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What Are You Reading?; The bookworms shall inherit the earth!
Topic Started: Mar 5 2005, 07:18 PM (10,295 Views)
Pyra Kurai Akaidra
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Right now, my class is reading Looking for Alibrandi for English. Quite interesting for an old book.

If I ever felt like it, I might reread my beloved Deltora Quest books.
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Apr 30 2008, 06:30 AM
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:

YEAH. D: Stuff like that is EVERYWHERE. I'm getting sick of authors trying to look witty just because they write someone sympathizing with another 'cause they've got a Gucci bag. <_< Oh, I miss the old stories. D: *pats gravestone*

Some of the other stuff I hate in bad YA: the romance, the evil, evil stereotypes, and the insanely unrealistic tragedies. D:< "Your best friend's druggie boyfriend's friend's stepmom had a lover who's cousin got hit by a flying goat? OH NOES."

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Uh, I'm reading Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher. Pretty good children's book, even if it drags just a bit.
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I finished reading 'Murder with Mirrors' by Agatha Christie. It wasn't all that great. But I did enjoy reading it. Even though I was reading it on a flippin' airplane!

Now I'm reading 'Supernatural: Nevermore' by Keith R.A. DeCandido.
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Amaranth
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I'm just over half way through Eldest. I think I started reading Eragon at this time last year...I'm moving through the Inheritance Cycle very slowly indeed! But I'm very much enjoying it, so I'm savouring it :D Maybe I'll finish it in time for Brisingr :P
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Amaranth
May 2 2008, 06:52 PM
I'm just over half way through Eldest. I think I started reading Eragon at this time last year...I'm moving through the Inheritance Cycle very slowly indeed! But I'm very much enjoying it, so I'm savouring it :D Maybe I'll finish it in time for Brisingr :P

Brisingr? Paolini decided a title for the third book already? *kinda got used to hear it being referred to as Empire*

*slow*Cycle? ...There's gonna be more then three books?! :o :woot:
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"Brisingr" is the third book...but yeah, there's gonna be a fourth book.
I haven't even read "Eldest"...the length daunts me! Mebbe I'll pick it up when I no longer have other Shiny Things(aka other books) in my sight.
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I'm currently reading Leaves of Grass and The Poet (by Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson) for my Lit class. For fun? Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor. I definitely recommend Stalingrad to anyone who has even a remote interest in such things, although it can be occasionally difficult to read if one has a poor memory for names (as I do!).
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I just picked up The Luxe by Anna Godbersen to give that a try.

Myself, I've never been too into the Inheritance books- they're alright, but I just never really connected with any of the characters. *shrugs* Well, except for Murtagh, but he's not in it nearly enough. Eragon especially is kind of irritating to me- I sort of want to kick him. :sweat:
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Apr 23 2008, 11:22 PM
The Great Book of Amber. It's all ten Amber books. Rawkz.

Haha, still reading Amber. I'm on book four!
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Star Trek: Rihannsu - The Bloodwing Voyages

I'm a trekkie and proud of it! :D
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I'm currently reading Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield. It’s about an elite British unit known as the LRGW receiving special orders to eliminate Erwin Rommel the commander of Afrika Korps. Being familiar with WWII they don’t actually kill him. XD Still though, I’m 100 pages in and loving it!
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I'm currently reading At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie. I love her mystery stories! ^_^
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I've just finished reading something called "The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy" by Nick Bantock. It's got three books- `Griffin & Sabine', `Sabine's Notebook', and `The Golden Mean'- and it's about an English guy who begins to exchange mysterious letters with a young woman living on a far-off island, after she sends him a postcard that seems to imply she knows him very well.
It's beautiful romance, and possibly supernatural one,because they seem unable to exist in the same place at the same time...just think of it as "The Lake House" in epistolary novel format *g*
Plus, the author is a writer AND an artist, so it comes in pop-up picture book form- you can take the letters out of their(gorgeous) envelopes, see inkstains, see their postcards and drawings for each other. A real work of art overall...and yes, the shipper in me is thinking, SO CLERISY :cleris: :giggle:

Can anyone rec me a good YA novel? :3 I'm kind of wary of the supernatural ones right now so I'd really like something that's more of a 'slice of real life'. Something day-to-day like Judy Blume's books; or something with meaningful life-lessons like Ann Brashares' "Travelling Pants" series. And I also love "The Princess Diaries" so I wouldn't mind anything light-hearted like those! But no cliquey 'popular girl' novels, plz :P
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Just started All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. It's pretty amazing so far.
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Alantie
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Ooh, I should defintely check those out then, Kusari! They sound good!!

Umm, lets see. . . have you read Sarah Dessen? I recommend her Just Listen, and The Truth About Forever. Both are really very well done YA books and deal with a lot of real life issues. I'm totally in love with Just Listen. <3 She also has a new one out called Lock and Key- I have that on hold. The females are both sort of popular girls fallen from grace, but I don't really consider them the typical popular cliquey books. XD

If you like the Princess Diaries, have you read some of Meg Cabot's other series? I really like the Mediator books, and her 1-800- Where-Are-You? series is fairly good. There are also her adult novels, which are completely awesome- I recommend The Boy Next Door and Boy Meets Girl. Those are her best ones. I'll think on some more though- I need some of those types of books to read myself!
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