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 Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 10:21 am
Jeremy Thatcher the Dragon Hatcher: It probably won't interest older audiences, but a good book to read to youngsters before bedtime. It was my favorite book during the fourth grade. The book is about a boy who bought a dragon egg from a magic shop and learns to raise it himself.
Anthem by Ayn Rand: A simple book because it is fairly short, the original edition released in England was rewritten to exclude some of the more elaborate vocabulary and details and just focus on the facts. However, this does not mean that it's an easy read. The ideas are quite advanced. The description on the back of the book is as follows:
Individualism
He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin. He had stood forth from the mindless human herd. He was a man alone.
Ayn Rand's classic tale of a future age of the great "We"--in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values--anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 8:46 am
effiekitty Title(s): Magics Pawn, Magics Promise, Magics Price (The Last Herald Mage Trilogy) Author: Mercedes Lackey All of Mercedes Lackey's 'Valdemar' series are good, but 'The Last Herald Mage Trilogy' is my absolute favorite. It's a story of a young boy, growing up, overcoming abuse, losing the love of a lifetime and learning to use powerful magical gifts that he never asked for to become a talented hero that saves a great kingdom. It is one of the best love stories I've ever read, filled with great plot twists, action and political intrigue. This is not a happy-go-lucky book. Mercedes Lackey loves to write Tragedies, and this is one of her best. A real tear jerker. Oooo I love Mercedes Lackey's books... I've read almost the whole series she has on Valdemar! Heheez... I'll like to mention that the herald mage mention fancies on guys. wink I've also read a few of her modern novels... I've got the one or two of the books somewhere at home redface Let me dig around and hopefully they might turn up. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 4:34 am
Title: Homeland (and ever single other book in the Drizzt Do'Urden Series)
Author: R.A. Salvatore
This is a series of books produced by Forgotten Realms. If you like fantasy with lots, LOTS I mean LOTS of action then these books will definitely appeal. For me The Dark Elf series has captured the essence of RPG fantasy with the characters created by Salvatore. Good vs. Evil?.... Well lets just say I LOVE the gray areas. Homeland starts out the very night our hero protagonist Drizzt Do'Urden is born. Thereafter it introduces you to the Drow society and the main players of the stories.
This first story is all about his overcoming the social stereotypes of his culture and risking everything to live by the values the HE believes to be correct.
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:49 am
effiekitty Title: Homeland (and ever single other book in the Drizzt Do'Urden Series) Author: R.A. Salvatore This is a series of books produced by Forgotten Realms. If you like fantasy with lots, LOTS I mean LOTS of action then these books will definitely appeal. For me The Dark Elf series has captured the essence of RPG fantasy with the characters created by Salvatore. Good vs. Evil?.... Well lets just say I LOVE the gray areas. Homeland starts out the very night our hero protagonist Drizzt Do'Urden is born. Thereafter it introduces you to the Drow society and the main players of the stories. This first story is all about his overcoming the social stereotypes of his culture and risking everything to live by the values the HE believes to be correct. Like the Dragonlance Chronicles, this one too is based on the popular roleplaying game Duengons and Dragons. This one is part of the Forgotten Realms Series (where most of the D&D video games take place)
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:47 pm
lauranakor effiekitty Title: Homeland (and every single other book in the Drizzt Do'Urden Series) Author: R.A. Salvatore This is a series of books produced by Forgotten Realms. If you like fantasy with lots, LOTS I mean LOTS of action then these books will definitely appeal. For me The Dark Elf series has captured the essence of RPG fantasy with the characters created by Salvatore. Good vs. Evil?.... Well lets just say I LOVE the gray areas. Homeland starts out the very night our hero protagonist Drizzt Do'Urden is born. Thereafter it introduces you to the Drow society and the main players of the stories. This first story is all about his overcoming the social stereotypes of his culture and risking everything to live by the values the HE believes to be correct. Like the Dragonlance Chronicles, this one too is based on the popular roleplaying game Duengons and Dragons. This one is part of the Forgotten Realms Series (where most of the D&D video games take place) Hey! Thanks for pointing out the freaking obvious... Alright, the reason I SPECIFICALLY did NOT mention AD&D and Video Games is because just by mentioning a correlation between those things and this series of books you've already stereotyped the stories. People who are familiar with this genre already know that information and people who aren't don't NEED to until they've sampled the novels. Now people who don't like (or ASSUME they wouldn't like) AD&D, Video Games, RPGs, etc are automatically going to roll their eyes and move on. I don't think that's fair to the series. Also, (and this IS bitchy of me *grin* but I can't resist as this is a popular debate between myself and my husband who is a HUGE Dragonlance fan but REFUSES to read any Forgotten Realms so I can prove him wrong....) but I don't see how you can compare the Dragonlance Chronicles to the Lone Drow series. I've read most of the former and all of the latter and R.A. Salvatore BLOWS away Weis and Hickman. I'm not saying they suck. stare Obviously they write well, but in my opinion their original series READS like a stale AD&D game. blaugh (((***Hides under her desk and just WAITs for the Flames to start searing her backside for that one...***))) heart
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:29 pm
effiekitty Hey! Thanks for pointing out the freaking obvious... Alright, the reason I SPECIFICALLY did NOT mention AD&D and Video Games is because just by mentioning a correlation between those things and this series of books you've already stereotyped the stories. People who are familiar with this genre already know that information and people who aren't don't NEED to until they've sampled the novels. Now people who don't like (or ASSUME they wouldn't like) AD&D, Video Games, RPGs, etc are automatically going to roll their eyes and move on. I don't think that's fair to the series. Also, (and this IS bitchy of me *grin* but I can't resist as this is a popular debate between myself and my husband who is a HUGE Dragonlance fan but REFUSES to read any Forgotten Realms so I can prove him wrong....) but I don't see how you can compare the Dragonlance Chronicles to the Lone Drow series. I've read most of the former and all of the latter and R.A. Salvatore BLOWS away Weis and Hickman. I'm not saying they suck. stare Obviously they write well, but in my opinion their original series READS like a stale AD&D game. blaugh (((***Hides under her desk and just WAITs for the Flames to start searing her backside for that one...***))) heart All I was pointing out was that if you liked that stuff you might also like this crying If certain people don't like that stuff, they'll figure out what type of book it is by the time they look at the book. (Unless they are *really* oblivious and the words "Drow", "Drizzt" and "R.A. Salvatore" didn't already bring up red flags) And if you *must* know, the Chronicles actually *was* a campaign that Hickman ran, I believe, with Weis, Knaak, and a couple of other people. Some of the more interesting things made their way into the books. The Chronicles were, also, their first books and the beginnings of a faction of the D&D books and as a starting point, it is a really good foundation. Now let's move on to the Lone Drow Series, which I'm pretty sure (the books are in my brother's room so I can't just walk in there and check right now) were not his first, and the Forgotten Realms were already somewhat stabilized too. So logically these books *should* be better, being written by a more experienced writer and set in a more defined world. Everyone also is entitled to their own opinion, I just wish people would at least see into both sides before making theirs though. (Your husband sounds like my brother when it comes to the Harry Potter books)
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Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:24 pm
lauranakor effiekitty Hey! Thanks for pointing out the freaking obvious... Alright, the reason I SPECIFICALLY did NOT mention AD&D and Video Games is because just by mentioning a correlation between those things and this series of books you've already stereotyped the stories. People who are familiar with this genre already know that information and people who aren't don't NEED to until they've sampled the novels. Now people who don't like (or ASSUME they wouldn't like) AD&D, Video Games, RPGs, etc are automatically going to roll their eyes and move on. I don't think that's fair to the series. Also, (and this IS bitchy of me *grin* but I can't resist as this is a popular debate between myself and my husband who is a HUGE Dragonlance fan but REFUSES to read any Forgotten Realms so I can prove him wrong....) but I don't see how you can compare the Dragonlance Chronicles to the Lone Drow series. I've read most of the former and all of the latter and R.A. Salvatore BLOWS away Weis and Hickman. I'm not saying they suck. stare Obviously they write well, but in my opinion their original series READS like a stale AD&D game. blaugh (((***Hides under her desk and just WAITs for the Flames to start searing her backside for that one...***))) heart All I was pointing out was that if you liked that stuff you might also like this crying If certain people don't like that stuff, they'll figure out what type of book it is by the time they look at the book. (Unless they are *really* oblivious and the words "Drow", "Drizzt" and "R.A. Salvatore" didn't already bring up red flags) And if you *must* know, the Chronicles actually *was* a campaign that Hickman ran, I believe, with Weis, Knaak, and a couple of other people. Some of the more interesting things made their way into the books. The Chronicles were, also, their first books and the beginnings of a faction of the D&D books and as a starting point, it is a really good foundation. Now let's move on to the Lone Drow Series, which I'm pretty sure (the books are in my brother's room so I can't just walk in there and check right now) were not his first, and the Forgotten Realms were already somewhat stabilized too. So logically these books *should* be better, being written by a more experienced writer and set in a more defined world. Everyone also is entitled to their own opinion, I just wish people would at least see into both sides before making theirs though. (Your husband sounds like my brother when it comes to the Harry Potter books) Hey, kid.. I'm just 'yankin' your chain' so to speak.... The Chronicles comment basically just set me off. It's the first real series Matt ever read and therefore in his eyes the 'end-all-be-all' of fantasy. So I felt compelled to make my opinion heard. biggrin I did. I'm done. blaugh heart
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 6:29 pm
i got The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley for Xmas!
i cant wait to read it! wee!
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 9:26 am
emaleth35 i got The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley for Xmas! i cant wait to read it! wee! Bradley is a great author. If you enjoy her works, I'd also look into T.A. Barron.
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 4:21 pm
Smithwillsuffice... emaleth35 i got The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley for Xmas! i cant wait to read it! wee! Bradley is a great author. If you enjoy her works, I'd also look into T.A. Barron. i checked out the website.. and those books sound just as awesome biggrin in 5 days i've gotten to page 209 which is about a fourth of the book, i can't stop reading it xp
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 5:58 pm
emaleth35 i checked out the website.. and those books sound just as awesome biggrin in 5 days i've gotten to page 209 which is about a fourth of the book, i can't stop reading it xp He is phenominal... And yes, "Mists" can go by very quickly. I wish I could say the same for the book I'm reading... I have to have "Jane Eyre" read by Jan. 5th for A.P. English, and everytime I pick up the book, I begin to cringe... I just wasn't cut out for non-fantasy books...
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:19 am
I got 'The Two Swords' (RA Salvatore) this holiday! Woot!
Also, if I could offer a suggested Reading:
KUSHIELS DART by Jacqueline Carey
The story is for more mature audiences, but with the intrigue, politics, war, love, seduction... *sigh* Ah, it was a fabulous read!
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 4:53 am
effiekitty I got 'The Two Swords' (RA Salvatore) this holiday! Woot! Also, if I could offer a suggested Reading: KUSHIELS DART by Jacqueline Carey The story is for more mature audiences, but with the intrigue, politics, war, love, seduction... *sigh* Ah, it was a fabulous read! Sounds almost like Harry Turtledove... anyone here ever read him?
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 2:28 pm
For Christmas I had: John Connelly - Bad Men James Patterson - Big Bad Wolf Terry Pratchett - Monstrous Regiment some others that I can't remember at the moment. I've read the TP - read that on Christmas Day. Anti-social but what the heck whee Didn't find it as funny as his earlier works but still enjoyed it and am starting it again. Read James Patterson while I was on dialysis the other day. First time I've not noticed the time passing since I read Wolves of Calla, Song of Susannah and The Dark Tower. If you haven't read James Patterson yet and, if you like mystery/thrillers, then you should give him a try. Best to check out the website Here as it's best to read the books in order - especially some of the later ones. Those he seems to carry on in the next book.
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 7:15 pm
Pratchet's the man.
I just got done reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and re-reading 1984 for my A.P. English class. I loved Cuckoo's...
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