I like her stuff so far.