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I'm sorta new...
I'm sorta new here and everyone seems to know each other.
I think we should just see how this turns out.
What kind of books does everyone like?
I guess this thing is going to be a total dud............
submitted by SusyQ, age 11 billion, PlanetSus
(August 10, 2011 - 4:05 pm)
(August 10, 2011 - 4:05 pm)
I'm new 2! I like a lot of things but really like the Oz books.
(August 10, 2011 - 4:39 pm)
I love the Harry Potter series, the Hunger Games series, and a whole bunch of other stuff. And welcome to the CB! :D
(August 10, 2011 - 6:46 pm)
Welcome, SusyQ and Shyguy. :) We are all friendly here on Chatterbox, so don't be scared to join/start threads. And don't be scared to admit it if you have something different about you (I'm not saying you do or that you have to admit it, just letting you know) because everyone's different, and as another (wise) Chatterboxer once said: "A certain amount of oddness is required to survive on Chatterbox." :)
To answer your question, SusyQ, I love to read fantasy, sci-fi, and pretty much anything else fiction.
To quote a well known movie character:
"May the force be with you." ;)
(August 10, 2011 - 8:04 pm)
Velcome to zee CB! *extravagant bow*
Um, let's see, types of books... In no particular order...
- Fantasy/Science Fiction. (Can I hear a Discworld? What about a Harry Potter?)
- Historical fiction.
- Detective fiction (classic, golden age, hardboiled, whatever) ((But not, on the whole, modern crime fiction, which tends not to have the same flair. Somehow, in the fictitious world, putting in genetics and DNA testing rather detracts from the charm.))
- 1800's fiction.
- Shakespeare.
- Scripts and librettos (Rule of thumb: If the script is by Hugh Wheeler, George Furth, or Arthur Laurents IT IS AMAZING AND YOU MUST READ IT NOW. Goes double if it's a musical and Sondheim wrote the music/lyrics)
- 741.5. (Charles Addams, Bill Watterson, Gary Larson...)
- The entirety of the 800's. (literature)
- The 360's. (social sciences)
- The 610's, with emphasis on 616. (medicine, diseases)
((No, I don't do inventory in a library. Whatever gave you that idea?))
- (intelligently written) children's books. I'm an adult now and I'm allowed to say that. (This includes things like Mary Poppins, Chris Van Alsburg, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Bernadette Peters [seriously most adorable children's books ever y/y?], et cetera.)
- (intelligently written) satire.
- Dystopian fiction
Oh, I'm so happy you know Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle! She was a favorite in our family! Especially the original book. Some of the later ones weren't as good.
Admin
(August 10, 2011 - 11:12 pm)
I <3 Ms Piggle-Wiggle!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Me too! The Never Want to Go to Bedders. The Slow Eater, Tiny Bite Taker Cure, The Won't Pick Up Toys Cure, The Selfishness Cure, The Raddish Cure! I'll never forget them.
Admin
(August 11, 2011 - 8:58 am)
@Kim A. Yes! It was one of my favorite books when I was little!!
(August 11, 2011 - 12:55 pm)
Enchanted Forest and Thief Lord are currently at the top of my list.
(August 11, 2011 - 1:25 pm)
@TNO: Squee! Finally, another Far Side fan! My two favorites: "We've tried everything and you still won't talk. Everything, that is, except Mr.Thingy." "The golden arches! The golden arches got me!"
(August 11, 2011 - 12:54 pm)
@WritingWarrior
I was looking through a book of Far Side comics with my friend, and the 'Golden Arches' one came up. I didn't get it. My friend had to explain it to me. I finally got it now!! :)
My favoite is the Ice Crusades, because I'm a big figure-skating fan. (It's a takeoff on the old Ice Capades.)
Admin
(August 12, 2011 - 8:37 am)
Welcome to the CB! I second the oddness thing.
I mostly read fantasy & some sci-fi, with a TINY bit of realistic fiction. My favorite books (and series, and authors) are:
-The Sisters Grimm, Micheal Buckley
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
-Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
-Pure Dead Magic (and the other books in the series), Debi Gliori
-Gail Carson Levine!!
-Everything else that I'm forgetting :)
P.S. Spammy says "kunp". Anagram for "punk"...?
(August 11, 2011 - 12:44 pm)
I like...
-Kingdom Keepers!!!!! If Princess P was still on, she would totally agree. This series is the best book in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!
-The Kane Chronicles. Egyptian Mythology+Percy Jackson-style writing=happy Analesia
-Percy Jackson. Enough said.
-The Heroes of Olympus. An off-spin of Percy Jackson
-The Sisters Grimm
-Gail Carson Levine
-The Enchanted Forest books
-Wendy Mass
-The 'Shoes' books
-The 'Beacon Street Girls' books... not just because I have been to Boston a million times
-Any fairy-tale chapter book retelling... any author... modern or medieval
MY DISNEY GUIDEBOOKS *obsesses*
The list goes on...
(August 12, 2011 - 8:43 am)
*in a Transylvanian accent* I have come to drink your blood!!!!!
(August 12, 2011 - 7:45 pm)
Yeah, I like Percy Jackson too. It seems everyone does, and i usually like to be different from everyone else's intrests, but i can't help it with Percyj.
(August 20, 2011 - 1:28 pm)
Welcome! It's nice to meet you. We do know each other pretty well, but we're not at all exclusive and look forward to getting to know you, too. We were all new here once.
I love mixed genres (historical science fantasy, for example), fasntasy, zoology, more general biology/nature, historical fiction, science fiction, classics, mythology, psychology, non-biological science, poetry, and history, in that order. I really love them all. Occasionally, I'll read something else if it looks really, really good. I'm obsessed with reading and animals/nature and science, so of course I read lots of zoology books; I just bought 19. I thought it was only 17, but I was wrong. They're really good! I'm especially obsessed with microscopic animals called tardigrades; they can survive all sorts of amazing things! They've even been sent to space without any protective gear and survived that!
(August 13, 2011 - 1:12 pm)
I definitely recommend Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix. It's a great book about the Triangle Shirtwaist factory the 1900s. I LOVED it. You could also try Ella Enchanted by Gail Carsone Levine if you like princess-type books.
(August 27, 2011 - 4:33 pm)