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yay! I recently read an interesting book called Mother Tounge. It’s about the etymology of the English language.
I’m reading a book called The Stolen Child right now – If you’re into sci-fi / faerie lore, this is def one for you!
And I just got The Riddle. I’m muy excited!
the stolen child? author name plz
I just started “Peter and the Shadow Theives,” which is the sequel to “Peter and the Starcatchers.” Both very good books.
And, I’m completely obsessed with Harry Potter so you will always find me reading one of the books.
I’m in the middle of reading an extremely compelling Madeleine L’engle book called A Swiftly Tilting Planet. omg so good!!
In fact, It’s such a good book that I think I’ll change my name.
YAY!!!!
I like this better.
The Stolen Child is by Keith Donohue.
The Omnivore’s Delema is a really good nonfiction book.It’s about all the food we eat and stuff. Also it’s companion book, The Botney of Desire.
I just finished my complete study of Terry Pratchett books. I read every single one of them. Yes, I know.
Now I’m going to start David Marusek’s Counting Heads.
8- Hello Beezie! That book is awesome indeed.
12-
Yeah. I also just read A Wind In The Door. Fara rox my sox. I own all of the Time Quartet, but A Wrinkle In Time seems to be M.I.A. I’ll go see if I can find it.
13- poor Ms. Whatsit then. I hope you find it! “It was a dark and stormy night.”
I just finished Kushiel’s Dart, by Jacqueline Carey. Not for the squeamish or naive, true, but an excellent book nonetheless. The Penelopiad (Margaret Atwood) is also very good, if a bit disturbing. Reworked mythology is love.
Is there anyone here who doesn’t like fantasy? Just curious.
5-Oh, I read that series! I liked it muchly, although I found it to be a little confuzzling at times. Nice name!
I liked “Troubling a Star” also by Madeleine L’engle
11-I have two more to go on Pratchett. I also just got myself hooked on the Bartimaeus trilogy, which i can’t believe i missed when it came out! it’s pretty amazing/hilarious. L’Engle is amazingly froody. I’m still plowing through Heinlein whenever i can find it (they have it scattered across the library ridiculously-a few in bookstacks, a few in children’s, a few in young adult (which i recently discovered does exist, although they hardly put anything there), a few in science fiction, a few in paperback, etc) Just finished Revolt in 2100. Bit odd, not the best but ok i guess. Oh and i totally discovered Zaphod Beeblebrox’s great-uncle or some relation of some sort! in orphans of the sky. Except Zaphod would never sacrifice himself, even if his other head did die. Our first book club book is Angels and Demons, i know nothing about it except that it’s by the guy who did the Da Vinci Code. Has anybody read it? Is it good? I’m gonna read it probably wednesday or somewhere around then. you get free pizza for the first meeting. v. cool. i’m also reading this random history book that dad got-12 greeks+romans who changed history. and diogenes or whatever his name is is totally my fav greek philosopher now. He lived in a clay jar! haha, i find that amusing. the first hippie, w00t! Plus he made fun of people, which is always good. Oh and i re-read Hornblower last night..well one of them anyway. i don’t remember what it’s called, but it’s the one where he’s a passanger home and the ship is kinda wrecked but it floats home suspended by coir and they live off the coconuts and all that. And the trumpeter guy escapes and goes to Puerto Rico and all that. Anybody remember it? Oh well. Whatev. So yah, that’s what i’ve been reading, go me.
I haven’t read so many books. I keep on telling to read Madeleine L’Engle books other than “A Wrinkle in Time,” but I’m too stubborn. I’ve read tons of books, but other people always seem to be ahead of me. I love “The Wind Boy.”
18- Heinlen is great. I’ve only read one of his books, though, Podkayne of Mars. It was extremely froodylicious.
Currently reading At Swim, Two Boys, which is really, really good. It took me a while to get around to it, but I’m loving it. Highly recommended (so far) for older Musebloggers.
15 – Penty – I’ve been wanting to read the Kushiel series, but I’m a bit worried about what my mother would say if she saw the covers….
I’ve been re-reading John Bellairs books. I’ve also been reading The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde (yes, his last name is spelled that way; he’s Welsh). They are all enjoyable. The book by Fforde is a mystery and the John Bellairs books are children’s horror mysteries.
What exactly is Kushiel’s Dart about? This isn’t the first time I’ve heard about it so I’m curious.
Has anyone read “The Wind Boy”? i keep on trying to get my friends ro read it, abut none of them have yet.
21 (Zallie)- You have to read it. You absolutely have to. (See, this is why I love boarding school. It’s possible to read all sorts of wonderful books your parents wouldn’t want you to.)
22 (e~a)- Basically, it’s a lot of court intrigue and…um…things you need a euphemism for on a site like MB. But it’s really, really good.
I just checked out Romance of the Three Kingdoms from the library. Yay for really old Chinese literature.
24- I’ll put it on my list of things to read. However my library is silly and, despite the fact I’m a bookworm and have memorized my library card number, the library won’t let me check out books without my library card actually there. Oh well. I have my library card, I just can’t have random trips to the library on a whim.
(1) Hey, I read part of that! I never finished it because I went on vacation and didnt bring it with me, but I really liked it.
Right now I am reading The Monkey Wrench Gang. It is about these environmenatlist extremests who blow up bridges and such in the southwest to try and stop urban expansion. It’s fantastic, and it really enhances my apprectiation of where I live.
What is the Kushiel series?
2- If you’re talking about a book whose main character is named Maerad, then I’ve read that! (the Riddle that is) It was excellent.
I’m reading a book called Mountains Beyond Mountains: The quest of Doctor Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world by Tracy Kidder. Good book. Read it.
So i ditched jacob and matt and all them to walk home w/celia today, but i made her come to the library while i got the book club book (angels+demons-haven’t read it yet but i’ve heard it’s the same thing as the da vinci code) and nolan and ms. almos and i totally ganged up on her and forced her to get the book. so yay! anyway, that’s what i’m gonna be reading. who here’s read it?
18-Dan Brown needs to do three things: 1) Stop misrepresenting CERN. 2) Stop writing books. 3) Die in a lonely place and NEVER BE REMEMBERED. The man is a DIRP. When did you find ZB’s cousin? He’s Zaphod Beeblebrox the First, his father is Zaphod Beeblebrox the Second, his grandfather is Zaphod Beeblebrox the Third, and his great-grandfather is Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth. “There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine.” Remember the sequence with the seance? Come on!
Newbies: I’m the blog’s Official Douglas Adams Expert, or ODAE. Sometimes “Oh, gaaaaaaawd,” but you love me anyway.
28-Riddle is out? I’ve only gotten Naming. Oh, my god! I have to get it!
I am re-reading the Tamuli. Eddings-amazing. HEINLEIN-Mind-blowing. Stranger In A Strange Land should be required reading for everyone.
I’ve read basically none of the books mentioned here. I’ll probably read some of them, but I kinda wish I heard mention of books I’ve already read. I know that’s selfishish, but I do.
31-that would be great, then the book club would stop choosing his books to read.
zaphod’s distant relation is in orphans of the sky by our dear friend heinlein.
18 – The only book I’ve read by Dan Brown is The Da Vinci Code, which I thought was disappointingly mediocre for a book so many people have been obsessing over. However, I haven’t heard anything about Angels and Demons, so I don’t know, maybe it’s a better book.
22 – John Bellairs! ♥ I haven’t read any of his books in awhile, though. I really should read them again. He writes great stories!
I haven’t had as much time to read as I usually do in summer, but I did get to finish some good books.
Crime and Punishment – Part of my school’s summer reading list. I didn’t think I would like it, but it’s actually an incredibly well-written book. It’s also long and hard to read, but definitely worth the effort.
And if you like Gothic novels, all of these were good…
The Castle Otranto
Vathek
Frankenstein
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The Master and Margarita
Melmoth the Wanderer
Whats’s CERN?
Hmmm… my math teacher said somthing about Dan Browns fater helping to write my Geomitry book, and that’s partly why young Dan liked patterens, his fater was a geo. wis. But I dunno if I belive her… mebbe the GAPA could help out here?
Well, Jadestone (36), Dan Brown’s father is a retired math teacher at Philips Exeter Academy. HIs name is Richard Brown and he wrote Advanced Mathematics: Precalculus With Discrete Mathematics and Data Analysis. Is that your book?
Why are Dan Brown’s books so popular?
(24) Penty – M’kay, I’ll try and get it next time I’m at the library. People I know have said it’s really spiffy, but I dunno if it’s my kind of books. We’ll see.
34 – Angels and Demons was better, but still very, very disappointing. It had a plotline that wasn’t entirely predictable and at least I sort of cared how the book turned out (if only because one of the minor characters was pretty neat), but if I still want those hours of my life back, thanks. It is not worth your time, honestly.
Oooh, one of my favorite books is The Garden Behind the Moon by Howard Pyle. Very simple, very lyrical, and very magical.
It doesn’t go into deep detail, like the Lord of the Rings or Shakespeare, but it is very musical and flows along.
Hehe, you see where I stand on books now.
Oh, and there is this really good magazine that I read…. It is called Muse…..
*Ignore sarcasm, please.*
38-probably not, but i read everything for book club anyway, for two reasons 1. i’m a sad little geek 2. In my skool, you take any chance for pizza you can get. And then it might turn out that everybody hated it and we’ll spend the whole time dissing it and thinking of what else to read. Although i know there are people there that liked the Da Vinci Code.
Hey this isn’t about books at all, but guess who found the link to her fav time-wasting game again? The one with the paper into the trash can…i think the GAPA deleted it because it asked if you wanted help with your business training or something and had a space for emails. But it’s pretty amazing, y’all should google it (although i’ve never actually found it on google, mebbe it’s not on there) It’s bbc if that helps anybody.
Oh and i totally didn’t do my math or latin, so i’ll have a lot of frantic lunch scribbling. Fun.
And yeah i’m totally procrastinting on eating breakfast. I hate having breakfast this early. I’m never hungry, and then about 10:00 i’m starving and have to wait for lunch at like 11:30. Ugh.
Well i should probably go gather up various textbooks strewn about the floor now…bye all…
I just finnished Molly Moon three and it is the BEST BOOK EVER!!!!
Although, maybe not if you like romance, cuase’ there ain’t any in that one! (Or any of them for that matter.)
The first one’s about Hypnotism, the second one is about Hypnotism and Time stopping, and the third one is abut Hypnotism, Time-Stopping and Time Traveling.
I really think that the second one is the best. Georgia Byng out-did herself!
Does anybody else here read molly moon?
31- It’ll be out in September. ^_^ My mother is a librarian so sometimes I get books early.
18– I read the Bartimaeus trilogy. I liked it a lot, except for the end, which I found very disappointing. Now that I think of it, the only one I really enjoyed was the first.
Is anyone else afraid that this month’s contest is going to be overrun with people-who-think-they-know-Harry-Potter-but-really-don’t? I love HP, so that would be pretty disappointing.
41. molly moon OK
1&2 good- number3 :p (blech)
43. bartimaeus pretty good- got long though
yur right harry potter more complicated than seems
**SPOILER ALERT BOOK 6**
yu think dumbledore really dead? im not sure i hope not
Anyone interested in Ancient Greece? If so read Troy & Ithaca. Best books ever!!
For greek gods in modern times read the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. also awesome
44– Yeah, Dumbeldore is.
JKR said so in an interview.
I accually didn’t read it, but I know the basic plotline and who killed dumbledore and such. So it’s already spoiled for me. I don’t mind when people spoil movies and books, becuase for me, it won’t make them any less exciting.
I’m supposed to read a book about dragons for this book club I’m in, great, dragons, that’s good right? Not exactly. It’s only HALF about dragons. Frankly, the other half, is about sguirrels. Seriously.
I eem gooing to learn Latin.
Que pasa? Whatever that means. I ‘ave noot started yet.
47-Like, squirrel recipes for dragons?
They won’t let me count Heinlein’s Friday as a Choice Reading book. The excuse is that sci-fi “is not literature.” I am offended by that. Seriously. Where does this end? DOUGLAS ADAMS IS CLASSIC LITERATURE. I put my foot down.
Genres are meaningless!
49- I LOOVE sci-fi! Shame on them! No, the second to main character is obsessed with squirrels, and her moher makes little clay dragons, and they’re both obsessed with dragons.
48-that’s spanish.
oh man, today in latin we learned about dung. It was special. I’m off to go call Joe a stercolini (izzat right?) now *evil cackle*
49-That’s terrible. Heinlein is so literature. I could totally bs an essay about how he sees through to the basic problems of human nature and how his messages endure through the generations and all that stercus if i wanted to. Therefore, it is defined as literature. That’s really all you need.
duuuude i love squirrels, i’m sorry i just had to say that. XD
I’ve read too many books to say which is my favorite so heres a few….
coolest: lirael
most recent: the hollow kingdom
dumbest: bearenstein bears
sweetest History: Don’t know much about history or 1776
most overly hyped: the da vinci code
only book that the movie was better than: Howl’s moving castle
oh yeah…maerad i forgot about that!
Must Read Riddle….*slips into zombie like trance*
4~Peter and the Starcatchers and Peter and the Shadow Thieves ROCK! I just read PATST last night, and it was really, really good!
Oh, and has anyone read the Warriors series by Erin Hunter? Twighlight is out now! I haven’t read it yet, but my friend spilled a spoiler.
And, I need to ask this: does anyone read Muse? Haha, stupid question alert. ;D
52-noooooooooo
not true. book better. love miasaki, but love DWJ more.
read recently-bangkok 8-that was good.ummmmmm disco for the departed-colin cotteral
ummmaximun ride,be more chill, and the other one by that guy.agatha christi´-joan lowry nixon-there. no more remember, i can
have any of you read ony of those? what do you think of them?
Tamora Pierce pwns out loud. You can have your Harry Potter and HGTG, but her Circle of magic, the Circle opens, and the Circle Reforged are the best series I have ever read.
55 – I love that series! It’s so easy to spill spoilers, and I knew one of the cats that died before I began, but they’re still good books. It’s Starlight, not Twilight.
If you haven’t read it, read The Wind Boy. Actually, you don’t have to, but it’s a great book. I wish someone else had read it.
41- i did!!! It is soooo good!!!!! Spoonerisms rox.
31 (Queenie J)- OMG RIDDLE SQUEE LUFF ♥
Must_go_buy...57 (SB)- While I am quite fond of Tamora Pierce, I prefer Douglas Adams. Not J. K. Rowling, though.
Coppola questions: Does anyone here dislike fantasy? and What is your least favourite book? (Barring textbooks.)
45 – ♥ Troy and Ithaca! Excellent books if you want to read about the Trojan War and things from girls’ points of view.
47 – I’m curious now! What’s the name of this book half about dragons and half about squirrels?
48 – Good luck with the Latin! Don’t let the teacher tell you “four years and you’ll know everything you ever need to know about grammar and it’ll all be over”. That’s a lie!
49 – Ack, I protest with you! What about 1984? I don’t know if that’s considered sci-fi, but I’m sure there are plenty of sci-fi books that are also classics. And since when does genre define a classic? I was under the impression any book could become a classic in time…am I wrong?
51 – Dung? Your Latin class sounds fun! We talked about grass for most of a class once. Real exciting, lol.
55 – I read Warriors! Great series, but my library doesn’t have the newest books yet. Grr.
56 – I’ve read Maximum Ride. Loved it! Is it a series, or was that the only book? I hope there will be another one!
60 – I’m curious, too…is everyone here a fantasy fan?
60 – Least favorite? My goodness, where do I begin?
Just joking. Any books that I disliked weren’t horrid, and I don’t remember any names of books that were not so fantastic.
As for the fantasy question, I LOVE FANTASY. I don’t see what I would do without it. But I need a nice healthy mix, I think. Maybe a bit more fantasy than not. But I’m pretty loose with book topics. I’ll read just about anything. Or something like that.
62 (THF)- Have you read Eragon? Probably tops my list for most eye-bleedingly plagiarized and awful book of all time.
61 (Eccentric)- If Queenie J’s ‘they’ do not count 1984 as classic just because it’s sort of sci-fi, I shall rip their throats out.
49- bah! Of course Sci fi is literature! Goodness! What are they thinking???!!!???
60- Yes, I love fantasy. My favorite things to read are fantasy and poetry as well as fiction and historical fiction. I don’t like sci fi as much.
Currently I’m reading Assasin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb.
63 – I haven’t, but I plan on it. I’ve wanted to for a while.
60 – I’d have to say my least favorite book is the Da Vinci Code. Overhyped (check), predictable (check), poorly written (check), ridiculosity in general (check). Why, America, do you insist on making such a big deal out of this book? WHY?
And that book about about the amulet thing that’s part of the trilogy? That book was really awful. I think the series is called the Bartimeaus Series, or something like that. I gave up after a few chapters, which doesn’t happen all that often.
I like fantasy, I really do, but I’m getting more and more picky, so there’s less and less I read in fantasy anymore. I’m on a historical fiction spree now, which is lots of fun. Yay.
51- Whoops.
66 – I don’t know if I like historical fiction. I like history, and I like some small things that might be historical fiction, but I haven’t read too much of it. What are the names of some of those?
2 – Who’s the author to The Stolen Child?
My school is actually really good about the kind of stuff Queenie was mentioning. Seriously, H2G2 was on the summer reading list. I would have filled out my book talk (ugh) form for it, but i procrastonated until the end of the summer, when i suddenly realized, “OH MY GOSH! I have one night to read a book and fill out the form!” So i resorted to filling it out for LOTR, which i own. Not that there’s anything wrong with LOTR. It’s the best fantasy ever. But H2G2 would have been more fun. Oh well. I’m reading that book right now, Maddox. One thing i totally hate about school reading is that all we ever read are ‘classics’ which are usually good, but it’s so predictable what you’ll read, or ‘coming of age’ stories that are really meant for adults. We read A Seperate Peace over the summer. Is it just me, or do coming of age stories usually involve the main character killing something in order to become a man? I mean, seriously, it was like Gene had to kill Finny before he could grow up and go off to war. It wasn’t like he killed him on purpose, or even knew he was gong to die, but he almost seemed glad when Finny breathed his last.
Least fav. Book: biography.
46. u weren’t supposed 2 tell me! blah blah blah **covers hands with ears**
61. u like Troy or Ithaca better?? i like Ithaca
anyway how do u get the heart
Best books ever: “Twilight” by Stephanie Myer, and “A Great and Terrible Beauty.” SOOOOOOOO good!!!!!!
Oooh, least favorite book is Enchantment, by Orson Scott Card. It wasn’t appropriate at ALL, for any age, let alone 12, which was how old when I read it. Verry, verrry, veeeerrrrry disturbing.
You don’t want to know how, either.
71- do you mean biographies in general? Because I know of at least two really good ones that I recommend. The Radioactive Boyscout and Uncle Tungsten.
Here’s 2 good autobiographies:
Anne Frank: The diary of a young girl
By Anne Frank
Boy
By Roald Dahl
Everyone’s read them, I know. But they’re still both very good books.
72 – Hmm it’s hard to decide…but I think I also liked Ithaca better. I liked the ending of it better, at least.
To get the heart, you type & hearts ; (without the spaces). At least that’s what you do on my computer, but I think it works the same for everyone. ♥
73 – Loved Great and Terrible Beauty! There’s a sequel now, isn’t there? The library still doesn’t have it here, though…ack.
63-They don’t. I checked. Also, my LA teacher told me that she thought Kurt Vonnegut and Carl Hiaasen were ‘trashy.’ Vonnegut? Say it isn’t so! But Hiaasen-well, Hoot was lousy but popular, but Sick Puppy was genius.
66-Right there with ya, Zallie baby. I hate DVC. Why do you misrepresent CERN? Why? They’re actually really nice! Hey, he may throw a Frisbee to a Nobel Prize Winner, I spilt soup on one! At six or so! Eat that. IN YOUR FACE!
I’m just starting on Frek and the Elixir by Rudy Rucker. It was actually pretty good. ‘Frek Huggins’ is a great name, and the characters have great depth.
Has anyone read any Richard Peck? The River Between Us? A Long Way From Chicago? No? I didn’t think so. He’s pretty lousy.
I heart Gerry Durrell. A Zoo In My Luggage is great. A little colonialistic, but great. ‘Dis beef I want too much, you hear? Now go tell people of Eshobi I pay one pound for dis beef.’ ‘Foine, foine.’
Follow the yellow sick toad…
I liked Hoot, sort of.
Of Richard Peck’s books, I’ve read two. Fair Weather and A Long Way from Chicago. Both were okay, but far from fantastic, in my opinion.
77- I like both A Great and Terrible Beauty and it’s sequal which is Rebel Angels.
78- I liked a A Long Way From Chicago.
Harry Potter, Attack of the Smart Pies (Who here HASN’T read that?), and LORD OF THE RINGS are AWESOME! (My compliments to Mr. Gonick for Attack of the Smart Pies and The Cartoon Guides.)
81- i havnt read Attack of the Smart Pies. yes i know, gasp in shock… but i never managed to order it .
You HAVEN’T?!?!?!?! *gasp* *faint* *thud*
My comment (83) was directed to 82.
82 – My library has it……..that’s how I got it.
Or at least a bookstore.
I’m currently reading Life of Pi, which is really good. next comes the satanic verses.
PP read that. I want to read it, because it sounds really good.
8- That book is awesome!
81 – Yes, kudos to Mr. Gonick. The cartoon guides are the best!
87 – Who wrote the Satanic verses?
What is Life of Pi, Cotton? It was on the optional summer reading list and i was going to read it, but i haven’t yet. I actually have read Long Way from Chicago. i’m with Da Hippo. Good, but not exceptional. Gerry Durrell?! I didn’t think anybody else had ever heard of him. I read My Family and Other Animals after watching a hilarious dramatization of PBS. The book was seriously froody. I seem to gravitate towards books involving animals and weird people. Hey, here’s a question for the thread. My family and i were pondering it when we had nothing better to do. What qualifies a book as literature? Does it have to be old? Does it have to be a ‘classic’? Cast your vote now!
Literature, I think, depends on a person’s personal reading prefrences, because everybody likes different books. For example: This Thread!
As I have stated before, and probablly will do so again, I LOVE Lirael, and all of Garth Nix’s other stories about the Old Kingdom.
I also enjoy some of his short stories.
A Great and Terrible Beauty is very good.
SPOILER +RANT ALERT:
I think that the Bartimaeus series was funny, but the first one was the best, and the ending of the last one was really depressing. You finally get humans and dijini (spelling?) coopreating, and then you kill off the character that has changed the most. UG! But I suppose he couldn’t have lived with himself after he killed all of those animated corpses of his fellow magicians. Poor Kitty.
I read Troy. It was OK. I don’t think that out library has Ithica, although the bookstore might.
Of course, Harry Potter and LOTR are great.
Tamora Pierce’s Circle books are OK, but I LOVE the Trickster series. The Lioness series are good too, especially.
I never read the DaVinchi Code. And now I never will (I hope).
I read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and it was good. But I agree that the swearing and stuff definiteley detracts from the book. I sort of mentally winced every time I come across a swear word. But the book had it’s hilarious moments.
I used to like Richard Peck, but now I realize that a lot of his
books seem to have similar plots, and some of the
characters seem a little bit unrealistic. But they can be funny.
91 – I’m don’t know the detalis of Life of Pi, because I’ve never read it, but I can tell you the general. A guy named Pi is stuck on a boat for a long tome with a tiger and learns to get along with it. It’s also a book about his survival with the tiger. Or maybe the tiger’s name is Pi. I’m not sure though. I have never read it.
As for literature, I’m not quite sure. Lots of descriptions. Good writing is almost more important than plot in literature. But if it has a touching story, then it adds to the fact that it’s good literature. Adventure stories to me don’t seem like literature unless the writing is obviously the right style. I don’t think that when it was written matters. But people wrote more “literature” in the past. I think. But I really have no idea.
Re-reading my Asimov collection. Recommended to anyone, even if you don’t particularly like Science-Fiction. Also looking for a copy of the Silmarillion, as one of my favourite albums nowadays is based on it, and I’d like to understand what he’s singing about… Also going to order Jon Stewarts America from amazon.
Why do some people not like Redwall?
I like the series – I think it’s a great imaginational story.
And I like books about warriors.
And the book inspired me to make a sling, so now I’m actually pretty good at slinging high-velocity walnuts at people.
95-kool!
being to lazy to actually read the thread and find out, is any one here into sci-fi?
94-ooh. America. thats very funny. my grandma has that book. in fact, my grandma’s friend is jon stewarts mother.
w00t
92-h2g2
what is with these people?
cursing, etc. is a part of life. many people, (myself included) speak that way, and having dialouge from one of these people without it, is unrealistic. it adds, not takes away.
74-dont like any OCD books other than ender, but lol. ive read EVERYTHING, and im only 12. well, only and only.
heck yes! heinlein pwns
95-meh, they’re a bit youngish and formulaic. If you’ve read one, you’ve read all kind of thing. Plus they’re a bit cheesy. They’re alright though, i used to sort of like them.
That’s pretty amazing that you can sling though.
i’m too lazy to read what y’all said above 95. Sorry. If you dissed any of my fav books, consider yourself pied. If you gushed over any of said fav books, go you. If you recommended any good books, sorry, i should read them but i didn’t see what they were being too lazy to read the rest of the thread. I’m a terrible horrible person, i know.
58- Twilight just came out. Like, less than two weeks ago.
61- I’m like, 13th in line for Twilight. T_T And yes, we all read fantasy. (Probably)
99- Same laziness. I just did Ctrl+F to find out who replied to me. xD
94- haha! another person who reads asimov!(sry, was to lazy to read your post before) i’ve spent the last three years trying to get phoenix to read those…
which ones have you read?
98-I agree It adds atmosphere, but I, presonally, just don’t like swearing. The book was wonderful, but in my opinion, the swearing was my least favorite part. I’m sorry, but that is just how I feel about it.
I used to be obsessed about Redwall when I was younger. But I haven’t read one in years.
98/102- i never read that particular book, but my veiw on swearing is as follows- ppl swear, get over it. writers can use swear words, just not every other word.
101: I’ve read the foundation series, the robot series and some single novels (End of Eternity, The Gods Themselves, Nemesis) and his Jokebook.
104-kool! i note you call them the foundation series, even though originally all seven books were called the foundation trilogy. as the first three were written decades before the last four.
has any one here read the belgariad? (david and leigh eddings)
105- yeah, and it’s so obvious. You could read Foundation and Earth, Foundation’s Edge, Forward the foundation and the others without having read the original three. Lame.
not really. but for me the biggest difference in the first and second sets were the difference in philosiphy
106- many of us have. Early on, Pheonix (who isn’t around much anymore) started a read the Belgariad campaign type thing. Now many of us feel that Eragon is a copy of the belgariad and that Paolini isn’t that great. I’ve read the belgariad.
I’ve read foundation and a bit of Foundation and Empire but I didn’t finish it.
you should!
i’m still working on trying to get phoenix to come back. no luck so far.
90- Salman Rushdie. And then the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his death. so i figure it might be pretty interesting.
91-Life of Pi is a very good book about a boy who is stranded on a lifeboat in unusual circumstances. you think it’s a good book until the end, at which point you think it’s a great book.
Literature? A written down poem, story or song which tells a narrative.
91 – I’d say literature is any story with an exceptionally thought-provoking storyline written in noticeably eloquent language. But that’s just me. It’s hard to define.
92 – Garth Nix isn’t my favorite, but I do enjoy his books.
94 – Asimov…haven’t read his books yet, but planning to. Everyone who has read them tells me they love them.
95 – Haven’t read any Redwall in awhile, but I used to really like that series. That’s awesome that you can use a sling! Sounds like a useful skill.
On the topic of swearing, I have mixed feelings. In my experience, frequent swearing is a sign of ignorance, as people in my redneck neighborhood (not everyone in Kentucky is a hick, I just happen to live in a rural area) throw in a swear word every time they don’t know what else to say. However, as much as I prefer not to swear, I don’t mind it in books as long as it’s not excessive. In the case of H2G2 I didn’t mind because I imagined that’s how most of the characters would probably talk in reality.
Encyclopedia Brown is good. I also like books that were written by people in the past that predicts the future(now) and gets it totally wrong.
113- you should read brave new world, farenheit 451 and 1984.
calling all sci fi fans. Give me reccomendations please! I don’t tend to like sci fi – I usually read fantasy.
115: Asimov. That’s all you need. It’s pure genius. I’d reccomend the complete robot and the robot series.
I changed my name because of a good book. But I also changed it for two other reasons. One is because I wanted to change it anyway. The other is because I thought it sounded good. But it doesn’t sound like me. I like it anyway. So too bad for those who don’t.
116 – I don’t have to say this, but it kind of annoyed me in the lightest way. No offense, or anything. You spelled the word “recommend” wrong. You can remember by thinking “I recommend M&Ms.”
116- I like the cave of steel series a lot too- sort of sci-fi mysteries. Asimov didn’t like the abbreviation sci-fi. He thought it was better than “spec fic”, though.
His short stories are also really good. I remember one about the “goose that layed golden eggs”, in particular..
117: woops. slip of the keyboard. its past midnight here and I can’t see what I’m typing.
119 – Okay. I just wanted to tell you.
ARTEMIS FOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!
The next book is coming out on the 12th, but it is already out in the UK *sobs, then pies Eoin Colfer*
yah it’s not like I don’t know how to spell.
i think it’s already out here in a translated version… or i just might have misread the sign…
122 –
Well, sorry!Okay. It just annoys me the slytist bit. (haha, did you like my spelling?)I know tons of people who make the mistake. Are you saying they don’t know how to spell?i’ve just read The Beatrice Letters twice and it still doesn’t make any sense. does anyone have any theories about beatrice letters or anything else Series of Unfortunate Events-related?
123-They all die in the end. Except the three orphans. Or including the three orphans. I don’t know. But that’s what I think.
ack! Sorry! 125, not 123!
i dont think the orphans die. but i was wondering mostly about things in the beatrice letters, like how many beatrices are there, who are they all (it seems one of them is almost certainly the orphans’ mother, but what about the other?) and things like that
and if one of them really is their mother and if she’s still alive, then shouldn’t people stop reffering to them as orphans?
121- artemis fowl rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyone who has read inkspell: whats the deal ?! why is it becoming a cheapo series with cliff hanger endings??!!!
As Frenchy said, Artemis Fowl rules! I have a friend who was overly envious that I had the book, and his mom is the principal of the elementary school right next to our school, and so my mom, when she learned that he liked the books, took the fifth book over to her, and told her that he could borrow it. Of course, she didn’t tell him until he got his homework done, and only then because my mom asked him, “Did you get the book Zyka’s letting you borrow?” (Of course, she didn’t say Zyka, but said my real name which is–*is pied*) He immediately sat up, and said, “What book?’ “The fifth Artemis Fowl book!” my mom said. “WHAT?!? Mom! Where’s the Artemis Fowl Book?” is what he said next. His mum wouldn’t let him have it until lunch time! And right after lunch I have a class with him, and he was reading it, and would not stop even to work on our service project. He simply said, “We should go help at the library. That’s our plan,” and went back to reading. So that is what we are doing for our science project.
And there is another kid, who insists on calling himself Moo, whose mom bought the book, held it three inches from his outstreched fingers, then said, “You can’t read it until you have finished the other books I bought you!” CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?!?! TORTURE!!! And he can’t even get at it, because she put it in their firebox (You know, that fireproof plastic box with several locks that everyone should own to keep important documents safe from fires!) and hid the keys.
Moo is horrified.
And as soon as my mom heard that story, she almost got us into a car wreck from getting so worked up at the injustice of it all.
Needless to say, we are all Artemis Fowl geeks.
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I only read the first Series of Unfortunate Events book. I really do want to read the others, but i got a bunch of froody books out of the library, then i had to start summer reading for school (hiss!), and i never really got around to it.
Will somebody PLEASE tell me the MB vocab? For example, FROODY?
P.S. Nilly buck-buck, you know who you are. TALK TO ME IF YOU ARE HERE!!!
Will somebody PLEASE tell me the MB vocab? For example, FROODY?
P.S. Nilly buck-buck, you know who you are. TALK TO ME IF YOU ARE HERE!!!
I am so impatient. I double-clicked it again! *Pies self*
FROOFY means cool
You mean “froody,” no? It’s one of Zaphod Beeblebrox’s slang words from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series.
Has anyone read War for the Oaks? I’m reading it right now.
who’s it by?
Jon Stewarts: America- The Book (A History of Democracy)
is this blog dead or something? no one has said anything for 6 days!!! actually, i don’t think anyone means to be mean and leave this cute little blog out in the cold or whatever!! well, if it hasn’t already been discussed, does anyone here like the bartimeaus trilogy? i was wondering cause noone i know has ever heard of it! i just spent $32 at borders on wednesday, and bought a brian jaques book and a john flanagan book. if anyone has any comments, speak now or forever hold your peace!!
(141) Hi jammin j! You be new, no? *pies with blueberry pie* Welcome!
This thread may or may not be dead. Once threads slide past a certain point on the front page, they tend to slow down. But if you want to boost it, you can post about it on the Visit These Threads! thread.
Hi, jammin j! *welcome-pies*
*throws a pumpkin pie at jammin j* I’ve read the bartimaeus trilogy.
It’s a good series. (what!? that the only thing i can say about one of all time favorite series? that its good ?!!!!?
no thats not a link.
yes, i have to admit that i am new but that is no reason to throw a pie at me!!!! What do you mean the Bartimeaus series is good?!! it’s GREAT! it absapossolutley Rocks ! i also have one quik comment about mr. paolini, the infamous author of the inheritance trilogy, and it is: WILL HE JUST HURRY UP AND WRITE THE DARN 3RD BOOK FOR PETES SAKE!!!!!!! Other authors i like aaarrrrrreeee……….. Eoin Colfer, Madeline L’engle, Johnothan Stroud, Orson Scott Card, Anthony Horowitz ( although his books are kinda repetitive), and any other good writer of science fiction and fantasy!! I intend to keep coming to any book blog muse puts up ( although the last one really did die!). ttfn.
I’m looking to read some Kierkegaad and some Herman Hesse in the near future.
you know who writes cool stuff? V.C. Andrews. i know there are some younger people on here so i am just going to say her stuff does have some R rated parts. but it is good if u r old enough.
ORSON SCOTT CARD ROX MY WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! except not enders game that just had problems.
i have never met anyone who actually likes orson scott card! i have read the whole ender saga and yes 148, i do think that enders game had a few glitches. but the others books in the series are great! it took me a month or so to read them all because i kept getting punished from books!!! AAAAGGGHHHH!!! *pies parents* Well, anyway, i have never heard of V.C. andrews but i do not like r rated material, so shut up about that particular author!! does anyone here read star wars, cause i am trying to read the whole new jedi order series and am on the 10 book. if anyone has any good authors to recomend, now is the time!!! i just put a hold on a john flanagan book at my library and should get it on monday or something. gotta get off the internet now. SEE YA! *pies everyone*
139- Emma Bull
Anyone like Neil Gaiman?
Ooh books!
haven’t heard of Neil Gaiman….
r-rated stuff in books is bollocks. Why shouldn’t authors be allowed to write what they want to? Why shouldn’t we see it as a form of art? I personally think that even pornography can be an art form, if used correctly. The problem with that stuff in movies though, is that it requires no energy for a guy to sit and watch something, but it actually requires effort to read. That said, I’m bookless at the moment. I’ve got tons of books and I’ve read them all through many times. I’m a very fast reader… I just finished re-reading the foundation novels and I wrote a resumé/commentary on the first part (Foundation to Second Foundation). We’ll see what she thinks… my english is waaay better than her’s, so I’m quite curious.
banned books bug me. freedom of speech MUCH? like in huckleberry finn how its all ‘challenged” because they say the N word. well thats how they talked back then, now get over it!
yes! i hate banned books. i mean, you don’t HAVE to read it, if it offends you, don’t read it. but maybe some people do want to read it, so leave it available to them.
154- i totally agree. in class we just read farenhiet 451 and the nwe talked about how some places had banned it. it was amusing.
and how do you make the æ symbol? (short of copyand paste obviously)
i read Farenheit 451 too, and it really got me mad that people want to ban it.
well, i just copy and paste off of my computer writing program where you can have cool symbols… i don’t know how to make it without copy and paste.
has anyone read the Fire Within if you have not you must read it. it is an awsome book
I just finished the latest book int he Bloody Jack series, in the Belly of the Bloodhound, by L.A. Meyers. I would suggest this series to anyone who wants a gripping pirate/romance/bording school story. It sounds sorta’ tacky when I put it like that, but they’re good books.
I also love HP.
Don’t kill me, I know a lot of musers are LOTR fans, but I don’t like those books. I usually finish books in a manner of days, but I tried reading them and they were so boring. Go ahead and pie me.
hey, 158! the lotr books had problems! i mean, seriously, you expect us to read 100 pages on walking trees!? it’s outrageous. i loved the story and have read all three books but i couldn’t say i fell in love with them, tooooo Loooonngg and Boooorrrringgg. and i say instead of pieing you, why not pie j.r.r. toilkien! great idea! *pies author, author writes edict stating that jammin j is officially an idiot* well, gotta go
p.s. does anyone like the fire within? cause my cousin Luigi just raves about it!
Tolkien is good. If you can’t get into it because you don’t like all the descriptions, then try again when you’re a little older. In the meantime, why don’t you just go read the current romantic crap circulating the world.
What are the GAPAs fav books? *coughcoughi’mnotstalkingLBcoughcough*
160- yeah, i guess i should probably read them over or something cause i did read them when i was like 11 or something (way to many somethings in that sentance!!!) but mr. toilkein still had way to much nonsense in them. how come only 3 posts were put on in a period of like 4 days!! people should come to this thread more often!!!!!!!!!! and i hate romantic crap, it’s not like i have anything against a little romance but sometimes it gets WAAAAYY to corny to digest. ttyl