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i just love readin and i was wonderin wot everyones fave bks are? i no we all love harry potter but besides from that. mine is p.s i love u by celia ahern. its one of da best bks ever. soooooo sad. i totally recomend it 2 every1!
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lol i was about to start a thread about this, but you beat me to it
The Da Vinci Code & Angels and Demons by Dan Brown Sloppy Firsts & Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger Teenage Angst? Naahh by Ned Vinzzini The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Silent to the Bone by E. L. Konigsburg The A Wrinkle in Time series by Madleine L'Engle Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith that's all i can think of right now
when i was a kid, i loved ALL roald dahl books, especially The Witches, Matilda, and The BFG. i also loved The Search for Delicious & Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt.
lol i cant say i like lotr, astronomy lover, the only way i can even bring myself to watch the film is cos of orlando bloom! but i do love the sisterhood of the travelling pants, doomed renascence.
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The Artemis Fowl series, The Alex Rider series, The Princess Diaries, anything based off of Greek/Roman mythology (unless it gets too weird), anything fairy taleish (unless it's far too happy-dappy, there has so be SOME angst for me to be pleased with it) Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan, ....I like a lot of books. And of course, The fantabulous Lord of the Rings series by the totally brilliant J.R.R. Tolkien. (Diss him and get bashed, by the ultimate MOD!)
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Ooh, yeah, that's a point, I love mythlogy *any culture, I love it*, folk tales, fairy tales, especially obscure ones..I've got the complete works of The Brothers Grimm, and some of them are BIZARRE...especially the religious ones...o.o
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QUOTE (Nivaya @ Sep 6 2004, 06:49 AM)
Ooh, yeah, that's a point, I love mythlogy *any culture, I love it*, folk tales, fairy tales, especially obscure ones..I've got the complete works of The Brothers Grimm, and some of them are BIZARRE...especially the religious ones...o.o
Whoa, Brothers Grimm can get nasty, but have you read and Sisters Grimmer books? You don't want to go there if you're a sensitive person. You have to be made of strong stuff to read their books.
I thought "White as Snow" by Tanith Lee was for young adults, but BOY, was I ever wrong. *shakes head* Definately a no-no for young people....I'm not gonna recommend it to anybody who's younger than 21, lol. I was really scarred by it.
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But that's the thing with fairy tales, they're actually SO SO dark, depending on how you interpret them...I mean, I'm gonna think twice about reading my little girl Snow White, for example...
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Oh, they've been on about fairy tales for years being really dark and full of hidden symbolism and meaning....especially things like Snow White and Red Riding Hood....Hansel and Gretel gave me terrible nightmares when I was little....some of those things are really horrific. Maybe kids don't view them in quite that way though....perhaps it's just as well....
My favourite books when I was a kid though were The Famous Five, Secret Seven, The Magic Faraway Tree and The Enchanted Chair by Enid Blyton (I always loved magic and mystery, even back then).
Now, I'm more into Stephen King, Patricia Cornwell, John Connolly, Dean Koontz, Thomas Harris, James Patterson....(bit of a change from the magic and fairy stuff I was into as a kid, huh? Although HP keeps me balanced....)
And I've just started 'The Lovely Bones'...can't remember who it's by...Alice someone, I think....but what I've read so far is very haunting...and touching....
Oh my goodness, The Magic Chair!!!!! With with the chair with wings and then the puppies with wings and and the taps with soup in them and and and ohhhh....*happy sigh* I'd forgotten all about that...Enid Blyton was so cool...
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Oh yes, definitely! The JK Rowling of her day. Although I have to admit that some of her stuff seems pretty dated now. Still, it's good clean, family-friendly stuff....great escapism for kids....although I think her publishers might want to rename some of the characters now...particularly in the Magic Faraway tree....know what I mean? Some of those names are really going to start giggling kids off....
i dont know about you guys. but i always loved (and still to this day) robert muncsh stories. especially a book called "angela's airplane" also, one of my favourite books is "The Pillars of Creation" by Terry Goodkind. but i like anything fictional. with magic in it.
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so this is what they call, another endless night, so tired of believing, if this is wrong or right, i think this cause is lost, i wish that i could sleep, i feel like some kind of shadow, another slave to the weak, imagine if we lived, under the weather, we would never be found, never discovered.
Books!, whats your fave? besides harry potter?
Sep 4 2004, 10:28 PM
Some of those names are really going to start giggling kids off.... 
