 What Is Your Favorite Books/series, Come on! Tell us! Lol... |
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 Jun 30 2005, 02:50 PM
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Newbie  Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 29-June 05 Member No.: 8,842  |
QUOTE(htmlmaster @ Jun 26 2005, 10:45 PM) The correct term is "What are your favorite books"  My favorite would have to be the Harry Potter series. It is hard to explain thousands of pages in a few sentances but I will do my best. Harry Potter starts out as a 10 year old boy living with the Durselys, terrible people, on his eleventh birthday he is "rescued" by Hagrid and learns that he is a wizard, and that he survived an attack by lord Voldemort, the most powerful sorcerer for 100 years. At the end of his year at school, Harry comes face to face with Voldemort. Harry esacapes agian. In his second year he faces a memory of Voldemort, however this memory is more powerful than he thinks, it can summon a basicisk, a giant serpant. Harry defeats the Basilisk and escapes agian. In his third year Harry learns that his Godfather, Serius Black, was a crimminal who betrayed his parents, however it is the other way around, Black tried to stop the betrayer, but was framed for doing it. In the fourth Book Voldemort comes back to life in full form (long story short) however no one belives Harry, with the exception of friends and teachers. In the fifth book Serius is murdered  but not in vain, everyone realizes Voldemort is back.The sixth book comes out July 16   this is a good series, very enjoyable, but you should label your posts early on if you're going to include spoilers. --- as for my favorites: My favorite series would be The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (the most famous of which is likely The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe). Good stuff and it heavily influences the Harry Potter series. I'm also fond of Poppy Z. Brite's tales in and around Missing Mile. My favorite books, individually, are Dodie Smith's 101 Dalmations, The Dictionary, or Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls. |
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Jul 1 2005, 08:19 AM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 27-June 05 From: Australia Member No.: 8,725 |
Hmm, has anyone ever read any Stephen King books? Are they any good? I read about some of the, they all seem to incorporate alien invasions somehow
 But I want to go buy some of his books, never read any of them. |
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Jul 2 2005, 11:22 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 146 Joined: 10-June 05 Member No.: 8,058 myCENT:ZERO |
anything by Robert Harris .... which ain't much cause I think he's only written 3 books to date ....
Archangel Fatherland & Enigma hurry up big guy and get another one out will ya .... I'm quite keen on stuff by Anne Tyler and Ruth Rendall .... David Baldacci is a good holiday read .... that said, my absolute fav author will always be JRR Tolkien .... I'm a big Middle Earth fan .... will read and re-read his works forever and a day .... the perfect diversion for a hectic life ....  |
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Jul 3 2005, 04:48 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 166 Joined: 5-December 04 From: Llanelli, South Wales Member No.: 2,563 |
QUOTE(alperuzi @ Jun 30 2005, 09:18 AM) ...the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. There are actually 5 books: 1. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 2. The Resteraunt at the End of the Universe 3. Life, the Universe and Everything 4. So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish 5. Mostly Harmless And they are my favourite books/series. I also like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. |
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Jul 5 2005, 11:33 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 5-July 05 Member No.: 9,043 |
yeh my favs are:
harry potter books lotr trilogy star wars books |
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Jul 17 2005, 08:12 PM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 17-July 05 From: At my computer Member No.: 9,539 |
My favorite series is the series based on the CBS TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Max Allen Collins wrote 6 books, 2 jigsaw puzzles, the 8 board game stories, the video games, and three graphic novels. He's my favorite mystery author. I can speed through half of the book in a couple hours.
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Jul 17 2005, 09:11 PM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 936 Joined: 14-April 05 From: West Chester, PA Member No.: 5,636 |
My favorites series has to be first Dune, they are the best sci fi books ever...so intense and so amazing and addiciting. Then i would have to say that my next favorite series is Harry Potter...they just are so relaxing and happy and easy to read.
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Jul 19 2005, 06:29 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 287 Joined: 30-December 04 Member No.: 3,054 |
YES I have heard soooooo much about the Davinci Code and Angels and Demons. They are both fantastic (as far as I know). I haven't read them myself, but several of my friends got sooooo addicted to it.
My boyfriend (Peak) read the first book too (the English version), and he loves it. Since we are now in Thailand, we have seen a Thai version of it, and another Thai version with all the photos of the place and art pieces, involved in the book-- to make it easier for some people. So i guess it's very famous here too.
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 Aug 21 2005, 07:08 AM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 57 Joined: 8-June 05 From: United Kingdom Member No.: 8,008 |
Wheee my favourite books I love a lot of different fantasy book series, but I'm going to narrow it down to just a few for this post The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling First off would definitely be the Harry Potter series (I'm a HUGE fan of the series, collect everything you can think of to do with it etc.), but that surely needs no introduction, so let's move on. http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter StarBridge There's a really, really great author called A.C. Crispin who wrote this smashing science fiction series in the early to mid 90s called StarBridge. StarBridge is about humans discovering that there's life beyond our star system... in the future, overpopulation causes humans to colonise other planets in our star system, but then one day in the future in a trip out in space, a spaceship of humans hears a weird radio frequency coming from a certain amount of light years away, so they follow it and come upon another star system with a whole different alien sentient species (sentient means you have your own culture, your own language, your own social order etc, so they're not considered animals or other lower life forms) At the end of the first book, the humans discover that there are quite a few "worlds" that have been discovered and that these alien beings have joined together to trade with and learn about each other, and would love for our world to join them. The alien beings on the snake-like world Shasisizz, where a council of aliens from the diff worlds reside, ask one of the humans if he'd like to be the principal of a school they want to set up, to train different sentient beings from diff worlds about each others' cultures and worlds, so that they'd facilitate diplomatic relations, trade and mutual technological advances for all the different planets, and they put the school on this planet belonging to Shasisizz that is out in space right in between all of the different worlds, and they name the school "StarBridge". The successive books are all about the challenges the student diplomats face as they interact with other alien worlds - there's a lot to be learnt about how people react to different cultures and the politics of religion vs. technological advances (i.e. from thinking your the only ones out there, to discovering that there are many other sentient cultures who seem so alien to you). Although the series is out-of-print (I got into it after a family friend's recommendation), it's still available online on Amazon and on eBay in many places. I've spent the last 3 years tracking down the rest of the books in the series, and they are really top-notch - a series no sci-fi fan can do without... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...s=books&n=14978 Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce Tamora Pierce is another truly great fantasy writer who celebrates feminism in the form of brave, decisive, strong-willed female protagonists who find their place i |
