|
Post by LadyRiona on May 9, 2007 15:56:09 GMT -5
Another author I forgot to mention was Cornelia Funke. She's German, I think. I've read two of her I think seven books. Anyway, the two I've read are called "Inkheart" and "Inkspell", two of a trilogy. "Inkheart" is being made into a major motion picture, due to be released next year. Then I own two other books by her, "The Thief Lord" and "Dragon Rider". She writes young adult fantasy stories. I thoroughly enjoyed "Inkheart" and "Inkspell", though the first was a little difficult to get into at first. Though once I was in it, I wouldn't put it down. It's about this girl who's father has an especially interesting talent concerning reading; the two books deal with the repercussions of something that had happened about ten years before the story takes place. The characters are very well written; the plot is very magnificent and, in my opinion, unique. When I was reading the second one, the story had me in tears for various reasons.
But yes, I highly recommend those two books, at least. I still have yet to read the other two I own by her.
M, has Ash started reading "Inkheart" yet? I can get her a copy of "Inkspell" for some event when she finishes "Inkheart".
|
|
|
Post by Meluivan Indil on May 9, 2007 22:41:41 GMT -5
Well she started reading it and I asked her if she is understanding it and she said not really. I just don't think she's that advanced in her reading skills yet. I'll probably have to read it myself so I can explain it to her better.
M.
|
|
|
Post by Lady Idril on May 10, 2007 18:26:03 GMT -5
Pamela Aidan, Pamela Aidan, Pamela Aidan!!
I can't say it enough, her Fitzwilliam Darcy, gentleman trilogy is so wonderfully written series that follows the events of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice through the eyes of handsome, mysterious Fitzwilliam Darcy. The second book in the series, Duty & Desire, covers the "silent time" of Pride & Prejudice, after Darcy persaudes Charles Bingley to leave Hartfordshire. Darcy then visits a friend, Lord Sayre, and upon his arrival to Norwycke Castle he finds a myriad of characters who all seem to have some unknown motive. It's a sort of whodunit to a degree, and a very intriguing selection of original characters coinciding with the Darcy that Aidan writes so well. People have said to overlook this book and read the first and third of the trilogy as they follow Austen's story most accurately, but I found that I was thirsty for more of the original Darcy adventures that Aidan penned so well in the second book.
Okay, shutting up now...
|
|
|
Post by Ark on May 10, 2007 19:13:45 GMT -5
I can confidently tell you hat if you haven't read Watership Down you've done yourself a serious injustice. It's a lord of the rings-esque pilgramage story with bunnies
LOTR with freaking bunnies. If that isn't EPIC[/b][/i], nothing is.
|
|
|
Post by Wyvernwings on May 10, 2007 20:11:22 GMT -5
I LOVE Watership down! Omg It's wonderful! But I think that everyone should read Garth Nix's Keys to the Kingdom books! I love these. Think of King Aurther mixed with biblical stories and a good splash of mytholigy, not to mention all the angels and modernday stuff. It's a lovely thing!
|
|
|
Post by Anime Monster on May 26, 2007 20:33:36 GMT -5
I have several recomendations here:
1.) The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (Fantasy). A series of seven books that are usually considered chrildren's books, but I think are a lot more mature than that. If you haven't read the series, there are two ways of reading it, the first would be starting with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, followed by Prince Caspian, Dawn Treader, Silver Chair, Magican's Nephew, Horse and His Boy, and ending with Last Battle. The second would be chronological with MN first followed by LWW, HHB, PC, DT, SC, and ending with LB. It's an excellent series (and is probably my favorite) with motifs ranging from things as heavy as the Christian Bible and the balance of good and evil, to growing up.
2.) Fear the Year 2099 series by John Peel (young adult Sci-Fi) This is a series about a society so totally ran on computers that it faces impending armegeddon from the Doomsday virus created by the manicle computer genius, Devon. The only one who can stop him is his fellow clone Tristian Conner who is also a computer genius. It's got mystery, excitement, and a bit of romance, as well as interplantary space travel.
3.) Daniel Sylva books (Adult spy/action) Daniel Sylva writes a collection of books about a character named Gabriel Allon whose a former agent for the Isreali secret service who was sent to assassinate the palenstians responsible for the the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist attack. However, these books take place several years later where Gabriel is an art restorer with the guilt of killing people weighing heavily on him. The series starts in 1991 with a car bombing that took the life of his young son and the sanity of his wife in The Kill Artist and continues years down the road and into more modern times. The latest in the series is The Messenger. This is not a series for children, though.
The rest of my recs would be verious mangas for the most part or books that I can't think of right now.
|
|
|
Post by Wyvernwings on Jun 2, 2007 15:59:13 GMT -5
Hehe WOW, what a list.
|
|