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[Alex]

Awesome!!!! I cant wait to get to the bookstore! I heard it wil come out in august, but I havent heard of it since... Ill get to a bookstore right away!
Also a few more good books are Timeline by michael chricton (sp?) and Prey also by him.

[Kelly_Bear]

I just read Eragon by Christopher Paolini
(i COULD NOT put this book down! it was awesome! it is aprt of a trilogy,so i am anxious to get my hands of the next installment when it comes out.Eragon is a great book for fantasy lovers.)
and A Crack In The Line by Miachel Lawrence
(this was pretty good,very short {only like 330 pages} compared to what i usually read.I read it today,it took me about 8 hours.It wasnt my kind of book,i really like fantasies better than thriller/sci fi types,but it was good.Some rough language though.)

Edited by Kelly_Bear, 18 September 2004 - 06:52 AM.

[whimsicalhamster]

I read at your level too OC!

Books i Love:
Stargirl-Jerry Spinelli
Loser-Jerry Spinelli
Angus,Thongs,and Full Frontal Snogging
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants( <----- I also liked the sequel)

[Arula]

There is a really good trilogy called His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. I LOVE it. The genre is fantasy.

[piethehamster619]

I book i suggest Is The Sight By Davie Clement-Davies
Its a really good book if you like wolves its fiction if that means non real.

[Nelson]

Book i Desparately want to read:

The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.....Want it soo bad

Read an except of it and got hooked to it

[StuartHamster]

You have read a lot of books!
Well, I like...
The Secret Garden
The Swiss Family Robinson
White Fang
and much more!
I know that these are kinda easy reads but they are classics!

[StuartHamster]

Oh, I also LOVE

Hardy Boys
Nancy Drew

Thats if you love a good mystery.

[D12_Bizzare]

i recomend Superfudge by Judy Blume

[smile2374]

Have you ever read The Hero and The Crown? I guess it's sort of a kids book, but for a kids book it's fairly chalenging. It's sort of written it a Lord of the Rings - style.

[Christmas_hamster]

How about Warriors by Erin Hunter!They are great books!

[Shayla]

Try The Imortals Quartet or Lioness Rampant! Both series of four and both be Tamora Peirce. A bit of an easy read, my guess would be eighth to tenth grade level, but very well written. Exitement, Action, Magic, Animals, and a bit of Mystery and Romance! They're WONDERFUL!

[Sweet_Mary]

I’m noticing a lot of people here dig sci-fi and fantasy. I do not read within those genres too much, but I have a couple books that I can recommend:

Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

I really, really enjoyed this book. I wouldn’t exactly call it a “beach blanket book” because it’s about the size and weight of a bible in a church, but it’s well-written, imaginative, funny, and interesting. It’s not at all hard to follow. It takes place in Britain in the early nineteenth century (during the time of the Napoleonic wars) and centers around two professional magicians, Strange and Norrell. Magic has been dying out ever since the Raven King left England centuries ago, and it is the job of these two men to return it. There are many more fascinating sub-plots going on. You'll be completely drawn in, if only because you'll feel really strongly about all of the characters.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

I noticed somebody else already recommended this book, but I just want to back them up and say: Read this book! Read it, now! Like I said, I usually don’t like science fiction. (Contemporary science fiction, anyway. Orson, Huxley, and Wells are awesome.) This book is the exception. It’s more of a parody of the genre, really, just one joke after another. You could open the book to any page, close your eyes, and randomly set your finger down, and you will find something that will make your sides split from laughter.

Also, I have not read The Kite Runner, but my mother and my gym teacher, though they have never met, seem to have joined forces to bully me into doing so. I hear it’s really good, but it’s a true-story consisting of some pretty heavy material, so perhaps that is not what you are looking for.

Salman Rushdie is very funny. So funny, in fact, that there’s a price on his head. He wrote The Satanic Verses, which has some supernatural things going on between its covers, so you might like it. (Don’t be misled by the name – it’s more-or-less harmless.)

I hope I’ve been helpful!


Regards,

Sweet Mary

[hamster2]

How about Watership Down? I'm reading it now and it is great.

[Lely59]

Have u ever read a book called "Esperanza Rising"? it's a really good book. Highly Recommended!