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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:14 pm

Okay, so since most of us had read PotO, it's obvious we like to read.

So I figured why not express to other book-loving Phans which books you like and recommend them to us to pick up when we're not re-reading Leroux's novel for the thousandth time?

I'll split them into categories.

Fantasy/Sci-Fi

Dhampir by Barb & J.C. Hendee (if you like it, check out the rest o' the series)

Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison (again, check out rest o' series)

A Charmed Sphere by Catherine Asaro (and it's sequal)

Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Johnes

Abhorsen Series by Garth Nix

His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Dead after Dark by Charlaine Harris (and the cont'd series)

Abarat by Clive Barker

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Bright Shadow by Avi

Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters series

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series

Fiction

Grace O'Malley: Irish Pirate by Alan Gold

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Bride of Pendorric by Victoria Holt

Artemis Fowl by Eion Colfer (there are 4 books all in all)

The Christopher Moore books (most reccommended by Baka)

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

Scarlet Pimpernal by Baroness Orczey

The Elephant Man: A Play by Bernard Pomerance

The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King

Trilby by de Maurier

Shopaholic series

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Angels And Demons by Dan Brown

Non-Fiction

Romance

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare

History

Manga/Graphic Novel/Manga Novel

Vampire Hunter D series by Hideyuki Kikuchi

Gorgeous Carat by You Higuri

Absolute Boyfriend by Yuu Watase

Saiyuki by Kazuya Minekura

Pretear by Junichi Sato & Kaori Naruse

Godchild by (Unknown cuz I'm lazy)

Faeries' Landing by You Hyun

Ayasho no Ceres by Yuu Watase

Hanazakari no Kimitachi e aka Hana Kimi

Petshop of Horrors by Matsuri Akino

D.N. Angel by Yukiru Sugisaki

Rizelmine by Yukiru Sugisaki

Angelic Layer by CLAMP

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Classics

Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Eanest by Oscar Wilde

An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Les Miserable by Victor Hugo

The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Faust by Goethe (obviously...)

Othello by Shakespeare

Hamlet by Shakespeare (oh who're we kidding; read ALL of his stuff!)

Three Thebian Plays by Sophocles (i.e. Oedipus Rex and other stories)

The Divine Comedia by Dante Alighiri

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Mystery

Horror

Any other categories I missed, lemmee know. heart And happy reading, fellow phans!

Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:28 pm

The books I love and recommend reading are:

Fantasy
Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Johnes heart

Fiction
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Bride of Pendorric by Victoria Holt
Artemis Fowl by Eion Colfer (there are 4 books all in all)

And Utakan what about the categories for Mystery or Horror?

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Bleeding Art

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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:36 pm

Thanks. :3 Added your reccommendations and added the two categories. I knew I was missing something! X3

Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:50 pm

I heart horror.

I never liked the Artemis Fowl books much. They seemed too...I dunno, bland maybe? Like, horribly cliche'd and whatnot. But meh. *Shrug*

Not that I have a problem with "children's books". I must say, most of the decent fantasy stuff I've come upon was in the Young Adult section. A lot of the stuff in the general fantasy section was pulp. But some stuff really does seem a bit immaure for my tastes.

I like the Abhorsen Series by Garth Nix very much (very good books if, like me, your two favorite genres are horror and fantasy), the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman (which are rather an inverse of the Chronicles of Narnia books), Watership Down by Richard Adams, Harry Potter by you-know-who (*giggles at her own joke*), Abarat by Clive Barker (mainly for the biggest, strangest coincidince I've ever seen that relates to my life in the second book), and a bunch of others I'm forgetting.

And...(don't laugh or I will hang you from the ceiling by your nosehairs!) but the next book in this book series I got hooked on when I was thirteen (Warriors by Erin Hunter) comes out tomorrow! W00T! *Prepares self in case of any people who need to be hung from the ceiling by their nosehairs*

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hazellazer

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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:06 pm

Manga:
Saiyuki
Pretear
Godchild

Books:
Anything by Christopher Moore. He's... crazy... I've read Island of the Sequinned Love Nun, Bloodsucking Fiends, Practical Demonkeeping, and Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff Christ's Childhood Pal.

He has... I think nine books in total... my next to reads by him are A Dirty Job and The Stupidest Angel. ... his books are... I don't know what they are mostly comedy... light reads...

Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:31 pm

'kay. Thanks for contributiing. biggrin

I thought of this idea during school. I always like getting recommendations and I figured some Phans were readers too and had some books they'd love to share.

We all have different tastes in books, but you never know. We may like books we never thought we'd read.

The Dhampir series (or The Noble Dead series as they call it) was all bought for me (beside the latest book) by my friend Katharine. She read it and liked it, but I never picked them up. But recently I read them from the beginning and I love them. The series is a very good fantasy world.

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hazellazer

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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:37 pm

Oh and Godchild was written by... I'm pretty sure the same person who wrote Angel Sanctuary.
EDIT: Oh! And Ayashi no Ceres by Yuu Watase and Faerie's Landing by You Hyun... technically it's Korean but it's AMAAAZING

Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:48 pm

Saiyuki by Kazuya Minekura
*dies* I love this woman to DEATH heart heart I've been a fan of her art forever sweatdrop

*cough* as for classics:
The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

plays (i'm not sure if this is a catagory):

Faust by Goethe (obviously...)
Othello by Shakespeare
Three Thebian Plays by Sophocles (i.e. Oedipus Rex and other stories sweatdrop )
The Divine Comedia (all three parts) by Dante
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Romance:

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Bleeding Art

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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:37 pm

Bleh. Plays could fit in classics.

*facepalm* I don't know WHY I didn't think of Goethe's Faust. Shoulda been the FIRST THING on that list..

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:47 am

I have a new one:
Bright Shadow by Avi (fantasy)

Oh and Abarat has no e's.

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Bleeding Art

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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:54 pm

I go as they're given to me, Elanchana. If they have typos, then others can point them out so I can correct them.

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:12 pm

There is this book that I'm reading. I dunno if it's a reccomendation or not, but I like to talk about books, so....

It's called The Shaktra by Christopher Pike. I really picked up the first book (Alosha) on a fluke. I'd never seen it before, but it had a cool cover, and when I read the inside flap, it sounded quite like this story I had plans to write. So I said "What the hell" and bought it. Now, the book itself wasn't very good. Actually, it has some really dumb parts, and the characters really, really aren't believable. But I think it's a fun story...kind of the book equivalent of a popcorn movie. So I just got hooked on the story and bought the second book 'cause the first was a fun read. (It actually did not turn out to be anything like the story I wanted to write.)

I heard The Shaktra was better than Alosha, but it still has some really dumb parts and the characters are still unbelievable. I admit, it has gotten better, but not very much. It seems to be getting better the further I go, so...I'll see.

Yeeah. I simply love to just ramble on about books. Sorry if this isn't what you had intended for the thread, Utakan, but it seems kind of weird and repetitive to start another thread about books when this one exists.

Elanchana

Oh and Abarat has no e's.

Ooh, and have you read Abarat? Or just heard of it?

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Bleeding Art

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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:11 pm

Hey, go on about them all you like. It just gives us more reason to pick them up. biggrin

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:09 am

Manga:
Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (Hana Kimi)

It's a funny manga. About a girl who goes to an all boy school to get close to her crush. While there she experiences awkward moments withe her new guy friends and finds out some of them are gay. In fact one of her closest friend, who is supposedly straight says he's gay cause he likes her. There's a lot of yaoi in it, but it's fun and harmless.

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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:22 am

Fiction: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn is delightfully disturbing, about a family of sideshow freaks.

The Scarlet Pimpernel (and sequels) by Baroness Orczy

And I liked The Elephant Man: A Play by Bernard Pomerance. Very touching.

I know, I know... *coughs* Get out of your thread.

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