This is from Zerila's suggestion!
I am gonna read Stardust when it arrives and after that I am gonna read 2001 cause I didn't understand the ending of the movie at all.
Thanks for your recommendations Zerila! I will definitely look into those :)
These books will help me cope with Post Potter Depression lol
Don't spoil the endings for yourself ro! I PROMISE the book will be better!!!!!
You should read Alice in Wonderland, it's my favorite ^^
I don't know if I could do it Ryudei! I mean its soo easy to accidentally let the pages slip to the end... and somehow my eyes see the words and I read it!
Alice in Wonderland is an old favorite of mine :)
If you're trying to overcome post-Potter depression (or PPD as the medical profession is(n't) calling it), then I have some recommendations for you!
Phillip Pullman: His Dark Materials trilogy. The first book, "The Golden Compass", is being made into a movie now. I'm not sure of the release date, though...
Terry Pratchett: The Tiffany Aching books, starting with "Wee Free Men"
Not quite Harry Potter, especially since the leads in both of these series are young girls instead of boys, but they're both really good series
Another thing... how could I have forgotten JRR Tolkien?! Bad Zeri, no cookie for me ; ;
The Golden Compass comes out 12/7/07. There was a Golden Compass Booth at Comic Con and I got to take a picture in front of a green screen, then was put in front of that polar bear :D
My friend is rereading the Chronicles of Narina cause of PPD.
You must read lots of books Zerila... book beastmaster /kneel
I finished reading Stardust last night! It was good, but the ending... I dunno I wanted something more LORD OF THE RINGS TYPE EPIC... but I guess since this was a fairy tale... it ended like one. I don't know how it differs from the paperback version since this was the hardcover one with illustrations XD But I still enjoyed the book and I am looking forward to the movie!
Now I am going to read 2001 and maybe I can understand that acid trippin ending :o
Oh and I found this funny
SPOILERS!!!!!!
(http://www.aww-kittah-aww.com/up/files/31/spoiler.jpg)
Oh, thanks for spoiling it!
I actually laughed out loud when I saw that, nice one :D
I'm thinking I'll pick up the sequel to the Talisman... I think its called the Black House, or something? I really really liked the first one!
Then again, maybe I should just re-read the first one :)
or wiki the book to get a summary :X
But then you miss all the good parts! ;)
Well, I did buy the Black House. It had some good parts, but all in all it wasn't nearly as good as the Talisman. And there were a few things in it that just really bothered me. I think I'll just pretend I never read it :P
I also just read Touched By the Gods, by Lawrence Watt-Evans. It was good, not his best but not nearly his worst. And the title... He was touched by the gods when he was a baby, but they never said where! Disturbing...
I might pick up some more Vonnegut... maybe Breakfast of Champions? It's one of his more famous ones, but I've never read it. Terry Pratchett has a new book coming out soon (next month?) and I'll definitely pick that one up :)
I went on a little Vonnegut bender, reading "Breakfast of Champions", "Timequake" and "God Bless You, Mr Rosewater". I'm a little Vonnegut'ed out at the moment, so I picked up something new and interesting the last time I was in Barnes and Noble:
Michael Palin Diaries, 1969-79.
You may know Michael Palin as one of the members of Monty Python. I'd say he was "the funny one", except you still wouldn't know which one I'm talking about :)
This has a bunch of insights into his own life, and what he was going through both at home and during the creation of Monty Python's Flying Circus. So far, there are a lot of really interesting insights, like how John and Eric viewed Python as a means to an end (money) while Terry Jones looked at it as a great work they were creating, worthwhile in its own right.
I've wanted to read that, Zeri! Michael Palin is awesome.
I'm currently reading Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan! A sort of... cyberpunk detective story.
Wow... people that... read books... and enjoy it... I think I found myself in the wrong thread... must... escape... :o
Bwa-hahaha!! *turns on gravity pump and sucks Kallisto back into the thread*
You shall never escape! I shall force you to read the complete works of Tolkien!
;D :D ;D
I'm planning on reading another Palin book after this, Hemingway's Chair. I heard it's good :)
It's funny how I tend to read in spurts of one particular author after another. Like, I'll go on a Pratchett kick, then a Vonnegut kick, then some other writer, etc.
You shouldn't kick Vonnegut;; Respect the dead!
Nor should you kick Terry Pratchett... since, well... it's just not nice. Q_Q
Nooooo! I meant "kick" as in "obsessively pursuing", not as in violence! I'm not a violent person!
...
Except when it comes to those darned Werebats... :-X
Alright! Great thread :D I'm always looking for suggestions of books to read. I read too fast and it gets frustrating when the authors can't keep putting the books out fast enough to keep up with me lol.
Recent reads I enjoyed:
I've read alot of the DragonLance series and sad that I have exhausted the two story lines I'm on until the authors put out new books - Finished book 1 of the Lost Chronicles and book 2 of Dark Disciple series. I prefer paperbacks over hardcovers so I'm impatiently waiting for the second Lost Chronicles to go paper :P
I also read the Lincoln Rhymes series by Jeffery Deaver. I think I have read 9-10 books in that series. Loved every one of them :D Also waiting for the next paperback out by Deaver.
I got really bored for lack of reading material and I picked up my daughter's book one day ::) I have to admit it's got me hooked though it's geared for young readers LOL. It's called "The Fire Within" by Chris D'Lacey. It's about dragons, so it sucked me in haha.
Keep the suggestions coming. :D
DRAGONS!! ;D
Oh, yeah! Dragonlance! :)
I only ever read the original series of that, and the second series (with Caramon and Raistlin), and that was a while ago. I remember liking it a lot, though :)
Dragon stories are always welcome. Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern are good books, and Barbara Hambly's Winterland series (starting with Dragonsbane) was really good! And really depressing (some horrible, horrible things happen to some really good characters in that)
Also, Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote The Obsidian Chronicles, starting with Dragon Weather, that was pretty good... um... and the Hobbit had a dragon in it (Smaug!)
I'm trying to think of other Dragon-related books Iââ,¬â,,¢ve read... ââ,¬Å"The Dragon and the Georgeââ,¬Â by Gorden R. Dickson was a good one, though I didn't care much for the sequels. Robert Asprin's Myth series has a dragon in it, though heââ,¬â,,¢s a minor character. Of course, there's Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini, which is pretty recent. He writes well, considering how young he is, though the books are a little rough.
Terry Pratchett had some dragons in the ââ,¬Å"Colour of Magicââ,¬Â and in ââ,¬Å"Guards, Guards!ââ,¬Â. Thatââ,¬â,,¢s not including the swamp dragons scattered throughout the rest of the Discworld books.
I know I have more dragon books... I love dragons, they're my favorite fantasy species :) I just can't remember any more off-hand.
Well I would say thats a pretty good list of Dragon books already :P
It should keep me busy for a few weeks. ;)
zomg dragons woot! so ya.. i finished eldest yesterday lolz
btw, thanks zerila for the tips on the dragon books ;D ;D ;D
I'm almost done with the 3rd Pern book and it's a great series so far. :D :D
Ah! The White Dragon, I love that book :)
Now, a word of warning... The Pern books go on forever (her son is writing them now, with her help), and they don't (in my opinion) maintain the quality of the first few... They never get BAD, just not as original ^^;
Anyway, I'm glad you like them!
I'm currently reading Michael Palin's: Hemingway's Chair
Um... I mentioned this in another thread, but I'm no longer reading Hemingway's Chair, I'm reading Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. Not because Hemingway's Chair is bad, but because I wanted to find out what the guy who will be taking over the Wheel of Time writes like :P
So far, I like it!
I know a lot of people who were into wheel of time, maybe I should read it considering how much zerila likes it.
Well, I'd wait until the last book at least has a confirmed release date... last I heard, it was 2009 ^^;
They do drag a little in the middle, from about book 6 to about 10, but the last book was really fantastic (though, maybe, a little rushed in places). I'm looking forward to the last one, since I've been reading this series since 1995 ;D
does anybody have any good book on tapes recommendations? need something that will last 12 hours
There was this really good one of George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl we used to have lying around years ago! I'll have to see if I can dig it up and find the narrator! ;D
Quote from: Ennaor on August 11, 2007, 06:49:12 PM
I finished reading Stardust last night! It was good, but the ending... I dunno I wanted something more LORD OF THE RINGS TYPE EPIC...
If you like epic I'd suggest the Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind. (http://www.geocities.com/Area51/1025/faith3.gif)
It's awesomely epic (there's a few dragons in this, although you don't get to meet them until later books), and will keep you busy for a while. And it ends good too. In addition, they are making a TV series out of the books, and it premiers November 1st/2nd. If you happen to like the series, the link to the upcoming TV show is: http://blogs.legendoftheseeker.com/ (http://blogs.legendoftheseeker.com/)
Also, if you like the Harry Potter series of books, you'll also no doubt like the Inheritance books by Christopher Paolini as well. (Dragons abound!)
(http://www.nassaulibrary.org/YABookLog/Eragon%20Jacket%20Cover.jpg)
They made a movie out of the first book, however they did a terrible job with it (did they even read the story once?) so don't judge a book by its movie. :P
For those romantics out there I liked a book called Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel.
(http://mrguerrero.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/lwfc-cover-small1.jpg)
I can't say it's all romance, but I can't really put it into any other category either. It's absolutely delightful to read. In the same vein, there's a book called Eva Luna by Isabelle Allende.
(http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n11/n58112.jpg)
It's a collection of short stories that are really heartwarming.
And last but not least, one of my favorite Sci-Fi books of all time is a book called Ender's game by Orson Scott Card.
(http://a0.vox.com/6a00c225277ced604a00e398a6f8900004-500pi)
If you like Sci-Fi even a little bit, you'll love this book.
Dangit, I'mma bring this thread BACK! ;D
Anyway, I just got done re-reading the Temeraire books by Naomi Novik. They're really good! It's written during the Napoleonic wars, only with the added element of DRAGONS! (Dragons make everything better! ;) ) The dragons have crews like ships, (including riflemen and bombers) and they fight in the war along with humans. I urge anyone who finds that even remotely interesting to pick them up. They're very very good! :)
Also, I just picked up Brave Story, by Miyuki Miyabe. It's interesting, but it doesn't feel like it's gotten to the main story yet, even though a lot has happened so far (also, it's over 800 pages long :o) That's something I noticed about other Japanese writers that I've read... the pacing just seems a little off to me. It may just be a cultural thing, or maybe the person translating it does something weird, who knows?
So, anyway, what are other Lucky folks reading?