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 Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 12:30 pm
Whats everyone's favourite book?
I just finished reading Ender's Game. It was fairly good.
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 1:18 pm
Ender's Game was good... The Shadow series is better. *nods*
One of the best series I ever read though, was Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower' Series. That was just AMAZING.
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 2:09 pm
Vut vaz being so amazing about this 'Ze Dark Tower' series?
<.< Theres a Shadow series? I mean, I just picked up Ender's Shadow.. but.. theres more boooks after eet?
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 4:21 pm
I just finished a whole pile of books.
The Blue Girl
House of the Scorpion
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Rebel Angels
Almost Japanese
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Mrs. MgGinty is Dead
One, Two, Buckle my Shoe
And I was about to start 'The Tale of Genji' but Hailey lent me 'Angels and Demons' so I'm going to read that first.
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Nolah de Fanel Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 4:52 pm
HairySarriBerryPie Vut vaz being so amazing about this 'Ze Dark Tower' series? <.< Theres a Shadow series? I mean, I just picked up Ender's Shadow.. but.. theres more boooks after eet? Yes.. the Ender Series is as follows: Ender's Game Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind (or something like that) The Shadow Series is: Ender's Shadow Shadow of the Hedgemon Shadow Puppets Shadow of the Giant All very good books. I loved the Dark Tower Series... My favorite books remain to be Terry Pratchett's Disc World Series... Along with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Good Omens, Neverwhere, American Gods, and Binding Ties. I also love anything by Chuck Palahunick; Flub Club, Suvivor, Choke, and Stanger than Fiction in particular.
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:16 pm
<.< Crudz. I need to get to the library again now. If only I read faster. gonk
So anyone wanna give a little blurb on the Dark Tower series?
Eeh. Discworld. heart Whats not to love of it?
Flub Club? o.o That sounds ominious.
Whats Almost Japanese about? Em, what was your favourite out of the list you wrote? Did you list them in order of most-liked?
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:19 pm
The Dark Tower is a series of seven books written by the good Stephen King. It's what he calls his 'uber story' and it actually incorporates almost ALL of the other books he's written (which means I need to read more of his stuff, because though he tends to write a bit more about sex than I'd like, he's an AMAZING writer).
The first sentence in the series is this: "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." The main character is the last gunslinger in existance, and the world has moved on. He's chasing the man in black for reasons unknown, but you eventually find out that the gunslinger is on a quest to find the Dark Tower, which is said to be the source of their entire universe and existance. The gunslinger's name is Roland Deschain, and a few more characters show up as the story goes on...
It's a fantasy, as opposed to a horror... But it's a real morbid fantasy. ACtually... you could ALMOST describe it as realistic fantasy (if that makes ANY sense). Either way, the worlds King creates and the connections it has with our own... Hahaha, it's just flat out AMAZING. DEFINITELY worth reading. The first book is a liiiittle slow, but don't let that stop you. It gets to a point you just can't stop reading... You can't. Ahhh, that's probably my most favorite series I've ever read. And I read. A LOT. Anyway, that blurb was a little cryptic, so if you wanna know more about the series, just ask... I just don't wanna give any of it away, because it's SO much more fun to experience it. 3nodding
Other AWESOME books?
Life of Pi
Catch 22
What Dreams May Come
The Golden Compass (the first in a trilogy - The Subtle Knife and the Amber Spyglass are the other two)
actually, there's a series by Garth Nix (who's more of a young teen writer, but I like him anyway) called The Keys to the Kingdom... That one's real neat... Also, he did The 7th Tower... That series was awesome too...
Ahhh, the Circle Of Magic series - Tamora Pierce (sp?)
Gosh... What else... I've read so many I can't THINK of any... Ah well...
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 10:00 pm
I must say I'm now curious about the story...perhaps after I'm finished Ender's Game and the Shadow series I'll start on it. And realistic fantasy? Don't worry, it makes sense.
Whats 'What Dreams May Come'?
Well when you do think of some..You know where to list 'em. o.o
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 10:01 pm
I definitely meant to say "Fight Club"
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 10:02 pm
By the time I got to the end of Life of Pi, I was extremely creeped out.
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 11:26 pm
HelterSkelterX By the time I got to the end of Life of Pi, I was extremely creeped out. >.> I thought Life of Pi was about.. Asians moving to Toronto or something? In a truish type story? Aah.
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 12:39 am
Ooooh too many!
Lord of the Rings -JRR Tolkien
Harry Potter - JK Rowling
Philip Pullman's Dark Material Trilogy- The Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass (those are the ORIGINAL names, not the American names! razz )
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
They're the top ones, but I'll post more as I think of them :p
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 4:44 am
Eh?? No, Life of Pi is about an Indian boy who is sailing to the Canada and the ship sinks, and he get stuck on a lifeboat with an array of zoo animals, including a bangal tiger.
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 5:47 am
Hahhaa, yessss... Life of Pi was soooo creepeh by the end. And I ended up finishing it in the middle of the night... Let's just say I had some INTERESTING dreams when I finally got to sleep. eek
Nevertheless, great book. *nods* One of the few ones I was assigned to read for school that I actually liked.
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 10:49 am
Same here, actually. I'd rather chew my hand off than read Jane Eyre again...stupid school.
Yeah, Life of Pi was incredibly creepy. By the end I was like O.O;;;;
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