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 Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:57 pm
*blinks* you can do that? gonk
I wish I'd known . . . stare I'd have liked to get out of reading The Lord of the Flies. *sigh*
Although, I can't say it wasn't worth it just to have that teacher (as opposed to independent study). He was wonderful! 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 1:04 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 1:28 pm
Nightmare1 I would also recommend anything by Bruce Coville. As a warning, most of his books are more aimed towards late elemntary-junior high levels, but his writing is so amazing, compelling, and humorous that I cannot help but pick them up even now. He tends to write a lot of science fiction (the Space brat series is worth a read) and fantasy (The Magic Shop series is my highest reccomnedation here---with the possible exception of The Monster' Ring. That one was... interesting, but it did not hold up to the rest.) I love Bruce Coville! I too have read several of his books, and anjoyed every one of them!
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 1:31 pm
fluffyturtle Nightmare1 I would also recommend anything by Bruce Coville. As a warning, most of his books are more aimed towards late elemntary-junior high levels, but his writing is so amazing, compelling, and humorous that I cannot help but pick them up even now. He tends to write a lot of science fiction (the Space brat series is worth a read) and fantasy (The Magic Shop series is my highest reccomnedation here---with the possible exception of The Monster' Ring. That one was... interesting, but it did not hold up to the rest.) I love Bruce Coville! I too have read several of his books, and anjoyed every one of them! Who is that??
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:15 pm
Anything by Thomas Hardy, or the Black Jewel Trilogy by Anne Bishop. Very good books.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:52 pm
Mahia M *blinks* you can do that? gonk
I wish I'd known . . . stare I'd have liked to get out of reading The Lord of the Flies. *sigh*
Although, I can't say it wasn't worth it just to have that teacher (as opposed to independent study). He was wonderful! 3nodding Well it was our summer reading assignment. Stupid that we had to read a book over the summer, even though we were out of school .. I guess that comes along with the "advanced" classes and stuff. Blah. I ended up reading a different book .. "The Sea Wolfe" or something like that, which was actually kinda okay. "Lord of the Flies" is another one of those books .. icky, but chalk full of things to analyze .. like "Heart of Darkness." Now that was a strange dark book. Although it was less than a hundred pages long, it took us at least a month to get through it .. we were assigned maybe 3 or 4 pages of reading a night (it was that dense). It was very dark, but so full of analogy that it was easy enough to write an easy on it.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:09 pm
Well, I'm glad I didn't have to read it, then.
@ Hakumei: I haven't read those. 0.o You've never mentioned them before . . . I don't think . . . sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:33 pm
Mahia M Considering that I was able to get out of reading Of Mice and Men . . . mrgreen
((I don't like Steinback. gonk )) How'd you manage that?
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:11 am
Here's my list:
Ben Bova: my all time favorite author, start with his book Mars and then read every thing else he's written. He's an incredible sci-fi author and his writing never gets old.
David Farland: the first two books in his Brotherhood of the Wolf quadrogy (what? there are four books and there's nothing wrong with making up words... i'm like shakespeare... only less plaguey) are completely awesome, the other two just have horrible writting and it hurts to read them...
Terry Prachet: Anything written by him is awesome and completley hilarious!
Tad Williams: His Otherland books are pretty good.
Orson Scott Card: Duh, he's a really awsome writer. Ben Bova was the one that told him to write Ender's Game.
John C. Wright: His book, The Golden Age, is incredible and I really want to find the book that comes after it and read it. (The book is The Pheonix Exultant)
Robert Jordan: His Wheel of Time books were really good for a long time, then he got to books nine and ten and they just lost all flavor.... go ahead and read the first eight and nine and you can probably skip book ten... it's like three days worth of story through 900 pages... really boring.
Chaim Potak: His stories are about Jewish characters and they are really interesting and a lot to think about. You should all read them.
Raymon E. Feist: he's pretty interesting as a writer, feel free to read his books, although it would be wise to find the order of them and then read. His collaborations with Janny Wurts are really good.
I'll add more authors as they come to me
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:14 am
Read House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Its a beautifully written book. Also the Dark Tower series by Stephen King is pretty decient. Books written by Haruki Murakami are also pretty good. Dance Dance Dance and Sputnik Sweetheart are both excellent books by him. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov is another good one.
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:55 am
Is sory she has never read that book.
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:52 am
fluffyturtle Nightmare1 I would also recommend anything by Bruce Coville. As a warning, most of his books are more aimed towards late elemntary-junior high levels, but his writing is so amazing, compelling, and humorous that I cannot help but pick them up even now. He tends to write a lot of science fiction (the Space brat series is worth a read) and fantasy (The Magic Shop series is my highest reccomnedation here---with the possible exception of The Monster' Ring. That one was... interesting, but it did not hold up to the rest.) I love Bruce Coville! I too have read several of his books, and anjoyed every one of them! That makes three of us! ^ ^ I love his "scary story" collections, like Bruce Coville's Book of [insert Monsters/Alien/Ghosts/Nightmares/etc.] and then their sequels. Have you read Goblins in the Castle or The World's Worst Fairy Godmother? And then there's all his new series that I haven't had a chance to read yet. crying But I will!
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:56 am
Red, Green, and Blue Mars.
Very cynical
Very liberal
Very deppressing
Very Anti big business(i actually agree with this)
Very annoying characters(well some of them)
.............still very good
oh and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:03 pm
original godsmack fluffyturtle Nightmare1 I would also recommend anything by Bruce Coville. As a warning, most of his books are more aimed towards late elemntary-junior high levels, but his writing is so amazing, compelling, and humorous that I cannot help but pick them up even now. He tends to write a lot of science fiction (the Space brat series is worth a read) and fantasy (The Magic Shop series is my highest reccomnedation here---with the possible exception of The Monster' Ring. That one was... interesting, but it did not hold up to the rest.) I love Bruce Coville! I too have read several of his books, and anjoyed every one of them! Who is that?? You have not heard of Bruce Coville? o_O He is one of the most brilliant writers I know. I have been reading his work since the third grade (that is when I first picked up the Space Brat series---and I still read them now). He is a fantasy and science fiction writer (he attempts scary stories, but I find them more...of mysteries and fantasy than scary), with a touch of horror. Most of his books are on a late elementary school-junior high level (as I have previously mentioned), but they are extremely well-written, have a good balance of description, action, and story content, and if there is a series, you have to read the next one. He also used to be a school teacher, a grave digger, and a toymaker before becoming an author, which I find amusing in a variety of ways...anyway, you shouldreally look him up in a library or online; his work is worth reading...though I never did uite catch on the My Teacher is an Alien series...that is probably the only series opf his that I put down...I may try picking them up again later...
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:04 pm
KittenFreak1986 Mahia M Considering that I was able to get out of reading Of Mice and Men . . . mrgreen
((I don't like Steinback. gonk )) How'd you manage that?
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