Lucky Book Club...just like Oprah :)

[Ennaor]

This is from Zerila's suggestion!

I am gonna read Stardust when it arrives and after that I am gonna read 2001 cause I didn't understand the ending of the movie at all.

Thanks for your recommendations Zerila!  I will definitely look into those

These books will help me cope with Post Potter Depression lol

[Ryudei]

Don't spoil the endings for yourself ro!  I PROMISE the book will be better!!!!!

[Evanesce]

You should read Alice in Wonderland, it's my favorite ^^

[Ennaor]

I don't know if I could do it Ryudei!  I mean its soo easy to accidentally let the pages slip to the end... and somehow my eyes see the words and I read it! 

[Zerila]

Alice in Wonderland is an old favorite of mine

If you're trying to overcome post-Potter depression (or PPD as the medical profession is(n't) calling it), then I have some recommendations for you!

Phillip Pullman: His Dark Materials trilogy. The first book, "The Golden Compass", is being made into a movie now. I'm not sure of the release date, though...

Terry Pratchett: The Tiffany Aching books, starting with "Wee Free Men"

Not quite Harry Potter, especially since the leads in both of these series are young girls instead of boys, but they're both really good series

Another thing... how could I have forgotten JRR Tolkien?!  Bad Zeri, no cookie for me ; ;

[Ennaor]

The Golden Compass comes out 12/7/07.  There was a Golden Compass Booth at Comic Con and I got to take a picture in front of a green screen, then was put in front of that polar bear

My friend is rereading the Chronicles of Narina  cause of PPD.

You must read lots of books Zerila... book beastmaster /kneel

[Ennaor]

I finished reading Stardust last night!  It was good, but the ending... I dunno I wanted something more LORD OF THE RINGS TYPE EPIC... but I guess since this was a fairy tale... it ended like one.  I don't know how it differs from the paperback version since this was the hardcover one with illustrations XD  But I still enjoyed the book and I am looking forward to the movie! 

Now I am going to read 2001 and maybe I can understand that acid trippin ending   

Oh and I found this funny
SPOILERS!!!!!!

[Zerila]

Oh, thanks for spoiling it!
I actually laughed out loud when I saw that, nice one

[Zerila]

I'm thinking I'll pick up the sequel to the Talisman... I think its called the Black House, or something? I really really liked the first one!

Then again, maybe I should just re-read the first one

[Ennaor]

or wiki the book to get a summary :X

[Zerila]

But then you miss all the good parts! 

[Zerila]

Well, I did buy the Black House. It had some good parts, but all in all it wasn't nearly as good as the Talisman. And there were a few things in it that just really bothered me. I think I'll just pretend I never read it 

I also just read Touched By the Gods, by Lawrence Watt-Evans. It was good, not his best but not nearly his worst. And the title... He was touched by the gods when he was a baby, but they never said where! Disturbing...

I might pick up some more Vonnegut... maybe Breakfast of Champions? It's one of his more famous ones, but I've never read it. Terry Pratchett has a new book coming out soon (next month?) and I'll definitely pick that one up

[Zerila]

I went on a little Vonnegut bender, reading "Breakfast of Champions", "Timequake" and "God Bless You, Mr Rosewater". I'm a little Vonnegut'ed out at the moment, so I picked up something new and interesting the last time I was in Barnes and Noble:

Michael Palin Diaries, 1969-79.

You may know Michael Palin as one of the members of Monty Python. I'd say he was "the funny one", except you still wouldn't know which one I'm talking about
This has a bunch of insights into his own life, and what he was going through both at home and during the creation of Monty Python's Flying Circus. So far, there are a lot of really interesting insights, like how John and Eric viewed Python as a means to an end (money) while Terry Jones looked at it as a great work they were creating, worthwhile in its own right.

[Kyuuketsuki]

I've wanted to read that, Zeri! Michael Palin is awesome.

I'm currently reading Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan! A sort of... cyberpunk detective story.

[Kallisto]

Wow... people that... read books... and enjoy it... I think I found myself in the wrong thread... must... escape... 

[Zerila]

Bwa-hahaha!! *turns on gravity pump and sucks Kallisto back into the thread*

You shall never escape! I shall force you to read the complete works of Tolkien!


I'm planning on reading another Palin book after this, Hemingway's Chair. I heard it's good
It's funny how I tend to read in spurts of one particular author after another. Like, I'll go on a Pratchett kick, then a Vonnegut kick, then some other writer, etc.

[Kyuuketsuki]

You shouldn't kick Vonnegut;; Respect the dead!

Nor should you kick Terry Pratchett... since, well... it's just not nice. Q_Q

[Zerila]

Nooooo! I meant "kick" as in "obsessively pursuing", not as in violence! I'm not a violent person!

...

Except when it comes to those darned Werebats... 

[Cilai]

Alright! Great thread I'm always looking for suggestions of books to read. I read too fast and it gets frustrating when the authors can't keep putting the books out fast enough to keep up with me lol.
Recent reads I enjoyed:
I've read alot of the DragonLance series and sad that I have exhausted the two story lines I'm on until the authors put out new books - Finished book 1 of the Lost Chronicles and book 2 of Dark Disciple series. I prefer paperbacks over hardcovers so I'm impatiently waiting for the second Lost Chronicles to go paper
I also read the Lincoln Rhymes series by Jeffery Deaver. I think I have read 9-10 books in that series. Loved every one of them Also waiting for the next paperback out by Deaver.
I got really bored for lack of reading material and I picked up my daughter's book one day  I have to admit it's got me hooked though it's geared for young readers LOL. It's called "The Fire Within" by Chris D'Lacey. It's about dragons, so it sucked me in haha.
Keep the suggestions coming. 

[Ryudei]

DRAGONS!!