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[SweeneyxxTodd]

This is where you rant about books you love.

I can tell you right now I'll be all over this topic, telling my dozen or so books I absolutely adore.

[Kaz]

My absolute fav series of books are: Jodi Picoult's books, The Harry Potter series and the Discworld books.

[SweeneyxxTodd]

OMG! I love Jodi Picoult!

Which have you read? I read Salem Falls and My Sister's Keeper. I tried to read The Pact, but found it kind of boring and not as good as the other two I'd read, so I stopped.

And Harry Potter=win.

[Fire Pearl]

Oh my god, much too many...much too many...

The problem is, whenever I want to list all of my fave books, they slip out of my mind...it's such a pain!

Well...some I like, though:

The Lies of Locke Lamore & Red Seas Under Red Skies (by Scott Lynch)

Elantris (Brandon Sanderson)

Dracula (Bram Stoker...it's really nice xD)

Midnight Never Come (Marie Brennan)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

The Lords of the Rings (Tolkien...obviously. I happen to like fantasy :P )

Lycidas, Lillith & Lumen (Christopher Marzi)

Fabula (Christopher Marzi)

Sabriel, Lyrael & Abhorsen (Garth Nix...probably for younger ones, but tsssk...)

Phantom (Susan Kay)

The Black Magician Trilogy (Trudi Canavan)

Elenium (David Eddings...three absolutely adorable books)


Damn...there are much more, but I just can't remember them now...unfortunately. -_-

[Kaz]

I've read them all. I've got signed hardbacks from when she came to Dundee..... :D

HP: :dance: :music: :dance:

[RocksmySocks]

I have a lot of books I love. I don't really know if I have a "favorite", more like...a collection of books I've read and reread countless times.


Here's a brief list:


The Belgariad and Mallorean series by David Eddings

The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander

Howliday Inn by James Howe (yes, it is a kids book!)

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle



I guess...if I HAD to choose just one, I would say Watership Down. Maybe. That'd be a tough call.


I'll likely be back to add to this list once my brain is functioning better.


-Katie
:ahoy:

[Kaz]

I had a long, hard think and I'm still not convinced, so I may change my mind, but:

Marian Keyes, Anybody out there?

It was realistic, funny and yet it breaks my heart thinking about it. It was so touching and sad and now i feel like crying..... :'( but for real

[SweeneyxxTodd]

I have to say that The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux (the original novel before all other versions) is definitely one of them. Also, A Great and Terrible Beauty and its sequel Rebel Angels by Libba Bray are simply amazing, and I'm sure the third book in the trilogy will be wonderful too. I just have to wait for-freaking-ever for it to come out in paperback so it will match AGATB and RA.

I'm currently reading The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, and it's fabulous. I'm not usually a sci-fi fan, but I remember seeing the movie when I was younger and I really liked it so I decided to read the novel.

Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess...so damn awesome, words can't explain it. Same with Beastly by Alex Flinn.

And when I finally get around to finishing The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, I'm sure it will be here as well.

[SweeneyxxTodd]

I'm going on a book-gushing tangent.

I just finished reading Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult at like, 4:45 this morning (after staying up until 3:00 am the night before reading it) and it's FREKKIN AMAZING!!!

It's about a school shooting, and it's one of her most recent books because it takes place in 2007. Basically, this really nerdy, awkward, over-bullied kid snaps one day and comes into school with four guns and goes on a nineteen minute killing spree. The shooter, Peter Houghton, goes through trial for ten accounts of first-degree murder and nineteen accounts of attempted first-degree murder.

I will say this right now: I love Peter Houghton. He is my favorite character of Jodi Picoult's so far, other than Jesse Fitzgerald from My Sister's Keeper.

Peter is amazing. He's this adorable, awkward geeky kid that everyone hates for no reason. Almost every time I turned a page, I just wanted to burst into tears for Peter's sake. His life epically sucked. He had an older brother with no flaws, who often instigated the cruel tormenting Peter went through on a daily basis.

His childhood best friend, Josie Cormier, ditched him in sixth grade for the popular crowd. When he got to high school he fell in love with her, but the e-mail he sent her that told his feelings was spammed out to the whole school by Josie's friends (she didn't find out about the e-mail until after this happened).

His life and his very existence was so pitiful and sad, how could I not love him and want to weep at his pain and sorrow?

Everybody in the books was greiving the loss of the victims of the shooting, most of whom were Peter's tormentors. I don't feel sorry for these characters at all. I'm glad Picoult killed them off; they were :uhoh: and I hated them. They made Peter's life miserable, simply because they knew he was sensitive and wouldn't fight back.

I really hate people like this.

Peter rocks :rock: and everyone else in that story, with the exception of a few characters, sucks. :angrymob:

[cancel_me]

Sounds like an interesting book, just because it's in the shooter's perspective and not from the people actually getting shot, or any outside media coverage.

Might have to give it a read.

As for my favorite books? Too. Many.
I'll have to go through my bookshelf and lists of books I've read. LOL.

[Kaz]

OMG, I loved that one. Especially when you find out he can't be all that bad coz of what he did for Josie right at the end of the shooting.

And I just wanted to slap that girl and shout, "Your b/f has to go. Are you stupid or something?"

[SweeneyxxTodd]

I totally predicted Peter's love of Josie. Peter is so awesome. I always love the awkward loser characters, same with my sisters Carol and Sharon. If we watch a movie with one of those kind of guys, everyone else is like, "Stop wasting the screen with him" but we're like, "Aww, you're my hero."

Like Neville Longbottom. We love that guy. That scene in the fourth HP movie, when Neville's ballroom dancing with himself, is so frekkin awesome.

[Kaz]

Me too! I get all my crushes on the geeky guys.

[SweeneyxxTodd]

I don't really get crushes on them, I just fall in love with the characters...

But I will say that the guy who played Jasper in the Twilight movie is the most gorgeous vampire in all the world.

I'm totally putting a picture of him in my locker.

[Kaz]

Surely you jest? What about Lestat? :kawaii: He is vampire hotness incarnate! :wub:

[Jimmygang 005]

Hers my list:

Books by William Shakespeare (that’s right I side it William Shakespeare) especially Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, King John and my favorite The Merchant of Venice (Shylock rocks LOL :P)

Charles Dickens books like Oliver Twist, Bleak House, the tale of two cities and David Copperfield

The Count of Monte Cristo and Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père

The Holcroft Covenant and the Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

And finally the books of the Egyptian novelist and the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Naguib Mahfouz, I don’t know if you can find his works in English but if you do I really recommend reading them hers some of his famous works that I like:

Cairo Trilogy (1. Palace Walk 2. Palace of Desire 3. Sugar Street)

The books' titles are taken from actual streets in Cairo, the city of Mahfouz's childhood and youth.

The trilogy follows the life of the Cairene patriarch El-Sayyid Ahmad Abdel Gawad and his family across three generations, from World War I to the overthrow of King Farouk in 1952. A central character is Kamal the youngest son of El-Sayyid Ahmad Abdel Gawad. The three novels represent the three phases of Kamal's life from childhood to youth to adulthood.

The Thief and the Dogs

Said Mahran a thief recently released from jail and intent on having his vengeance on the people who put him there.

and The Harafish

It comprises a series of episodes in a dozen generations of a family from the Egyptian inner-city rabble (the "harafish"). Many of the members of this family become clan chiefs in an alley in the city; some of them are supporters to the other members of the harafish; some are more corrupt (I love this book :wub: )


:) Khalid :)

[SweeneyxxTodd]

I love Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet!

We just finished reading Julius Caesar in English class, and we read Romeo and Juliet last year. I want to read MacBeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream, too.

[Macey]

The Artemis Fowl series.

...

I JUST MADE MARA HAPPY XD

Seriously, Artemis pwnz.

[Fire Pearl]

I love Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet!

We just finished reading Julius Caesar in English class, and we read Romeo and Juliet last year. I want to read MacBeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream, too.

I LOVE A Midsummer Night's Dream! :wub:

[Justine<3]

Oooh. Too, too many...


Books of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

Left Behind: The Kids by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye [I believe that is the spelling]

The Last Sin Eater by Francine Rivers

I Am David by Anne Holm

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forester (Okay, okay, it's a short story and NOT a book. But it counts!!)

Shadow Children seires by Margaret Perterson Haddix (I'm at book 2, but they're so awesome. XD)