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My last two reads of 2014:
Willam Tell Told Again, by P.G. Wodehouse. This wasn't painful, it is the Master after all, but I think it's only to be read if one's got OCD, or pretty near, and I've got a long-term goal of working my way through all Wodehouse's fiction in chronological order. Actually, I listened to the Librivox version and it doesn't fill you with confidence when the reader mispronounces "Wodehouse" right off the bat, but in fact it was competently read. Fortunately, PG seems to have a near-if-not-complete selection of Wodehouse's works in the US public domain and Librivox has most of those available for listening.
My last book was the third in the Otto Prohaska tetralogy by John Biggins, The Two-Headed Eagle: In Which Otto Prohaska Takes a Break as the Habsburg Empire's Leading U-boat Ace and Does Something Even More Thanklessly Dangerous. Another stellar read in this series and I have avantman42 to thank for the recommendation, as I'd never heard of these and they're exactly to my taste. Admittedly, the high humor of the first two books is rather in abeyance here, but it's only fitting as the Great War enters its third year.
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