So much for what you were going to read. What have you read, and how did you like it? Tell the world!
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So much for what you were going to read. What have you read, and how did you like it? Tell the world!
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I meant 1, Maximum Ride Awesome, and Flyte. Not great really.
*first post dance*
So far, I’ve read:
Soul Music
Guards! Guards! Guards!
The Light Fantastic
Interesting Times
The Fifth Elephant
The Color of Magic
several other Terry Prachett discworld books that I can’t think of
Mr. Fred
The Muffin Fiend
Fat Camp Commandoes
Fat Camp Commandoes go West
Ender’s Game
WoT book five
started Pablo Casals and the Art of Interpretation
am working on WoT book 6
All of them were good, except Ender’s Game was a bit soppy. I love Daniel Pinkwater. And I really should finish PC+AoI sometime.. My favorite Terry Prachett book I read this summer was definitely Soul Music.
Does anybody besides me like the Cat Who… series by Lilian Jackson Braun. (I hope I spelled that right.)
Hmmm…what else.
The latest installment in the Pendragon series. Finish it in the morning though. It kept me awake most of the night I finished it.
For relistic fiction with a spice of comedy, try reading Surviving the Applewhites, by an author I can’t remember. It’s not reletively new, but it is good for reading in the summertime.
4 (Lizzie)- I’m reading Soul Music right now.
5 (Anata)- Surviving the Applewhites is by Stephanie Tolan.
In addition to Soul Music and several other books I can’t remember at the moment, I’m also currently reading Eragon. Can you say torturous? (Why am I doing it, then? Because blatant LotR ripoffs are funny, and because I want to learn what not to do in my writing.)
i thought enders game was ok…
MBer Darth Yoda is an imsomniac. HELP. I just started, elsewhere (it’s not capitalized). I must say, its bizzare.
Oh, I forgot- I also read Cat’s Cradle and liked it.
5- ooh, I read Surviving the Applewhites a while ago- I thought it was pretty good.
im finishing up Sabriel. its really good.
im also reading most of the 44 other books i have checked out.
4- Yes! Daniel Pinkwater pwns!
I read LotR over and over, and Fahrenheit 451 and Watership Down are two of my favorite books.
Who here likes/ doesn’t like Harry Potter books???
And the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon,
little boy blue and the man in the moon…
Sorry. As previously stated, I’m a fan of Cat Stevens. Anata~ChinTsu: Yeah, I checked out the Cat series after hearing about them on the MB. The ones I’ve read are great. Wow, three cats in one post.
farenheit 451 is a very cool book.
has anybody read the code book?
I finished Peter Ibbetson before I left for vacation. It was entertaining, but I still like Trilby better. I’d like to read George DuMaurier’s third novel this summer, too, if I can find a copy of it. I finished Da Vinci Code yesterday and, honestly, I didn’t think it was really very good. The plot was interesting, but that’s about it. At the moment I’m waiting for a book of H.P. Lovecraft stories I requested to arrive at the library.
11 – Farenheit 451 is an awesome book!
8 (DY)- Oh, I love that book. It’s really cool.
You know what you should all read for summer reading? The RRR. It’s right here on the Museblog and everything. I’ll email the OEADs my edited version with the newest bits, if that’s okay with them, and then I can force y’all* to read it and tell us how it is.
*I gave up.**
**Am I the only one who puts FOOTNOTES on blog posts? I feel like such a nerd now.
Ever since I was Peter Pan, I’ve been interested in things about Peter Pan…I just finished Peter and the Starcatchers , and it was really good. I also checked out the original Peter Pan from the library. It was a really old copy, and I was the first person to check that copy out since 1922!
4- OOOHHhhh I read a whole bunch of his books when I was younger. Can’t remember what they were about but I think I loved them. I remember always going to the P section of the library to see if their were any new ones.
Hrrrmmmm I am reading “Life of Pi”.
Was going to read “The Outsiders”.
Life of Pi is pretty good once you get into it, though it can drag on about the same subject over and over and over.
death is holy orders
monty python and philosophy
eats, shoots and leaves(2nd time)
rebel angels(2nd time)
complete calvin and hobbes(3rd time)
sophie’s world(7th time)
several collections of short fiction
arcadia(6th time)
the divine comedy(2nd time)
other things i can’t remember
you can probably tell i enjoy rereading things, summer is especially good for that.
17 (M&M)- The Outsiders is the only good book I have ever had to read for school. (I haven’t gotten to high school yet, where they actually give you an excuse to read Tolstoy.) It was also published when S. E. Hinton was sixteen or something, whcih makes it even more amazing. If I manage to publish a book that good in two years, I will die happy. (Only I won’t, because I’ll be on a publication high and will be going to write again.)
10-aftrewords, READ LIRAEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is even better.
I have been reading some more of Tamora Pierce’s books. I really like her books.
Life of Pi was good…I read it for a school project.
I just read the entire thread so this will be out of order.
Cats make me start sneezing
(Sorry, I have to ant hunting. We seem to have suddenly caught an infestation of the unmentionably pestiferous pests. I’ve caught SIX in the past ten min. Before that, not an ant to be seen)
Ender’s game was better than the same on from Bean’s point of veiw. Both were mediocre.
Harry Potter- one book a day, do nothing but read, get them done, and have enough time to write a report on them afterwords.
The Outsiders was OK even though I finished it the night I got it from school by reading under my pillow for a couple of hours.
I would like to read Farenheit 451. I think we have it in our library.
The Da Vinci Code was mediocre.
On every book I read I have to do a report. -CHOKE-
So I’ve read
The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat
The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You-Both by Harrison
For Love of Mother-Not
The Tar-Ayim Krang-Both by Alan Dean Foster
Voyage of the Star Wolf
The Middle of Nowhere-Both by David Gerrold
(Hah! Got another one. Ant, I mean)
And a few I wasn’t supposed to read so I won’t incriminate myself here.
5- Surviving the Applewhites is an excellent book!
Oh and I’ve read Uglies by Scott Westerfeld.
I’m reading
Eldest
Ark Angel
Scorpia
The Subtle Knife
The Golden Compass
24-I mean I’ve read those.
i read Catch-22 and it was really random but good. kinda sad though.
also read Wicked, which i hated. too political and dark. also makes the musical seem too happy. (they are NOTHING alike)
haven’t read Da Vinci Code yet, but want to, just because everyone else has.
havent read Eragon yet either, it sounds boring.
read Surviving the Applewhites, thought it was cute and entertaining
DIDNT like Ender’s Game at all
(18)- love love love calvin & hobbes!!! my collection is literally falling apart from being read over and over
(20)-Tamara Pierce was my absolute favorite author when i was younger. for some reason ive moved on a bit and dont find them as amazing, but they still are good books
(25)-my friend is obsessed with that series. a little too sci-fi for my tastes but good
(26) – i love phillip pullman’s books.
anyone else listen to a lot of books on tape? ive gone through our libraries whole supply. i dont know why but i like to listen to stuff while i do things.
sorry, that turned out kinda long. im bored and felt like commenting on everything
It’s not only LOTR that the Inheritance trilogy takes off of. It also takes themes from David Eddings’s The Belgariad and Star Wars as well.
Sleepyheathen, if you liked Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, I recommend Talk to the hand and Making the Cat Laugh , also by Lynn Truss. I listened to them both on tape, and they are hilarious.
I read dangerous angels; refugees; Girl, 15, Charming but Insane; the exchange student, a Garfield comic book, two Time magazines, the July/August Muse, a National Geographic Kids magazine, a Cricket magazine, Accidents of Nature, Maximum Ride: School’s Out–Forever, and Just Listen.
My local library is having a summer reading contest thing where you fill out a little ticket for every 50 pages you read and put it in a jar. Every week, a ticket is drawn and somebody wins a prize. My brother and I did this last summer too, and he or I won almost every week. Here’s to speed readers!
I think Tamora Pierce is a bad writer. not truly horrible or anything, but i don’t read her books (i have read one, and that was one too many)
Death in Holy Orders is pretty good. (that’s the one where the kid gets suffocated in the sand at the beginning, right?)
Has anybody read Haroun and the Sea of Stories? (it my school’d summer reading)
13- i have read the code book, unless it is some other book by the same title. mine was about codes.
i like to write in codes.
30-unfortunatly, i’ve no money with which to buy either right now, i just spent what i could on an order for ‘the gun seller’. i’m sure that will tide me over though.
32-yes, can’t decide whether i like the book or the bbc production better, there are, naturally descrepancies, but they are both wonderful in their own right.
i love seeing that so many people read so much! i can’t lose all faith in humanity when people are reading.
I’ve read a few more books as well, but can’t remember the names. It was before camp.
32–I’ve read it. I thought it was quite good.
34–I made up a secret code when I was nine. It’s pretty basic; one symbol per letter. No apostrophes, but otherwise regular punctuation. I write in it all the time.
Daniel Pinkwater pwns!
i have read menny menny things, but i cant remember any of em.
i just started the belgararaid.
flambambous
or however u spell it
32- what?
i think shes good…
32-what book was that?
I read Wicked. I thought it was interesting, and it made me think. It was a bit confusing at points, though. Isin’t there a sequel of some kind?
We read awful books in school that I could have read when I was in third grade. It drives me mad!
Has anybody read Richard Peck? He is good light reading.
So far, I have read a grand total of – shock! – three books!! Normally I read quite a bit more, but I’ve been pre-occupied with something, just not sure what.
At the beginning of the summer, I read a book on how to survive your Freshman year in college. Please don’t ask me why, but it was lying around, looking remotely interesting, so I picked it up and read it in 3 hours. I have to say, it was gripping…
I read The Secret Life of Bees, which was immensely enjoyable, just a tad depressing at times. The end was totally unexpected, meaning it was happy…
And yesterday I read one in a matter of about an hour and a half. This is not to say it wasn’t fabulous, oh no! Dave Barry is a fantastic humour writer already, but his Book of Bad Songs was extremely amusing!! I didn’t know half the songs he was referencing, but even so, the humour left me knocking over clothes stands at the thirft store! “Timothy, Timothy…”
And I’ve read a bits and pieces of The Religions of Man, Diary of a Young Girl, The Beatles Anthology, Complete Works of William Shakespeare, 50 American Revolutions You’re Not Supposed to Know, The Official SAT Study Guide, The Dictionary….For the record, I’ve also read countless magazines and comic books, along with a handfull of newspaper articles that looked minutely interesting.
Oh yes. Yesterday I bought Space: The Novel. Creative, profound title. It sounded fascinating. (Which it probably IS, but it’s vastly LONG!!)
Now, the books I was going to read….Dear me, the list is long.
17- daniel pinkwater’s books aren’t about everything and nothing. everything in general and nothing in particular.
Gregor the Overlander all the way. SO GOOD.
i just read There and Back Again by Pat Murphy, and it’s The Hobbit in a science-fiction setting.
Pat Murphy–now there’s a name from the past. I used to write articles for her when she was the editor of the Exploratorium’s magazine. I’ve never read TABA, though. How did you like it?
I like Wicked.
37- flamablamabous is spelled… flamablamabous.
I’m sure I’ve read a lot of things I just don’t remember what…
Almost. You left out an “l”: -blous.
44-
i really liked it, but that’s just me. i know my brother and mom wouldn’t’ve liked it.
The Omnivore’s Delema
and it’s sequil,
The Boteny of Disire
Nonfiction, I have read parts of each and found them tthrougholy enjoying. I hope o finish them as soon as they get back to the library.
I Read The Tiger in The Well.
I have read 2 books by Mercedes Lackey this summer. she is pretty good.
49- i like the sally lockhart series too
I’m reading the DaVinci code. I can’t belive how poorly written it is! It’s kind of incredible.
I have started reading East by Edith Pattou. It is not bad.
And then I read a few more Garfield comic books, and then Hard Love; Memories of Summer; The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things (had to swallow my pride there. what a silly title); Book of Enchantments, and I’m currently working on Vegan Virgin Valentine. (swallowing my pride again)
My favorite genre of book now is British teen girl book series. I’ve found three series of books about British teen girls, and I must say, they make good light reading. Except that the titles aren’t ones you want the librarians to see you checking out.
I finished East. It was pretty good.
has anyone read The Lightning Thief and its sequel, The Sea of Monsters? im reading them for the second time.
55- no, who are they by?
I just read Bloomability, which was pretty good.
54- think so too read that a while bak
55-err no might tho if u say there good
starting fifth book of da belgariad
it TOALLY PWNS!
however, cant really say i noticed that its really related to inheritance
anyone care to explain?
8- i liked that a lot
-10 ya luv that trilogy
srry for many posts, havnt been around for a while
i just read Starship Troopers. it rocked. yes, i am a science ficton fan.
I just finished the book The Thief. I thought it was good, but the end bit was sort of confusing.
(60) is that the one that is kinda set in a made up greece setting and he is let out of jail to go on a mission with the one king’s guy? if so i love that book. there is a sequel too actually but not as good as the first. i liked the ending.
Yeah, it is. I didn’t know there was a sequel! I’ll have to find it at the library! Or, at least I’ll look for it at the library!
we read the thief for summer reading. it wasn’t bad. the godess of yesterday’s OK too.
I’m reading Founding Mothers for APUSH and not enjoying it. The writing is a little bit fluffy for a historical book and I’m having trouble staying interested. My APUSH textbooks themselves are hiding under my bed. I’ll get around to reading/outlining them later.
For English, I’m reading All The Pretty Horses, which is better than expected. I’m about 50 page from the end right now, and wondering how it’ll wrap up. The lack of quotes in it is really annoying.
For myself, I just read Crocodile in the Sandbank which was wonderful. I’m not one for mysteries, but this one was really fabulous. If you like historical mysteries, you’ll love this one. There’s a whole series of Egyptology mysteries apparently, and this one’s the first of the lot.
When I’m done with Pretty Horses, I’m going to tackle At Swim, Two Boys, because I’ve heard so many good things about it.
SPOILER WARNING
just read:”naughts and crosses”
very good,, but quite depressing
its romeo and juliet, but juliet doesent die, and romeo gets hanged, and juliet’s black, and romeo’s white, but its set in a world with horrible present-day racism, but rerversed, so privilidged class is blacks.
interesting, good and depressing they just get together, and then he gets hung. nice.
54 – Is that the book about the girl who goes to live with the enchanted polar bear? If so, it’s really good!
I just finished The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. It took a long time for anything to happen and the story got confusing in parts, but otherwise it was a good book.
Now I’m in the middle of The Historian, White Apples, and The Master and Margarita (the best book of the three so far).
65-That sounds good. Well, not good, as in happily-ever-after, but interesting.
66-Yes, It is
Just finished All the Pretty Ponies Horses. It wasn’t awful, I’m just not sure what the point of it was. Most of it was just John Grady going places and getting in trouble.
Should have been All The Pretty
PoniesHorses. Sorry.I read Enchanteress From The Stars, because my old english teacher recomended it to me. I liked it, but I was sort of sad.
Sorry! “It was sort of sad”, not “I was sort of sad”! OOPS!!
70 – Agreed, the ending wrapped up the story nicely but it was kind of sad.
My library has the state’s summer reading program. Write down the books you read. 6th grade or above has to read five books. Boring. So far, I’ve read 12. My goal is to have to add pages to the paper they give you to write on.
I’ve read: Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Draco Tavern by Larry Niven
2010: Odessy Two by Arthur C. Clarke
Nemesis
Science, Numbers, and I
Tales of the Black Widowers
Gold
Magic
The Bicentennial Man
The Early Asimov
Buy Jupiter by Isaac Asimov(and one more by Asimov that I forgot right now)
I love science fiction and fantasy books.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)
A Benjamin Franklin Reader
Life In Prison (by StanleyWilliams)
and others I cant really be bothered to type down.
hey, the blog removed the “Tookie” from in between “Stanley” and “Williams”!
Are you sure? I moderated that comment and didn’t touch it.
Oui.
Very odd. I didn’t moderate or edit that one, Otzi.
I snipped not!
Must be gremlins.
I just finished a sort of wierd book called April Fool Dead. It was apparently supposed to be a mystery. It was INTERESTING. oh well. I am going to la bibliotheque(I hope I spelled that right) today. So now I can get lots of good books.
So far, I’ve been working on the suggested reading list for school
it’s a list of what we need to have read by the time we get out
anyways, here’s my list:
The Time Machinge (HG Wells)
The Pygmallion
Brave New World (Huxley)
Little Women
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Science of Harry Potter [not on reading list]
Lord of the Flies
Pride and Prejudice
I’ve also read the entire potter series three times this summer,
the entire redwall series twice this summer,
the whole series of unfortunate events,
and that’s it.
I read Little Women In fifth grade. The only thing I can remember is that somebody dies, and somebody burns somebody’s book. Jo’s book? I can’t remember…
I read The Wish List by Eoin Colfer, and Potlomey’s Gate, by Jonathan Stroud. I can’t belive Nicholas died! I was very sad.
you mean nathaniel
Same thing…