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New book quote...
New book quote game since the old one died!
Here's my quote:
"Hey, we've all got problems chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit."
submitted by Ivy, age 12, Camelot
(April 6, 2012 - 4:33 pm)
(April 6, 2012 - 4:33 pm)
That was easy...
Lightning Theif, by Rick Riordan.
(May 2, 2012 - 3:53 pm)
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE that book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kangaroo hopping over and out the door!
(May 2, 2012 - 8:15 pm)
Oh please. First line of The Lightning Thief. Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan. Lamest series evah.
My turn, I presume?
"Tomorrow is my birthday! Isn't it extra bitter to realise that life is a dream the day before your fifteenth birthday? It's like dreaming you won a million and just as you're getting the money you wake up?"
And no, the book's not British; I just spelled 'realise' like that because my fingers seems to have a spasmodic compulsion to do so.
(May 2, 2012 - 3:55 pm)
Sophie's World, by Jostien Gaarder! I adore that book, and reread it regularly; it's so deliciously meta.
(May 2, 2012 - 6:31 pm)
Yes! Thank you, ZNZ. I was afraid that I was the only person on the face of the earth who knows that book.
(May 17, 2012 - 8:22 pm)
Why don't you like that Series? I personally think it's witty and funny? It's not my favorite, but still............ please explain.
(May 2, 2012 - 8:20 pm)
Oh, right.
@Amelia C. and Holmes-
Percy Jackson really is a poor excuse for a book. Witty and funny, occasionally, but that really doesn't change anything. There's nothing to chew on, really, nothing deep and universal and profound like in The Hunger Games. The writing is desperately poor-quality. Honestly, I could write better than he does, and that's saying something. I understand what type of person that Riordan is writing for, but that's no excuse to write poorly. It just demeans the reader. There's over much vioelnce- not real violence, just the pow! fourth grade kind of stuff, which gives it the feel of a videogame turned into a book.
I don't mean to sound snobby, and believe me, I'm not trying to be. Just...Percy Jackson...ugh. And why any book by Rick Riordan could out-sell The Hunger Games makes me want to bang my head against the wall. What is the world coming to????
(May 17, 2012 - 8:28 pm)
I do admit, Yhe Hunger Games is so much better than Rick Riordan. Just so you don't give yourself a concussion, The Hunger Games has been the most bought series for the past couple of months. What I like about Percy Jackson is that it's a very ancient culture that is totally neat mixed with 21st century lifestyles. When those kinds of things clash, I think it is funny.
(May 20, 2012 - 6:41 pm)
That's cool. That's exactly why I like it too.
Spambox: Bwan
(May 21, 2012 - 5:48 pm)
No concussion worries. :)
@Holmes- You're right there about Riordan. There is some very subtle stuff, allusions to the ancient Greco-Roman mythology that is worth praise...not everybody does that. However, that in itself is not enough to make a series good. And therein lies the secret of The Hunger Games' success. Not only are those books gripping and addictive, there's lots of universal themes, lots of stuff to think about there.
And yes, I do know that The Hunger Games has topped the bestseller's list for probably more than a few months.
(May 22, 2012 - 11:53 am)
Say that crack about Percy Jackson being lame to my friend's face and he'll put you in a headlock. He practically worships that series.
(May 15, 2012 - 12:52 pm)
Here's my quote:
"You'd think that in a fight, not moving might be a bad habit! Besides, if we're just standing here, why are you wearing armor?"
Try and guess that one. :)
(May 3, 2012 - 10:42 am)
Macon-
It's from Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld, page five. It's my favorite book!
(May 4, 2012 - 9:07 pm)
Yay for Cinnamon!
Goliath is my favorite book. :) I was begining to think that I was the only one who actually liked these books. :D
(May 5, 2012 - 7:52 am)
Here's a book quote-
"What a silly system." the boy laughed. "then your head keeps changing its height and always see things a different way? Why, when you are 15 things won't look at all the way they did when you were ten,and at twenty everything will change again."
(May 3, 2012 - 11:18 am)