Are they better than the Tv series? I loved that and only heard about the books recently.ANTI-SANTA post=18.71006.711091 said:
Edit: Pulitzer Laureate. Yay.
I need some good book recommendations......
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Edit: Pulitzer Laureate. Yay.
The OP might get out of class to go to the school psychiatrist.Najos post=18.71006.711114 said:
Or a better grade, teachers like students who bring in new and interesting books.
Oh and I bet some of the girls in the OP's class do the Twilight series.
OOOOOhhh I forgot those, excellent books for younger readers, i think some older readers might not like it but a very enjoyable series. Like how Harry Potter should have been done.Spleeni post=18.71006.711188 said:
Shadow of The Wind: Carlos Zuiz Rafon
No one else in your class will read this heartbreaking, stunning book.
No one else in your class will read this heartbreaking, stunning book.
Legend by David Gemmell, love that book, awesome!
Bit of the blurb;
The Legend Druss, Captain of the Axe: the stories of his life were told everywhere. Instead of the wealth and fame he could have claimed, he had chosen a mountain lair, high in the lonely country bordering on the clouds. There the grizzled old warrior kept company with snow leopards and awaited his old enemy death. The Fortress Mighty Dros Delnoch, protected by six outer walls, the only route by which an army could pass through the mountains. It was the stronghold of the Drenai empire. And now it was the last battleground, for all else had fallen before the Nadir hordes. And hope rested on the skills of that one old man...
Either that or the Hobbit & the LOTR triology, but that might be too much.
Bit of the blurb;
The Legend Druss, Captain of the Axe: the stories of his life were told everywhere. Instead of the wealth and fame he could have claimed, he had chosen a mountain lair, high in the lonely country bordering on the clouds. There the grizzled old warrior kept company with snow leopards and awaited his old enemy death. The Fortress Mighty Dros Delnoch, protected by six outer walls, the only route by which an army could pass through the mountains. It was the stronghold of the Drenai empire. And now it was the last battleground, for all else had fallen before the Nadir hordes. And hope rested on the skills of that one old man...
Either that or the Hobbit & the LOTR triology, but that might be too much.
The Bible, it's a great piece of fiction and it's good for a laugh.
You can't go wrong with Steven King.
The Shining or Cell are fun reads, if you are prepared for a serious time investment then IT is amazing, its 1,116 pages though.
You can't go wrong with Steven King.
The Shining or Cell are fun reads, if you are prepared for a serious time investment then IT is amazing, its 1,116 pages though.
I was gonna read that but I just watched the movie. Not impressed. Some weirdo who likes touching diseased people he doesn't know. And he wears a dress ;PTheGhostOfSin post=18.71006.711487 said:
I have to recommend any of China Mieville's Bas Lag novels: Perdido Street Station; The Scar; and Iron Council. They have the necessary length (especially Perdido Street Station. Good lord) are intelligent, baroque and verbose, dark in the best way, and not standard 'elves, dwarves and orcs'. The kind of thing you could easily pass of as respectable literature.
I think you're forgetting the Middle Earth series
The Hobbit, Silmarillion, the Trilogy etc.
Go for the Fellowship of the Ring
The Hobbit, Silmarillion, the Trilogy etc.
Go for the Fellowship of the Ring
Darren Shan's books are good. The Vampire series and the Demonata series. There's also a more adult book of his called Procession Of The Dead. They're all good.
'The Killing Fields' about Dith Pran and Sidney Schanberg in Cambodia is good. The book 'This Thing of Darkness' is very good. It's about Charles Darwin and the voyages of The Beagle. Can't remember the author, something like Dan Brown, I think. (not the Da Vinci Code guy)
'The Killing Fields' about Dith Pran and Sidney Schanberg in Cambodia is good. The book 'This Thing of Darkness' is very good. It's about Charles Darwin and the voyages of The Beagle. Can't remember the author, something like Dan Brown, I think. (not the Da Vinci Code guy)
I would recommend Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer because it's funny, but still has its grounds in reality. It's kind of a road trip book with a historical fiction type back drop.
Any book written by Terry Pratchett. They're fantasy, but mostly focus on non fantastical story lines. They're steeped in humor, and are super quick reads.
And maybe Slaughter House Five. I recently made my little brother who abhors reading read it, and he loved it. Not a lot happens, but its really, really good and involves aliens and World War Two. Plus English teachers tend to like it if you read Kurt Vonnegut for some reason.
Any book written by Terry Pratchett. They're fantasy, but mostly focus on non fantastical story lines. They're steeped in humor, and are super quick reads.
And maybe Slaughter House Five. I recently made my little brother who abhors reading read it, and he loved it. Not a lot happens, but its really, really good and involves aliens and World War Two. Plus English teachers tend to like it if you read Kurt Vonnegut for some reason.
Pirates of the Caribbean? There are no pirates in the book series that I remember. D&D? There are no sorcerers or multiple races in the book, either! But I'm simply messing with you. The best way to describe the Temeraire series is to say "Remember back when Napoleon took the French and fucked up Europe? Yeah, now add dragons." Naomi is a very good author, though, and it is a fantastic book series. I await book five on paperback.Khell_Sennet post=18.71006.711839 said:
