Books

[DW]

I believe he doesn't want you to call him by Dick..

[MasterKeyX]

>.> Okay then. Anyway. I have even gone as far as to read Chemistry books, like school ones, for fun. Some would say I have a problem. I say: BLASPHEMY.

[Mysterious F.]

Redwall (the book, not the series) is a very good book. My favorite character is probably Asmodeus Poisonteeth, an adder. An adder is a species of snakes.

[Mr. bubbles]

Same here. Have you read Pearls of Lutra yet? It is the best book in the series in my opinion.

[DW]

I thought it had the best riddles for sure, even I was taxed with my knowledge of the Abbey.

My favorite character is Sabertache the hare, from Outcast of Redwall. He had an awesome mano e mano swordfight with Captain Zigu the ferret. It was so sweet...

Favorite book? Tough one....The Martin books are my favorite, out of those ones Mossflower is probably my favorite.

[Death War]

I like

Jacqueline Wilson Books
Harry Potter Books
Two of a Kind Books
Sleep over club
Darren Shan
the chronicals of narnia

and thats about it .

[Mysterious F.]

I've only read begun to read Redwall, and I'm just at the point Matthias finds out Methusula died.

[darkphantomime]

*sighs*

Once again, I am out of place. I gave up on 'young adult' series fiction a long, long time ago. These days, I'm reading stuff that actually has merit and asks questions of the world around us. Stuff like Brave New World, A Clockwork Orange, and The Stand.

Stephen King had the idea that The Stand is... in this analogy...

Middle Earth is to Lord of the Rings as America is to The Stand.

Heh...

Anyone ever heard of... Philip K Dick?

[collaboration]

I used to love Redwall books when I was a kid. I actually still get them, because I can't refuse. Brian Jacques, such a cool guy. He was a sailor! And a boxer! You can't get much more awesome than that.

A teacher of mine once recommended a book to me, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray, and it's been a favourite of mine ever since.
Otherwise, I like most things by William Gibson and Terry Pratchett. This is the odd thing, though-- I have a huge bookshelf with books piling up to the side of it, yet somehow I can't really name any of my favourites.  

[darkphantomime]

YAY! Even more pointless authors that I've never (and probably won't have the time) heard of.

Sorry... I'm just not too well with some of these books. They seem to have overall, the same plot and the same situations, so to read the same thing in a hundred different variations gets WAY too tedious for my tastes.

But me... I'm a guy that usually will read something that's at least 20-30 years old. Mainly because so much of the stuff we have here is unoriginal and there are a wealth of classics that have more character and fluidity than the books (or rather, trash) of today.

Dracula? Frankenstein? Lord of the Flies? Carrie?

OOH...

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of being Earnest. Sad that most people are unattentative to it and will ignore it at every oppurtunity. It's really a funny play, lots of action and laughs, evolved from a plot device instrumental in ssome of Shakespeare's comedies: Mistaken Identity.

What about Ernest Hemingway? What? Nada? Bah...

2 summers ago, I was able to read 16 books all on my own accord...

4 by Ernest Hemingway
4 by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2 by Stephen King
4 or 5 by Ray Bradbury
and... George Orwell's 1984.

[Gamefreak]

I'm reading Carrie right now.  I'm at the prom night.

[MasterKeyX]

You shuld all read tghe worekings of Ray Bradbury. His bookss are simply amazing, and they make a man think...

I suggest The Martian Chronicles and the Illustrated Man. They were astounding works...

[Gamefreak]

Both of those are on my to-do list.

[collaboration]

YAY! Even more pointless authors that I've never (and probably won't have the time) heard of.

Sorry... I'm just not too well with some of these books. They seem to have overall, the same plot and the same situations, so to read the same thing in a hundred different variations gets WAY too tedious for my tastes.

Well, for one, Janisse Ray is a prominent ecological writer, William Gibson is the founder of the cyberpunk genre and original predictor/"inventor" of the internet, and Terry Pratchett is a much-acclaimed comedy writer. They aren't pointless, and they aren't bad or lowly, either.
Don't hide behind the bravado of reading "classics" just because you heard someplace that you're "supposed" to read them. Talk about tedious...and above all, quite dull and characterless. Reading the same old books is just old news to everybody else. You won't learn anything new. And just because your AP teacher or whatever hasn't assigned you a certain novel, and just because everybody on the MLA board hasn't said, "OMG YOU MUST READ THIS" about many newer novels, sure doesn't mean they aren't worth reading.

[darkphantomime]

I read what I wanna read, not what others tell me to read. Not even my AP teacher has reign over the stuff I pick.

DARNIT! >_< I keep forgetting and dissing the founder of Cyberpunk! Humble apologies....

*goes off to find something by William Gibson...*

My main issue is with 'modern' 'popular' contemporary writers like Tom Clancy or Agatha Christie or Nicholas Sparks... bah.

What about Philip K Dick? He wrote some of the most notable works in the cyberpunk genre. Heheh... I love cyberpunk...