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Post by Cy Skywalker on Jan 13, 2006 7:57:56 GMT -5
A spot to recommend or diss books you have read.
Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke Inkheart and its sequel (there will be a trilogy) deal with people who can read themselves into books, or read characters out of them, and all sorts of trouble that results from this happening with a fantasy novel. The main character is a young kid named Meggie, and the first book is written a little childishly but with very intriguing world-building and characters. The second book then has greatly improved on the prose and feel of the first, and deals with darker themes--tear-jerking themes, at the end. Fun stuff to read for fantasy and metafiction fans.
Life, the Universe, and Everything By Douglas Adams The most insane of all the Hitchhiker's "trilogy" books. Really insane...Arthur & Co. are off to rescue some ancient Galactic artifact with definate resemblance to a wicket...Arthur learns to fly...the Infinate Improbability Drive gets a rival; the bistro. Completely crazy and hilarious, a little mind-scrambling even.
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The Two
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Post by The Two on Jan 13, 2006 9:47:57 GMT -5
I'm in a Book club in my town and have reviewed alot of books for the last 7 years. the system we use is pretty simple: it goes "on a scale of 1-10 what would you give this book?" "why?"
this might help for this link.
THE BARTIMAEUS TRILOGY: BOOK 2 THE GOLEM'S EYE by Jonatan Stroud A golem is rampaging through London and the goverment has to stop it. A boy named Nathaniel has to summon a Djinn named Bartimaeus to sort it out. This book is both witty and creepy and should be read by all. 10/10
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Jan 16, 2006 8:11:44 GMT -5
I read the first Bartamaeus and liked it, but never got a hold of the second one. I like his little footnotes.
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Post by The Two on Jan 26, 2006 9:54:24 GMT -5
The Third one's the Best.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Jan 30, 2006 8:04:29 GMT -5
Lord Foul's Bane and Thomas Covenant series by Stephen R. Donalson
I'm reading through these right now. Tis a fantasy series built on a world unique from Tolkein's (different creatures especially) that the sortof antihero, Thomas, appears into from a grim 'real world' where he is a leper. His spoint of view as he deals with, or more properly doesn't deal with, being a sudden savior of the fantastical Land is fascinating, and the writing is lively and skillful. Some rather stupid PG13 or R-rated material beginning the first book, but nothing unbearable in comparison to the story.
The second one deals more with mass movements of troops, so was more boring. The third is strange, and I havn't finished it yet.
I havn't had time to read much lately...now there's
Drowning World by Alan Dean Foster, That Dude Who Wrote the ANH Novel 3 alien cultures occupy one world, Fluva, where it rains all the time so the whole thing is rainforest. The humans are there, and two other warring species. One of each group has to get out of the deep jungle alive without being killed or fighting among themselves...The writing is good; his words tend to be amusing though I'm not sure he meant them too be. The alien Sakuntala are very well created and unique.
The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde should be read by everyone. Really...SecOps is a police subsection in alternate England that deals entirely with literature crime, as everyone is obsessed with books and especially Shakespeare. Dodos, time travel, the original myspeling vyrus, vampires, a minotaur. The Well of Lost Plots, the third book, has the best title ever in my opinion. In that one Thursday goes inside fiction to police it from there....Fforde is very original and witty.
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