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 Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:54 pm
J 4 C K ::Looks through book collection::
..Lego manuals.. Encyclopedia... Shonen Jump... Animorphs... Ah!
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Now that's an interesting book. It's a futuristic sort of thing. Fiction would be the genre I suppose. I don't usually reread many books, but I managed to do just that with this one(a few times too) I recommend it. 3nodding Have you read Ender's Shadow? I thought it was more interesting then Ender's Game.
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:25 am
Muse dear, dont forget I get to pilot your airship if you get one!
Creekie: Mistress of Spices was in blockbuster so my friend and I rented it >^_^<
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:51 am
Magic.Muse J 4 C K ::Looks through book collection::
..Lego manuals.. Encyclopedia... Shonen Jump... Animorphs... Ah!
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Now that's an interesting book. It's a futuristic sort of thing. Fiction would be the genre I suppose. I don't usually reread many books, but I managed to do just that with this one(a few times too) I recommend it. 3nodding Have you read Ender's Shadow? I thought it was more interesting then Ender's Game. I actually vastly preferred Speaker for the Dead over all the other books in that series. Xenocide and Children of the Mind were just plain strange and the books after Ender's Shadow got too political for my tastes. My pride a joy in my signed copy of Speaker for the Dead.
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:57 am
fiarra Magic.Muse J 4 C K ::Looks through book collection::
..Lego manuals.. Encyclopedia... Shonen Jump... Animorphs... Ah!
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Now that's an interesting book. It's a futuristic sort of thing. Fiction would be the genre I suppose. I don't usually reread many books, but I managed to do just that with this one(a few times too) I recommend it. 3nodding Have you read Ender's Shadow? I thought it was more interesting then Ender's Game. I actually vastly preferred Speaker for the Dead over all the other books in that series. Xenocide and Children of the Mind were just plain strange and the books after Ender's Shadow got too political for my tastes. My pride a joy in my signed copy of Speaker for the Dead. I really feel like Xenocide and Children of the Mind just...shouldn't have been written. I like Speaker for the Dead, but the Bean books are my favorites.
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:51 pm
Ok, here are my recomendations, in no particular order....
- The Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones (Charmed Life, The Magicians of Caprona, The Lives of Christopher Chant, Conrad's Fate, and the Pinhoe Egg)
- The Dalemark Quartet by Diana Wynne Jones (Cart and Cwidder, Drowned Ammet, The Spellcoats, and the Crown of Dalemark)
- The Tough Guide to Fantasy Land by Diana Wynne Jones
- Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
- Railway Children by E. Nesbit
- The Story of the Amulet by E. Nesbit
- The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit
- Half Magic by Edward Eager
- Knight's Castle by Edward Eager
- Magic by the Lake by Edward Eager
- The Time Garden by Edward Eager
- Magic or Not? by Edward Eager
- The Well-Wishers by Edward Eager
- Seven-Day Magic by Edward Eager
All fantasy, all teh awesome sauce. If anyone wants me to write a detailed review of any of these, I'd be happy too, as it would give me an excuse to reread them. XD
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:53 pm
I absolutely love the Chrestomanci series! The only one I have not read yet is Conrad's Fate.
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:56 pm
la chatte Kiwi I absolutely love the Chrestomanci series! The only one I have not read yet is Conrad's Fate. Go read it. Go read it RIGHT NOW. It's awesome. In a box. With pie. Or something. Yeah....
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:11 pm
Ok, I looked it up, and the M.Y.T.H. series is by Robert Asprin.
And Queen of the Demonweb Pits was written by Paul Kidd.
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:08 pm
chilecavy~guineapig la chatte Kiwi I absolutely love the Chrestomanci series! The only one I have not read yet is Conrad's Fate. Go read it. Go read it RIGHT NOW. It's awesome. In a box. With pie. Or something. Yeah.... Its on my list of books to get. So as soon as I can go get it I will read it. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:09 pm
Magic.Muse J 4 C K ::Looks through book collection::
..Lego manuals.. Encyclopedia... Shonen Jump... Animorphs... Ah!
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Now that's an interesting book. It's a futuristic sort of thing. Fiction would be the genre I suppose. I don't usually reread many books, but I managed to do just that with this one(a few times too) I recommend it. 3nodding Have you read Ender's Shadow? I thought it was more interesting then Ender's Game.
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:57 am
My favorite books are:
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
My need-to-read list is currently this long *holds left arm in the air and right arm close to the ground*. I love reading, but I don't make as much time for it as I should. If only I had a maid to take care of all this boring housework. rolleyes
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:53 am
The list WILL be updated today. I promise.
And a continued thank you to everyone's contributions - I do have a question about organization, though. So far I've been organizing your recs by Threader - would it be better to organize them by genre and put the recommender in parenthesis?
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:50 am
My Recommendations:
X3 All Fantasy.
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin
-The first book is A Game of Thrones.
The Symphony of Ages series by Elizabeth Haydon
-The first book is Rhapsody
Second Sons Trilogy by Jennifer Fallon (A most excellent read.)
-First books is Lion of the Senet.
Hythrun Chronicles by Jennifer Fallon
-First book is Medalon.
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:08 am
oh shi-
A Song of Ice and Fire is a series? XD That explains why I couldn't find it..
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:20 am
In my opinion, Steven Erikson's Malazan Tales of the Fallen (starting with Gardens of the Moon) is better than A Song of Ice and Fire, while being similarly epic in scope. Of course, your mileage may vary...
Heinlein's written some good books, and the Symphony of Ages is fairly nice. Almost everything I have read by D.W. Jones has been well worth it.
For some reason I have never managed to read the Ender's Shadow book(s), only Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind. Might explain why I prefer Ender's Game to the lot; goes for the non-Ender books of Card's I have read as well.
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