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Anyone read The Looking Glass Wars bu Frank Beddor yet? His film (There's Something About Mary) sucks, but his book is awsome. Natrually Carrol enthusiasts are up in arms about the sacrelige, complaining about his univentiveness and lack of flair, somehow gaining divine insight into what his book is like without actually reading it.

Hatter Madigan (The Mad Hatter) is the coolest character you will ever see. He leads the Millinery, the elite force of the Queendom and has an outlandish array of weapons as you will ever see. The book utterly bursts with imagery everything is clear, and the pictures in your head are... so bright, you imagine everything with such defenition of characters as you saw when you were about 7.

Everything about the book is different, it cannot possibly be described as an adaption of Carrol's novel. Trust me, you won't have read anything like it. Get it. Now.

I've heard the title before. I'll hunt it down on my way to work tomorrow.

My girlfriend has read it, she's very impressed indeed. She;s been encouraging me into reading it but I've not started yet..

www.amazon.com

Search Frank Beddor. And ignore the Carrol enthusiasts. Buch of bigots that they are.

Edit: Cancel that. The book is here but even though the author is American and the book was released earlier in America than Britain I couldn't find it anywhere on Amazon.com.

Weird.

i'm to tired as it's 2am to read through all the posts so i'll just post my favourites anyway *s*

The Disc world series by Terry Pratchett, i just sooo love him and his work, if anyone is familiar with him you know the Science of Discworld he co wrote with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen those were two of my brothers teachers at university, and when my brother graduated Terry Pratchett was ther recieving his honorary degree, and i got a signd copy of the Fifth Elephant! *grins like a groupie*

The Dark is rising sequence by Susan cooper, this is a fantastic series that i've loved forever! i think they should make them into films.

Nightworld series by L.J.Smith, i do wish she'd hurry up and finish it, i've been waiting for the next book for AGES!!!!

the renegades series by Jessica Palmer, very good, i also need to find the next book for that series....

the silver Brumby books by Elyne Mitchell well i'm a big horse fan so naturally i love these books, but it's also her way of describing everyting about the austraian setting that makes these books appealing, to me anyway. *s*

and thats about all i have on my book shelf.

~KAT~

An author and a book that I will reccomend. First:

Haruki Murakami -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami

By far, he is my favorite author. He writes in this surreal yet realistic world where his characters live life in reality, but at times seem to transition into fantastic surrealistic worlds. All of his books, and I've read all of the translated ones(well, except for his non-fiction work about the Tokyo Gas Attack), are easy to get into, and they are utter page turners. Numerous times I've picked up one of his books, and by the time I realized that I need to stop reading I've already burned through half of the book.

Select bibliography of my FAVORITE books written by Murakami:
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
Dance Dance Dance
Kafka On The Shore
A Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World
Spudnik Sweetheart

Next is a book reccomendation.

http://www.amazon.com/McCoys-Marines-Darkside-John-Koopman/dp/0760320888

I don't know how many people like war liturature, but I personally love the stuff, as long as it is well written. One recent book that I just finished is called McCoy's Marines, by John Koopman.

John Koopman is a journalist that was embedded with 3rd Battlion, 4th Marine Regiment, informally known as "Three-Four Marines" and "McCoy's Marines." Koopman's book follows Three-Four Marines from deployment to Kuwait in 2003 to prepare for the war in Iraq, to their march into Baghdad. It doesn't end there, as Koopman would return to Iraq in 2004 to witness the exploits of Three-Four Marines post-Fallujah.

Koopman himself was a former Marine in the post-Vietnam war, and because he and the Battalion commander Bryan McCoy created such a bond together, Koopman had access to the workings of the military command for that unit that journalist would only dream about.

I reccomend this book because Koopman writes it in a neutral, unbaised "This is how it was" approach. He does not romanticise anything about war or the Marine Corps, rather telling everything how it is, all the bad things and the good things. A very humanistic and down-to-earth look at the every day lives of the Marines of Three-Four in the Iraq War.

Watership Down by Richard Adams