Exciting Books

THATS ME RIGHT NOW. I went to the library and none are availabe anywhere right now! I neeeed the second book!

Greg have you read all 3 books?

Indeed! I enjoyed them, I just found there were some holes in character development, creating a believable future dystopia, and the plot in general. I donā€™t give a lot of slack just because itā€™s Juvenile Litā€¦ young people are smart readers!

Not 100% sure why they are doing 2 parts of the last book, other than to cash in the same way Twilight did.

HP did that and it was good. I hated who katniss ended up with in the end (not going to say because i dont want to spoil anyone)

Yeah, not the least of which is the utter ridiculousness of Quidditch. Rowling could have come up with a more believable and interesting ā€œflying around on a broomā€ sport than that.

Philip K Dick in general. But do Androids dream of electric sheep(turned into Blade Runner) is great and so are his short stories which became movies.

I also love The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, a great short read 1000000000000 times better than the movie makes out to seem.

I donā€™t read much but those are my favorite authors and books.

Now Graphic Novels well more novel but still.

persepolis is a great insight into the the Iranian revolution and what happened as a nation transitions to a Theocracy.

That is pretty much all I got, again not much of a reader.

check target they have the divergent series for sale there. (or at least at my local ones)

Yeah I see your point. Maybe they should have said the first in like 10 or 20 years that would have been believable. I guess it was planned to make us like Katniss more haha.

Me too -.- but oh well canā€™t please everyone lol. A lot of people also do that with the last book it seems. Just to make us suffer and wait I guess lol

Well at least you read. Unfortunately, most people do not even read, which I think they just have not read the right books. And those books sound pretty good, Iā€™ll give them a read sometime :slight_smile:

What I didnā€™t like about the Hunger Games was the pacing. Collins would slow down the book at really mundane moments, then important scenes would be over in half a page. Then she would skip ahead in time a couple weeks. It just didnā€™t sit well with me.

Also, this book was published a year or two before the Hunger Games (at least where I checked), and the similarities between the book/concepts are eerily similar.

Speaking of ā€œmundaneā€ moments, i suggest the mortal instruments. (The movie was horrible btw)

Omg how could i forget pendragon? Read that! In my top 5 favorite series.

His Dark Materials (known to some people better as ā€œThe series with The Golden Compassā€) is rather good.

Wow that is rather interesting about that book, but nowadays what is original? I see what you mean about the pace. Especially in the third book I noticed the pace was not fluctuating quite well, but I still enjoyed the content. Somebody had suggested Pendragon before too, so I will be checking that out when I am finished with the 60 other books I gotta check out haha :wink:

READ STEELHEART! Itā€™s amazing!!!

man havenā€™t seen this thread in a while lol and what is steelheart about?

I like pretty much anything by Sanderson. Try reading the Mistborn trilogy.

heres some books i just finished reading from the summer

The Foundation Trilogy by Isac Asimove
1984 by George Orwell
Zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance by Robert Prisig
The hunt for read october by Tom Clancy

anywho all old books but there Fantastic!!! ;D

EVERYONE should read 1984 by George Orwell.
Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies are incredibly good as well, but I assume most of you already read those for school.
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a favorite of mine.

AND YES THE LORD OF THE RINGS BOOKS. AND THE HOBBIT. SUCH GOOD BOOKS.

Iā€™ve been wanting to read A Song of Fire and Ice for a while now but just canā€™t find the time.