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 Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 8:57 pm
My biology teacher is psycho, as are all the people who make websites about fetal pig dissection and then either leave out the entire muscular structure or even just the abdominal muscles. I mean c'mon, give the poor little dead thing some ABS at least.
I am sitting here switching back and forth between typing this, looking at pictures of dead pigs, eating ice cream and beginning my re-reading of my newly purchased copy of Hawksong.
And I was thinking...I'd throw this out there.
So, obviously everyone in this guild loves Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. Awesome. But what other authors do you like?
Mine: (In no particular order)
T.A. Barron
Avi (Yes, low reading level, I know)
Patrick Carman
Peter Dickenson
Orson Scott Card (Except Songmaster. Yech, yucky book)
Cornelia Funke
William Goldman
Eoin Colfer
Brian Jaques
Bruce Coville
Anne McCaffrey
Tamora Pierce
Nancy Farmer
Christopher Paolini
Victoria Hanley
Stephenie Meyer
James Patterson
Douglas Adams
Christopher Pike
Timothy Zahn
Lloyd Alexandar (He's dead now! crying )
Hilari Bell
Holly Black
Dan Brown
Margaret Buffie
Cinda Williams Chima (Even though I've only read one of her books...It was AMAZING)
Alison Croggon
Anthony Horowitz
Farley Mowat
Garth Nix
Carl Sagan
Phillip Pullman
Scott Westerfeld
Jules Verne
Frank Beddor
D.J. MacHale
And...I think that's about it. I heart reading; can you tell?
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:28 pm
I'm better at remembering titles of books than authors since I don't have most of my collection here at school with me. But I'll do what I can.
Authors:
Jane Austin
Bram Stoker
Sherwood Smith
Cameron Dokey
Suzanne Weyn
Stephenie Meyer
Libba Bray
Robin McKinley
Patricia A. McKillip
Meg Cabot (I can't say I like HER very much, but I read her books. I refuse to pay for them, though. b***h isn't getting any of my money.)
Janet Evonovich
Stephan King
Laurie Faria Stolarz
Christopher Pike
Ellen Schreiber
(I'm going to date myself with this one) Lois Duncan
(This one too)Dyan Sheldon (Before she started writing fluffy teen crap that became movies for Lindsey Lohan to star in)
Shakespeare (I demand ever see Much Ado About Nothing if you are over 13)
Edgar Allen Poe
O. Henry
Washington Irving
(Dating myself again) K. A. Applegate (First time I ever spent my own money)
Diana Wynne Jones
Goethe
Stephen Cole
Lewis Carrol
Grimm Brothers
Avi (Who cares about the low reading level)
Douglas Adams
Lloyd Alexander
Susan Cooper
Gregory Maguire
Mark Twain
J.M. Barrie (I heart Peter Pan.)
That's all I can think of without having my entire life's work of collection in front of me. Believe me, this could get long. I feel ashamed that I can't think of more classics that I own.
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:55 pm
That's really weird about the pig pictures. lol Awesome topic!
It took me a few minutes to think of my favorites. I'm picky. XD
My Favorite Authors:
• Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
• Anne McCaffrey
• Anne Rice
• Daniel Hood
• David B. Coe
• Elizabeth Haydon
• Glen Cook
• Larry Dixion
• Lynsay Sands
• Margaret Weis
• Mercedes Lackey
• R. A. Salvatore
• Raymond E. Feist
• Robert Newcomb
• Robert Zelazny
• Sara Douglass
• Terry Brooks
• Tracy Hickman
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:01 am
*Jane Austen
*Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (obviously)
*Hilary Bell
*Libba Bray
*Karen Cushman
*Sarah Dessen
*Clare B. Dunkle
*Jean Ferris
*Esther Friesner
*Margaret Peterson Haddix
*Khaled Hosseini
*Tanith Lee
*Gail Carson Levine
*Sue Limb
*O.R. Melling
*Stephanie Meyer
*Gerald Morris
*Tyne O'Connell
*Tamora Pierce
*Janette Rallison
*J.K. Rowling
*Sherwood Smith
*Vivian Vande Velde
This makes me want to go and start reading some of my favorites again.
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:25 pm
Gosh, I love you people. You are all amazing, did you know that? I can't believe someone else out here has heard of, let alone likes, Hilari Bell. I've read...well, everything by her, I think. Wolfsbane, guessing you like horror? (And I have seen Much Ado About Nothing. Twas funny. I think my favorite so far is Twelfth Night, though.) Brag: I've met Avi. He's really nice. heart
I am mildly surprised not to find another Eoin Colfer, Lloyd Alexander, or Orson Scott Card fan out there. If you haven't read their books, you should.
Diente: Terry BROOKS? S'cuse me, Shannara guy? Ech, why?
Tabitha: Tamora Pierce=possibly the most awesome author ever. I think Melting Stones is out now...Yays.
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:01 pm
Horror? Yeah, I guess I do. I've never scared easy. I grew up on episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark?.
I thought I wrote Lloyd Alexander and Orson Scott Card. My bad.
I like Twelfth Night, too, but Much Ado is my favorite Shakespeare play. I like a lot of his plays, though. Except Romeo and Juliet. It's a lust story, not a love story.
I've always wanted to read Tamora Pierce, but I've never gotten around to it. I'm going to have to do that sometime. Maybe after I read my sister's Inkspell and Peter and the Starcatchers books.
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:39 pm
Yup! i love Hilari Bell's The Goblin Wood , and I own The Farsala Trilogy. That's good stuff right there. Tamora Pierce is amazing. I have read almost everything she has written except The Protector of the Small Quartet cause my library is stupid and doesn't have the first two in the series. I hate reading books out of order. I have read Eoin Colfer, and I actually own the first three Artemis Fowl books. lol. I got those this christmas actually. I own way to many books for my own good. If I could I would buy every book I love, but then I would be broke and be unable to pay for college.
btw I know all about psycho teachers. my geology teacher is one too. I dread going to his class every MWF.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:58 am
Hey now! XD lmao!
Shannara isn't so bad! You really didn't like Isle Witch?
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:56 am
I forgot. I like the Narnia series. I love the White Witch. There is something insanely creepy about characters who seem way too nice. Those are always the characters that creep me out the most.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:24 pm
You guys read lots more than I do. All I have for my list is Amelia Atwater Rhodes, Vivian Vande Velde, Anne McCaffrey, whoever wrote Island of the Blue Dolphins (I think that's a true story too, but I can't remember), and Homer (you know, the Illiad and the Odessy, haven't read all of either, but I like the stories).
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:31 pm
Gemmetra you know, the Illiad and the Odessy, haven't read all of either, but I like the stories Try The Aeneid (not sure I spelled that right) by Virgil. It's a Roman epic much like the Greek ones, but it's about the founding of Rome. I like it more than the Iliad or the Odyssey, though I do love the Odyssey.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:33 pm
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:37 pm
I don't remember. I read it in high school. I just remember that I liked it better. I'm sure you can find the spark notes or a summary if you don't want to read the whole thing.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:46 pm
Ok. I'll look it up later. Thank you for the recomendation.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:50 pm
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