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What Are You Reading?; The bookworms shall inherit the earth!
Topic Started: Mar 5 2005, 07:18 PM (10,296 Views)
Kusari Yarou
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If you want something a bit darker magic, the Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix is fabulous- Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen. Very excellent! The Old Kingdom on the otherside of the wall is a land of magic where evil necromancers bring the dead back to work their bidding. It's up to the Abhorsen to fight them and put the dead back to rest.

I borrowed that from my friend last year. Am not a fan of Garth Nix's writing style, but I like his characters very much. ^_^ Prince Sam was my favorite because he was the most three-dimensional character to me.
I remember finding the Sabriel/Touchstone romance in the first book to be rather cliched...only to turn around and completely fall in love with them as a married couple in Lirael :lol: I was frustrated that we didn't get too much of them in Abhorsen!

Am re-reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader for the umpteenth time, with my old, falling-apart copy, the one that got me into Narnia in the first place. Heh...I forgot that there were two versions of the Dark Island scene.
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Kusari Yarou
Apr 21 2008, 01:47 AM
I borrowed that from my friend last year. Am not a fan of Garth Nix's writing style, but I like his characters very much. ^_^ Prince Sam was my favorite because he was the most three-dimensional character to me.
I remember finding the Sabriel/Touchstone romance in the first book to be rather cliched...only to turn around and completely fall in love with them as a married couple in Lirael :lol: I was frustrated that we didn't get too much of them in Abhorsen!

Garth Nix's writing style is a bit different. There are some things I don't like about it, but his characters are very vibrant. The Sabriel/Touchstone romance. . . it was just so underdeveloped, which I guess is the point, since they're running for their lives so they don't have the time to develop their relationship, but I agree, I enjoyed them more in the other books. My favorite character is actually Mogget- I love his sarcasim to no end, though I wish the author had given a clearer view of what would become of him later, and exactly what happened to him before his imprisonment. I adore him to bits. <3 I tend to like Sabriel more than Lirael, but I think that's because I see so much of myself in Lirael it makes me a tad uncomfortable, lol.

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Am re-reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader for the umpteenth time, with my old, falling-apart copy, the one that got me into Narnia in the first place. Heh...I forgot that there were two versions of the Dark Island scene.


My favorite Narnia book! <3 Wait- what do you mean there's two versions of the Dark Island scene? I didn't know that!
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The Tempest by Shakespeare.
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Zack. You had me at "Oh yeah!". <3
I've got the entire Chronicles of Narnia in one big book.

It's heavy.

I am reading (again) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.

I can't wait for The Solomon Key to be published.
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Apr 21 2008, 02:02 PM
The Tempest by Shakespeare.

One of my most favorite Shakespeare plays. <3

You know what's sad, Kusari? I only own 2 of the California Diaries (Dawn and Maggie both their 1sts) so I went to the library to borrow the rest and they only have four of them. D: Dawn's 2nd one, Maggie's 1st, Sunny's 1st, and Amalia. *angsts* HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO RELIVE THE ANGST GOODNESS WHEN I CAN'T FIND THE BOOKS? *sulks*
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Let's see...
Version one:
Leaving the island is like waking from a nightmare- "it was a dream, it wasn't real" and they are still a bit shaken but 'waking up' feels "heavenly". The boon Lord Rhoop asks of Caspian is "never ask me what I have seen in my years on the Dark Island". They sail away but the island doesn't vanish

Version two:
C.S. Lewis talks about the island as if it never existed: "there had never been anything to be afraid of". Everyone starts laughing once they are out and it vanishes when they sail away. The boon Lord Rhoop asks of Caspian is "never bring me back there."

Personally, I like the first one better. It's darker, and C.S. Lewis is just so beautifully spot-on in describing what waking from a nightmare feels like.

You must get a Ducky diary! He's so funny :P
And Maggie was always my favorite because of the songwriting.
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Crazy! I didn't know that! I think I've only ever read version 2.

You know, I don't ever remember reading one of the Ducky diaries. I know I read the girls' but I can't seem to remember reading his. Oh, and I lied. XD I discovered I also have Sunny dairies 2 and 3. I liked Maggie's a lot too. Writing. :D I think I enjoyed Amalia's too. Hers had the drawings and she was pretty funny.
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I just finished reading Seeing Redd. A nice AU book. Then I finished The Catcher in the Rye, a nice classic.
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The SS: A History (1919-45) -- probably one of the more boring history books I've read. It's got a lot of information, but little in the way of reference for those who are not headfirst in trivia for the time and place. :|
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Apr 22 2008, 07:18 PM
Then I finished The Catcher in the Rye, a nice classic.

That's an awesome book. I think I'll re-read that one of these days.
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I'm trying to resist the urge to reread the Dark is Rising sequence and the Chronicals of Narnia again. :lol:

I SHOULD be reading The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen. Which I love- but I'm just craving fantasy at the moment.
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The Great Book of Amber. It's all ten Amber books. Rawkz.
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I was just rereading the final Secret Country book, The Whim of the Dragon, but I stopped for the weekend 'cause felt nostalgic and wanted to relive some childhood schtuff. I didn't want anything involving pretty blonde twins or baby-sitters, so I got a set of that old series, Animorphs, and have just spent these last two days reading about shapeshifting kids battling brain-infesting aliens.
... Don't look at me like that...memory lane's a good place to be :giggle:
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Just finished reading Just Listen by Sarah Dessen. <3

I actually borrowed the first book in the Secret Country series, Kusari! I'm planning on reading it soon. :D

I actually never read Animorphs, though I always planned to when I was young. I just never got around to it. :sweat:

I'm probably going to be rereading the Narnia books soon though. :lmao:
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I actually borrowed the first book in the Secret Country series, Kusari! I'm planning on reading it soon.

W00t! Hopefully, you'll recognize more Shakespeare quotes than I did :lol: *ish not good at remembering archaic quotes*

Oh, "Animorphs" was prolly the best YA sci-fi series around! At the outset, you've got a story like a more grown-up Power Rangers- it starts with five kids who can shapeshift into animals, out to save the world from invasion. But the story dealt with some big stuff-- how war can degrade people, dehumanization of warriors, the responsibilities of being a leader, how lives can be saved or wasted with a single choice...really quite heavy for a kids' series!

I just borrowed 'em from my classmates all the time, but man, now I think I want to go back and collect all 54 books! I don't care how geeky it'll look; anyway, my sister and I have taken up a huge shelf for Sweet Valley/BSC/American Girl at home, and my little bro--who's 18--- is rereading freakin' Goosebumps XD

A bit of a lament: What IS it with kids/YA series nowadays? I mean, sure, Sweet Valley was no Newbery and sometimes had outlandish plots...but at least these and other books taught me the basic good-kid stuff! :angel: Stick up for underdogs. Love your insane siblings, no matter how much they prank you or get you into trouble(*coughStevenandJessicacough*). Sometimes, friends who give in to peer pressure can't help it. The Mean Girl/Big Bully/Rich Brat is human too.

The popular kid/teen books today are just..."ZOMG, Popular girl 1 is backstabbing popular girl 2 and we have to kill them both~!". "My bestfriend is a druggie party girl and I'm in love with her bad boy bf!" "We're all pretty princess queen bee girls out for blood LOL" :blink:
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