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Re: Favorite Book
Posted: January 8th, 2011, 12:38 pm
by Kokonilly
kjhsscioly wrote:Kokonilly wrote:I LOVELOVELOVE the His Dark Materials trilogy. I've been reading the first two books for four days, and I'm about ten pages away from the end of The Amber Spyglass, and it has enchanted me completely.
I liked the premise of the books, and I look forward to watching the movie, but I really don't understand what all the fuss was about... It isn't some sort of heretic text, just harmless fantasy. The pace was a little slow though, but that is just my taste.
I really liked it. The premise was good (the movie destroys it, though, so watch out). Did you only read the first book? Because in the third, it gets a lot more heretical; they
kill God. Oh, and Mrs. Coulter essentially seduces God's right-hand man. [/SPOILER ALERT] So, yeah, I can see why the Church wouldn't be too happy about it. I found the pace to be quick enough, but I'm pretty patient when it comes to books.
Pandemonium wrote:I would like to bring up a question: do you read books for enjoyment or do you read books to analyze and digest it?
I'm not saying you can't enjoy the book by analyzing it. By enjoyment, I mean if you like a book because it reads smoothly, has an interesting plot, or if the characters are admirable. By analyzing a book, I mean if you read to understand the deeper meaning behind the author's words-- all that literary analysis your English teacher taught you.
I can't analyze a book to save my life. I'm okay at seeing symbols (terrible with themes), but mostly I ignore them and look at the story itself. I think English teachers read too much into books a lot of the time, and that the author didn't really mean it that way. It's like studying Shakespeare intensely: he meant for the plays to be watched and not read, and I think we should respect that and head off to the theater. I like reading them, but there's something to be said for actually seeing it.
I like thinking about books, but themes like passion and betrayal I can't relate to, so they don't make too much sense.
Re: Favorite Book
Posted: January 8th, 2011, 7:52 pm
by soccerkid812
The Giver.
The Enders Game.
Lord of this Flies was good.
Alex Rider Series...
Re: Favorite Book
Posted: January 9th, 2011, 8:51 pm
by yogoperson
AlphaTauri wrote:Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorites as well...I couldn't finish 1984 or Brave New World though; maybe I was just too young to understand the whole dystopia thing when I (tried to) read them.
Other Favorites:
Ender's Game -Orson Scott Card
Douglas Adams
Catch-22 -Joseph Heller (confusing because of the weird time line, but I liked the book overall)
The Hunger Games and Catching Fire -Suzanne Collins
J.K. Rowling
Clive Cussler
Dan Brown (not always historically accurate, but a good author)
Rocket Boys/October Sky -Homer Hickam
The Pendragon Series -D.J. MacHale
Nation -Terry Prachett
Eoin Colfer
His Dark Materials (trilogy) -Philip Pullman
Next -Michael Crichton
Maximum Ride series -James Patterson
As you can probably tell, my taste in literature leans heavily towards sci-fi and adventure.
Well, as to Brave New World, I didn't understand it until halfway through the book.
soccerkid812 wrote:The Giver.
The Enders Game.
Lord of this Flies was good.
Alex Rider Series...
Lord of the Flies is really good!
Teawizard wrote:I liked Pride and Prejudice, as well. It is a true classic.
Pride and Prejudice doesn't get old, does it?
Anybody read Death of a Salesman?
Re: Favorite Book
Posted: January 9th, 2011, 8:53 pm
by soccerkid812
Teawizard wrote:I liked Pride and Prejudice, as well. It is a true classic.
Pride and Prejudice doesn't get old, does it?
Anybody read Death of a Salesman?[/quote]
I watched the movie of Death of a Salesman. Wasn't my favorite, boring for me...
Re: Favorite Book
Posted: January 10th, 2011, 4:42 am
by Kokonilly
soccerkid812 wrote:I watched the movie of Death of a Salesman. Wasn't my favorite, boring for me...
Just so you know: I've never watched
Death of a Salesman, but in my experience movies of books/plays < the original books/plays. 99.9999999999% of the time (there was
Princess Diaries, but that book was dreadful to begin with. The movie could hardly have been worse than it, and it had Julie Andrews).
yogoperson wrote:Besides, in high school, it's Brave New World or Pride and Prejudice or To Kill A Mockingbird, right?
I read
Brave New World and
To Kill a Mockingbird, and while I despised the former (never, EVER look up a word you don't know on Wikipedia when you're 12 and naive), I loved TKAM.
Bartimaeus Trilogy, anyone?
The Ring of Solomon is in the same vein, and equally as amusing.
Re: Favorite Book
Posted: January 10th, 2011, 4:46 am
by M-E-T-H-O-D MAN
Kokonilly wrote:soccerkid812 wrote:I watched the movie of Death of a Salesman. Wasn't my favorite, boring for me...
Just so you know: I've never watched
Death of a Salesman, but in my experience movies of books/plays < the original books/plays. 99.9999999999% of the time (there was
Princess Diaries, but that book was dreadful to begin with. The movie could hardly have been worse than it, and it had Julie Andrews).
yogoperson wrote:Besides, in high school, it's Brave New World or Pride and Prejudice or To Kill A Mockingbird, right?
I read
Brave New World and
To Kill a Mockingbird, and while I despised the former (never, EVER look up a word you don't know on Wikipedia when you're 12 and naive), I loved TKAM.
Bartimaeus Trilogy, anyone?
The Ring of Solomon is in the same vein, and equally as amusing.
I've read all of these too! I loved TKAM also, though most people in my class hated it when we read it, which was dumb. The Bartimaeus trilogy is hilarious and never gets old to me. I liked Brave New World but I know several people who didn't like it very much. A lot of it was pretty weird and out there.
Re: Favorite Book
Posted: January 11th, 2011, 12:29 pm
by callmesandi
I read Sarah Dessen
jK Rowling
Ned Vizzini
and other, but those are my favorite.
Re: Favorite Book
Posted: January 12th, 2011, 1:12 pm
by Kokonilly
M-E-T-H-O-D MAN wrote:I've read all of these too! I loved TKAM also, though most people in my class hated it when we read it, which was dumb. The Bartimaeus trilogy is hilarious and never gets old to me. I liked Brave New World but I know several people who didn't like it very much. A lot of it was pretty weird and out there.
BNW... scarred me. I'll say no more than that. >.<
Re: Favorite Book
Posted: January 12th, 2011, 1:36 pm
by M-E-T-H-O-D MAN
Kokonilly wrote:M-E-T-H-O-D MAN wrote:I've read all of these too! I loved TKAM also, though most people in my class hated it when we read it, which was dumb. The Bartimaeus trilogy is hilarious and never gets old to me. I liked Brave New World but I know several people who didn't like it very much. A lot of it was pretty weird and out there.
BNW... scarred me. I'll say no more than that. >.<
Haha, well, reading it at age 12 might do that.
Re: Favorite Book
Posted: January 12th, 2011, 5:02 pm
by AlphaTauri
M-E-T-H-O-D MAN wrote:Kokonilly wrote:M-E-T-H-O-D MAN wrote:I've read all of these too! I loved TKAM also, though most people in my class hated it when we read it, which was dumb. The Bartimaeus trilogy is hilarious and never gets old to me. I liked Brave New World but I know several people who didn't like it very much. A lot of it was pretty weird and out there.
BNW... scarred me. I'll say no more than that. >.<
Haha, well, reading it at age 12 might do that.
I also read Brave New World when I was 12 (or at least tried to)...it mostly just confused me.