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I have a lot of things I want to say about books not mentioned much here, but the length of things I wish to say do not merit individual threads. So, this thread is for posting random thoughts about books! I'll start.
1. Watership Down. I'm rereading it. The writing is as brilliant and the main sub-plot non-brilliant as ever.
2. MAX. I hated this book. Way to take a good sci-fi action mystery and wreck it. James Patterson realized what hereally wanted to write was "global warming romance". I mean, not to spoil the ending, but really, let's have some plot, please. *head-desk-repeat*
3. I can't seem to get through any Terry Pratchett. I've tried to read Wee Free Men, Only You can Save Mankind, and Nation, but I haven't been able to get past the middle.
4. HG2G is very weird. Awesome, but weird. And that's coming from someone who once/twice wore a bathrobe and carried a towel on Thursday amd thinks the answer to "how much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" is "42".
5. Rebecca Stead is a really awesome writer. When You Reach Me was one of the best books I read this year.
That's all for now.
submitted by Reuben
(October 18, 2009 - 7:47 am)
(October 18, 2009 - 7:47 am)
Good thread.
1. Watership Down. Never read it. Couldn't get past all the talking animal stuff... I've been telling myself that I'll try it again, though.
2. MAX. Never read this or any other James Patterson, but, er... "global warming romance"? >_> Really?
3. Terry Pratchett. Getting Discworld from the library because everyone has been raving about him so much.
4. HG2G. I'm about halfway through Eoin Colfer's continuation, and he's not doing badly at all, which makes me very happy.
5. What is/are Rebecca Stead's book/s about?
Some random thoughts of my own:
1. Jonathan Stroud's books. I loved the BT, but Heroes of the Valley was just *abysmal*.
2. Ranger's Apprentice. Very funny and intelligent. Lucky Australians already have 6-8. My friend Tommy does too, actually, because he knows someone in Australia who mailed them to him.
3. Michael Buckley. He lost my respect with the latest book. :P
4. Gregor the Overlander. It was worth reading the first what, four books, to get to the last one, which was quite sad in a good way.
(October 18, 2009 - 11:09 am)
@MaryLizW (and it's a bit redundant that I even write that): Rebecca Stead's latest (and greatest) book, When You Reach Me, is about this girl in NY who gets mysterius notes, and there's fantasy too, and it's really much better than I'm making it sound.
My responses:
For starters, I'm looking forward to reading Colfer's continuation, even though his style to me seems a bit forced in many ways. And yes, MAX was global warming romance. One chapter was stopping pollution, the next was badly written romance, repeat until over. I just got the second Ranger's Apprentice book from the library, but haven't finished it yet.
Oh yes, and TOP!
(October 18, 2009 - 4:20 pm)
1. Watership Down-Richard Adams is a genuis. The Warriors series seriously copies this; although Watership Down is much better.
2. MAX-Never read it, but heard bad things.
3. Terry Pratchett-I think his works are supposed to be that way. Not very New Reader friendly. ;)
4. HG2G-I still have yet to get the last 2 books, but what I've read is excellent, funny, and weird. :)
5. Rebbeca Steads-I believe I have read one of her books and enjoyed it.
I'm only going to do one, and more later.
Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flammel-Good writing, the first and second books are by far the best.
(October 18, 2009 - 6:10 pm)
1. Watership Down! Yay! I love that book. And I do like the subplot (er... assuming you mean the Efrafa one?), what don't you like about it?
2. I hate JP's style/plots/characters in general, so...
3. Try Hogfather, it's one of his best and it starts off pretty fast.
4. DNA was more than a little crazy, so any craziness in his various works is only to be expected, am I right?
5. Never heard of her.
(October 18, 2009 - 7:23 pm)
@TNÖ: OK, thanks for the recommendation. It wasn't Efrafa I minded so much, actually, it was quite iteresting (rabbit dystopia).
@Mathilda: I agree about the first 2 books of Flamel being much better. At the end of book 3, there was a loophole in the whole time-travel thing that would *spoilers* allow Scatty and Joan to get back to the present. *end spoilers* .
1. I'm reading I, Robot right now, and I've come to the conclusion that Asimov doesn't like sticking with one set of characters through a wholle book. I got that feeling with Foundation too.
(October 19, 2009 - 6:28 am)
1. The Harry Potter series rocks! It was very well planned out and J.K.Rowling is an amazing writer!
2. I wish I never read The Lord of the Rings. I couldn't understand it at all and the writing was not very good (in my opinion).
3. Skippy Jon Jones is one of the most cutest children's book ever!
4. Juniper and Wise Child was as good as Harry Potter! I can't wait to read Colman.
5. The Tales of Beedle the Bard was a great book. It has a connection to the Deathly Hallows. And Hermione Granger did a great job translating it.;)
6. I love my Latin dictionary!
7. In my opinion Eragon was actually quite good. And I also think the first one was the best.
8. I can't wait for The Star Shard to be a book!!!!!!!
(October 19, 2009 - 11:24 am)
1. I like Harry Potter, too. The only problem is that JKR kills off all my favorite characters:(
2. I like LOTR. It's well written and funny at times.
3. I LOOOOOVE Juniper and Wise Child!
4. I think Tales of Beedle the Bard was great, but the Warlock's Hairy Heart was....er....gruesome....
5. I like Eragon, too. I think the movie stunk, however.
And some of my own personal favorites:
1. Warriors! I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it, what with the Clan roleplays and such.
2. George's Secret Key to the Universe! It's about a kid named George (obviously) who discovers the secret key to the universe (also obviously).
3. Amulet! It's a graphic novel, and it's wonderful. It's really descriptive and the pictures are beautiful For any other fans, my favorite character is Trellis, aka the Elf Prince.
(October 19, 2009 - 3:14 pm)
1. *mourns Bellatrix, Snape, and Voldemort... and also Fred* *mourns Harry's resurrection* But other than that, good!
2. Tolkien is love.
3. Never read 'em, general spoiler-less plot please?
4. "Dumbledore's" Author Tract rantings about Disneyfication and Moral Guardians were great. I love poking fun at the people who think fairy tales are for children and feel extremely sorry for the kids who are victims of What Do You Mean It's Not For Kids?... *glares pointedly at mother with five-year-old in 9, of all movies, and the mother with a child of the same age in District 9 which was rated R, HELLO?*
4a. *needs to stop visiting TV tropes for a while*
5. I like to spork Eragon, does that count? I personally find it cliche, full of plot holes, angsty, and rather pointless. I'm leaning towards the ship that says Galbatorix (sp?) is a decent ruler (take out the Varden and the Empire's in relative peace. /rambling
(October 19, 2009 - 11:11 pm)
@ Mango: You are the first person that I've heard (besides myself) to say that they LOOOve Juniper and Wise Child! I made a thread on Cricket Readers Recommended for Juniper and Wise Child. Have you read Colman yet?
(October 20, 2009 - 4:58 pm)
@ Hannah: What? You don't like LOTR?? I can see why you'd say that, as it was a bit lengthy and dragged on a bit. Still, great trilogy.
(October 19, 2009 - 3:55 pm)
Not to mention it basically kicked off the whole High Fantasy genre.
(October 19, 2009 - 11:12 pm)
1. Harry Potter is veritably awesome. Love the world, love the plot...
2. Similar feelings toward LOTR as to HP.
4. I didn't much like Tales of Beedle the Bard.
5. Eragon = LOTR-good writing+different names.
1. Warriors. 1st-series Warriors is actually a good series. NP marks a marked decrease in quality, although Sunset is my overall favorite Wbook. Po3 was not good at all, except for Ashfur, who is awesome.
(October 20, 2009 - 6:28 am)
I know alot of you guys saw Eragon and didn't like it, but I haven't seen it and I wanted to watch it for myself to see if it was all that bad. Guess what, we are recording it on our dish!!!! Yay!
(October 20, 2009 - 5:01 pm)
ToBtB was interesting for about a half hour to forty-five minutes. Kinda funny at times. The thingies allegedly written by Dumbledore were better than the actual stories.
Ooh, I liked Galbatorix. He was really the only interesting character in the book in my opinion. I liked the bits about him. There weren't enough at all...*
*I admit I've only read the first one. I thought the others'd be rather a waste of time, truth be told...**
**But, um, I did hear that Brom turned out to be Eragon's father. Was that true? If so, um, what the heck?!
(October 20, 2009 - 5:40 pm)
SPOILERS. Yes, it's true. No, the book doesn't have it make any more sense.
(October 21, 2009 - 6:01 am)