Favorite books

[oldschoolrpger]

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I have picked up reading the old L. Frank Baum series of the OZ books again. I picked them up to have something to read to my son and have really started enjoying them again. With 14 in all and an excellent reread value I don’t think me or my son will have to look very far for night time reading material. I like them for the good imagination, great settings, and wonderful characters.

 

[Angel]

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I used to read this adventure series by Willard Price that has these two brothers called Hal and Roger in them - there were 14 books in all and I really enjoyed them:

Amazon Adventure
Cannibal Adventure
Underwater Adventure
African Adventure
Arctic Adventure
South Sea Adventure
Gorilla Adventure
Lion Adventure
Elephant Adventure
Volcano Adventure
Diving Adventure
Whale Adventure
Tiger Adventure
Safari Adventure

 

[Oni_Azif]

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try any novel by chuck palahniuk:
survivor
choke
lullaby
haunted

also enjoyed the zombie survival guide for all you smart people storing food and weapons in preperatioin for the comming Z-day......

 

[Albion Knight]

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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

 

[Oni_Azif]

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oh and for some light reading the necronomicon
really its a good book

 

[Albion Knight]

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The Giving Tree

 

[ALtesha]

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Let's begin...

-All the books I read from Raymond E. Feist like "A darkness at Sethanon" - It's the only book I have at the moment.
-All the Arty books!!!! *Arty, Arty, Arty,...* Or for normal people Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer.
-Robin Hobb: Books of the Living ships ( I think they translate it that way) with Althea and Braschen (in Dutch, It's Bresker, by the way)
then...
-Lord Of the Rings, ofcourse, by J.R.R. Tolkien
-Maybe books for children, but I still like them: Enid Blyton, The Five series with George and Annie and so on.
- Loverboys, don't remember the autor
- Time for chocolate , don't remember her either
- The books of Simone Van Der Vlugt, really good history-like books
- The books of Anne Rutyne

I can't remember anything else, maybe later, but that's it for the moment.
I tried to translate. I TRIED

 

[Skorm's Son]

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Anything by H.P. Lovecraft

 

[Secia_Lunegaze]

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-A Song of Ice and Fire (A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A .......... of Crows... I can't remember lol)
-Harry Potter
-Blood and Chocolate
-Silverwing
-Sunwing
-Firewing
-Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" Trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass)
-Anything Dragonlance
-The Death Gate Cycle Series (Dragon Wing, Elven Star, Fire Sea, Serpent Mage, The Hand of Chaos, Into the Laberynth, The Seventh Gate)
-Black Griffon

That's it off the top of my head.... I'll list more if I can think of any.

 

[ALtesha]

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Anybody who has good Fantasy books? Some Titles? or an author? Cause i'm looking for some new reading material...

 

[Hexadecimal]

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Anybody who has good Fantasy books? Some Titles? or an author? Cause i'm looking for some new reading material...

umm... the following fantasy series are really good

Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind
Discworld by Terry Pratchett
Imagicka by Clive Barker

 

[Ivan]

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My favorite book: Lord of the Rings.

 

[DrZoid]

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I don't think I've read a book for about 2 years =/
(apart from great expectations in English... hardly call it a fave though)

I remember the Hobbit was pretty good when I read that a while back...

 

[Secia_Lunegaze]

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Anybody who has good Fantasy books? Some Titles? or an author? Cause i'm looking for some new reading material...

LOL!!! Sorry, but my entire post was fantasy novels!

 

[Angel]

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I got The Cross and The Switchblade for Christmas and it's awesome...read it in like an hour coz I read very quickly, but give it a coupla days and I'll forget enough to read it again :lol:

 

[Arrowdodger]

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Dude ... there's like, alottalot of pages on people's favorite anime, and like... six on here. Wow ...
Woot! Eragon, Lord of the Rings, The Lightning Thief, Blankets... I like alot of books . Oh, and lately I've been loving the Halo books ^_^! And the Kingdom Hearts comics, and back when I was in elementary school I LOVED Animorphs. And I was seriously into Harry Potter, but lately, my interest has been fading and fading and fading and

OH YEAH! And-... heh... heheh... HAH! I sounded like the KOOl-AIDE GUY :lol: !

The Tower series is pretty good... I mean, the storyline. But the vocabulary... absolutely puerile :getlost:.

 

[Vegeta]

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The Winter Room (Gary paulson)

The voyage of the Frog (Gary Paulson)

 

[Angel]

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Having just re-read Harry Potter and the Half Blood prince I'm kinda hoping the final instalment is going to be worth all the waiting. Too many series are ruined by a weak/sloppy ending because the author has no idea how to end it. Yesterday I read this book called Brightly Burning by Mercedes Lackey. It started well, was good in the middle and then end was....diabolical. Shame really coz she could have really made a fantastic story there but instead went for the massive build-up and appalling anticlimactic finish.

Or maybe I'm just too fussy?

 

[Sephiroxas]

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Having just re-read Harry Potter and the Half Blood prince I'm kinda hoping the final instalment is going to be worth all the waiting. Too many series are ruined by a weak/sloppy ending because the author has no idea how to end it. Yesterday I read this book called Brightly Burning by Mercedes Lackey. It started well, was good in the middle and then end was....diabolical. Shame really coz she could have really made a fantastic story there but instead went for the massive build-up and appalling anticlimactic finish.

Or maybe I'm just too fussy?

Ahh I think the harry potter books are doing okay. Aside from the fact that she IS rushing to get them out. God the amount of mistakes I found in her last book was insane. And I'm not even that good at english, so I know there's probably more.

I hope that the last?? book will be good. I really don't want to be dissapointed. I started reading them when I was like 12/13, maybe before that. This has been a long running series for me.

 

[Angel]

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I never even heard of them until my dad gave me the first three for Christmas when I was 18. Got hooked and read the other three but got gradually more and more disappointed - the films made me so mad coz they are awful - I understand she has a schedule to fit to and she is trying to get darker as the story progresses but I think she may be her own undoing by making the plot so twisting that she may not be able to reach a satisfactory conclusion. Basically, either Harry or Voldemort have to die and it would be totally crap if neither did and some other ending was reached. Similarly, it would suck if the ending was predictable before the reader got to it.

Fantasy for children is a difficult one - she can't go too dark and she can't patronise. I don't envy her.