I liked the Heir To the Empire trilogy a good deal, as well as Specter of the Past (still need to read Vision of the Future). I should look into some of his non-Star Wars work.
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This is one of those cases where the book is so much better than the movie you wonder why they even bothered. I still need to read the sequels/spinoffs.
A few of them. Redwall was my favorite book in 3rd grade, and since then, Iāve read Mossflower and parts of Martin the Warrior and Mattimeo (didnāt read them all the way through because Iād already seen the cartoon version). I need to catch up on the rest one of these days.
Any fans of the classics? Dickens, Austen, Dostoyevsky, etc.? Or, on another note, how about Harry Potter? Canāt believe no oneās mentioned that yet.
Iām not a bookworm, I think I didnāt read more than five novels last year. Iāve been meaning to read Pratchettās Discworld saga and get in to comics like Blacksad. Redwall has crossed my mind, too, but I hardly know anything about it. Mind pitching it to me, @Artakha ?
A couple months back I got around reading The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books, the latest book from my favourite author, Walter Moers sorry, I mean Hildegunst von Mythenmetz. It was a disappointment: pretty much nothing happened and ended on a cliffhanger with little suspense. Oh well, I suppose Iāll just have wait another three years for another Moersā novel to be translatedā¦
Redwall: Itās a world where animals play the role of people; the main setting is an abbey made of red stone, and the inhabitants always get mixed up in some dangerous adventure. Martin the Warrior was the founder of Redwall Abbey, and while the inhabitants are usually peaceful, they can be a bold as Martin when they are attacked by villains.
You should check out the series; itās very good, and Iāve read several books.
I tried to get into Redwall a while ago, but it didnāt really appeal to me.
Part of that may have been because I was burned by Erin Hunterās āWarriorsā series at about the same time, which had been undergoing a serious dip in quality around book eleven or so. (It got better again later, but then the twenty-fourth and final book was awful.)
I usually donāt like getting caught up in book series. The first few are good, but after a while, some of them decline. I do, however, follow a few childrenās book series, which have gotten better and havenāt lost their appeal to me.
-Diary of a Wimpy Kid (still collecting all the books. Have all of them so farā¦)
-Captain Underpants (stopped getting the books, but I follow the story.)
Most of the time, I like reading singular books. If itās one book with a conclusion at the end, I get satisfied. However, a lot of books with series leave me wanting to know what happens next, and honestly, I donāt always like reading books continuously. Quick reads Iām fine with, and single books are grand. Series? Hard for me to really want to get into. Although, there was one book in a series I enjoyed reading, although I had to do it for class, anyways. (It was called Unwind. Really crazy book, but also really thrilling!)
I couldnāt agree more, my middle school and the early part of my 9th grade year kept shoveling books with the same āracially persecuted peopleā premise down our throats. Thankfully weāre starting to read better books!
My sister has really gotten into playing audio books around our house. Sheās been listening to The Book Thief for the past week or so. Has anyone else read it? What did you think? From what Iāve heard, itās pretty deep.
@legomaster1378 The Book Thief is a wonderful book. It is a little slow, but the narrationās interesting (Death is the guy who narrates it =D) and it was pretty thought-invoking.
@Leoxandar To me? Definitely. The Killing Joke is by far my favorite short-story of all time, and itās a comic.
Iāve read the first two or so, didnāt really get into the series.
A couple days back I found myself a H. P. Lovecraftās The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. The book itself looks really nice with a handmade feel on the pages, and having no back cover text is always a plus. Iāve only read Dagon of the actual short stories. Iām looking forward to reading the rest of the stories.
I still need to read the sequels/spinoffs.
