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Post by beasty on Jun 1, 2011 20:36:46 GMT -5
I really enjoy Orson Scott Card's Ender and Shadow series, and I love anything by Sara Douglass
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 1, 2011 20:46:37 GMT -5
What? Nobody has mentioned Sarah Dessen yet? Sacrilege! Her storylines are all redundant, but I like the characters. She is good for a mindless escape. I originally told myself that I wouldn't get hooked into her books but that backfired when a friend lent me her copies last summer.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 1, 2011 20:50:56 GMT -5
What? Nobody has mentioned Sarah Dessen yet? Sacrilege! Her storylines are all redundant, but I like the characters. She is good for a mindless escape. I originally told myself that I wouldn't get hooked into her books but that backfired when a friend lent me her copies last summer. We discussed this last week in my living room! But yes, Sarah Dessen is a good writer (if not a good storyteller). She recycles plots, but her characters are always so fascinating that I'm perfectly fine with it. |
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 1, 2011 21:24:15 GMT -5
What? Nobody has mentioned Sarah Dessen yet? Sacrilege! Her storylines are all redundant, but I like the characters. She is good for a mindless escape. I originally told myself that I wouldn't get hooked into her books but that backfired when a friend lent me her copies last summer. We discussed this last week in my living room! But yes, Sarah Dessen is a good writer (if not a good storyteller). She recycles plots, but her characters are always so fascinating that I'm perfectly fine with it. haha, I know but not everyone was privileged to that conversation  |
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krista
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Post by krista on Jun 1, 2011 22:19:12 GMT -5
I personally feel that guilty pleasure books are integral to sanity. To that end: I frequently reread books that I loved when I was younger. Like the Animorphs series, the Mindwarp series, Diana Wynne Jones's books, Tamora Pierce's books. I also love trashy sci-fi. I completely forgot about my Animorphs obsession until I read this comment. I could not put those books down! And then the TV series erupted and I decided that it was time to pursue a different theme...vampire bunnies. I wish I could remember the title for the life of me, but was it a hoot to read when I was younger. |
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Post by Silva on Jun 1, 2011 23:21:10 GMT -5
Vampire bunnies? I read a couple of books when I was younger about a rabbit named Bunnicula, a cat named Chester, and a dog named Harold. The cat was convinced that the rabbit was a vampire bunny.
...And yes, I am highly ashamed that I read books like that, ever.
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Post by cyanea on Jun 2, 2011 0:24:08 GMT -5
I had Bunnicula when I was a kid. I remember loving it.
I might dig it out again...
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 2, 2011 1:01:26 GMT -5
Bunnicula! I actually recall that being a library book, or I'd join you in a reread...
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Post by Silva on Jun 2, 2011 1:02:09 GMT -5
The shame I feel having confessed to reading that stuff when I was a kid...
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sophi
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Post by sophi on Jun 2, 2011 1:05:00 GMT -5
Vampire bunnies? I read a couple of books when I was younger about a rabbit named Bunnicula, a cat named Chester, and a dog named Harold. The cat was convinced that the rabbit was a vampire bunny. ...And yes, I am highly ashamed that I read books like that, ever. What is the point of being ashamed of reading chidrens's lit when you were an actual child? |
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Post by Silva on Jun 2, 2011 1:31:19 GMT -5
What is the point of being ashamed of reading chidrens's lit when you were an actual child? Why do I never think of things like this? |
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alyoshka
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Post by alyoshka on Jun 2, 2011 1:33:57 GMT -5
Bunnicula! I actually recall that being a library book, or I'd join you in a reread... oh my god. I totally forgot about that book. I loved it as a kid. great memories. |
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Post by cyanea on Jun 2, 2011 1:46:06 GMT -5
I still read kids books now, and I'm very much not a kid.
It's relaxing, and sometimes you pick up on things that you don't when you're a kid.
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Post by Silva on Jun 2, 2011 1:49:20 GMT -5
Actually, I recently read Percy Jackson and the Olympians and I enjoyed them.
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Gina
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Post by Gina on Jun 2, 2011 21:15:17 GMT -5
My guilty pleasures are Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and the Clique Series. They don't have any literary importance, and I can't say I haven't read certain parts and cringed at the writing (more specifically in the Clique books), but I have learned little life lessons in each one. Usually it's not even the intent of the book, but it just gets me thinking about life. I over-analyze things. |
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