Book Club

[Another Spartan]

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I just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, and now I am currently reading "The Giver" and "The Golden Compass".

"The Giver" is a beautifully crafted book, that goes into detail about a world where there is no color, no war, no rule breaking, no memories, no nothing. It tells about a young man, who gets assigned his job [as everybody in this world does] as 'the receiver'. "The Giver", who is an old man, gives 'the receiver' [called 'Jonas'] memories of the outside world. Such as love, fun, war, hate and more. I really suggest It.

I'm pretty sure most of you, probably all of you, have heard of / seen The Golden Compass.

ISN'T DEATHLY HOLLOWS AMAZING? And I'm being forced to read the Giver for school... 5th chapter got my whole school awkward.

 

[Zepzune]

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ISN'T DEATHLY HOLLOWS AMAZING? And I'm being forced to read the Giver for school... 5th chapter got my whole school awkward.

Aha, Is that the chapter where they bathe the old-wrinkly man? Yes, quite awkward. Oh, and Deathly Hollows IS amazing. I'm in love.

EDIT: And yeah, the series is entertaining, somewhat original, not the greatest books ever, though.

Yeah, not the best, but It's better than others I've read.

 

[Another Spartan]

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Aha, Is that the chapter where they bathe the old-wrinkly man? Yes, quite awkward. Oh, and Deathly Hollows IS amazing. I'm in love.



Yeah, not the best, but It's better than others I've read.

Nah, the one after it. It's the one where he has the dream about trying to give Fiona a bath, Stirrings, and taking pills and such.

 

[Zepzune]

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Nah, the one after it. It's the one where he has the dream about trying to give Fiona a bath, Stirrings, and taking pills and such.

... Oh yeah. That was a little more on the sexual side. Very, strange.

 

[Firis]

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Lemme guess, your parents didn't approve of Pullman's slight hate-on for Christianity?

Correcto, I wouldn't read it anyway, looked to much like the alternate dimension of Narnia... I still need to get back too Dune, find Long Hard Road Out Of Hell (No store has it here) then hide it from my dad while I read it. And I need to get the final Seventh Tower book fro mthe library.

 

[Another Spartan]

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My church sent warnings to everyone that said not to see Golden Compass. We watched it and brushed it off. People SURE know how to overreact. Reminds me of when my girlfriend's dad deleted my number from her phone ^_^

 

[William1193]

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lol oops i just realised it was the northern lights, but it still sounds better, but im guessing noone reads the pullman trilogy because the movie gave it such a bad name

 

[Walker]

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Correcto, I wouldn't read it anyway, looked to much like the alternate dimension of Narnia... I still need to get back too Dune, find Long Hard Road Out Of Hell (No store has it here) then hide it from my dad while I read it. And I need to get the final Seventh Tower book fro mthe library.

Eh... no, I can't think of anything that was all that much like Narnia. Unless you mean the fact that it was set in another world and the characters traveled to still more worlds, in which case... well, if you go by that standard you're cutting yourself off from a lot of decent fantasy.

Never heard of that second one, what is it?

My church sent warnings to everyone that said not to see Golden Compass. We watched it and brushed it off. People SURE know how to overreact. Reminds me of when my girlfriend's dad deleted my number from her phone ^_^

Yeah, my church went nuts over Harry Potter like that (maybe over Phillip Pullman, too, but I wasn't there for it). I had so much fun arguing the point with some of the more devout members of the youth group.

lol oops i just realised it was the northern lights, but it still sounds better, but im guessing noone reads the pullman trilogy because the movie gave it such a bad name

Never heard anyone who really bothered with the movie myself, but [shrugs] maybe some people saw the movie first or something.

 

[Trawgdor]

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Oh god, I just finished reading "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins. It is f'ing amazing.

I'm about to pick up the sequel, "Catching Fire".

 

[Purple Nurple]

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I enjoyed 1984 - George Orwell
And Of Mice And Men is a favourite of mine, and although I can see why it can be construed as 'boring', I personally find it extremely gripping. The intimacy Steinbeck gives to the reader between the characters is amazing - and yes, I cried at the end. Problem, anyone? I'm quite a fan of dystopic future worlds, and Asimov is one of my favourite authors. I'm currently engaged in a Sci-Fi omnibus that has a multitude of short stories. One that has caught my interest so far is called 'The Tunnel Under The World', a Matrix-ey style story about a totalitarinist regime. I also enjoy a good Tolstoy or Dostoeyefsky in my spare time. Joking, of course.

 

[Angel]

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Just finished Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and actually quite enjoyed it. Just reading some Anne McCaffrey and Terry Pratchett at the moment...

 

[Purple Nurple]

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Discworld series = epic success. At least the old ones. I don't much care for the new ones, they're still good, but in a different way to the old ones. The ones with Death are my favourites.

 

[RLRAFTERMAN]

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I love the dark tower series by Stephen King. It was long but it was amazing.

 

[Walker]

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Fahrenheit 451 is pretty good.

I also like Asimov (seriously, Hari Seldon is awesome. And so is moustache-boy,) but Steinbeck... not so much. The only one of his books I ever actually read was Grapes of Wrath, and I couldn't get into it at all.

And yeah, Discworld and Death are both awesome. But I don't have the issues with the later books that a lot of people do. I like Moist von Lipvig just fine, and Thud, and all the others I can think of-- though I will admit to being unsure about Unseen Academicals. It was good, but bit... off.

 

[Purple Nurple]

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i havent read farenheit 451, but i am literally JUST about to start the illustrated man. it is in my hand as i type this. also, i love the lord of the rings. i did a brief thing on them last year in my english class, and since i have become aware of why all fantasy writers draw inspiration from him. as for steinbeck, i have admittedly only read Of Mice And Men, and even that was only for an English project, but it was very good.