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im writing a term paper for creative writing and must choose 5 books and analyze each... all the book i like are in chinese and its English class so yeah....




....reading

Alien vs Predator novel series.
Ann Rice novels (vampire books)
Any Dark Tower books (Steven King I think)

Where's Waldo? =)

Philip Pullman's "The Dark Materials" Series

Locketart wrote:Where's Waldo? =)

cant, that was my mid-term

...the fact that waldo is behind king arthur is clearly suggesting that waldo is characterized as a royalty figure...

Eragon series

avanti42 wrote:Eragon series

+1. cant wait for book 3.

havent seen the movie; seems the chars in there are completely different.
i like to use my imagination

avanti42 wrote:Eragon series

In fact... the name of the series is "Inheritance"... Eragon is just the first book

cin wrote:havent seen the movie; seems the chars in there are completely different.
i like to use my imagination

The movie is BS. The description don't even match... I mean, i know they don't need to be exact but... they are very different. And this is a book that is focused in descriptions a lot.

Things happen too fast, the story isn't even explained properly... really crappy imo.

cin wrote:

avanti42 wrote:Eragon series

+1. cant wait for book 3.

havent seen the movie; seems the chars in there are completely different.
i like to use my imagination

movie sucked dont bother seeing it. completely dumbed down the whole book to where it was painful to watch

Alexander: Child of a Dream

By Valerio Massimo Manfredi.

Totally badass book, the other 2 are great, but the first is by far the best.

try The Day My Butt Went Psycho By Andy Griffiths

fun read

Преступление и наказание
(Crime and Punishment)

A Russian classic... With prostitutes.

1984
Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgeman (Comedy Book)
The Great Gatsby
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Faust

HyorunmarouZ wrote:

avanti42 wrote:Eragon series

In fact... the name of the series is "Inheritance"... Eragon is just the first book

cin wrote:havent seen the movie; seems the chars in there are completely different.
i like to use my imagination

The movie is BS. The description don't even match... I mean, i know they don't need to be exact but... they are very different. And this is a book that is focused in descriptions a lot.

Things happen too fast, the story isn't even explained properly... really crappy imo.

The Eragon movie was total shit. They left out so many of my favorite book parts, and essential plot lines, book 3 better be damned good to make up for it.

I read Eragon series, Bartimaeus Trilogy, Harry Potter series, Dresden Files, any books about Midkemia, same for ones with Drizzt Do'Urden or his world, and then the Dragonlance books. Those are all my favorite. Dune was ok, but bland imo, and haven't found any other series that I like.

I read books by:
Dan Brown
Tom Clancy
John Grisham

MrJoey wrote: Bartimaeus Trilogy

Now THAT'S what you call a good series!

Eragon was purdy good, Eldest was stupid because the whole book was like "Omfg! The elves won't approve!"
"I don't approve!"
"You don't approve!"
"The Dwarves don't approve!"
"Your uncle's neighbor's father's cousin's wife's dog's associate doesn't approve!"

FBIRem wrote:1984
The Great Gatsby

+1 to those.
Also Tom Clancy is pretty good.

Twilight series.

I strongly recommend it.

starship trooper
bravo two zero
into thin air
speak
animal farm

MastaChiefX wrote:

FBIRem wrote:1984
The Great Gatsby

+1 to those.
Also Tom Clancy is pretty good.

*gasp* fitzegerald -shudder- bad high school experiences with the Harlem Renaissance's books

ill have to look into playboy.... er for the articles of couse

tom clancy, interesting genre, any specifics? i dont want to repeat authors

shadowman20875 wrote:ill have to look into playboy.... er for the articles of couse

actually.. i do read the playboy mostly for the articles lol

i have a gf for the rest

shadowman20875 wrote:

MastaChiefX wrote:

FBIRem wrote:1984
The Great Gatsby

+1 to those.
Also Tom Clancy is pretty good.

*gasp* fitzegerald -shudder- bad high school experiences with the Harlem Renaissance's books

ill have to look into playboy.... er for the articles of couse

tom clancy, interesting genre, any specifics? i dont want to repeat authors

You know his games?

Its like a FPS lol.

Tom Clancy's: Splinter Cell

Tom Clancy's: Rainbow Six


Ring a bell

Any book by Jeff Shaara.

If you go the Clancy route I recommend "SSN", about a third World War fought by submarines between the US and China.

Herbert George Wells:

The Time machine
The Invisible Man
The War of The Worlds


Patrick Süskind:

The Perfume


Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre


Some of the ones i like...

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
A satirical war story, incredibly funny, and quite possibly my favorite novel ever. Also a classic; your English teacher would approve. Plus when someone says "that's a Catch-22 situation" you will know exactly what they mean.

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Another classic by a great author who recently passed away. Again, this will get you major brownie points with your teacher. It's sort of science fiction, and sort of satire. Vonnegut has his own style, hard to put him in a category.

Foundation by Isaac Asimov
There's a reason this trilogy has a Hugo Award for Best Series Ever. What Lord of the Rings is to the fantasy genre, Foundation is to science fiction. It's probably the longest of the books I'm recommending, and if you don't like science fiction it might be hard to get through. If you do like science fiction and you haven't read it already, shame on you! If you've read it already, Asimov has written literally hundreds of books; The Gods Themselves is one I enjoyed (and Asimov's own favorite, apparently). The Caves of Steel is less "out there" and is the first book in the robot series which is probably his second most popular after Foundation.

Fear by L. Ron Hubbard
Yeah, he's the founder of Scientology. Don't worry though, he wrote this book first, and it is good. If you are into psychological thrillers, this book will seriously f*** you up. This is a book Stephen King called "one of the really, really good ones." Not nearly as long as some of King's books, though. I think I read it in a day. But then, I read fast, and I think I stayed up all night with this one. Which I do NOT recommend doing, by the way.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Another classic that will score you points with your teacher. The front cover of my copy says "OVER 5,055,000 COPIES IN PRINT"—and my copy is from 1959. Basically, a bunch of kids get shipwrecked on a desert island, lose their minds a little bit... It's twisted. Pig's blood is involved. It was written over 50 years ago though, so it might be tough to get through? Been a long time since I read it. I was pretty young; this book messed me up. Probably wouldn't have the same effect on me now.

Anything by Kurt Vonnegut is good, but Hocus Pocus, Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle and Player Piano are all great. Vonnegut is like the 20th century's Mark Twain.

Ashenden by Somerset Maugham is another one I really liked.

1984 and Brave New World, both very good.

cuchulainn wrote:Anything by Kurt Vonnegut is good, but Hocus Pocus, Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle and Player Piano are all great. Vonnegut is like the 20th century's Mark Twain.

Ashenden by Somerset Maugham is another one I really liked.

1984 and Brave New World, both very good.

Brave New World can either be a great book, or horrible. I thought it was great, but alot of people I know hated it.
Depends on your perspective.