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Theres just somethin about Artemis fowl that gets you, maybe you like intellectuals?

He's so smart its scary...

It is scary and how old is he? I forgot gonk

book 1 he was 12 but he's like 14 in eternity code 3nodding

I think.. He's not very old

that it was...

He's my age... whee

I love reading. This past summer I read Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. I've recently been wading my way through Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. In the series genre I think I'd have to go with the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis as my childhood favorite, though I like Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and Shadow series and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Tolkien is brilliant if you look at him overall, but I find him to be verbose and in some cases, he's just plain boring. I mean, come on, we don't need him to tell us that the grass on the hills was green, the sky was partly cloudy, and there were some suspicious looking bushes in the distance that might possibly be a problem in another hour or two when the protagonist gets near them (only to find that there really wasn't anything to them and no one was hiding behind them). That's just filler nonsense.

I think one of my favorite books as a teen would have to be Remember Me, by Cheryl Lanham. I'll admit that I smile, laugh, and weep every time I read it. It's about a bratty teenage girl named Leeanne who gets caught for a peer pressured attempt at shoplifting and is sentenced to community service in a hospice on the shady side of town. She meets two guys, one of which (Gabriel Mendoza) is an 18-year-old hospice resident, that ultimately change her life. I've been losing the people that I love since I was four and I guess I love this book because many of them were like Gabe. He reminds me mostly of my Dad. Leeanne and Gabe fight, debate, and can't stand each other, but underneath that is a bond that no force on Earth could break. A touching story, beautifully written.

What's interesting is that I have a strange love for all things (including literature) that pertain to certain human tragedies. I am fascinated by the Holocaust, the sinking of the Titanic, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I'm not emo or anything, though. I'd just as soon pick up a book full of soft, fuzzy bunnies and white, fluffy baby seals and start squealing at the cuteness. I also enjoy books that I couldn't possibly read in a school library because I'd laugh too much.