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I think there was one of these a while ago, but it died...
Anyway, basically a self explaining subject...
Twilight, New Moon, probably ALL SMeyer's books, although I haven't read any of them, I'm taking %99.99 of the people here's advice.
Um...any other's I've heard are bad...I don't read them...
Vick says auho.
~~~NDT~~~
submitted by NDT, age 9, NC
(November 16, 2010 - 2:33 pm)
(November 16, 2010 - 2:33 pm)
I really can't think of any.
*thinking*
I really didn't like any of the Beverly Cleary books, but I haven't read those since 2nd grade. Since I didn't like them.
I definitely agree with the Smeyer books being bad. (I still can't spell definitely and I'm in a spelling bee. I really hope I don't get that word. Although the words for the 7th graders are as easy as audience--which I spelled wrong in a practice round.)
I didn't really enjoy Ann of Green Gables, but that's just because I didn't think it was easy to understand. I actually enjoyed the kid adaptation.
@ANALESIA@
Analesia, you definitely spelled definitely right!
Admin
(November 20, 2010 - 8:11 am)
@Analesia: It's Anne with an e. :D I always enjoyed those, actually, though they got progressively less interesting as she got older. And I really hate abridged books, especially those adapted to be easy for kids. Firstly, /kids are smarter than you think/, and secondly, /if they're not old enough to read it now, they can wait a few years!/ But that's just my opinion.
(November 20, 2010 - 2:44 pm)
@ZNZ: Abridged. *pukes loudly* I ALWAYS read the classics as originals. I steer clear of abridged versions. They make me ill.
Andy P. C. says dbgn.
~Wolfgirl67 signing off.
(November 20, 2010 - 9:55 pm)
@Wolfgirl67: I've never read them, ever. It's a matter of principle.
(November 21, 2010 - 7:26 am)
I read 2 a long time ago. I really, really hated them...
(November 21, 2010 - 4:32 pm)
@Ima: Abridged books or Anne of Green Gables books?
Andy P. C. says yebr.
~Wolfgirl67 signing off.
(November 22, 2010 - 2:34 pm)
Abridged books. I like the Anne of Green Gables books.
(November 22, 2010 - 6:12 pm)
Yeah, I thought you said you had, somewhere. What makes me really mad is that they abridged the Hunchback of Notre Dame! Grr...how do you ABRIDGE that? You'd have to cut out everything!
Andy P. C. says oouu. Ooooh, you...he agrees with me!
~Wolfgirl67 signing off.
(November 23, 2010 - 1:02 am)
As for The Missing series, I actually liked Found, but didn't care for Sent at all. I'm debating over whether or not to read the next book. I wish Jonah were less annoying...
Aetc says (g)you. I what?
(November 20, 2010 - 8:53 pm)
@ Admin + ZNZ
Thanx 4 correcting me! I am a really bad typer.
@ANALESIA@
(November 23, 2010 - 5:08 pm)
I know most people absolutely *love* Gail Carson Levine's books, and I guess Ella Enchanted is ok, but her other books make me shudder. To put it midly, I strongly dislike her books. The weird names that no one can pronounce and the silly made-up languages got a little on my nerves. For names to work, they need to make sense and the sounds need to fall into place; i.e. "Voldemort"-easy to say, with a bit of Latin thrown in. Perfecto! "Ijori" (from Fairest)- I have no idea how to say that. i-JOO-ree? i-JOR-ee? Wha? It's clearly just a handful of letters tossed on to a page. And the names that start with lower case letters and end with upper case drive me up the wall!! I also think the plots are all over the place. It's like she decided to write about one thing, but towards the end, she decided to switch it up. Her books always leave me feeling grumpy and annoyed. But of course I don't have a problem with anyone who likes them.
(November 24, 2010 - 10:58 am)
MJ, I just read "Dave at Night" by Gail Carson Levine, and it was REALLY good. It wasn't fantasy, so there weren't any made-up weird words (I totally agree about the lower-to-uppercase words/names), although there were a few Yiddish words.They mostly added to the story's feel though, instead of feeling random. It was set in 1920's New York, and it had kind of a sad beginning, but then it really just picked up and kept going. There was one slow chapter in the middle, which was basically just a replay of a previous chapter.
I'd give it a four and a half out of five stars.
Sorry, I should be reviewing terrible books, not recommending good ones according to the title of the thread. :) Um, "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix I didn't enjoy. But I don't have very many, because like Ima, I don't usually finish books I don't like.
(November 24, 2010 - 12:05 pm)
Actually, Voldemort is not easy to pronounce. If you think it is, you're probably pronouncing it incorrectly. It's VOLE-deh-mor. The T is silent. Learining this is something of a frustration. The movies don't pronounce it properly; don't rely on them.
Personally, I've never really minded hard-to-pronounce words or even really noticed them. I automatically hear everything I read in my head, and it decides on things like pronounciation without any effort on my part, and I never really bother wondering how the author pronounces them. The only time I've ever gotten annoyed because of something like that is with Brisingr, because I can't even know how to pronounce the title. I don't care if I get everyone's name right; when I talk about a book I want people to know what I'm talking about, and that means recognizing the title if they've heard of it already! As for the capitalization of names, that's generally with other races or beings, and they probably have different capitalization rules, so it never bothered me. I can definitely understand how that sort of thing could bother someone else, though. It makes sense that it could be annoying.
I never noticed the plot thing you're talking about, but I'll read EE again soon and see what I think...
(November 24, 2010 - 9:27 pm)
Brisingr's not that hard. I always just said it Bris-in-ger. (C'mon, dude, how hard would it have been to shove an e in there? Like, does he just think it looks cool, or what?) *shrug* Course, that could be wrong. I tend to lose patience with books that have to include pronunciation guides and glossaries, and just skip over the foreign language words. Unless they're definied in the text or in a footnote, and then I'm fine.
(November 25, 2010 - 1:07 am)
...I actually pronounce Voldemort phonetically (i.e. "VOLL-deh-mort") because I think it sounds better/more evil that way... Jim Dale says it right on the audiobooks, though, if I remember correctly.
(November 25, 2010 - 1:51 pm)