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 Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:21 pm
I am interested to find out what books (apart from Austen-related books) you guys enjoy reading.
Whose you (2nd) favourite author?
Favourite book?
Favourite genre?
What are you currently reading?
Any recommendations?
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:48 pm
I don't believe i have a second favorite author, except for Edgar Allan Poe.
But I'm all over the place with genres. One minute I'll be feeling like I should be reading angst and the next I'll need some perk.
I really like the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyers.
Atonement is an amazing book. It's by Ian McEwan.
It's a little into the sexual situations at times, so not really for immature readers.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:45 pm
My favourite book at the moment is Jane Eyre. Sigh. I can never get tired of reading it.
I also like To Kill A Mockingbird, and I'm currently reading 1984, which I've read before and it freaked me out then. I'm up to the really freaky part now, so I think I'll be having nightmares soon.
And I recently read A Streetcar Named Desire. <3.
Oh, and my favourite Australian book ever is Cloudstreet, by Tim Winton. <3
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:10 am
Favourite author is always a hard one for me.
Dianna Wynne Jones, Robin McKinley, Scott Westerfeld, Sherryl Jordan are all up there.
Genre, I mostly read fantasy these days, though I also really love the classics (can you tell) and books with Historic themes.
Fave book..... I'll get back to you on that one... no wait... The Bible!
I am currently reading a book called "The curse of the Blue Tattoo" can't remeber the author, it's the sequel to a book called "Bloody Jake". Next I am going to read "The Merlin Conspiracy" by Dianna Wynne Jones
I would recommend that you read "The Raging Quiet" By Sherryl Jordan. In fact I insist that you buy the book!
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:55 am
Gregory Maguire! heart
Uhmmmn....Wicked, Son of a Witch, Phantom of the Opera, Interview with a Vampire, Inkspell, Zorro and New Moon.
Teen cliche vampire/werewolf books (I can't stand them but I read them) Adult fantasy novels, classics, horror
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
I'm not very good at recomending....
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:22 pm
Figgsie Gregory Maguire! heart
Uhmmmn....Wicked, Son of a Witch, Phantom of the Opera, Interview with a Vampire, Inkspell, Zorro and New Moon.
Teen cliche vampire/werewolf books (I can't stand them but I read them) Adult fantasy novels, classics, horror
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
I'm not very good at recomending.... I loive Gregory Maguire too! And you should read Freaks by Annerre Curtis Klause if you like Blood and Chocolate.
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:05 pm
 I don't have a favorite author...that is blasphemy!
Genre...mostly classics...Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, Dostoyevsky, Chaucer, Wilde...etc.
At the moment I am reading (apart from my class assignments) The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka.
Recommendations...anything I listed above and more.
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Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:06 pm
I love all kinds of books, and so far my favorite has been Jane Eyre.
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Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:06 pm
Dewdew Figgsie Gregory Maguire! heart
Uhmmmn....Wicked, Son of a Witch, Phantom of the Opera, Interview with a Vampire, Inkspell, Zorro and New Moon.
Teen cliche vampire/werewolf books (I can't stand them but I read them) Adult fantasy novels, classics, horror
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
I'm not very good at recomending.... I loive Gregory Maguire too! And you should read Freaks by Annerre Curtis Klause if you like Blood and Chocolate.
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Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:19 pm
Figgsie Dewdew Figgsie Gregory Maguire! heart
Uhmmmn....Wicked, Son of a Witch, Phantom of the Opera, Interview with a Vampire, Inkspell, Zorro and New Moon.
Teen cliche vampire/werewolf books (I can't stand them but I read them) Adult fantasy novels, classics, horror
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
I'm not very good at recomending.... I loive Gregory Maguire too! And you should read Freaks by Annerre Curtis Klause if you like Blood and Chocolate. I love Confessions of an ugly Stepsister, it's just such a great twist on the old Cinderella story. I haven't read Son of a Witch yet, but it's on my must reads.
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:07 am
I like: (and this is not a full list...coz there's no Austen)
Jane Eyre by...well, we all know anyway!
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:50 am
Dewdew Favourite author is always a hard one for me. Dianna Wynne Jones, Robin McKinley, Scott Westerfeld, Sherryl Jordan are all up there. Genre, I mostly read fantasy these days, though I also really love the classics (can you tell) and books with Historic themes. Fave book..... I'll get back to you on that one... no wait... The Bible! I am currently reading a book called "The curse of the Blue Tattoo" can't remeber the author, it's the sequel to a book called "Bloody Jake". Next I am going to read "The Merlin Conspiracy" by Dianna Wynne Jones I would recommend that you read "The Raging Quiet" By Sherryl Jordan. In fact I insist that you buy the book! Dewdew, I LOVE Diana Wynne Jones! I can't find any more of her books ANYWHERE though, and I desperately want to read Howl's Moving Castle (love the movie). Fire and Hemlock and Hexwood are amazing. I might have to check out Amazon or something. I'm also looking for the Muse biography.
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Invincible Cydonian Creep
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:10 pm
Piro have you heard they're doing an Artemis Fowl film whee
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:45 am
my second favorite author is lloyd alexander, he wrote coming of age books set in the welsh inspired place of prydain.
as for the favorite book... there's just so many! too many to list.
my favorite genres are: fantasy, classics and adventure
i am currently reading realms of infamy written by various authors
i recommend the coral island by r.m. ballantyne, of human bondage by willian sommerset maugham and lloyd alexander's the chronicles of prydain.
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:46 am
Dewdew Figgsie Dewdew Figgsie Gregory Maguire! heart
Uhmmmn....Wicked, Son of a Witch, Phantom of the Opera, Interview with a Vampire, Inkspell, Zorro and New Moon.
Teen cliche vampire/werewolf books (I can't stand them but I read them) Adult fantasy novels, classics, horror
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
I'm not very good at recomending.... I loive Gregory Maguire too! And you should read Freaks by Annerre Curtis Klause if you like Blood and Chocolate. I love Confessions of an ugly Stepsister, it's just such a great twist on the old Cinderella story. I haven't read Son of a Witch yet, but it's on my must reads. confessions of an ugly stepsister is a very amusing book.
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