Topic: Favorite books?

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July 1, 2008 8:33 am #

Mine are:

1. Horrid Henry series.
2. Mythical Monsters
3. The Butterfly lion ( it made me cry... :( )
4. Vater und Sohn


And many more

Does anyone else love reading as much as I do? :D

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July 1, 2008 9:11 am #

http://www.bobafett.com/boards/viewtopic.php?id=320

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July 1, 2008 10:07 am #

Green, before making a new thread, you are supposed to Search to make sure that there are no similar topics. We tell you this, but you keep making topics that already exist.

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July 2, 2008 7:37 am #

Ummm, excuse me, but that's recommending..... ;)

This is only what is your favourite book.

What is your favourite book and recommending books are different.

recommending books is not saying which is your favourite book.

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July 2, 2008 8:02 am #

Its the same thing Green, gimme a break. Stop trying to make topics just to raise your topic count.

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July 2, 2008 8:20 am #

Valthonin, recommending books is asking what good books there are, and would like to recommend them to buy.

Asking what your favourite book is is simply saying what it is.

Recommending and asking what your favourite books are, are two different things completely.

It's quite simple. :)

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July 2, 2008 8:25 am #

You're right Green, it is quite simple. But you got it wrong.

Recommending a book is TELLING what good books there are. Kind of like TELLING some one what your favorite books are. Its the same thing, just post your book list on the multitude of other book topics that already exist.

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July 2, 2008 10:24 am #

Well, you're not going to reccomend books you don't like.

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July 2, 2008 10:46 am (Edited July 2, 2008 10:48 am) #
draco fett wrote:

Well, you're not going to reccomend books you don't like.

Depends. Sometimes a book you read might have been more disturbing than good, and you might recommend it to somebody who'll enjoy something twisted...

"Lord of the Flies" has been one like that for me. Don't want to read it again, ever, but some could really like. I might tend to recommend it to my friends who like gory and twisted stuff.

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July 2, 2008 11:15 am #

Ugh, I hated Lord of the Flies, had to read that in freshman year and it was really twisted. 
I really like the star wars books, and the Eragon series.  I think the Harry Potter books were a lot better than the movies, and I was pretty in to them a while back.  I read a lot so I'm not sure what my absolute favorite book is but it's probably between star wars books and Eragon.

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July 2, 2008 3:24 pm #

Eragon for me is mediocre.  Nothing terribly special but I still enjoy reading it.

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July 2, 2008 3:45 pm #

the Timothy Zahn novels (they will never die!), Harry Potter (books way better than movies), Lord of the Rings (movies good, books better), Vampire Hunter D. i was bored of Lord of the Flies too, had to read it in 10th grade. plus i had a sucky teacher which made it worse. if anyone has ever read Catcher in the Rye, i think it was okay, but still good enough to fall asleep too. lots of cursing too (got banned a while ago too).

July 2, 2008 4:25 pm #
Sev Fett wrote:

Eragon for me is mediocre.  Nothing terribly special but I still enjoy reading it.

I have to agree with Sev. It really didnt do it for me. I think its because I had read the Dragonlance series and the Riftwar Saga before that, and those stories are like Eragon on steroids. CA, if youre a big Eragon fan, you would fall in love with those books.

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July 2, 2008 4:30 pm #
cloneapart wrote:

Ugh, I hated Lord of the Flies, had to read that in freshman year and it was really twisted. 
I really like the star wars books, and the Eragon series.  I think the Harry Potter books were a lot better than the movies, and I was pretty in to them a while back.  I read a lot so I'm not sure what my absolute favorite book is but it's probably between star wars books and Eragon.

I heard the Eragon movie wasn't too good, but the books were great, waiting for the next one in september

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July 2, 2008 5:11 pm #

Eh, haven't read Eragon... not into them really. I like LotR... but not my absolute favorite. That would be hands down On the Road By Jack Kerouac.

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July 2, 2008 7:36 pm #

Yeah, the movie sucked, but the books were decent. I enjoy the story--not the most original plot, in some ways (very basic ways), but a pretty good story. And yeah, I'm looking forward to it too. I'm with Sev on that.

LoTR's great, Ted Dekker's stuff is great, Zahn's stuff is great.

I'll shock you by saying I love Karen Traviss's stuff. Isaac Asimov is a great Sci-fi author, too.

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July 2, 2008 8:20 pm #

Ah yeah, the movie was horrible but I agree with waiting on the next book.  LotR is always great, good movie and books

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July 3, 2008 6:42 am #

Werda has hit the nail on the head! Asimov is the king of sci-fi! The Foundation Saga was the highlight, followed by The Gods themselves, Little lost Robot and Caves of Steel! I also loved Farmer Giles of Ham by Tolkien and Memnoch by Anne Rice. Starwars wise, Zahn is great and the B.H Trilogy was good too! Harry Potter also gets and mention cause they are great reads! On different genres, Fear and loathing in Las Vegas and The Hells Angels were great books by the late, great Dr. Hunter S. Thompson!!!!

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July 3, 2008 7:00 am #

The Gods Themselves had a unsatisfying ending, but I loved the Foundation Saga, and "Caves of Steel" and The Naked Sun were great. But some of his other singles were very good, too.

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July 3, 2008 7:08 am #

Ultramarine Omnibus by Graham McNeill is awesome for 40k fans

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July 3, 2008 9:14 pm #

Yeah I can't understand why you get "Lord of the Flies" so early in school. It's quite twisted indeed. Not really for young minds I'd say. Probably sucks to have to analyze it.

Here we tend to have local "classics" in school, stuff that was written like 100 years ago. Makes it a bit boring because you can't relate to the characters or setting. Too far away in time.

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July 3, 2008 11:34 pm #

We just got Les Miserables and Animal Farm to do over the summer.  That's what I get for being smart.  Anyway.  Finished Animal Farm.  I found it quite funny.  Haven't started Les Miserables yet.

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July 4, 2008 5:50 am #

I will add in later but there are a lot of Star Wars books that I think are fantastic. The ones that I can think of for now are the X-Wing series, The first book in the Coruscant nights trilogy,  shadows of the Empire, anything by Timothy Zahn.

I also love nineteen eighty four by George Orwel (such a dark book)

The Hobbit and the Lord of the rings.

Lastly the Harry Potter books (so much better than the films)

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July 4, 2008 5:55 am #

The X-Wing series were amazing, but I didn't know that the Coruscant nights series had a book out.

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July 4, 2008 6:21 am #
Werda Verd wrote:

The X-Wing series were amazing, but I didn't know that the Coruscant nights series had a book out.

It came out recently :D I could not put the book down. It is a fantastic story with great characters. It is very well written. It is really worth reading :D (I am so much looking forward to the next book coming out in August)

LOL I developed a crush on Corran Horn after reading the X-Wing books. I really want to read more about him and his children :D

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July 4, 2008 7:42 am #

My other favourite series o ' books is:

The Roald Dahl Collection

The Twits
James and the giant peach
The Magic Finger
The BFG
Charlie and the Chocolate factory

etc....

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July 4, 2008 6:40 pm (Edited July 4, 2008 06:42 pm) #
Sev Fett wrote:

We just got Les Miserables and Animal Farm to do over the summer.  That's what I get for being smart.  Anyway.  Finished Animal Farm.  I found it quite funny.  Haven't started Les Miserables yet.

It's a good one... but LONG. Sometimes Victor Hugo goes on and on for pages and pages, describing all the details of something completely unrelated, only to justify one slight detail about the story. So... don't expect to finish it in one night.
:P

But it's good. Worth reading at least once in a lifetime. Do you have the original/full version?

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July 4, 2008 6:43 pm #

my favorite book is probably the hobbit.
good book.

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July 4, 2008 7:29 pm #
terra wrote:
Sev Fett wrote:

We just got Les Miserables and Animal Farm to do over the summer.  That's what I get for being smart.  Anyway.  Finished Animal Farm.  I found it quite funny.  Haven't started Les Miserables yet.

It's a good one... but LONG. Sometimes Victor Hugo goes on and on for pages and pages, describing all the details of something completely unrelated, only to justify one slight detail about the story. So... don't expect to finish it in one night.
:P

But it's good. Worth reading at least once in a lifetime. Do you have the original/full version?

Not sure.  I believe it's the Oxford version.  I'll have to check.

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July 4, 2008 11:47 pm #

There is going to be a new series of Horrid Henry out soon! Can't wait!

Although, I hate to say this, but I'm kinda growing out of Horrid Henry..... :/

It's aged around probably 5-8 or 6-8.

I still like them anyway. :P ( blushes )

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July 5, 2008 8:45 am #
Devil Girl wrote:
Werda Verd wrote:

The X-Wing series were amazing, but I didn't know that the Coruscant nights series had a book out.

It came out recently :D I could not put the book down. It is a fantastic story with great characters. It is very well written. It is really worth reading :D (I am so much looking forward to the next book coming out in August)

LOL I developed a crush on Corran Horn after reading the X-Wing books. I really want to read more about him and his children :D

lol...yeah, Corran's awesome. Have you read "I, Jedi"? He was great in that too.

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July 5, 2008 9:26 am #

One of my favourites also now is a book I got today.

Being Impossible

wrote by Hiawyn Oram

It's really good! I love it! :D

So far I'm on Chapter 20, page 135. :D

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July 16, 2008 7:27 pm #

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July 17, 2008 2:02 pm #
Commander Appo wrote:

Green, before making a new thread, you are supposed to Search to make sure that there are no similar topics. We tell you this, but you keep making topics that already exist.

Maybe, but Green's conforms with the new standard set down by Aaron, saying "favorite _" topics must be titled "favorite _". And Cujo gets the "not searching award", he made a topic exactly like this, 4 days after Green.

Mine are 1.Tales of the bounty hunters, 2.Fall of Reach, (rest in no particular order) Bounty Hunter Wars, Halo series, Lord of the Rings, Space Wolf, and that's all I can think of.

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July 17, 2008 2:08 pm #
Werda Verd wrote:
Devil Girl wrote:
Werda Verd wrote:

The X-Wing series were amazing, but I didn't know that the Coruscant nights series had a book out.

It came out recently :D I could not put the book down. It is a fantastic story with great characters. It is very well written. It is really worth reading :D (I am so much looking forward to the next book coming out in August)

LOL I developed a crush on Corran Horn after reading the X-Wing books. I really want to read more about him and his children :D

lol...yeah, Corran's awesome. Have you read "I, Jedi"? He was great in that too.

Yup I have read that :D I think that is a great book :D I am reading it to my eldest son at his bedtime at the moment (I have nearly finished it)

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