Books and Reading

Subject: Books and Reading Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:42 pm

Since we're breaking things down into sections I figured I'd make one on books What's your favorite genre? Your favorite author? Favorite book? Favorite series?

Subject: Re: Books and Reading Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:03 pm

Orson Scott card. The Ender series. I'll read just about anything, so i don't really have a specific genre.

Subject: Re: Books and Reading Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:15 pm

Sorry....can't pick just ONE for most of these! :-P Avid reader (before I discovered Puzzle Pirates)

What's your favorite genre? Fiction...classical...science fiction...Fantasy...Romance

Your favorite author? Edgar Rice Burroughs...Robert Jordan....Francine Rivers...Walter Farley...Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Favorite book? Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (hardest book i ever read too :-P ...suggest you watch the BBC movie before you tackle it)

Favorite series? Tarzan series of 24 books by ERB, Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, Mark of the Lion by Francine Rivers, Black Stallion by Walter Farley, Sherlock Holmes by Sir A.C. Doyle

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Subject: Re: Books and Reading Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:15 am

Viagrette wrote:: Sorry....can't pick just ONE for most of these! :-P Avid reader (before I discovered Puzzle Pirates)

What's your favorite genre? Fiction...classical...science fiction...Fantasy...Romance

Your favorite author? Edgar Rice Burroughs...Robert Jordan....Francine Rivers...Walter Farley...Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Favorite book? Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (hardest book i ever read too :-P ...suggest you watch the BBC movie before you tackle it)

Favorite series? Tarzan series of 24 books by ERB, Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, Mark of the Lion by Francine Rivers, Black Stallion by Walter Farley, Sherlock Holmes by Sir A.C. Doyle

+1 to that. Those were the first books I read for fun and I'm still eagerly anticipating the end of a very long haul...

Brandon Sanderson isn't doing a bad job of it either, and i *sortof* like his other work. Well I do like it, but the only problem is he is a little too enamoured with "matrix style" characters who jump into the middle of a large sea of people and beat the snot out of them.

Uber powerful characters in WoT make much more sense (i.e. BOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Subject: Re: Books and Reading Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:43 am

Yeah...his books are awesome...don't know HOW he kept track of so many characters and developed each one so well.... ( except for the fact that he used thousands and thousands of pages to do so LOL ) I'm glad he wrote the very end himself ... I'm curious whether they will notate in the text when it switches back to his writing ... or if I'll be able to pick up on the switch from the writing style His dedication to his readers was remarkable...to spend so many of his final hours telling the end of the story to the man that would finish the series for him ... Glad he did Smile

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I like a lot of different types of books. Smile

Some favorites are the Hunger Games (series) the Uglies series, the Glass Castle, Water for Elephants, Confederacy of Dunces Razz

, Memiors of a Geisha, the Thirteenth Tale, My Sister's Keeper, etc. Anyone like these books, dislikes, recommend any? Smile

Subject: Re: Books and Reading Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:58 pm

my god, this is going to be like choosing a favorite child, wont it? oh well here it goes:

Favorite Authors?: Ridley Pearson, Suzanne Collins ( not for hunger games series BTW Razz

), Eion Colfer, Erin Hunter

Favorite Genre?: Fantasy, Sci-Fy, a little bit of adventure

Favorite Book?: Well, if i had to only pick one, it would be the first kingdom keepers book ( if you ever get a chance to read it, do it, it is an amazing book)

Favorite Series?: Gregor The Overlander ( Suzanne Collins ) The Kingdom Keepers ( Ridley Pearson ) Warriors ( all of them) ( Erin Hunter ) Artemis Fowl ( Eoin Cofler )

Subject: Re: Books and Reading Fri Feb 04, 2011 5:16 pm

Queens wrote:: I like a lot of different types of books. Some favorites are the Hunger Games (series) the Uglies series, the Glass Castle, Water for Elephants, Confederacy of Dunces , Memiors of a Geisha, the Thirteenth Tale, My Sister's Keeper, etc. Anyone like these books, dislikes, recommend any?

The Glass Castle was an amazing read...and I HATE non-fiction generally. My sister's keeper and memoirs wee both very good also. My daughter just read Water for Elephants...and it is now right next to me on the desk...as a MUST READ! lol

Subject: Re: Books and Reading Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:03 am

To be quite honest, I don't really enjoy books, well most of them anyways. I've read a few that I've actually enjoyed, but I'm not much of a reader (not meaning I can't read, meaning I don't like to)

Subject: Re: Books and Reading Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:15 am

I wish I had time to read :/ The last book I read was a parenting book.

Subject: Re: Books and Reading Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:47 pm

I'll read anything, but my favorite two authors would have to be Neal Stephenson and Terry Pratchett.

Apprentice Posts : 5 Join date : 2011-01-30

Viagrette wrote:

Queens wrote:: I like a lot of different types of books. Some favorites are the Hunger Games (series) the Uglies series, the Glass Castle, Water for Elephants, Confederacy of Dunces , Memiors of a Geisha, the Thirteenth Tale, My Sister's Keeper, etc. Anyone like these books, dislikes, recommend any?

The Glass Castle was an amazing read...and I HATE non-fiction generally. My sister's keeper and memoirs wee both very good also. My daughter just read Water for Elephants...and it is now right next to me on the desk...as a MUST READ! lol

Glass Castle is probably my favorite book. Smile

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