Book Recommendations

[amerikestrel]

YES YOU MUST READ THE PERCY JACKSON SERIES
IT IS THE BEST SERIES BOOK I HAVE READ EVER (tied with hp)

Meh... I used to love that series, but now I don't like it that much. It's okay if you're just looking for rather immature, young adult fantasy literature. But the writing isn't that good, in my opinion. I'll grant it one thing, it taught me a few things about mythology when I read the first few a couple years ago.

[pjolala]

Meh... I used to love that series, but now I don't like it that much. It's okay if you're just looking for rather immature, young adult fantasy literature. But the writing isn't that good, in my opinion. I'll grant it one thing, it taught me a few things about mythology when I read the first few a couple years ago.

it sounds immature because its taken from the point of view of a twelve year old. Even though he ends up being sixteen in the last book...

[gyourkoshaven]

Not only does it sound immature, pjolala, it is immature. I tried reading one of them and thought it was boring. Read a mythology book if you want to learn some. I didn't find any entertainment.

Anyone read The Brief, Wondrous life of Oscar Whoa?

[duckiegirl2]

Seriously?!?!? Alex rider is amazing! its one of my favorite series!

I agree. I'm currently reading Crocodile Tears. I'd have to say my favorite author is Tamora Pierce. I love her series.

[duckiegirl2]

http://www.scioly.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=81

And here's a list of 100 books that are supposedly good.


70 Moby pigeon - Herman Melville -

(sorry about the double post)

[denmarksoccer]

Not only does it sound immature, pjolala, it is immature. I tried reading one of them and thought it was boring. Read a mythology book if you want to learn some. I didn't find any entertainment.

Anyone read The Brief, Wondrous life of Oscar Whoa?

It's Oscar Wao, but I haven't. I heard it's insanely good, though.

[amerikestrel]

Not only does it sound immature, pjolala, it is immature. I tried reading one of them and thought it was boring. Read a mythology book if you want to learn some. I didn't find any entertainment.

I agree. If you're interested in mythology, read nonfiction. Edith Hamilton's Mythology is good.

Anyone read The Brief, Wondrous life of Oscar Whoa?

I've never head of it. What's it about?

[gyourkoshaven]

(Copy-pasted from Wikipedia):
The novel is an epic story narrated by Yunior de Las Casas and chronicles not just the "brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao," an overweight Dominican boy growing up in Paterson, New Jersey and obsessed with science fiction and fantasy novels, with comic books and role-playing games and with falling in love, but also the curse of the "fukú" that has plagued Oscar's family for generations and the Caribbean (and perhaps the entire world) since colonization and slavery.

The middle sections of the novel center on the lives of Oscar's runaway sister, Lola, his mother, Hypatia Belicia Cabral, and his grandfather, Abelard, under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. Rife with footnotes, science fiction and fantasy references, comic book analogies, various Spanish dialects and hip-hop inflected urban English, the novel is also a meditation on story-telling, the Dominican diaspora and identity, masculinity, the contours of authoritarian power and the long horrifying history of slavery in the New World.

[zoltysmok]

If you like fantasy/alternate history, I recommend the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik. Long story short: Napoleonic wars. With dragons.

[pjolala]

Besides Percy Jackson, Unwind by Neal Shusterman is also a good book. We had to read it for school and also had to do a project on the book. I made a book trailer ( prezi ) on it.


http://prezi.com/xstgojknaosa/