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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Nonfiction only: what was the last book you read?Question: Nonfiction only: what was the last book you read!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourtWww@QuestionHome@Com Well, I am currently reading a book of letters from Lord Chesterfield to his son!. Since I read some of it last night, it was the last book I read, but since I have not completed it, maybe it does not qualify as the book that I last read!. Prior to this book, the last non-ficiton book I read was a book about a!.!. !. !. !. !. !. hmmmmmm, I can't remember the last time I read a non-ficiton book all of the way through, it may have been all of the way back in highschool, or a training manual for work (once again-I'm not sure if a manual counts as a book!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com It was an amazing book!. The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God!? by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy!. It opened my eyes to the difference between the Jesus story taken as myth to a higher meaning of philosophy and simply a magic show put on that says you better believe in it if you want to go to Heaven!. One of the astounding facts is the Osiris-Dionysus figure, a myth that like Jesus, is born in a sort of cave, turns water into wine, performs miracles, dies on a cross or tree for the sins of mankind then resurrects!. This myth is about 500 to1000 years older than when Jesus is supposed to have walked the earth!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls; autobio Seabisuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand; great history of a sport and an era, the Depression!. --two different kinds of books, read recently!.!.!. both put here because I'm not sure which kind you're asking about--Www@QuestionHome@Com "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families - Stories from Rwanda" by Philip Gourevitch It is good - but heartbreaking!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Suzanne Lenglen;Tennis Idol of the Twenties by Alan Little Beautiful book!.Many photos of players of the era!.Great pictures of Suzanne!. It has her full match records as well!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I read The Lady and the Monk by Pico Iyer!. It's about a man who travels to Japan encountering both the old and new aspects!. It was wonderful and very well-written!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography, by Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet; Andrew Hurley, transl!.; Scribner, 2006!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The last non-fiction I finished was Stephen King's On Writing!. I'm currently reading Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus!. (I know, I'm the only one from Earth who hasn't read it already!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com 'Singing My Him Song' by Malachy MccourtWww@QuestionHome@Com The Tipping Point How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm GladwellWww@QuestionHome@Com Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, by Dana Thomas!.Www@QuestionHome@Com American Sphinx: Thomas Jefferson by Joseph EllisWww@QuestionHome@Com Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer The Last Lecture by Randy PauschWww@QuestionHome@Com Twilight by Stephenie MeyerWww@QuestionHome@Com The middle place by: Kelly CorriganWww@QuestionHome@Com The Book of Lists!.Www@QuestionHome@Com InternWww@QuestionHome@Com THE LANGUAGE OF THOUGHT by Stephen Pinker, PhD!.Www@QuestionHome@Com a book called Dreams by Lori Reid!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Natural Right and History, Leo StraussWww@QuestionHome@Com Non fiction about pandasWww@QuestionHome@Com Duma Key, by Stephen KingWww@QuestionHome@Com Into the WildWww@QuestionHome@Com a child called it!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |