Books and Reading, 2009, Part 3
Continued from Books and Reading, 2009, Part 2.
Date: August 25, 2009
Categories: Random craziness
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in August 25th, 2009 @ 10:38I haven’t been on this thread lately… Thanks, GAPAs! Has anyone read Godless?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in August 25th, 2009 @ 10:53Amazon shows three books called Godless. Do you mean the one by Pete Hautman, about the kid who worships a water tower? (I haven’t read any of them.)
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in August 25th, 2009 @ 11:13Yes, that one. It’s quite good. Very interesting. I don’t know if starting a cult would be as easy as it is in the book… But it seems realistic. They also don’t simply say “The water tower is a god;” they have interesting reasons why they would believe so. One person is already “channeling the ten-legged one.” I like it so far, but I haven’t read much of it, even though it’s a small book.
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Enceladus
in August 30th, 2009 @ 08:08*is reminded of I, Robot*
In one of the short stories of I, Robot, a robot,QT-1, believes his space station is all that exists, space, the earth, and other planets are an illusion. He worships the energy converter, calling it the Master, because it provides him power. He converts all the other robots to his cult. They say: “There is no Master but the Master, and QT-1 is his prophet” However, they do all the necessary tasks.
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fireandhemlock1996
in August 30th, 2009 @ 09:36I think I’ve read I, Robot. Isn’t that by Asimov or someone like that? *is too lazy to look it up*
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Enceladus
in November 26th, 2009 @ 16:24Ja, I, Robot is by Isaac Asimov.
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Pseudonym
in October 21st, 2009 @ 17:16I liked that book, but I thought (does this need a spoiler warning?) Shin was a little out of his mind.
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crazyquotescollector
in August 25th, 2009 @ 13:05To be honest, books about cults kind of freak me out. It’s too easy for one person with a clever idea to brainwash others. Some say religion does that, but so many of these cults are much worse, and it’s scary to think about. The human mind is a confusing thing.
On another note, I love fantasy/adventure books, but it seems that the only things available are vampire romance things. All dark and creepy. Now, while I don’t mind it every once in a while, I’d prefer something different, too. Any suggestions?
I’m re-reading Percy Jackson. They’re amazing. I love Greek Mythology.
By the way, water towers? Why?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in August 25th, 2009 @ 13:28I did some fairly extensive research on cults some years back, and they really aren’t all that easy to launch or sustain. Only a small percentage of the people they attempt to recruit actually join and stick around.
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Luna the Lovely
in August 25th, 2009 @ 14:16Have you tried Mercedes Lackey’s Herald’s of Valdemar book? They’re definitely fantasy/adventure, and I find them to be very enjoyable. Also, her Bardic Voices series is very good, as well (ok, so just about anything by Lackey is very good).
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in August 25th, 2009 @ 14:36They worship water-towers because they believe that they supply life to the community. In their bible it talks about how the ocean created the land and life and humans. It says that humans forgot to appreciate the ocean, so the ocean sent out its messengers to the world. The water-towers. Then, the humans would even forget to thank the water towers. The main character doesn’t even believe in it all, but he says that he’s serious about his religion. I think his main goal is to go against the original thought of “god,” and make a new perspective. He makes the religion up as he goes along, which actually can be quite funny…
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Errata
in August 25th, 2009 @ 15:04Ooh, I LOVE fantasy! Have you read Land of Elyon? That one’s good.
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Alice
in August 25th, 2009 @ 15:41I dunno about Land of Elyon. It wasn’t bad, it was just sort of…not good. Maybe I was too old when I was reading them.
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SilverLeopard
in August 26th, 2009 @ 16:32I read it. Patrick Carman wrote another series, about a space-island (term?) called Atherton.
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soccer starr is at camp!
in August 27th, 2009 @ 09:47Percy Jackson: I’m re-reading it for like the fiftieth time! They certainly are amazing…. (By now I’m sure everyone on this thread knows I’m obsessed with them now, so please just feel free to smack me on the head if I continually express my love for the series a little too much…
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muselover
in August 25th, 2009 @ 13:53Just finished the Bartimaeus trilogy. Ptolemy’s Gate was pretty good, though slightly predictable.
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fireandhemlock1996
in August 27th, 2009 @ 12:15How so? I love that series! I like how Bartimaeus is always teasing Nathaniel, and calling him Natty boy, and driving him nuts!
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muselover
in August 31st, 2009 @ 11:45I said it was predictable, not bad. I actually liked the series in general better than HP. *flees from angry mob of MBers*
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MissSwann! Loves you!
in August 25th, 2009 @ 15:51YES! HAHAHAHAAA! I neeeeeed good books, like, NOW. I’ve resolved to reading The Clique. Pure mind candy. I need something STIMULATING.
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vanillabean3.141 (Minka, Shae, Claire, and Juliette)
in August 25th, 2009 @ 20:57OH MY GOODNESS YOU’RE READING THE CLIQUE!!! SQUEEE!!
If you don’t take it seriously, it’s pretty hilarious. Watch out for repeated use of the same adjectives. I mean, in one book, everyone had piercing green cat eyes, and yes, Alicia’s nose is pert, but you don’t need to tell us that seven times. But it’s fun, isn’t it? Especially when they do things like giggle-squirm or flirt-chuckle or whatever.
OK, good books, A Northern Light, Rebecca, and A Great and Terrible Beauty series.
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speller73
in August 26th, 2009 @ 11:17The A Great and Terrible Beauty series was really good. I finished The Sweet Far Thing (800 pages!) in about a week at camp, where there were lots of people to talk to. Of course, there was a 9-hour plane ride involved that week, but I spent most of the flight doing sudokus and cubing.
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MissSwann! Loves you!
in August 27th, 2009 @ 08:26Yes, and I agree wholeheartedly… it’s just it’s gotten repetitive after awhile. The books were great up until Bratfest… now I think they’re a bit annoying. I’m reading Alphas now, and it’s pretty good.
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soccer starr
in August 30th, 2009 @ 16:26I HATE the Clique books! I mean, they’re pretty funny and all, but honestly, why anyone would want to read about a bunch of girls who do mean things to other girls, I just have no idea. OK, fine, so they are good books but the whole idea of them doesn’t appeal to me at all.
Sorry, I just realized that that doesn’t really make any sense.
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Lovely Lunegood
in September 8th, 2009 @ 18:19My friend read them, and she said that they were good, but not that good. I’ve never really bothered to read them. I dunno……
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Silver Lining
in August 25th, 2009 @ 16:56I just finished reeading Criss Cross again. I had forgotten how much I love it. One of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read.
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Raynpho
in August 26th, 2009 @ 12:10Ahh~~ I love Criss Cross. You’ve just reminded me to re-read it, for which I thank you.
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MissSwann! Loves you!
in August 27th, 2009 @ 08:29That is a good book.
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Ducky
in August 25th, 2009 @ 21:03The series in the top of my list of books that are absolutly FANTASTIC is Ranger’s Apprentice.
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soccer starr
in August 30th, 2009 @ 16:27I like the Ranger’s Apprentice, but don’t love them. I only read the first book in the series and it was pretty good but I don’t remember thinking that they were amazing or anything like that.
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Ducky
in August 31st, 2009 @ 11:38What? How could you just read the first one
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soccer starr
in September 18th, 2009 @ 15:46I don’t know, actually. You see, the thing is that I read the first book and I think I may actually have started the second one but then I just got distracted with another book or something and I never picked it up again. I probably should, though.
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Fio (aka La Mort)
in August 25th, 2009 @ 21:04I just finished re-reading the seventh HP book. It’s still absolutely amazing, and brilliantly cinematic too.
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Kagcomix
in August 26th, 2009 @ 09:325.1- (vanillabean) I almost had a heart attack when I saw your post in the recent coments bar. Then I read it and found out you weren’t taking those books seriously. (thank goodness) I read acouple of those books in grade six or seven. They’re pretty ridiculous and unrealistic, but totally hilarious if you don’t take them serioiusly. It’s sort of like a Harlequin romance for kids.
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Raynpho
in August 26th, 2009 @ 12:27I haven’t been doing much reading lately (other than assigned summer reading), which is probably a shame. Hmm. I haven’t posted in a while. Somehow I feel as if this post shall soon turn into an essay, of sorts. Brace yourself, I suppose, as I prepare to ramble on and on.
So I guess I should start with the reading I have been doing… my future English teacher assigned:
Lord of the Flies
A Streetcar Named Desire
Of Mice and Men,
and a book of our choice, from a limited list of… 6 books, I believe. I chose Pride and Prejudice, but that seemed to be too ambitious after half the summer had passed by, and I switched to I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which was probably a good idea. I think they were all good books, in their own right. Typical American classics, with deep meaning and strong symbolism sneaked in.Other than that, I’ve read nothing but The Penderwicks and The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, which my sister actually checked out of the library. They’re not advanced reading in any right, but oh-so-very endearing, though, and leave me with a kind of happy feeling.
Hmm. So I guess I’ll end with the reading I soon plan to be doing… After seen Silver Lining’s post, (#6), I feel like re-reading some good books. Ex. Criss Cross… Hmm. That series about that family with the color names. Rose, Indigo, Saffy, Caddy? What else… oh, Madeline L’Engle! A Wrinkle in Time and the corresponding series. Ah, nostalgia. I’ve just remembered how much I love books.
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SilverLeopard
in August 26th, 2009 @ 16:35I listened to The Penderwicks on tape on the way back from Delaware. There’s another book about them?
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Raynpho
in August 26th, 2009 @ 17:47Yep! It’s a sequel.
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Kiga
in August 26th, 2009 @ 18:18Oh, I like those books! They’re kind of cliché, but fun.
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Ducky
in August 27th, 2009 @ 12:07You’re back!
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Raynpho
in August 27th, 2009 @ 12:34Hello! Er- I don’t quite know about “back”… I might just be popping in for a bit and could possibly vanish into thin air shortly. But I hope not! I’ve just been busy this summer
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fireandhemlock1996
in August 27th, 2009 @ 12:12I nearly got Lord of the Flies at the library, but my friend’s mom who works at the library (it’s really awesome) said i should read another book instead so I got that. At my library you can only get FIVE BOOKS! *growls*
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in August 27th, 2009 @ 12:19*smirks* At mine you can get as much as you want… Except only three of the same author or series, so I suppose that there is a limit.
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fireandhemlock1996
in August 27th, 2009 @ 13:28Ohhh…. At my old library we could get lots of books. I miss my old library but i’m starting to like the new one too I guess. I’m jealous of you tho! And we’re only allowed to get so many books on a certain subject PER FAMILY! ARGH!
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in August 27th, 2009 @ 13:57On the other side, think how annoying it is to discover that one person has checked out all the books in a series or by an author. Especially if that one person keeps them past the due date.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in August 28th, 2009 @ 22:11Yes, that can be frustrating… Although, I haven’t seen much of that. I suppose it’s because my obsession with the library only started a few months ago. Next year, I’m planning to work there… I made friends with the girl who is incharge with all of that stuff, so hopefully it’ll be easy! Or perhaps she really doesn’t like me, and would make some excuse just to make sure that I don’t work there… She calls me “Jack.” Ive never corrected her… but I never like correcting people about my name.
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Ducky
in August 31st, 2009 @ 11:37The limit for both of the libraries I go to is that I can have no more than 20 books checked out from both of the libraries combinned. *smirks*
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Luna the Lovely
in August 31st, 2009 @ 11:44Yuppers, that’s how the local libraries back home are. There’s a chain of about 5 that are all in conjunction, spread through out several towns in the area, and the limit is 20 books, three per series/author (although they were sometimes lenient with the latter).
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fireandhemlock1996
in August 27th, 2009 @ 12:14SFTDP, but how did Pride and Prejudice seem to be too ambitious? Me wants to know! I like Pride adn Prejudice, it’s a fun read, and a lighter one than some. Usually only takes 2-3 days to read, ya know?
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Raynpho
in August 27th, 2009 @ 12:42Really? I thought it seemed a little long, and I just would have guessed it was one of those novels that take a bit of digesting… especially considering my chronic procrastination habits, I (and some friends I consulted) just decided it would be better to switch books.
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fireandhemlock1996
in August 27th, 2009 @ 13:14Well, I do suppose my judgement on the level of books may be a bit off. After all, I can read an entire Redwall book in three hours, and The Three Musketeers in 4 days. So yeah. But P&P is awesome! Lizzy+Mr Darcy=ftw!!!
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Raynpho
in August 27th, 2009 @ 16:10Hm. Usually I do consider myself a fast reader, too. Gosh, I’d hate to find I’m slowing down or something, though goodness knows I haven’t been challenging myself much as of late. And I’ve never read either a Redwall book or The Three Musketeers, so I can’t compare in that sense.
As a side note, I think I should read The Three Musketeers.
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fireandhemlock1996
in August 28th, 2009 @ 20:52Reading upside down is fun.
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bubbles
in August 26th, 2009 @ 17:07I’m reading the sequel to Anne of Green Gables, which is called Anne of Avonlea. They’re very good books. There’s something very comforting about reading about life in the countryside of Prince Edward Island.
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Iamisthebest
in August 26th, 2009 @ 21:49I didn’t find the Anne of Green Gables books so intresting. I got half-way through the second on and the plot kinda got dry. I prefer the Harry Potter series. Even through all 7 books J.K. Rowling managed to keep the plot alive (i love the last one).
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Rosebud2
in November 27th, 2009 @ 17:56There are 8 books in the series. I have the boxed set. They’re all good, but the last few are kind of off topic.
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MissSwann! Loves you!
in August 27th, 2009 @ 08:34Ohhh, yes, Deathly Hallows. I’m very connected to that book. It reads amazingly, and though you’d think it would get boring after awhile, but I can read it straight through in one night. Rather like when I first got it. <3
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in August 27th, 2009 @ 09:07Even the camping scenes?
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Kiga
in August 30th, 2009 @ 07:19Those were kind of boring for me… but the rest of was OK.
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soccer starr
in August 30th, 2009 @ 16:29I can read it straight through one night too! In my opinion none of it is boring.
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fireandhemlock1996
in August 27th, 2009 @ 12:19I luv books! I’m a fast reader, too, I guess. I’ve read four of my five books I got at the library this Monday, and I’ve never read any of them before. I’m starting on the fifth one now, and then the next time we go to the library I might be getting Lord of the Flies! Just finished Firebirds Rising, it was really cool, it had four of my fave authours too! DWJ, Tanith Lee, Pamela Dean, and Tamora Pierce!
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Raynpho
in August 27th, 2009 @ 12:43What book(s) by Tamora Pierce did you read? :3
Ooh, I should re-read those too.
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fireandhemlock1996
in August 27th, 2009 @ 13:17No, I was reading Firebirds Rising, the second Firebird anthology. It’s a collection of short stories written especially for the book, and those authors that I like were featured in it. I have read the series about Kelandry, but those are the only ones- no wait, I’ve read part of Beka Cooper.
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Luna the Lovely
in August 27th, 2009 @ 15:40Oh, Pierce’s Beka Cooper books are good. I started the second one, Bloodhound on the flight down. I’ve also read (starting qutie awhile ago, early/mid teens) her Protector of the Small Series, Cricle Opens, Circle of Magic, Alanna, the two Trickster novels, um, Wild Magic, basically all her books that I know of, actually.
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fireandhemlock1996
in August 27th, 2009 @ 16:03Yah, Protector of the Small is the Kelandry one.
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Luna the Lovely
in August 27th, 2009 @ 16:17Yuppers, I know.
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Raynpho
in August 27th, 2009 @ 16:04OH. Ehehe I see. I’ve read… uhh, the Immortals, Alanna, Trickster, and the Beka books! They’re pretty goood. And I find it interesting, somehow, that she manages to write about the same universe for… almost 30 years. Actually, now that I think of it, it’s not overly impressive… or is it? Maybe I should stop rambling so much.
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vanillabean3.141 (Minka, Shae, Claire, and Juliette)
in August 28th, 2009 @ 20:30It’s cool that she writes about the same universe for so many different characters and stories.I mean, same powers (more or less) and principles, but different characters. I read the Lioness (Alana) series, Circle of Magic, Circle of Magic, Circle Reforged, Trickster, and Immortals. I didn’t like Lioness and Immortals in their last books. Trickster and the Circle of Magics were the best, in my opinion.
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Goldendoodle
in August 30th, 2009 @ 17:27Really? I agree with you about the Immortals being not-as-good as the first books, but I loved Lioness all the way through. I couldn’t get into the Circle of Magic books, but I suppose I should try again, since I don’t have five other books I’m reading at the same time.
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Luna the Lovely
in August 30th, 2009 @ 17:47I rather like the Immortals series. To be honest, I think I had a bit of a crush on Numair. For whatever reason, I actually wasn’t quite as fond of the two Trickster novels as I was of pretty much any of her other books. However, I think I still prefer the Tortall books over her Circle books–although I did like the Circle books, as well.
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iridian4
in September 3rd, 2009 @ 22:10The Immortal Series is absolutely AMAZING…
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Alice
in August 30th, 2009 @ 18:54Re: Tamora Pierce: She was good for a few books, but then they started to get boring. I always liked the Protector of the Small series; none of the rest were that great. I read Alanna, Protector of the Small, Circle of Magic, and most of the Trickster books before getting thoroughly bored halfway through the first Circle Opens and never finishing. She’s really pretty formulaic.
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Luna the Lovely
in August 30th, 2009 @ 19:21I’m currently reading “Bloodhound”, the second book in her Beka Cooper series. Maybe it’s just been that long since I read her other books, but it seems targeted toward a more mature audience, longer and not quite so…childish….mayhap as her othe books. Then again, as I said, it might just have been my memory of her other books hads faded. Or I’m easily entertained.
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fireandhemlock1996
in August 30th, 2009 @ 19:22Yeah, I like Protector of the Small the best, although also they’re the only ones I’ve actually read. I’ve read maybe half of the Beka Cooper.
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oxlin
in August 30th, 2009 @ 03:38Ooh, Firebirds! Sharyn November edits those. She’s an awesome person. They are quite good anthologies. If you like DWJ, Tanith Lee, Pamela Dean, and Tamora Pierce; I’d recommend Robin McKinley, Ellen Kushner, and Delia Sherman. Along the lines of the Firebirds anthologies, I’d recommend Coyote Road, Faery Reel, and Green Man, all edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.
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Beavo
in August 27th, 2009 @ 16:05I’m reading Watership Down. omg
A year ago, this would have gotten a big response.
I’ve recently read:
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrns
The Historian (it’s about vampires)
Glass Houses (again, about vampires)
The Lost Days (the Emily the Strange book, which is as cute as heck)
TwistedYeah, if you haven’t read Ebeth’s NaNoNovel, it’s on here. Read it.
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speller73
in August 27th, 2009 @ 16:28Watership Down? Someone in my English class is completely obsessed with Chuck Norris. (I wonder how many phytes don’t understand the connection.)
Actually, my 5th grade humanities (fancy name for middle school honors English) class read Watership Down. I was the only one who actually liked it. Everyone else decided that it was just “bunnies killing bunnies”.
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Rosebud2
in November 27th, 2009 @ 17:58Huh? What does Watership Down have to do with Chuck Norris?
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Piggy
in November 27th, 2009 @ 18:25Just remember that WD > CN.
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CelestaMoonChild
in August 27th, 2009 @ 18:32My sister is reading watership down. I’m reading Farenheight 451. Awesome book. No. Totally,Completly Awesome Book!!!!!
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KaiYves (Go Discovery!)
in August 27th, 2009 @ 18:55Hm, what am I reading now?
Just finished:
The Post-American World (It’s about geopoltics, for school and world domination.)
A biography of Walt DisneyCurrently:
Amine Madness (It’s a how-to-draw guide)
David Copperfield
The Mercury 13
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kiwimuncher (3 B-Day points) (50 Muszey points)
in August 28th, 2009 @ 20:215.1) I’ve seen that book, A Great and Terrible Beauty at the library. But I haven’t picked it up because I’m a “judge book by its cover” person literally. That’s terrible, but I’ll just look at the book and if its cover isn’t interesting enough, I put it back. I don’t even read the back.
10.4) Oh, “Pride and Prejudice” is for sissies! Try “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”!
Lately, I’ve been rereading (am I actually reading something? I’m s crazy, I don’t think I’ve sopped since Tuesday!) the Hobbit!
I love that book. Tolkien is the King!
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vanillabean3.141 (Minka, Shae, Claire, and Juliette)
in August 28th, 2009 @ 20:32If you like magic and historical fiction, definitely read A Great and Terrible Beauty. They’re so good!!
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Cat's Eye
in August 30th, 2009 @ 10:47PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES!
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”
‘”I advise Mr. Darcy, and Lizzy, and Kitty,’ said Mrs. Bennet, ‘to walk to the burning grounds of Oakham Mount this morning. It is a nice long walk, and Mr. Darcy has never seen the flames.'”
“She grew absolutely ashamed of herself. Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think without feeling she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd. Had she her dagger, Elizabeth would have dropped to her knees and administered the seven cuts of dishonor without a moment’s hesitation.”
And, of course, the Reader’s Guide at the back:
“Some scholars believe that the zombies were a last-minute addition to the novel, requested by the publisher in a shameless attempt to boost sales. Others argue that the hordes of living dead are integral to Jane Austen’s plot and social commentary.”
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Alice
in August 30th, 2009 @ 18:58Oh no.
I read the summary on Wikipedia.
-jumps over cliff-
To make things worse, there’s also Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters coming out on the 15th. It sounds more like something I’d read, but although I can tolerate weird changes being made as long as I don’t have to read them, I disapprove of a whole series. That gets too gimmicky. What’ll be next, Emma and Dragons?
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fireandhemlock1996
in August 31st, 2009 @ 11:55Heh. Emma and Dragons, I hope not. I’m reading Sense and Sensibility at the moment. Emma is hilarious, and Pride adn Prejudice is one of my favourite books.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in August 28th, 2009 @ 22:15Ok, really, aren’t there ANY MBers who LOVED The Hunger Games like I did!? I want someone to share my obssession!!! I think I’ve already bragged about it, but Ive already gotten a chance to read the second one, but no one seems to be jealous… Ah, well… You should read that book… You may not like it like I do, but you’ll probably like it. All of you Underland Chronicles fans, it’s by Suzanne Collins!!!
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SilverLeopard
in August 29th, 2009 @ 14:13There’s another series written by her?!
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Fio (aka La Mort)
in August 29th, 2009 @ 15:17The Hunger Games was a really good book. There’s a second one?
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in August 29th, 2009 @ 17:50Yeah, it’s coming out on September 1st . My library let me have a chance to read the advance reader’s copy of Catching Fire. There is also going to be a third one.
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Pseudonym
in August 29th, 2009 @ 20:51I once read The Hunger Games four times in a row. You read the second one? *is jealous* What’s the sequel about? I’m surprised the author could write one though, The Hunger Games seemed to end pretty cleanly.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in August 30th, 2009 @ 20:18Yes, it could’ve been its own book, but you remember herSPOILERSPOILERSPOIRRSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILER almost ate those poisonous berries, don’t you? The Capital wasn’t happy about that. I almost cried when SPOILERSPOILERspoilerSPOILer Rue died… She is brought up again in the second one, which brings up tears. I personally loved both of them, although some of you may not like how Collins continues the story. I don’t want to spoil it for everyone, but she does go about these books very cleverly. The third one promises to be epic. If anyone actually wants any tiny spoilers, I’ll tell you… I’ve been dying to share the story with someone… But it’s only two more days until it comes out! I think…
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Goldendoodle
in August 30th, 2009 @ 17:31There was recently a review of the books in Time magazine, giving it high praise. I, personally, love The Hunger Games.
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bubblebabe46
in August 29th, 2009 @ 14:59*hides in shame* i love The Clique…
i like the Hunger Game too….
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Alice
in August 29th, 2009 @ 22:49So I want to read something by Edith Wharton because she wrote “novels of manners” which is pretty much all I’m interested in reading right now (actually I’m only interesting in reading Dickens and Austen (the former of which is not so much “novel of manners” but does poke fun at society which is important), but I’ll have to make a few compromises) and there doesn’t seem to be anyone else who writes that kind of thing in America. I think we’re going to read Ethan Frome next year so I probably shouldn’t read that one. The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence both look kind of like The Mill on the Floss or something similar, but I suppose I’ll have to deal. Any suggestions?
I am also considering Mark Twain. But nothing really seems to fit. I just want to read Our Mutual Friend! -sobs-
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in August 29th, 2009 @ 23:03My favorite Wharton novel was The Custom of the Country, which I liked much better than The House of Mirth. Plus it features a main character named “Undine Spragg.” What’s not to like?
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Alice
in August 29th, 2009 @ 23:33Oh, that sounds like a splendid book! I will read that one! Social climbing and hundreds of divorces and bribing the Pope! Also, I agree with you on Undine Spragg.
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Daisy*chain
in August 29th, 2009 @ 23:08WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.I just read 1984… *in a state of shock*
Perhaps I should have waited until I was a bit older… But I couldn’t resist, and it really was a mind-boggling book.“‘How many finger am I holdin up, Winston?’
‘I don’t know. I don’t know. You will kill me if you do that again. Four, five, six—in all honesty I don’t know.’
‘Better,’ said O’Brien.”...2+2=5...
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Piggy
in August 30th, 2009 @ 05:58That one’ll make you all weird for a while after you’ve read it. An incredible book and perpetually applicable, but it makes you paranoid and in that state of shock for a while. You’ll go back to normal after a week or so.
“If you’re a man, Winston, you’re the last man. Your kind is extinct. We are the inheritors. Do you realize that you are alone? You are outside history. You unexist. Get up.”
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RoseQuartz
in August 30th, 2009 @ 10:20Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. It took me a little less than a week, but not much, to get over it. I hated the ending. It was so FRUSTRATING.
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Enceladus
in August 30th, 2009 @ 08:02I read it a little while ago. I also think I should have waited until I was a little older.
A few days ago, I read “Brave New World”. It’s even scarier than 1984. People are made in factories, with five classes:
Alphas, the master class, pretty much normal, except for their hypnopaedic conditioning (more on that).
Betas, also normal, but a working class.
Deltas, who’s growth process is stunted, and so are stupid. They are also all genetic clones.
Gammas, stunted even more than Deltas.
Epsilons, stunted so much they can’t read, or speak in full sentences.Every citizen has been given hypnopaedic conditioning, which means sleep teaching, about what to do, what to think, what to want, what to hate, what to love. They are taught to be ultra-consumerist, and if something breaks or tears, buy a new one. They are taught to hate all the other classes.
There is a savage reservation, which is basically like Aztecs combined with Native American tribes.
After an enormous war, the people decided to get rid of all religion, and choose Henry Ford as their new world leader. They cut off the tops of crosses and turned them into T’s. They made a wonderful drug called soma, which had no ill effects, but was hallucinogenic. It’s a utopia only to those who live in it.
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Pseudonym
in August 30th, 2009 @ 20:17That sounds really good. Who’s the author?
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bubbles
in August 31st, 2009 @ 10:29Aldous Huxley. I’m reading it, too.
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Alice
in August 30th, 2009 @ 10:45I started reading The Custom of the Country on Project Gutenberg last night. It’s weird. Kind of depressing, because you know that no matter how much Undine gets, she’ll just yearn for something else beyond her reach. It gives you the impression that there is nowhere safe. Also I kind of despise Undine Spragg, but maybe that’s the point.
It’s better than The Mill on the Floss, though, whether because I’m reading it by choice (sort of) or because hating Undine who is horrid is better than hating Maggie who is nice, I really couldn’t tell you.
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bubblebabe46
in August 30th, 2009 @ 15:29Has anyone read “Go Ask Alice”?
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Jadestone
in August 30th, 2009 @ 19:4818-The Hunger Games: My mom and I listed to that book on cd on our drive to Ohio to visit a college, and it was addicting. I don’t think I’d lave liked it as much if I hadn’t heard it read aloud–it took a lot longer than it would have reading, and the person reading it was very good. I don’t know if it’s going to be the same just reading the next one. But yes, I am envious that you got to read it in advance.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in August 30th, 2009 @ 20:07(24) I love audiobooks when they’re well done.
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soccer starr
in August 31st, 2009 @ 09:57Same here. But sometimes if I listen to an audio book and then read the book, I can’t get the voice out of my head, which I find annoying for some reason. Or if I read the book and then listen to the audio book, I find myself saying “That’s not how the person sounds like!”. Also annoying.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in August 31st, 2009 @ 10:05That’s true. In the “Deathly Hallows” audiobook, the (male) narrator gives Hermione a strange singsongy lilt (“Har-reeeeeeee!”), and Bellatrix Lestrange a distracting German accent. And in “Jonathan Strange,” the narrator consistently mispronounces “sidhe.” Both do a fine job otherwise, though, so I’ve learned to overlook or at least forgive minor flaws.
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bubbles
in August 31st, 2009 @ 10:27I’m listening to “Magyck” as an audio book while we’re in the car, and it’s very well done, except for the fact that whenever a CD ends or begins, this really loud fanfare plays without any warning. My mother says she’s going to have a car accident one day.
And in “The City of Ember” and “The People of Sparks” the reader mispronounced “rifled” every single time and drove us all insane. Does anyone know if there’s another book in that series?
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Silver Lining
in September 13th, 2009 @ 15:51Yeah. The Diamond of Darkhold. I never finished it because I thought it was boring. Oh, and the Prophet of Yonwood! It’s the prequel to the whole mess. That one was very good.
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soccer starr
in August 31st, 2009 @ 10:45A German accent for Bellatrix Lestrange?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in August 31st, 2009 @ 10:54I guess an accent is one way for a male reader to make a female character sound different from others in the book, and it’s easy to make a German accent sound sinister (Nazis, you know). Still, given the family histories, it’s hard to imagine how Bellatrix could have wound up talking that way. Narcissa didn’t.
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soccer starr
in August 31st, 2009 @ 11:32Yes, I can understand that that would be a good way to distinguish female/male characters but still, a German accent? Really? I just think Bellatrix Lestrange-German accent is a funny match… *ponders*
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Luna the Lovely
in August 31st, 2009 @ 11:30I don’t know if the narrator of “Deathly Hallows” is the same one who did the US version of “Sorcerer’s Stone”, but something about the way he reads just drives me nutty. He gives some of them the most annoying voices, and he pauses in the middles of sentences in the weirdest places. I forget his name, though…..
“sidhe”…..That’s pronounced “she”, correct? Or am I confused……
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in August 31st, 2009 @ 11:36“She” is indeed correct. The reader said “sid-hee.” It’s a logical enough mistake, but he could have looked it up. Gaelic words are tricky.
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Luna the Lovely
in August 31st, 2009 @ 11:41To be honest, I only knew how to pronounce it because I remember an animal (dog, I think, not that it matters) coming into the vet clinic where I work and it’s name was “Beansidhe”, and the little kid informed the vet that its name was pronounced “Banshee”, before the vet even had a chance to say the name, correctly or incorrectly…..
Although, come to think of it, on Merlin they mentioned the Sidhe, I just wasn’t spelling it right in my head…..
But yes, Gaelic words are very difficult. I would probably manage to mispronounce just about all of ’em, if I didn’t look them up. Which I would think most people would do when narrating a book, unless they were very certain of their pronunciation….
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Alice
in September 1st, 2009 @ 20:52I’m still not entirely sure how “Sidhe” turns into “Shee,” I just know that it does. I learned when I was but a wee lass of five or six and read Wise Child.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in September 1st, 2009 @ 21:47“Si” turns the “s” into an “sh” sound (as in the Irish name Siobhan, pronounced “Shuh-VON”), and “dhe” is silent — hence, “shi” or “she.”
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Alice
in September 1st, 2009 @ 22:19Why have three silent letters in a row? Why not just cut them? Do they at all affect the way “si” is pronounced, or do they just look nice?
Well, anyways, it’s pretty enough that I will overlook the illogicality of it.
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muselover
in September 5th, 2009 @ 20:22The narrator for The Thief Lord (BRILLIANT book, by the way) pronounced Scipio better then the MOVIE did. It’s sheepio, not skipio.
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muselover
in September 5th, 2009 @ 20:24WHOA! Fast moderation, GAPAs!
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speller73
in September 1st, 2009 @ 16:40I agree. They’re great for road trips too, at least if your family has similar tastes in books. I really liked the audiobook of Sabriel (even if it was a lot harder to keep track of the different bells without being able to look at the page that explains them all).
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SilverLeopard
in October 21st, 2009 @ 16:44We listened to Magyk on the way to and back from Vermont. The reader had an English accent, so I ended up forgetting how some of the words were spelled. (Deppen Ditch?) My brother loved it. He’d never read it before, and now he’s reading Flyte.
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bubblebabe46
in August 31st, 2009 @ 18:51There’s a third book in the City of Ember series but I don’t remember what it’s called. LET ME WIKI IT!!
Ooooh, there’s a fourth one too!! ok, the third is the Prophet of Yonwood and the fourth is the Diamond of Darkhold.
Groovy!!!
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Jakob Wonkychair
in August 31st, 2009 @ 19:20I’m reading Leo Tolstoi’s stories, all bound nicely together in a 70-year old volume that is falling apart.
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Pseudonym
in August 31st, 2009 @ 20:30Leo Tolstoi? That name sounds familiar… What did he write?
Has anybody read anything by Edward Gorey? I recently read “Amphigorey Again” and found it quite hilarious.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in August 31st, 2009 @ 20:49By coincidence, I’m reading Amphigorey.
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Jakob Wonkychair
in September 1st, 2009 @ 13:16He wrote stories that often had religious morals at the end. He wrote War and Peace(which isn’t in this volume), The Death of Ivan Illyich, and many others.
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SilverLeopard
in October 21st, 2009 @ 16:47I have a picture book inspired by one of Leo Tolstoi’s stories. It’s called The Three Questions. It was my favorite picture book when I was little.
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Pseudonym
in August 31st, 2009 @ 20:59Is Amphigorey the first one? I should read it. I loved Amphigorey Again. I drive Bubblebabe crazy quoting it. (“A one or two inch piece of string cannot be used for anything.” “Hooglyboo and Skrump scattered cracker crumbs on Figbash.”)
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in August 31st, 2009 @ 21:27They’re collections. Two others are Amphigorey Too and Amphigorey Also. He also illustrated works by other authors, including children’s books.
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SudoRandom
in August 31st, 2009 @ 21:27Has anyone read So B. It?
That book is sad.
I love that book.
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soccer starr
in September 1st, 2009 @ 09:16I’ve heard of it and seen the cover, but never read it. What’s it about? I honestly have no idea.
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SudoRandom
in September 2nd, 2009 @ 18:50It’s a great book. Read it. Just trust me.
I saw “Bernadette” in one of my personalized gmail ads, and it reminded me…
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Pseudonym
in September 1st, 2009 @ 13:35I read it. I liked it, but it was kind of sad.
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Silver Lining
in September 13th, 2009 @ 15:54I have. Very good. Surprisingly, I didn’t cry (I always cry at sad books), because I had a feeling it was coming.
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Alice
in August 31st, 2009 @ 23:28I ♥ Edward Gorey a thousand times over. I am forever attempting to dress up as though I am from an Edward Gorey illustration. I have read all of the Amphigoreys and several stories on their own. I own Amphigorey, Amphigorey Again, and The Sopping Thursday. Have you seen the book about his house? I think it’s called “Elephant House.”
29.1- He illustrated The Cuckoo Tree (believe, the cover at least)! And he did the cover for The Stolen Lake. I can’t remember Black Hearts in Battersea or Nightbirds on Nantucket well enough to recall the illustrations.
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kiwimuncher
in September 1st, 2009 @ 06:44Right now, I”m rereading the Hobbit. That’s such a fun book!
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Lovely Lunegood
in September 8th, 2009 @ 20:17Yes, I’ve reread quite a few times. Probabaly more than you! *grins while ducking a pie*
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soccer starr
in September 1st, 2009 @ 09:18I just finished The Last Olympian this morning, and have now moved on to read the Chestnut Hill series. (Has anyone read them?) They’re an easy read (Yeah, I know, even though they’re about girls in seventh grade, I think that they’re better suited to read for girls in fourth-sixth grade.) but still a lovable series when you want something to read that you don’t need to think about. And I can finish two or three of the books in one day!!
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peary moppins
in September 1st, 2009 @ 13:19Read “I AM THE MESSENGER” due to persuading of multiple friends. Enjoyed it!!
30) I READ SO. B. IT!! Great book, really sad but satisfying.I’m reading Slaughterhouse-Five right now…its confusing but hilarious.
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missSWANN :D
in September 3rd, 2009 @ 15:39I’m reading memoirs. Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter is really good, as is Please Stop Laughing at Me by Jodee Blanco. I reccomend.
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iridian4
in September 3rd, 2009 @ 22:04I just finished Runemarks. It was AMAZING!!!….has anyone read the mysterious benedict society
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RoseQuartz
in September 8th, 2009 @ 17:13I love MBS! The sequel stank, though….
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in September 18th, 2009 @ 18:10haven’t gotten a chance to read the second one yet… I did like the first one a lot, though. Didn’t some people not like it? I remember a discussion about it…
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Lovely Lunegood
in September 8th, 2009 @ 18:14Iread Runemarks, which was excellent.
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SilverLeopard
in October 21st, 2009 @ 16:48I read the Mysterious Benedict Society! Good book!
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Cerulean Pyros
in September 8th, 2009 @ 15:327 (Ducky): Oh, I really like Ranger’s Apprentice! I’m about to read The Battle for Skandia .
31 (Alice): Edward Gorey! Have you read The Shrinking of Treehorn ? Such a funny, but odd, book…
I have an query for Artemis Fowl fans. What are the titles and what order do they go in? I’ve read two of them, but then I got mixed up about which came next…and now I’m confused.
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SilverLeopard
in October 21st, 2009 @ 16:51Artemis Fowl, Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident, Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code, Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony, and Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox.
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Lovely Lunegood
in September 8th, 2009 @ 18:16I’m reading Discworld, which is pretty awesome. I love the Hogfather.
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Enceladus
in September 18th, 2009 @ 16:04 I prefer Death.
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Silver Lining
in September 13th, 2009 @ 15:58I just finished rereading Love, Stargirl. (I’ve been rereading a lot) It’s a sequel to Jerry Spinelli’s other book called Stargirl. Very good, better than the first, and quite touching in a tongue-in-cheek way. Also reading East by Edith Pattou. Really well-written book.
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Lovely Lunegood
in September 13th, 2009 @ 18:07I’ve read Stargirl, which was okay.
East, on the other hand was excellent. I especially love the polar bears.
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Jadestone
in September 18th, 2009 @ 22:18Finished Catching Fire!
POSSIBLE SLIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD
BUt seriously. She had to end with such a nasty cliffhanger? I didn’t like it as much as The Hunger Games, but I also read it versus listening to it on cd, which I really enjoyed with THG.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in September 27th, 2009 @ 20:24SPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERCATCHINGFIRESPOILERKINDASORTAPROBABLYNOTBUTIMPUTTINGUPTHISWARNINGANYWAY
Catching Fire was great! I don’t think that it was as good as the first one, but I still LOVED IT. The cliffhanger was amazing…. FrUsTraTiNg, but it was good. Do you think that there is going to be an epic war? I sure hope so. She can’t exactly put them all back in the hunger games.
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Kagcomix
in September 26th, 2009 @ 14:14So last week I decided to read Twilight because I thought it would ba a good laugh. Suprisingly, I actually really enjoyed it. I found that if I viewed it as a Harlequin romance it was a pretty good book. I don’t know. Everyone I know hates it. I think it’s just because they took it way too seriously. The part about the sparkling, though…… that was pretty wierd. It seems kind of out of place with the tone of the book.
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Axa
in September 26th, 2009 @ 15:12I think the weirdo fans are 1) what gives the series any standing at all and 2) why people who would otherwise enjoy them as “haha this is awful, I want to read more” books don’t read them. harlequin romance sounds right to me.
I remember reading the summary of the first book a looong time ago and thinking “eh that sounds kinda cliched” but I wasn’t furiously bothered by it. but 324725987325392857329852 teenage girls screaming THIS IS THE PINNACLE OF LITERARY EXCELLENCE is kind of annoying. but you know what, people can do whatever they want. I’m bothered by gender roles in the book but I’m pretty sure most of the girls who read it are just waiting for sexytimes with edward or whatever and don’t care/notice :/I was dragged to see the movie and actually found it reasonably enjoyable to watch. I probably laughed more than I should have though
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in September 27th, 2009 @ 15:17I read it before all the hype, and I even read Breaking Dawn right after it came out. I liked the series, but I didn’t worship it or anything. After everyone started screaming about it, and pointing out every little ridiculous thing, I just found the whole thing stupid… I refuse to say that I hate it, but I don’t worship it… And yeah, I’m a guy… Surprisingly, I haven’t gotten any ridicule for that. The Host is a much etter book by her, as I’ve mentioned before.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in September 27th, 2009 @ 15:17*better
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I-Man
in September 26th, 2009 @ 15:23I’ve been reading Watchmen at my school’s library and it is AWESOME.
Although a little too graphic and mature…
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in September 27th, 2009 @ 15:20I’m reading The Road now… Pretty gloomy… Axa, I remember you saying that you read it. The writing is very… elegant? I don’t know how to explain it, but it’s great. I’m hoping for a happy ending, but I’m doubting it.
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Axa
in September 29th, 2009 @ 02:10I never finished it but I really want to! It’s on the shelf with all the other unfinished books…I agree, I love the style. I think I’ll try to pick up with it this week just because you mentioned it.
I’m really interested in the movie but I do want to finish first!
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Alice
in September 27th, 2009 @ 16:11I’m reading The Scarlet Letter for school. It’s actually pretty good. I mean, I’m actually hoping for a happy ending, and I don’t hate any of the characters. I’d heard it was really boring and hard to read, but it’s actually super easy, even if there isn’t much of a plot and it’s all a bit sappy. I cried for Dimmesdale, but things are looking up. Maybe Chillingworth will die, and Hester can marry Dimmesdale, and they’ll all go to England and live happily ever after.
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Purple Panda
in September 27th, 2009 @ 18:17We read The Scarlet Letter last year. I really liked it; we had some great discussions about it in class, too. And we wrote an essay comparing it to the Crucible, which was surprisingly fun.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in September 27th, 2009 @ 20:07My brother is reading that for school too! *coincidence but not really*
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Daisy*chain
in September 27th, 2009 @ 16:31I’ve just finished reading The Looking Glass Wars (books 1 and 2).
I absolutely cannot wait for the third one to be released. *obsessed*
Two words. Hatter. Madigan.
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Enceladus
in September 27th, 2009 @ 18:06Me too.
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marfwarrior
in September 28th, 2009 @ 11:56I concur! Yay for the looking glass wars!
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SilverLeopard
in October 21st, 2009 @ 16:53I read the second. My public library does not have the first. grrrrrrrr…
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soccer starr
in September 28th, 2009 @ 08:21I just picked up Maximum Ride, and it actually took me awhile to realize that Max is a girl. Heh, I’m stupid. Anyway, so far it’s very good even though I’m still very early in.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in September 28th, 2009 @ 14:37I love that series! Enjoy the first three… the last two aren’t too good.
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Cat's Eye
in September 28th, 2009 @ 10:10After witnessing a spider spin a web in my backyard, I reread Charlotte’s Web and then sat down and cried for a while. Great book.
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Ducky
in September 28th, 2009 @ 15:50Out of pure curiosity, I am going to read- *has an idea* Why don’t you guess?
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RoseQuartz
in September 28th, 2009 @ 16:49What, twilight-which-does-not-deserve-a-capital?
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Ducky
in September 28th, 2009 @ 17:09NO!!!!!!!!!
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in September 28th, 2009 @ 16:4045- (Daisy*chain) WHAT?? There’s a second one? *mustreadmustreadmustread* I loved the first book. It was the book I read and reread and reread all though grade six. What’s the second one called?
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Enceladus
in September 28th, 2009 @ 18:15Seeing Redd
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bella the aviatrix
in September 29th, 2009 @ 07:05I really like the Mysterious Benedict Society + sequel.
I also like The Alchemyst + series by Michael Scott.
And I love re-reading the Enola Holmes books.Wow….I wrote really short sentences there. Not at all like my usual self. I am a rambler, overly descriptive, uses-too-many-words kind of writer usually.
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soccer starr
in October 1st, 2009 @ 15:08The Mysterious Benedict Society is good, and I’m pretty sure a third one will be coming out in the series called the Prisoner’s Dilemma! I read a little preview of it and it sounds like it’ll be a good one, I’ll have to remember to check it out from the library.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in October 4th, 2009 @ 12:01I believe that the third one is coming out tomorrow. I have yet to read the second one… I loved the first one.
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Cerulean Pyros
in September 29th, 2009 @ 09:1145 (Daisy*chain): Hatter. Madigan. Indeed. Unfortunately, I’ve only read the first book. My library system had one copy of Seeing Redd and just when I was ready to read it…. someone lost it. Ugh!
50 (Bella the aviatrix): Enola Holmes is quite awesome. I’m looking forward to The Case of the Gypsy Good-bye .
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Alice
in September 29th, 2009 @ 09:34Eh, I didn’t like The Looking Glass Wars. At all. OK, Hatter Madigan was pretty cool, but no one else was even remotely interesting, and Alice was dreadful, and the writing was pretty boring. I didn’t finish. I think it burnt, but I don’t know for sure. I know Un Lun Dun did, and I think I was reading them at the same time…
Basically, I just hate spins on Alice’s Adventures. Not even because I’m horribly attached to the story. I don’t believe in spin-offs of anything except traditional fairy tales, really, and even those are mostly mediocre. And I despise Disney. But Alice’s Adventures are particularly bad. I believe it may be because my name is Alice, and I hate being associated with anything but the pure, unadulterated story, with none of this let’s-make-it-darker and if-Alice-grows-up-we-can-have-ROMANCE stuff.
I kind of hate Tim Burton right now.
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in September 29th, 2009 @ 16:20Things I am Reading:
Al Capone Shines My Shoes
A biography of the BeatlesThings I Really Want to Read:
This Book is Not Good For YouI really really need some reccomendations. I haven’t been reading anything lately.
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I-Man
in October 4th, 2009 @ 12:26The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. Followed up immediately by I Am the Messenger.
Animal Farm, followed up by 1984.
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bookgirl_me
in October 4th, 2009 @ 13:58Oh, no, not that again. The book thief has a great format and everything, but there really was no need to be such a jerk about the germans.
The Bartimäus Triology is good, so’s the neverending story. Otherwise… the true diary of a part-time Indian? *will post more suggestions later* Oh, and Garth Nix is good too.
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I-Man
in October 4th, 2009 @ 21:06Why not? I mean, sure, not all Germans were bad, but the Nazis themselves were just evil.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in October 4th, 2009 @ 15:25<i.The Long Walk by Stephen King. It’ll blow your mind! (Literally…)
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in October 4th, 2009 @ 18:05HG2G “trilogy”
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Sabriel
Summerland
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Enceladus
in October 4th, 2009 @ 11:02Good News for Looking Glass Wars Fans!
The writer of those books is
A: Writing A Third Books.
B: Writing A Screenplay.I can’t wait for the Third to come out.
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Daisy*chain
in October 4th, 2009 @ 15:57Just finished reading To Kill A Mockingbird today.
That is a good book. *enormous understatement*
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Tesseract
in October 4th, 2009 @ 17:38I agree with you. *another enormous understatement*
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crazyquotescollector
in October 5th, 2009 @ 19:52Yeah, that was one of the only school-assigned books I liked. Somehow reading them in class destroys most books, but not that one.
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soccer starr
in October 4th, 2009 @ 16:10I’m reading The Giver! It’s really good, so far I like it – it’s kinda futuristic and yet makes you think about the way our communities in the U.S. (and in the world!) are run.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in October 4th, 2009 @ 18:14That’s one of my favorites!
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Silver Lining
in October 4th, 2009 @ 18:39No offense, but that is proably one of my least favorite books. The ending is awful. We have to read it in school, but I read it ahead of time and… *shudders*
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in October 4th, 2009 @ 19:39Ah, yes, I do agree, the ending is horrible, but something about the story dragged me in. I loved the concept of the changing of the apple, and why Jonas couldn’t explain it. The dulled emotions, the rituals of the different numbers, the weirdness of it all… I also wanted to see what happened to the community… I began the sequel, but stopped… not because it was bad, just because I was reading something else. I want to know if that was the product of Jonas’ actions, or just another community.. I suppose I’ll read it eventually. There’s a third too, right?
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SudoRandom
in October 9th, 2009 @ 11:04What’s the sequel called? The book wasn’t my favorite, but I wouldn’t mind reading the next one.
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Enceladus
in October 9th, 2009 @ 14:07Gathering Blue. It doesn’t have much to do with The Giver.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in October 9th, 2009 @ 16:03Yeah, I think it is implied that it is what the community has become. If you’re looking to see what happened next then that’s too bad…
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in October 9th, 2009 @ 15:52SPOILER SPOILER THE GIVER AND MESSANGER SPOILER.
The third one, Messenger, actually has Jonas as a character. Not my favorite, though. What’s up with “seeing beyond” being really special and having magical powers and all that? I liked it better when it was just being able to do things that we can do today but people in the dystopian society couldn’t. *pouts* I wish I had never read Messenger.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in October 9th, 2009 @ 16:41I didn’t know that! Does Gathering Blue have anything to do with Messenger? If it doesn’t, I’d rather just read that..
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Alice
in October 9th, 2009 @ 16:47I liked the ending. I liked to think that he had actually found a nice place, a village at Christmas-time, and the citizens found him and Gabriel in the snow, and took them in and fed them and gave them hot chocolate and everything was happy. Later I decided that they had died there, and there weren’t actually any lights or sleds or anything, which was upsetting, but OK really. Things don’t need happy endings, and really it could be interpreted any way you like–though I always want to interpret it the way the author meant it, which was why I decided he died, instead of finding a nice normal community (normal by our standards, not his).
I haven’t ever finished Gathering Blue or read the Messenger at all, but I’ve looked the latter up on Wiki and read a few chapters of the former, and I’d honestly rather think that Jonas died in the snow. I liked the ambiguity of that ending, and I like every outcome I’ve considered better than the one that happened. It just makes it seem like every other YA futuristic-medieval-dystopia, whereas before it was different. It makes you think.
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RoseQuartz
in October 12th, 2009 @ 11:49I hated it too. It was so horrible and… and… just horrible! *shudders*
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KaiYves- Let's Kick Up Some Moon Dust!
in October 4th, 2009 @ 18:44I personally didn’t like it, but I’ve never been a fan of dystopian/social science fiction.
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vanillabean3.141
in October 4th, 2009 @ 18:02I seem to be missing something (not surprising). Can someone explain who/what Douglas Adams and Percy Jackson are?
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Daisy*chain
in October 4th, 2009 @ 18:16Douglas Adams is the
godman who wrote The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a book series about Greek gods and half/gods and such.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in October 4th, 2009 @ 18:17Douglass Adams is an amazingly funny frood/guy/author who wrote The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and its four sequels. I’ve read all five
I haven’t yet read any of his other books, but you should start off with HG2G. Percy Jackson is… well, I’ll leave that one to soccer starr. 
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JJjetplane-girlw/catsâ„¢
in October 8th, 2009 @ 17:13*gasp*
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vanillabean3.141
in October 4th, 2009 @ 20:25Thanks!
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Daisy*chain
in October 8th, 2009 @ 15:19…I reread Stargirl recently… Remembered why it’s one of my favorite books…
Anyone else read it?
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☼Zinc the sorceress☼
in October 8th, 2009 @ 18:46Oh! Stargirl! I remember! There’s a sequel, too!
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SilverLeopard
in October 21st, 2009 @ 16:56I have. It’s a good book.
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mas0n
in October 8th, 2009 @ 16:3959: No, but I have heard of it before.
I’m reading a series called Artimis Fowl. I started a long time ago, and read the 1st & 2nd. I loved them, and can’t remember why I stopped.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in October 8th, 2009 @ 19:2260- I love Artemis Fowl!!! It’s not the most complex series, but it’s very enjoyable and clever.
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crazyquotescollector
in October 9th, 2009 @ 09:04Esther Freisner is an AMAZING author.
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Alice
in October 9th, 2009 @ 13:41I’m currently reading The Thurber Carnival. I have completely changed my mind regarding short stories; Thurber is AMAZING. When I was young we had a book called The Great Quillow, which I always loved.
I was reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea for a while, but it was so…translated. It didn’t really hold my attention, though really I should try again.
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soccer starr
in October 9th, 2009 @ 15:0857-(vanillabean) I know I’m a little late, but:
You’re a MBer, you’ve been around me, and you don’t know what PERCY JACKSON IS?!?!?!?!?!?! PICK. IT. UP. RIGHT. NOW. AND. READ!!!!! Ok, sorry, it’s just that I’m obsessed… (As you can see, and as Fishy said…)
Alright, I could write a book about every minor detail, but it’s a five part series by Rick Riordan (With a movie coming out in February.) about a modern Greek hero, in which the Greek gods are very much alive. I don’t want to give it away, but basically it turns into a classic good vs. evil story (or gods vs. titans, if you wish) but very funny and exciting. Must read.
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in October 9th, 2009 @ 15:58In English class we’re moving on to As I Lay Dying! I’m really excited. I do wish that I could compare Go Down, Moses to this book instead of Hamlet, but I can’t have everything.
Every time I sharpen my pencil in English class, I look at this sheet of paper that says “Mr. B’s Top 100 Books of All Time” and in the number one spot, right at the top is: “1. The Bear (Go Down, Moses!)”. I feel special knowing that I unwittingly read his favorite book for my summer reading.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in October 9th, 2009 @ 16:06Has anyone read The Forever War? I’m only up to page twelve, but I can sense some epic-ness approaching.
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muselover
in October 10th, 2009 @ 19:51MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY AND THE PRISONER’S DILEMMA SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER HAVE I SAID SPOILER ENOUGH? I HOPE SO
Okay, I just read The Prisoner’s Dilemma, and it literally seemed like it was written by a different author. Constance’s ESP, which was originally an interesting character trait that developed with the character, now serves only as a deus ex machina. Plus, the Prisoner’s Dilemma only has relevance in the FIRST CHAPTER. I think Trenton Lee Stewart should have stopped at the second book.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in October 10th, 2009 @ 20:19And Another Thing… comes out on Tuesday! You can read the first chapter on the Barnes & Noble website. I read it, and honestly, it wasn’t bad at all. The only thing that was annoying was the multiple references to past books as if you haven’t read them.
At least read the first chapter, and see what you think!
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muselover
in October 12th, 2009 @ 11:39I read it, and though it sounds a lot like Douglas Adams, it has the unmistakable air of someone trying to sound like Douglas Adams.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in October 21st, 2009 @ 18:30If I had enough time, I would have been done and finished with it… but I’ve barely started. I expect to finish The Forever War tonight, then quickly read And Another Thing… After that I’ll be off to my National History Day non-fiction reading! Fun..
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vanillabean3.141
in October 10th, 2009 @ 20:51soccer starr–I read The Lighting Thief, and it was good! I was glad that Luke was the traitor–I was scared that it would be Grover, and I liked Grover.
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SudoRandom
in October 12th, 2009 @ 13:10There should be a spoiler on that. SPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERTHELIGHTNINGTHIEFMINORSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILER
That should be enough.
Yeah, I’m also glad it wasn’t Grover, but it made me sad that Luke felt that way, and that he betrayed them. I dunno, I guess I’m too emotional when it comes to that stuff. Although you’d think I’d cry at the ends of books.
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LittleBasementKitten (Sheimei, Halena, Regina, Cyara, Cailin, and Cadeo)
in December 28th, 2009 @ 12:35Me too.
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starr
in December 28th, 2009 @ 13:59I don’t think I’ve ever cried because of a book, actually. I’ve come close to it but I’ve never actually cried…
I have, however, sobbed my heart right out during movies.
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shadowfire
in October 10th, 2009 @ 23:33I’m now reading the Discworld series, on my friend’s suggestion. Just finished The Color of Magic.
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Silver Lining
in October 13th, 2009 @ 15:4059: The sequel (Love, Stargirl) is really, really good. Even better than the first. Very funny, and also extremely touching. (I know I’ve already said that, but it is such a good book!) I haven’t read the first one in a while though.
Am reading “The Looking Glass Wars”. It is soooooooooooo flamablamablous. Thanks to everyone who reccomended it!
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SilverLeopard
in October 21st, 2009 @ 16:58I am reading Maximum Ride. I had to stop, though, to finish Attica. (Which I now have.) It’s really good, so far.
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Pseudonym
in October 21st, 2009 @ 17:07So am I. I’m only on the first chapter, but I thought what I read was really good. I love Fang, and especially Iggy.
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Tesseract
in October 21st, 2009 @ 18:21It’s a good plot, but the writing style is a little fast-paced and melodramatic for my taste.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in October 21st, 2009 @ 18:28It’s definitely a good read. Obviously not a masterpiece, because the style is a little strange; But it also makes the writing more interesting too. Enjoy the first three, ’cause the rest aren’t very good… *crosses fingers for Fang to be good*
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Keiffer
in October 22nd, 2009 @ 17:51I recently read an exceptionally great vampire series about this dude named Darren Shan. The author’s name is Darren Shan, and I recommend the series to anyone who likes vampires, and death. There are about twelve books, all 150+ pages… sorry, ranting a bit.
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Rainbow*Star
in November 7th, 2009 @ 19:32Two of my friends like Darren Shan. I haven’t read it, but I’d like to.
Not to sound stalkerish, but do you live in California, by any chance?
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Luna the Lovely
in November 7th, 2009 @ 20:01Oh, wait, Cirque du Freak? I think i started that series 6-10 years ago, read maybe the first book or two, and either the others weren’t written or the library didn’t have them…..What I read wasn’t bad, if I recall.
The first book started with him finding a ticket to a freakshow in his brother’s jeans, right? And he and a friend went? His friend wanting to get turned into a vampire, or the like? Or am I totally confusing this with something else…….?
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bubblebabe46
in November 7th, 2009 @ 17:11Oh my gosh! Keiffer, I think I just recognized you…Do you go to the same school as Pseudo and I and are you in Pseudo’s science class and homeroom and are you who I think you are…?
TFATF42, you have just killed my hopes and dreams. The first-book-being-good-and-the-rest-of-the-series-being-mediocre syndrome will now be known as the “Twilight” syndrome, or TTS.
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Luna the Lovely
in November 7th, 2009 @ 20:02Wait, wait, what? I’m afraid I must disagree…….not even the first twilight book was good, and they were all far below mediocre, in my opinion.
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peary moppins
in November 7th, 2009 @ 20:48I’m reading the “Mysterious Benidict Society”, at the urging of one of my friends…its pretty good.
Any of you guys read it?
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Pseudonym
in November 25th, 2009 @ 20:23Yeah, I thought it was good…I didn’t really like the second one as much. It reminded me of my NaNo too much. The way the plot was set up. Actually, they weren’t all that similar, but…. *goes off on long ramble*
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RoseQuartz
in November 25th, 2009 @ 20:34I didn’t like the second one either. I found I couldn’t really get through it, it was kind of… boring…. or something like that…. I dunno.
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bella the aviatrix
in November 7th, 2009 @ 22:4774- Yes.
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Silver Lining
in November 10th, 2009 @ 16:22Since I seem to be in a list-making mood lately, here’s a list of the books I have read recently or am reading now:
Going Going by Naomi Shihab Nye
11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (NOW I know what all the hype’s about! Great book, *SPOLIER, I guess?* though it kind of annoyed me a teeny bit how monsters were attacking Percy every two seconds.)
Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech (re-read)
The Unfinished Angel by Sharon Creech
I have yet to read the Mysterious Benedict Society. Judging by my success with Percy Jackson, I think I shall try it next. It’s a trilogy, correct?
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Pseudonym
in November 25th, 2009 @ 20:2911 Birthdays? Was that published recently? I should read it. I liked Wendy Mass’s other books. Has anybody read anything by her?
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soccer starr
in November 26th, 2009 @ 17:17Sorry this is a little late, but I’m glad you read it and liked it! (Percy Jackson, I mean.) And I agree, the monsters do get tiring after awhile. Also, it’s a five part series. (The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse which is also my personal favorite, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian.) The Lightning Thief is being made into a movie which will premiere in February 2010.
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Keiffer
in November 11th, 2009 @ 14:0472.1- No, I don’t live in California.
73- I believe I am who you think I am.
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cromwell
in November 18th, 2009 @ 19:10I realize that this is a very strange request, but can anyone give me a brief synopsis and the correct spelling of the Pellinor series?
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Errata
in November 23rd, 2009 @ 08:25Why does Pellinor sound familiar? Have I read those books or not? Ugh!
Either I’ve read them and don’t remember them, or I’m relating the name to LotR, and that’s where I’m getting it.
Probably the latter. What is the Pellinor series?
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RoseQuartz
in November 25th, 2009 @ 20:44Oh, I have. I rather disliked them, actually. Perhaps the name Maerad rings a bell, Errata? She was the main character. The first book was The Naming, I believe….
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kiwimuncher
in November 19th, 2009 @ 06:48It has absolutely been ages since I have traversed these halls! Right now, I’m reading a Tale of Two Cities, which is interesting so far. After that, I’m planning on reading “The Lightening Thief,” which should be good because my Dad wants me to read it and he’s a highschool English teacher. Any opinions on that?
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Rainbow*Star
in November 22nd, 2009 @ 09:26Lightning, not lightening. You can remember it like this: If you choked on a bit of carrot, you would make the sound “tn!” “Lightning” has a “tn!” in the middle of it.
*GAPA imitation*
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kiwimuncher (4 B-Day points) (50 Muszey points)
in December 11th, 2009 @ 20:32Yeah, I’m a bad speller.
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Axa
in November 21st, 2009 @ 23:28I have a book recommendation for all Musers. I’m only three chapters into it but it just seems like a book people here would like. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. I think it was recently put back into print. The cover has a huge quote by JK Rowling for some reason (i suppose promotional purposes) so all you harry potter fans should read it too
kiwimuncher — we’re about to start tale of two cities in school. I’m expecting complaints since my peers can’t handle dickens at all.
I wish there was some way for us all to talk about one book, more of a discussion type thing. Although I do think we tried that in the past and it didn’t work out (?) Probably because we’re all the “I’m going to read ahead…” types. At least I am.
I want ot find time to read at least five books before the year’s over…
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in November 22nd, 2009 @ 01:5580- I love I Capture the Castle! After I read it I wanted to try my own version of what she did, but not being able to write shorthand, I gave up.
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in November 22nd, 2009 @ 09:37Books I have been forced to read for English this year:
Watership Down (It was okay, but rather boring in parts.)
Freak The Mighty (Eh. The characters just seemed really stereotypical and 2-D to me. Especially how Freak talks.)
The Book Thief (Decent, but sad. Oddly, I found the ‘you are going to die’ thing sadder than the actual sad events. Does that make me selfish?)
My Brother Sam Is Dead (Violent, sad, and rather pointless. Also wins the award for Most Spoilery Title.)
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Alice
in November 25th, 2009 @ 11:13Watership Down? Boring? Fie, Rainbowstar!
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kiwimuncher (4 B-Day points) (50 Muszey points)
in December 11th, 2009 @ 20:32BORING?! Inconceivable!
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SilverLeopard is in CALIFORNIA!!
in November 22nd, 2009 @ 11:09I’m reading the Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini. I finished Eldest yesterday night and I’m going to read Brisingr soon…
SPOILERSPOILERELDESTSPOILERSPOILER
I guessed that Murtagh and the Twins were still alive. I also guessed that Galbatorix wanted to Saphira to breed more dragons and get more Riders.
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I-Man
in November 25th, 2009 @ 09:21Brisingr is boring. Honestly, it truly is. I got it over a year ago and I’m still around page 76 or so.
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bookgirl_me
in November 25th, 2009 @ 10:55I strongly disliked it too. It’s the only book I own that I haven’t re-read because I was so disappointed.
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muselover
in November 25th, 2009 @ 17:14Plus, the whole Star Wars problem…
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bella the aviatrix
in November 23rd, 2009 @ 03:22The Fourth Apprentice is coming out tomorrow!
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Rainbow*Star
in November 23rd, 2009 @ 09:31Yay! But my library probably won’t get it for a week or two. T_T
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Errata
in November 25th, 2009 @ 08:45I’ve been reading Artemis Fowl lately. I’ve gotten through the first two, and the first part of the third. They’re really good, and not helping my NaNo along at all.
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bluefire27
in November 28th, 2009 @ 19:55Have you read the graphic novel? Or is that what you’re talking about?
If ther’s a second graphic novel, I need to read it!
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Errata
in November 28th, 2009 @ 22:02No, I haven’t. Just the text versions.
I haven’t read any graphic novels… I’ll look into that.
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kiwimuncher (4 B-Day points) (50 Muszey points)
in December 11th, 2009 @ 20:34I loved Artemis Fowl. Hoever, by the time I got to book 6 or something, I was starting to get a little weary of them. The first book is fun though.
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I-Man
in November 25th, 2009 @ 09:2085 – I got through book one, but I couldn’t get started on book two.
Has anybody else read the Bone series? I love it, although I’m still searching the libraries for book 5. They really should make a movie (or movie series) out of it.
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RoseQuartz
in November 25th, 2009 @ 20:35AF? I got through… *counts in head* About seventeen pages of it. The first one. Artemis just drove me absolutely nuts, and it was all kind of cliché…
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in November 26th, 2009 @ 00:08I LOVE BONE.
I’ve just begun rereading it, after a dried-plum craze swept the school (a bit of hyperbole there). I don’t know much about other higher level graphic novels, with the same degree of structure and culture- any suggestions?
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I-Man ((William II, OSW's Secretary))
in November 27th, 2009 @ 18:31Watchmen. It’s amazing. Just one word – it can be somewhat graphic at times.
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Rosebud2
in December 12th, 2009 @ 12:35I ♥ BONE!!
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in November 25th, 2009 @ 19:29Has anyone read The Name Of This Book is Secret?
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RoseQuartz
in November 25th, 2009 @ 19:58Me! Mememe~! I love that book!
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in November 27th, 2009 @ 17:30You too! My friend absolutely adores it, but I can’t find what it is so special about it… I just finished it yesterday, and I really liked the author’s style. I thought that he could have made a little bit more of a complicated plot. But… it is, but why doesn’t it seem so? It just seems very simple to me, and that’s why I wouldn’t praise it as anything more than just a really good book (at best). Feel free to tell me your opinion.
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Ducky
in November 27th, 2009 @ 17:55Simple? I’m sorry, but it’s absolutely not simple.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in November 27th, 2009 @ 19:21But would you call it complex?
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SudoRandom
in December 12th, 2009 @ 14:43As far as plots go, it kinda is.
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Alice
in November 25th, 2009 @ 20:49Aw, now I wanna read Watership Down…Or JS&MN or something. Something large and very good that I’ve already read at least once and that ISN’T Dickens, though of course I love him dearly. Hmmmmm….
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Maths Lover ♥
in November 26th, 2009 @ 02:29I am reading H2G2. This must be the first time I’ve read the book after seeing the movie.
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Errata
in November 26th, 2009 @ 07:14I’m not quite reading it yet, but I finally got my hands on a copy, which I’m going to read just as soon as NaNo’s over. For the first time ever.
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in November 26th, 2009 @ 15:28Has anyone read The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer? The house of the Scorpion? Or The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor? All excellent books, I like them.
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Enceladus
in November 26th, 2009 @ 16:23The Sea Trolls: Yes. Amazing. Have you read the sequel?
The Looking Glass Wars: Yes. Amazing. Have you read the third one yet?
The House Of Scorpion: I’ll look it up.
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muselover
in November 26th, 2009 @ 18:25House of the Scorpion was BRILLIANT. I still can’t believe that Crispin beat it to the Newbery Medal.
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in December 10th, 2009 @ 22:15House of the Scorpion = Nacny Farmer’s 2nd-best book. Out of the ones I’ve read. Which are four. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm was her best one.
The Sea of Trolls was pretty good, but I did not like the sequel.
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
Why did she have to cripple Jill (or whatever she likes to be called) even more? It doesn’t make any sense. I really hope everything’s put right in the third one.
END SPOILER.
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Daisy*chain
in November 27th, 2009 @ 19:37Looking Glass Wars = yay!
I need to read the third one, though, but so far I liked the series.
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kiwimuncher (4 B-Day points) (50 Muszey points)
in December 11th, 2009 @ 20:35House of the Scorpian: one of my favorite books ever. I lurve it. It’s one of those books that has an excellent plot, suspense, and it makes you think.
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Silver Lining
in November 26th, 2009 @ 18:2787/.1–I have too! And the other two books in the series? I liked the first one the best. I love all the twisted humour.
Well, I’ve just started reading the last Percy Jackson book and I like it. I’m a bit wary of the movie they’re making, though. I dunno…it just seems like too good of a series to be made into a movie. (By the way, soccer starr, thank you for that *coughratherobsessivecough* information on the rest of the series. It was quite useful.)
76.1–Yes, I believe that it is her most recent book. I’ve read all of Wendy Mass’ books except for Heaven Looks A Lot Like the Mall.
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bubblebabe225
in November 27th, 2009 @ 16:14I
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Especially A Mango-Shaped Space!!!!
I love Meg Cabot, too *glee*
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☼Zinc the sorceress☼
in November 27th, 2009 @ 17:10Ooh! Ooh! I agree! I truly do agree!
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Kokopelli52
in November 28th, 2009 @ 01:23Read The Adoration of Jenna Fox– it’s SO good!
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bubblebabe225
in November 28th, 2009 @ 15:40The Princess Diaries are a bit inane, seeing as they’re repetitive, but they’re a fun read
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in November 28th, 2009 @ 20:12ohmygosh there’s a second Artemis Fowl graphic novel!!!!!!!!!!!
That is a must-read for me.
And so this isn’t a PoPo, I also enjoyed another book by Eoin Colfer, Half Moon Investigations.
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kiwimuncher (4 B-Day points) (50 Muszey points)
in December 11th, 2009 @ 20:36Graphic novel? What is this?
You don’t mean a cartoon like thing do you? *dreads answer*
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kiwimuncher (4 B-Day points) (50 Muszey points)
in December 11th, 2009 @ 20:40OMG. i just looked it up on Amazon. That is unacceptable. That has ruined my happy opinion of the series now. *head desk*
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in December 17th, 2009 @ 23:43I know! I saw a copy in Powell’s and I was shocked! Why is Artemis so nerdy-looking? Why does he have glasses??? And why is Butler’s head so small??? Why is Butler all muscle??? I always imanged Butler as a Chuck Norris/ninja guy, not a bodybuilder.
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bubblebabe225
in November 30th, 2009 @ 19:01Hmmm…how many Hunger Games books are there?
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in December 2nd, 2009 @ 16:4296- It’s a trilogy, but only two are out now.
I just finished Everlost. Possibly one of the best endings I’ve ever read. Neal Shusterman is now in my top five (at least top ten) favorite authors. I can’t wait to read Everwild and Downsiders.
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Axa
in December 5th, 2009 @ 23:15Response to Alice from ages ago– That’s funny, because Cassandra reminds me of you a bit! I imagine that sounds very odd considering I only know you from your posts here but I suppose it’s the way she writes. Anyway.
I finished I Capture the Castle a few days ago. I loved it. It’s just ineffably wonderful so I recommend it to all muserly types.I’ve just started East of Eden (by John Steinbeck) which is exciting. I think that the central coast area is beautiful, though I’ve never been as far north as salinas county itself. I’m very much looking forward to reading.
When I was rather sick a few weeks ago my mom read the beginning of Waiting for Godot to me, and I found it hilarious (though I did have a fever at the time….) I’d like to finish that next…or perhaps I’ll read that first since East of Eden is so long. Hmm.
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in December 10th, 2009 @ 22:20Right now my Christmas list concists of:
Once Upon a Time in the North
And that’s it.
I want that book so bad even though it’s really short just to encourage Philip Pullman to get working on his Book of Dust!!! I wanna know what happens to Lyra after that silly birds book! According to my admitidly not-so accurate resource of Wikipedia it’s going to be a full-on novel.
But I also think Once Upon a Time in the North will be a great book. Iorek and Lee? Yay!
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in December 12th, 2009 @ 14:27I read Once Upon A Time In The North, and I loved it! It made me a little sad having to think about Lee dying… Have you read Lyra’s Oxford? I want to!
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in December 14th, 2009 @ 17:21That should have a spoiler warning…
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in December 17th, 2009 @ 23:44I have Lyra’s Oxford… I was kind of unsatisfied with it, but I liked the little extra stuff he threw in it.
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bubblebabe225
in December 11th, 2009 @ 17:35Has anyone ever read Flowers for Algernon? Comments please.
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Cello-Playing Mathematician
in December 11th, 2009 @ 19:05I thought it was pretty weird. I never read the full book, so I don’t know about any of the filler text. I only read the short story version, which is just the guy’s journal entries. Apparently it’s better than the book version anyway.
I had weird brain surgery dreams for a week after reading it, but then again I was in eighth grade, and I was weird too.
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Enceladus
in December 11th, 2009 @ 19:27Oh, I read the short story version too. I thought it was really sad.
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Luna the Lovely
in December 11th, 2009 @ 19:13Yes, I believe I did…..Isn’t that the book where some mentally handicapped guy had surgery or some such done at it temporarily made him smart? I don’t really remember it very well, at all. It was years’n’years’n’years ago when I read it…..
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in December 11th, 2009 @ 20:44Heh. I’m reading it now for a club.
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in December 12th, 2009 @ 11:59Has anyone read the Midnighters series? I just finished the second one.
How about the Looking Glass Wars? My friend told me that they’re making a movie of it, and there’s a thing on the website where you can audition for parts, and she’s trying out for Molly. I want to try out for Molly too, but I can’t find the thing on the website.
I like the idea of Imagination, and being able to conjure things from your mind.
Hatter reminds me of Butler from Artemis Fowl.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in December 14th, 2009 @ 17:19Just picked up The Long Walk and read a couple of pages…. I love that book so much. My brother bought The Gunslinger but he won’t let me read it! I got angry… I’m currently re-reading The Invention of Hugo Cabret. I almost forgot how cool it is.
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soccer starr
in December 14th, 2009 @ 17:3791 – Ooh! Ooh! I saw Percy Jackson on the page and my eyes lit up instantly.
*coughwhywouldibeobsessedhahacough* Yeah, I do agree with you about the movie…I mean, I’m so excited to see it but at the same time I’m trying to remind myself not to get too excited about it in case it turns out to be completely commercialized. Jake Abel, who I vaguely recall being on Hannah Montana (Or am I wrong? It was ages ago…I can’t even remember the last time I watched the show.) is playing Luke I believe, and that already to me is a bad sign. I dunno, nothing against him (He’s very err, handsome…*blush* But only in that type of celebrity way.) but if this movie is Disney-ified…*shudder* K, nuff talk of that we should really move this to the movie thread…94 – Oh yes, love Princess Diaries definitely a fun read when I have nothing new….
95 – Half Moon Investigations! Another favorite! Love that book!
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Silver Lining
in December 14th, 2009 @ 18:28I finished the Percy Jackson series! I liked the outcome, but the physical wording of the edning did not please me. ‘Twas very abrupt. It’s a fabulous series, though, definitely at the top of my list.
I also just finished “Claim to Fame” by Margaret Peterson Haddix. It was very very good, but not nearly as good as “Double Identity.” I reccomend both if you like sci-fi/ mystery.
Has anyone read “The Book of Story Beginnings” by Kristin Kladstrup? I’m reading it for bookclub. I’m not sure how much longer this club will last, considering one of the kids I can no longer stand and another one has hated reading from the beginning…Oh, well. We started it in third grade so I guess that really is a long time. /ramble…
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soccer starr
in December 14th, 2009 @ 18:41“At the top of the list” pretty much sums it up for me too. *grin* Although, on a slightly more serious note, I’m glad you liked it! The third book was my personal favorite, with the fifth or fourth coming in a close second. The second one is my least favorite. (If not for Tyson, it would have sucked as a stand alone book, it’s only good because the rest of the series is.)
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in December 17th, 2009 @ 19:20Oh, the third one is my favourite, too! Nobody else I know who’s read the series liked it for some reason, but we all agreed that the second one was certainly not his best work.
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Luna the Lovely
in December 14th, 2009 @ 18:46Percy Jackson? Sorry….This is a bit off topic, probably better on the dreams thread, but…..I had a dream about Percy Jackson last night, which is really weird, because, well, I’ve not read any of the books, or anything.
So, in my dream, I was asking one of you MBers (except I was actually speaking to you face to face) if it was true that Percy Jackson was basically a total rip-off of Harry Potter. In my dream, I had watched a trailer for the movie (which, to be fair, I did in real-life, I just no longer recall which bits were real and which were only real in the dream). In my dream, the movie is directed by Chris Columbus (the same guy who did the first two HP movies), and I want to say that this is true in RL, as well, but I could be going totally mad. Also in my dream, in the trailer, there is this one shot that shows Percy seeing this castle all lit up at night for the first time, almost exactly the same as when Harry first saw Hogwarts in the movie (or, at least in dream reality, now I can’t remember if any of this is at all close to real reality). Additionally (in my dream), the music playing was also a total rip-off of the first two HP movies (I think Hedwig’s Theme was playing), but to be fair, in my dream, John Williams was doing the music for Percy Jackson, and, well, as I even pointed out in my dream right after screaming that that was Hedwig’s Theme and they stole it from HP, was that, well, all of John Williams’s stuff is a total rip-off of his other stuff…..
So, um, yeah, anyway, is PJ at all a rip-off of HP, or do I just have the most bizarre dreams, ever? I mean, I don’t even know what on earthw ould’ve possessed me to be dreaming about a series I’ve never read, and only watched a trailer for several months ago…….
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SudoRandom
in December 14th, 2009 @ 19:52I think there’s a part in the preview where Percy sees NYC all lit up at night, and that could look like a castle, or maybe he sees Olympus. I’m not sure.
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Luna the Lovely
in December 14th, 2009 @ 20:54I’m not sure either….I’m not even sure if any of what took place in the trailer in my dreams actually took place in the trailer I saw on YouTube way back in August/September.
Actually, I’d not even so much as thought about any of it since then, so I really don’t know where on earth the whole dream came from….
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Errata
in December 14th, 2009 @ 20:09I would say you just have the most bizarre dreams ever. Which is debatable, but that’s a different point.
Anyway, there are some parallels, but in general it’s pretty different. None of the scenes you describe happen in the book, in any case…
I don’t know whether John William’s stuff is a rip-off of his other stuff, but we keep finding passages in classical music that is nearly identical to some of his themes.
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Luna the Lovely
in December 14th, 2009 @ 20:56Well, I do have some rather bizarre dreams, whether they’re the “most bizarre”, or not, I wouldn’t know–i’ve not dreamed everyone else’s dreams to compare them to.
As for John Williams’s stuff, I dunno about the classical music being similar to his themes (or, technically, his themes being similar to classical music), but he definitely rips his own work off time and time again. I’m not typically all that good at recognizing music, but there have been probably half a dozen or so movies I’ve watched since starting college and thought, “Hey, that music sounds a lot like something from HP!” And, sure enough, I look it up and John Williams did that movie, as well.
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Luna the Lovely
in December 14th, 2009 @ 22:13Okay, so, I just went over to YouTube and watched one of the trailers…..I’ve changed my mind: I think maybe I have seen a trailer since watching one months ago. That is, the music seemed freakily familiar, and I think just maybe I saw a trailer for it while my sis and I were at the theatre watching 2012 over Thanksgiving Break. It wouldn’t surprise me.
As for the Hogwarts Castle look-alike scene, it does not appear anywhere near as similar in RL as in my dream. Sure, Percy hops out of an elevator and sees Olympus (I guess) all lit up, but it really doesn’t look all that much like Hogwarts Castle all lit up when HP first sees it, unless you’re watching it with that in mind.
The really scary thing? The comments posted beneath the trailer, I swear I’ve read–the exact same comments, exact same order, exact same everything, but supposedly they were all posted within the last day or so. And it was well over a month ago that I saw the trailer on YouTube to have possibly read them originally. so either I’m going mad, or YT is having some sort of issue with it’s timestamping. I think I’m gonna go with the latter, here…….
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Enceladus
in December 26th, 2009 @ 06:35Mabye you’re not going mad. Mabye you’re becoming Psychic!
The Percy Jackson movie actually is directed by Chris Columbus…
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in December 26th, 2009 @ 10:57*watched the trailer*
Annabeth a brunette Hermione knockoff?
*fumes*
This is going to end up just like Eragon…
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bubblebabe225
in December 19th, 2009 @ 17:56This should probably be on the Rants and Plaints thread, or whatever it is now, but…the Private series. For some INEXPLICABLE REASON, I read them ALL. They are all really boring, overdramatic, and extremely repetitive. And it just got WAY out of hand by the last one. And the main character was REALLY annoying. So, it got SO out of hand, the main character’s roommate shot her. I thought she died – I was SO happy! That was probably the subconcious reason I read the whole series. So TODAY, I go to Target, and there’s ANOTHER book in the series…and the main character is alive after all! ARRGH! I was SO mad. That means I read the entire series for NOTHING!!! Well, maybe the main character will die again. That would be awesome.
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vanillabean3.141
in December 19th, 2009 @ 19:24There’s ANOTHER one? Good grief. I only read the first one. I meant to read the others, but never got around to it. I know more or less what happens though. I agree with you–the characters are really annoying and it’s nearly impossible to sympathize with them at all. I barely liked Natasha, only because she was smart. The rest…well, anyway, it’s really frustrating when a person sinks to the level of shallow people because she thinks that will raise her up. Kind of like Claire, in The Clique.
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vanillabean3.141 (Ingrid and Siriana)
in December 22nd, 2009 @ 19:22For all the Twilight haters out there, I have found the perfect book. It’s called Nightlight and is a parody of Twilight. I read into the first chapter and it’s very funny. You can find it at Borders and Barnes & Noble.
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bubblebabe225
in December 22nd, 2009 @ 20:09But I love Claire…the first four Clique books were the best. Then they all got kind of bad…:( ah well. Anyway, I hope Reed DOES die at the end of the Private series! What’s really frustrating is that the author can write well, for example Lucky T and Sweet Sixteen but she CHOOSES to write utter cake like the Private series and Fake Boyfriend. Why?! Oh, why?
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I-Man ((William II, OSW's Secretary))
in December 25th, 2009 @ 08:12Well, I have some good news and bad news for everyone. USAToday recently released their list of the 10 best-selling books of the decade.
Good News: Harry Potter claimed 6 spots on the list.
More Good News (this is from another story, not the USAToday one): J.K Rowling is the best-selling author of the decade.Bad News: None of the HP books took No. 1………..
Twilight did.
More Bad News: Here’s the full list.
1. Twilight
2. The Da Vinci Code
3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
4. New Moon
5. HP and the Sorcerer’s Stone
6. HP and the Half-Blood-Prince
7. Deathly Hallows
8. Goblet of Fire
9. Eclipse
10. Chamber of SecretsThis is so utterly mind-bending and gut-wrenching that I refuse to say another word.
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starr
in December 25th, 2009 @ 15:19*sulks*
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Tesseract
in December 25th, 2009 @ 18:39109 – Yeah, I saw that too. There is something fundamentally wrong with the world, apparently…
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bubblebabe225
in December 25th, 2009 @ 12:51Nooo, that can’t be true! Well…none of the HP books DID come out this year..but still. Eclipse beat HP and the Chamber of Secrets and that’s the worst one in the series! Wait, no, Breaking Dawn is. Whatever.
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starr
in December 25th, 2009 @ 15:18105 and it’s following replies – Ok, THAT is a little creepy about the comments thing on the last trailer Luna…
Yeah, PJO is pretty similar to Harry Potter in a lot of ways, but I dunno, the root of it is different and that’s what matters. I personally like both of them – they’re two of my favorite books and I don’t really mind that PJO is so similar. Here, let me make a list with the similarities:
-There are three main characters. (Two male and one female)
-Hogwarts looks like Olympus in the film (sort of)
-Same director (Chris Columbus, who also directed the first two HPs)
-Percy looks like Harry in the movie, and his descriptions are pretty similar in the books. Percy – scar – glasses = Harry
-Percy is “special” because he is a son of the Big Three, Harry is the Chosen One
-Grover/Ron = weird comparison, but a little similar
-Annabeth/Hermione = another weird one, but now that I think about it it’s scary how similar they are…Ok then, I still believe that it’s not a complete ripoff…but I’m still surprised that I could come up with so many off the top of my head…
As for the movie, because Chris Columbus is directing, they’re bound to have similar styles. I just hope that the differences come off as really distinct in PJO because otherwise (and this has already sorta happened) it’ll just be like HP and all the HP fans will go up in a riot…
On a slightly unrelated note: I just saw a more recent-ish version of the trailer, and it looked really good!
“This is a pen.”
(Sorry, you won’t get it unless you see it, but I thought it was funny for some…odd-ish reason.)
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speller73
in December 25th, 2009 @ 19:07Oh yeah, I saw the trailer. It seemed good. “I have strong feelings for you, but I can’t decide whether they’re positive or negative.” My sister red the book and liked it.
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starr
in December 26th, 2009 @ 09:09That was one of my favorite parts, actually.
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Errata
in December 25th, 2009 @ 20:35Has anybody read the Chronicles of the Lensmen? I’m busy working my way through the fifth, though we have them in two bound volumes. For those who don’t know, they’re AMAZING (In my opinion) ancient Sci Fi. The first one was written in 1942. Yeah, ancient. It’s rather funny watching all the things he got wrong. And when he starts talking about positrons and electrons.
But anyway, they’re really good. I’d recommend them. There is mild language, but no worse than HG2G. And violence. There’s a fair amount of that. But it really isn’t too bad. Not graphic, or anything.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in December 25th, 2009 @ 23:04For absolutely everyone who has read Twilight (especially the haters), I highly recommend Nightlight. It exploited everything wrong with Twilight, and added hilarious other stuff that made me laugh like crazy. Get it. Read it. Love it.
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vanillabean3.141 (Ingrid and Siriana)
in December 26th, 2009 @ 11:50Fishy–See post #107.
Did anyone read/receive for Christmas Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and/or Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters?
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bubblebabe225
in December 26th, 2009 @ 12:50111.1 – I posted that as my status on AIM because I liked it so much :yellow
114 – I think TMFA did.
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 26th, 2009 @ 13:12Yeah, I did.
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bubblebabe225
in December 26th, 2009 @ 13:20Was it
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 26th, 2009 @ 19:18I have a pile of 12 or so books from the library, school, birthday (Late birthday presents), and Christmas to read. I need to read it soon, get back to you by the end of january, maybe?
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in December 26th, 2009 @ 16:45I read P&P&Zombies. I enjoyed it. It was completely ridiculous. Disgusting, violent, funny, satisfying and ridiculous.
Retroadded comment:
I don’t think it would be nearly as much fun if I didn’t already know the story of P&P very well. A little too well, really.
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vanillabean3.141 (Ingrid and Siriana)
in December 28th, 2009 @ 17:17It’s by far one of the stupider books I’ve read, but it was all that you said it was. On to Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters !
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in December 26th, 2009 @ 17:03With two of my gift cards, I bought six books: I Am The Messenger by Markus ZusaK, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol, The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice. Any comments?
*is too lazy to italicize*
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in December 26th, 2009 @ 17:17I actually didn’t buy War of the Worlds, but I wanted to.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in December 28th, 2009 @ 11:34Almost finished with Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland. It is so pleasingly random!
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starr
in December 28th, 2009 @ 12:00I just re-read the second book in the Mother Daughter Book Club series. (Much Ado About Anne) It’s very light and easy (The reading level is definitely lower than mine, but I got the books awhile ago mostly because of my younger sister who loves them.) but fun nonetheless, especially since I had forgotten about them until I found them in my closet the other day.
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bubblebabe225
in December 28th, 2009 @ 19:59I just finished reading Jane Eyre and am just now starting on Tess of the D’Ubervilles. I’ve read Pride and Prejudice and keep forgetting that I haven’t actually read Emma and must finish it soon. I got The Castle of Oratio for Christmas and will probably read it after I finish TOFTU. I just love nineteenth-century literature! *glee*
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 28th, 2009 @ 20:27I hope you also like eighteenth-century novels: “The Castle of Otranto,” by Horace Walpole, was published in 1764.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in December 28th, 2009 @ 21:39(WOAH! You can make the comment box REALLY big.)
Even though I read it a long time ago, I want to talk about And Another Thing…. What did everyone think? I’ll write my opinion later (tomorrow).
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in December 28th, 2009 @ 23:38I will ignore everything you say because I am trying with all my might to deny that book’s existence.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in January 2nd, 2010 @ 18:19I understand…
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bubblebabe225
in December 29th, 2009 @ 19:47121.1 – I thought about saying that technically it was written in, like, the sixteenth century, and published in the eighteenth century, but I was too lazy and it seemed like it would make the post confusing….*confuses self*
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Tesseract
in December 29th, 2009 @ 21:49Has anyone read The Help?
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speller73
in December 29th, 2009 @ 23:48Yes. It’s a great book.
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bubblebabe225
in December 30th, 2009 @ 16:47Who wrote it ?
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in January 2nd, 2010 @ 18:26I’ve finished Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass! Now I’m only forty pages away from being done with The Looking Glass Wars, and it’s just plain awesome… Who else has read it?
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in January 2nd, 2010 @ 18:40SFTDP, but has anyone else noticed that there are not only the three original books of The Looking Glass Trilogy, but also a mini series with Hatter Madigan’s search for Alyss in the regular world (two books of this so far). There is also another book that has something to do with Alyss…. *obsesses*
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Daisy*chain
in January 2nd, 2010 @ 19:43Yes, I’ve read the first of Hatter Madigan’s comic book series. Can’t say it’s amazing, though…
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in January 3rd, 2010 @ 18:13That’s too bad… Whatever, I will still read it. Now I’m on to The Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. I’ve only read the first seventeen pages, so I don’t know what to expect. :/
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Alice
in January 3rd, 2010 @ 18:25You know, I really disliked that series.
I don’t really know why.
It wasn’t bad.
Just boring.
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in January 3rd, 2010 @ 19:31The Hatter M. series? Or The Looking Glass Wars trilogy?
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/gradster(1)/
in January 3rd, 2010 @ 20:14I liked what little of it I read a lot. I need to read it again.
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Jadestone
in January 3rd, 2010 @ 18:59I wasn’t really a fan of The Looking Glass wars either. Maybe it’s just because I loved the originals so much, maybe it’s because it annoyed me when they referred to “Jaberwocky” as singular when in the poem its “Jaberwock” and other such slips with the original.
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Alice
in January 3rd, 2010 @ 19:11Actually it’s Jabberwock.
I try not to look at Alice in Wonderland things that way, because I’m never sure how much of it is “I loved the book so much” and how much is “I’m named after that book and I don’t want to be associated with Disney/homecoming week/Looking Glass Wars/etc.” That said, I think one of my major problems with the Looking Glass Wars was how it took all the magic and whimsy and surrealism out of the Alice stories. And again, I’m not sure how much of it is “I love the book” and how much is “I’m named after the book”, but the matter stands.
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starr
in January 6th, 2010 @ 17:01I haven’t read the Looking Glass Wars or Alice in Wonderland or anything like that but I HATE the Alice in Wonderland Disney movie, if that’s anything like the book.
Which knowing Disney it probably isn’t, but still. *shudder*
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Jadestone
in January 3rd, 2010 @ 19:04I forgot to mention, with my $75 to B&N I am unsure if I want to buy new books or just one of those big black leather volumes of The Absolute Sandman (though I don’t know which of the 4 I’d get). I mean, I’ve read all of them more than once from the library, but… I want to have one. I got Preludes & Nocturnes (the first of the 10 or so books) for my birthday btu it’s not quite the same. Or maybe I could just buy all the individual books, but the big volumes have extra drawings and some recolored stuff and extra things at the ends…
I also got Endless Nights for my birthday. Dream is my lover in case anyone has forgotten.
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Pax the Hamster
in February 7th, 2010 @ 11:26I kind of actually like all those books everyone is calling cliche. O.o. I love Harry Potter, Eragon, and Warriors, and I think Twilight is pretty decent once you get past the screaming fangirls. But my all time favorite authors are Tamora Pierce (Circle of Magic, Tortall) and Diane Duane (Young Wizards). I found I new (to me) series called The Cry of the Icemark (can’t remember the author) that I would recomend to all fantasy readers.
As you can probably tell, I’m a fantasy girl.
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Princess_Magnolia
in March 7th, 2010 @ 19:41Nono, Twilight is OK for like the first two hundred pages or so and then I start disliking it. A shame. I mean…falling asleep in his COLD arms? What’s romantic about that??
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Silver Lining
in March 7th, 2010 @ 20:33I couldn’t stand the melodrama of it, though. And there he was, leaning against his silver Volvo like a marble tribute to some pagan Roman god of beauty…
That’s paraphrased from New Moon, by the way.
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TreeCafe
in March 7th, 2010 @ 18:13I just reread Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for the seventh time.
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Luna the Lovely
in March 7th, 2010 @ 20:46Hang on….We have to Books and Reading thread open? 2009 part 3, and 2010 part 1?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in March 7th, 2010 @ 20:51Oops.
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