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Post by Vicorva on May 23, 2008 14:58:00 GMT
I really enjoy reading LOTR, time and time again. Also, the Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix is incredible, although I don't like his younger stuff. I like anything by Trudi Canavan, and particularly the Age of Five books. Some truly emotive writing. Um... the Witcher, by Anderzej Sapkowski... loads of stuff, really.  |
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Post by Vrek on May 23, 2008 22:42:15 GMT
Ooh, ooh! Just remembered: Hawkes Harbor by SE Hinton. Her first foray into adult books, and very well done.
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Post by Tom Bombadil on Jun 1, 2008 22:58:53 GMT
Absolutely anything by Steinbeck is good. I've been reading Of Mice and Men, and it's great. On a related note, I just got this summer's reading list for English Honors. Is Silas Marner any good? I have to take an essay on it early next year, along with a report on one of the following: -Don Quixote -The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes -The Odyssey -The Jungle Book (  ) -Mere Christianity -Where the Red Fern Grows -Kidnapped -And the Angels Were Silent -In the Grip of Grace -The Knowledge of the Holy I only know anything about half of those, and I'm much happier with this year's selection (Great Expectations was painful...) |
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Post by Vrek on Jun 1, 2008 23:14:28 GMT
Steinback? Yeah, Of mice and Men was good, but I read Grapes of wrath, a few chapters before I went to bed every night. 900 pages, half the chapters only set the mood for the next chapter, and over half the book is all about, as my brother and I have made a solid in-joke over, is their 'going to California'. Seriously, it just drags on and on.
Going to California. Oh, we need to fix up our car to go to California. Uh oh, we need more gas to get to California. Oh no, someone died on the way to California. Oh, the oldest of the sons just went off to become a fisherman, and right before we got to California, oh darn.
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Post by Tom Bombadil on Jun 1, 2008 23:25:49 GMT
Well, not everyone likes the Realism genre.
The Hobbit was also great. The Murkwood chapters were amazingly boring, just walking and walking and walking, but the rest was grand.
C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy is very good. It consists of Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength. Really good stuff, if you like weird books.
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Post by Vrek on Jun 1, 2008 23:48:23 GMT
It's not the genre, it's just the premise. Half the book only being lead ins isn't in relation to the genre, but it's one of the core things I didn't like. Steinback stretched out the most inane things, as much as the most important things. There are only two truly dramatic events, in my opinion. Being the conflict in the homeless camp, and the flood when Rose of Sharon is giving birth. Everything else was just drawled on.
And Lewis, I read 'Out of the Silent Planet', then tried Perelandra, but the religious undertones were even more lightly veiled then the first, so I literaly got to the part with the Venus 'Eve' before I actually was unable to read it anymore. I really dislike religious content in my entertainment.
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Post by Simmo33 on Jun 15, 2008 19:53:40 GMT
I read a really good book recently called "Learning The Alphabet".
No but seriously I did read "Captain Underpants and the proposterous plight of the purple potty people".
I know these books are meant for 10 year olds or whatever, and so what if it does only take me 20 minutes to read? It's hilarious! Cleverly hilarious; surprisingly not crude. Just like the fact it acknowledges that it is a book i. e. (this is taken from the wikipedia article)
George and Harold often break the fourth wall in the books. The characters in the series know that they are created by an author. For example the line "ALRIGHT ALREADY! Enough with the descriptions,you're making us sick!", yelled George to the narrator and "Why are all our pronouns being italicized?" and even acknowledge it's a book such as "I was hoping for something a little more dramatic but we're running out of pages"
I have the whole series of these books. They are genious.
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Post by FC4 on Jun 16, 2008 1:38:23 GMT
The best book in the world is the Eagle Court of Honor Book. With it, you have everything you need to make a good Eagle Court of Honor, easily. I love that book.
Another is Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed. It is a great bedtime book for bonding with youngsters, because you both get to fool around as you read it, they learn to count, and have fun. Just read it with my little sis. And for a little extra twist, we counted the monkeys in spanish.
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Post by NotApplicable on Jun 20, 2008 16:59:49 GMT
Are there still Dune fans around? I like dune... I've yet to manage to move my little toe separate from the rest.  I'm half way through Heretics of dune atm. |
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Post by Simmo33 on Jun 20, 2008 21:18:47 GMT
I re-read Twilight again. Love that book.  I'm doing my work experience in Waterstone's book shop and that book is everyhwere. So yeah, now that I am in a book shop 5 days a week I have rediscovered the joys of reading. I want to get a book called "addition" (yes addition, not addiction). It's about a girl who has OCD that means she is obsessed with counting and measuring everything. The slogan of the book is "A comedy that counts". *sigh* |
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Post by doooolemonsterr on Jul 9, 2008 5:29:12 GMT
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski is really, really good. and i don't read ahaha. it's very oddly formatted in parts and is an overall good book. it also has a corresponding novel called The Whalestoe Letters. i haven't read that one yet but i should. here are some scans of exactly how odd this novel is.   interesting, right? plus, its over 700 pages. i'm gonna be a senior in high school, and at the rate i read, i'll probably finish reading by my junior year in college, if that. haha.
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Post by HK-47 on Jul 9, 2008 13:30:23 GMT
Wow, that's a weird novel, heh. My favorite books range from Mass Effect: Revelation, to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Ender's Game. Of course, the obligatory Star Wars novels are still in there, particularly those by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn Trilogy, anybody?  ) |
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Post by storyteller on Jul 15, 2008 21:07:50 GMT
A cruel Wind: Chronicles of the Dread Empire is the best fantasy series I have ever read. You can buy the book for about $25, and get a very lengthy set of three novels in one.
Political intrigue, masterful manipulation on a massive scale, evil magicians, war, sex, love, betrayel....and an Unborn floating Fetus who tortures people. Yup, doesnt get much better then that.
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Post by Tom Bombadil on Feb 16, 2009 2:37:53 GMT
Temeraire.
Its the Napoleonic wars, but with dragons (despite how stupid that sounds, it actually is pretty good). Really, really well done, too. The author created an entire alternate history integrated with dragons. Naomi Novik is the author, and the books in the series are His Majesty's Dragon, Throne of Jade, Black Powder War, Empire of Ivory, and Victory of Eagles.
And the Dragonlance series is pretty good, also. I've only read Firstborn so far, and I've started on The Last Thane, but what I've read so far is extremely good.
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Post by galvonindoril on Feb 18, 2009 1:08:30 GMT
Are there still Dune fans around? I like dune... I've yet to manage to move my little toe separate from the rest. I'm half way through Heretics of dune atm. The Dune person is back ;D I just finished Paul of Dune last month As soon as I finished the grueling Children of Dune the series got alot better |
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