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Post by vickyholt13 on Jun 9, 2013 20:13:26 GMT
I was just wondering what people's favourite books are if people like reading. I love fantasy or scifi books also like dark romance I am a bit sad and love vampire books and books about the super natural people werewolves angels demons. One of my fave fantasy books is an oldish series the dragon riders of pern. I also like terry pratchets disc world novels too. What do other people like?
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Post by muddydragon on Jun 9, 2013 21:03:10 GMT
HAHA i was reading this going well that's easy i LOVE Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey isn't too bad either then read you love the dragonriders of pern and made a little squeak noise! I LOVE the pern series i've read all of them atleast once and starting reading them all over again in publication order (i first read one in year 7 from the school library what seems like millions of years ago and was hooked). I'm currently re-reading the white Dragon everyone gets fed up of me ranting on about it, they are my alltime favourite books. *does a little there's someone else who knows what pern is dance*... I even have the computer and boardgame and the song CDs (the music is amazing actually if you like folk music get it!)I even used to have a print of Robinton on my bedroom wall..... See now i just look like some major lunatic..... Who's your favourite character? (obviously mine's Robinton, I'm not going to list who else i think is amazing and a top favourite i'll be here all day but they're mostly from the original books ) I'm also a big fan of her other stuff and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock holmes stories various other sci-fi/fantasy, and because i'm a big kid at heart Robin Jarvis books (the whitby witches etc) and other stuff i can't remember as i'm too excited someone else likes the Pern books (I always have to be careful to make sure i pronounce that clearly when i shorten it to that outloud...). EEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeee P.S. I like Discworld too. i really want a "pet" luggage!
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Post by brunni on Jun 10, 2013 6:45:17 GMT
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Post by vickyholt13 on Jun 10, 2013 7:09:49 GMT
I loved the white dragon I'm reading moreta dragon lady of pern. I love masterharper robinton too. I have favourite characters within each book but over all robinton is my favourite character. I think my favourite dragon is Ruth and then canth. I love re reading them then because each time I seem to discover something new or see something from a different angel although I've not re read all of them. I didn't realise they had a games and music with them. I only discovered the books whilst helping my auntie out with a shop she had and people used to bring books in and swap or buy them even though it was a clothes shop. And a lady brought a bag of books in , whilst I was sorting them I noticed a black hard back book with no paper sleeve . I love books and love oldish looking ones it was a bit battered so I always makes me think of how someone must have re read and reread it or I wonder where the book has been and how many people have seen it. then I noticed the title dragon flight and I love dragons so I set it aside and put the other books on the shelf and as the shop was quite I started reading it and I was hooked .tracking the other books down has not been easier. I've got some from eBay and I went to Alnwick on holiday and went to barter books which is my most favourite place in the world lol and got a few from there. Sorry bit of a story going on there above lol I get carried away lol.
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Post by starcrazy19 on Jun 10, 2013 10:11:56 GMT
Lol, Brunni... Looks like I should read the pern books then eh, it's been on my list for years. My bedroom walls are practically papered with maps from fantasy series so you don't look like a lunatic to me muddydragon Robin Jarvis was my FAVOURITE author as a kid, extremely formative for me and got me into loads of other fantasy. (Aswell as duncton wood and redwall etc) I daren't even re-read them because I loved them so damn much an don't want to spoil them with my cynical adult eyes. I listen to LOADS of audiobooks but don't often sit and read, still slogging through game of thrones at the moment. Read 5 of them, stopped, forgot what was going on and had to start over... sigh, they are awesome books though. Vicki, your post made me think of a book called daughter of smoke and bone - it's got that fantasy chick-lit twilight feel to it but I actually enjoyed it and am looking forward to the rest of the series. You might like it Also waiting on more books out of the rivers of london and locke lamora series', and dreading the end of discworld. I've been waiting for the next discworld book to come out for what feels like my entire life, it will be very sad to see that come to an end.
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Post by muddydragon on Jun 10, 2013 11:36:44 GMT
haha no worries i'ld say i got a bit carried away too . My favourite dragon depends on which book i've read most recently ha! There's something attractive about an old book isn't there? I picked dragonflight up in out school library in year 7 simply because i love dragons started reading it and suddenly there's this amazing world full of exactly how dragons should be i was hooked read up to the white dragon then discovered they didn't have dragondrums! i asked for it from the library it never turned up and in the end i bought it elsewhere, i go through obsessive periods where i read several in a few days/ weeks (who needs sleep?!) then stop for a long time (year or two) then read several again. I think i picked up all mine from charity shops over the years. Recently i picked up the ship who sang (very good book!), a charity shop near me had every single one of her pern books, the vast majority of tower and the hive and the ship who sang, i went to buy it and the guy said "have you seen all our other anne mccaffrey books and i had to look at him and go well actually.... i already own all the others..... he just went "oh".... And yes you do spot all sorts of things when re-reading them especially things where you go "oh this fits with book X that may have been written years and years before or after" Re-reading the harper hall trilogy i realise how much the music CDs fit with those stories sunset's gold is menolly's songs and when i reread the book i realised just how detailed to the books those songs were. The computer game i picked up cheap in a shop when it was new (because as a game it's not terribly good..)... I loved it at the time nowadays though with the expectation of better games and a certain amount of impatience.... it has a fantastic plot but you spend a lot of time running around doing nothing and loading screens take forever... yet i still really like it . The board game i piked up since i love boardgames and the Pern series... we played once.... it took several days... we reckon probably around 20hours.... it gets quite repetitive...and it's easy to stall the other from winning so there's a constant neverendingness to it, it might be better with more players as if you have three or more players someone gets to play robinton and i suspect he adds a completely different effect to the game and may prevent it running on for days.... and days.... and days.... Yes starcrazy go go now and read one! NOW! GO! (the first ones are the best, i recommend publication order even if chronological would make more sense, Todd McCaffrey -who took over from his mum writing Pern novels - isn't bad but hasn't got quite the same spark) and i'm glad you don't think i'm totally crazy ;P I loved the whitby witches and a warlock in whitby as a child, I re-read them and realised i was a book missing the final book! Then i started reading the deptford mice lot which are just brilliant i don't think adult eyes spoilt it (then again i probably have the mentallity of a five year old quite often ) and i was impressed with his willingness to kill off main characters. The only thing that shocked me was some of the adult themes in the whitby books such as abortion and the lust and orgy-ness of the warlocks followers i defiantly missed that when i was first read them around 5/6 and when i reread them probably around year 5!) I've never read redwall my boyfriend has it and i mean to read ti sometime apparently it's brilliant! My boyfriend has read all of the game of thrones books to date but i started watching the TV show first so i decided i'ld stick with the show and maybe read the books afterwards since apparently there's a fair few key differences. He didn't suggest to me reading them earlier even though he thinks they're birlliant since he thought i'ld get bothered by main characters dying then when i was telling him about the slaughter of main characters in the deptford mice series he realised there's less awful deaths in game of thrones and suggested i watch/read it! I went for watching it first and decided to stick with that for now. It did show up something worrying about my phsyche though either that or what we get accustomed to on TV/in books (i'ld prefer to say that), anyone baby, child, adult, main character etc can die horribly and i don't really care too much, a direwolf gets hurt or worse and a bawl like a baby. well that turned into a small essay....
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Post by Johnnywho on Jun 10, 2013 11:51:10 GMT
My favourite genres are dystopian and fantasy. I have to say one of my most favourite series of books was the Harry Potter series and I'm currently reading the Hobbit then Lord of the Rings as I've been meaning to read it for years. I also like the Spiderwick Chronicles, it's a childrens series but I have to say it's very good if you want a set of small Fantasy books (there's 5 books in the series)
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Post by vallery on Jun 10, 2013 12:15:12 GMT
I Love Clive Barker.
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Post by Kevin on Jun 11, 2013 14:37:34 GMT
A Song of Ice and Fire.
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