Discussion: Great Books

[anthonyvorox]

How about the Mortal Instruments Trilogy (City of Bones, City of Ashes, and City of Glass ) by Cassandra Clare.

[boRed2dEath570]

read:
twilight series
blue bloods series
vampire diaries series
wicked lovely series
house of night series
wondrous strange
and the the fetch
 

[jaymz462]

I don't know, Jay! I loved all of the Harry Potter books but I absolutely loathed reading the LOTR series. Or should I say "trying to read," lol. The writing styles are a million miles apart!

Eh, I guess I can't blame you- Tolkien's writing can be a bit dry at times 

[mitchellsr3]

dream which harry potter book was ur favorite

[sarahlowc]

my fave book series are from libba bray, sarah dessen, and of course harry potter.

[xElite]

all the halo books are good.

[jaymz462]

George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" is a good fantasy series.  Rather gritty.  He's working on book 5 now.

[mitchellsr3]

There is b ooks about HAlo Now they have gone too far

[dexterjrh]

I don`t read very much and when i do it has to be a true story, for me to read it.

[CCWalsh]

Twilight is great, but nothing like Harry Potter...its all about teenage girl angst and romance, and quite corny at parts.

[mitchellsr3]

sounds good cc maybe i will check it out
 

[lightstar240]

If you love fantasy, I would seriously consider reading the Inheritance (Eragon) books, they're really good. and the cool thing is that the author wrote the first on when he was 15
And for mysteries, I personally like the "Cat who" series, by Lillian Jackson Braun. They're not openly famous, but they ARE pretty popular, and they're good books. And there's like 25 of them and new ones keep being released so you NEVER have to stop reading them

all the halo books are good.

Yeah, they are good. I own the first three (The Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike) And I just finished reading "Contact Harvest", and ordered "Ghosts of Onyx" from the library. You can call me a Halo freak....but it's a bit obvious

[x_dorkmonster_x]

I love the Twilight series. A Certain Slant Of Light is really good too.anyone read either of them?

[alchemystical]

I love the Twilight Series, very new take on vampire mythos

Some other great series I would highly recommend:
- The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
- the Women of Genesis series by Orson Scott Card - he writes books based on the lives of women in the Old Testament, so far writing about Sarah (wife of Abraham), Rebekkah (wife of Isaac), and Leah & Rachel (wives of Jacob) - really really exceptional books for anyone interested in biblical stuff or just ancient-historical fiction.
- Enchantment by Orson Scott Card - I know, it's starting to look like he's my favorite author but he's really not... but this is one of my favorite books ever - it's a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story, with some other fairy tale and historical-fiction type stuff mixed in too
- I also recently started reading stuff by Dean Koontz: Life Expectancy, which was awesome; and Fear Nothing, also very good, tho I haven't yet read the rest of that series (2 or 3 books, I think?)
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, which is apparently the first in a series, tho I don't know that the next book is out yet, but this one was really, really good

And for anyone having trouble with LotR - I cannot read those without falling asleep, but I found that if I listened to an audio version, it was very enjoyable. As far as I know, there's only one unabridged audio version of the books - anything else is like a cliffnotes version instead of someone reading the actual text. But if you can find the unabridged one, the guy who reads it is really incredible. He does voices and sings all the songs and everything. Really just immerses you in the Tolkien world

Gah, long post, sorry! 

[mitchellsr3]

I love the Twilight Series, very new take on vampire mythos

Some other great series I would highly recommend:
- The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
- the Women of Genesis series by Orson Scott Card - he writes books based on the lives of women in the Old Testament, so far writing about Sarah (wife of Abraham), Rebekkah (wife of Isaac), and Leah & Rachel (wives of Jacob) - really really exceptional books for anyone interested in biblical stuff or just ancient-historical fiction.
- Enchantment by Orson Scott Card - I know, it's starting to look like he's my favorite author but he's really not... but this is one of my favorite books ever - it's a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story, with some other fairy tale and historical-fiction type stuff mixed in too
- I also recently started reading stuff by Dean Koontz: Life Expectancy, which was awesome; and Fear Nothing, also very good, tho I haven't yet read the rest of that series (2 or 3 books, I think?)
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, which is apparently the first in a series, tho I don't know that the next book is out yet, but this one was really, really good

And for anyone having trouble with LotR - I cannot read those without falling asleep, but I found that if I listened to an audio version, it was very enjoyable. As far as I know, there's only one unabridged audio version of the books - anything else is like a cliffnotes version instead of someone reading the actual text. But if you can find the unabridged one, the guy who reads it is really incredible. He does voices and sings all the songs and everything. Really just immerses you in the Tolkien world

Gah, long post, sorry! 

Wow talk about being a book worm thxs for the advice i'll ty book on tape for the LOTRS