Random Ramblings discussion

What are your favorites? Least favorites? Ramble away!

Um... well I like Harry Potter
but i don't like 'The Boy in the Stripe Pyjama's'
I read that and it was the worst book I ever read

Currently my favorites are:

The Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch, anything written by Neil Gaiman, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, and The Word Gang, by Mark McKenna

I just finished Mockingbird, which was beautiful, and I've moved on to the fourth Kingdom Keepers book (Power Play). Power Play is good, although it is a little cliched, far-fetched, and at points the characters are just unrealistic. However, I'm enjoying it.

Books I disliked include the Charlie Bone series, Tunnels, and (regrettably!) the last few Wrinkle in Time books. Charlie Bone and Tunnels just weren't enganging enough for me, with dull characters and undescriptive writing... Like with one books you know how you feel like you're there? I wasn't getting that feeling wih either of those books. As for A Wrinkle in Time, I was shocked to not have loved the second and third as much as the first... So sad! The fist was engaging, brilliantly written, amazing plot... And while the plot was interesting enough on the others, it just wasn't engaging enough.


Why didn't you like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas? Just curious, I've heard some good things about it...

Books that I really enjoyed were the Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling, BFG by Roald Dahl, Dragonfly Pool by , Teen Power Inc Series by Emily Rodda and Key to Ronda Series by Emily Rodda.

Some of the books that I have read recently that I enjoyed were Private #1, #2 and #3 by Kate Brian, Tomorrow When The War Began 1#, 2#, 3# and 4# by John Marsden, So Much To Tell You by John Marsden and Hunger Games #1

Books that I didn't enjoy recently were Pink, The Guy Next Door and The Twig Triology.
I didn't enjoy The Guy next door because
1. It didn't make any sense
2. It was so boring

I didn't enjoy The Twig Triology because it was gross and everytime I read it I actually had to skip parts because they were so gross... i mean like tearing animals apart gross!!! It was so weird as well. The authour just didn't explain any of the characters well and she would start talking about them and nobody would know what was going on. I gave up reading them after the first book!!!

Somebody I know has read 'A Wrinkle in Time'
She said that is wasn't a very good book!

It was just so sad and... i just didn't like it!
Wow... that was a lot of rambling

I have recently read and enjoyed The Gone triliogy (Gone,Hunger,Lies,Plague), The Hunger Games Series (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay), The Warriors Series (Into the Wild, Fire and Ice, Forest of Secrets, Rising Storm, A Dangerous Path, The Darkest Hour, etc)

I am really loving the Gone Series because I find books about children in a world without adults really interesting, which is why I also liked the hunger games. This series also incorporates an element of sci-fi when some kids start developing powers, which makes it even more intriguing.

I really like the Warriors series because it surprised me how good they were. It sounds a bit stupid at first, being about "clans" of "warrior cats", but I actually found it really good!

I started reading a book called "Heck" which I REALLY didn't like. I hated the writing style, and I only read about four pages before I just got bored. It was just...I don't know, but I just really hated it!!!

Ahhh...I just love rambling...

"Heck" looks really bizarre... :-/

The first Wrinkle in Time was AWESOME!!!! Highly recommended, but I'd just stick to the first one if I were you...

Yeah... one of the girls in Grade 7 last year read it and said it was really bad but the teacher read it and really enjoyed it and recommended it to all of us

Hmmm, well it has to do with time travel, so it's very sic-fi, but it's sic-fi in a very fantasy way, if that makes sense. ;) I think you'd like it though, considering you like the HP books.

I get what you mean. I think I might try it

(AFTER you read the secret series and rub the fact that your covers are AMAZING in my face.) ;)

Thanks for the idea!!

Hahaha! I will get my hands on the awesome covers one day!

i know you will

Probably close-ish to the author's next signing.

Me: "Have you seen the Australian covers?! THEY'RE SO PWETTY!!!!"

yeah.. ask him why there isn't such cool covers!

Well, I like the American covers... Gilbert Ford is a great illustrator too.

BUT I LOVE FOREIGN COVERS!!! :)

Haha!
I like the American covers too

The foreign covers are all so pretty... Even the Portugeese ones!

cool

guys, can i see the alstrailian covers, and i'll give u guys the link to see the american covers, and we can compare them together.

heres the link: http://www.google.com/images?q=a%20wr...

To be honest, I'm not crazy about any of the Wrinkle in Time covers... I mean, they're nice but it's not like "WHOA!!!! THIS IS THE BESTEST COVER EEEEEVVVVVVVVEEEERRRRRR!!!!!!!!!" ;)

I know what you mean!

Oooooooohhhhhhhhhh Becky what do your Harry Potter covers look like??

i luv Harry Potter, Charlie Bone, Artemis Fowl, Percy Jackson... the list goes on and on =).

I will send a link

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TziXfAbTKT4...

sorry that it isn't very big!! :)

Ahh... I think they're the same in the UK. :)

Yeah... I got all my Harry Potter books from England.

That explains it! XD

Yeah

All of the ones in Aus are the same as that tho

Yeah

Ah, cool. :)

Yeah...
Hey Sarah... your online!

Yes! :)

Not for much longer though... I wanted to pop in and add a new folder...

Ok.. Bye... Talk later!

I'M BACK!!!

Hey!

I am going to get Catching Fire on Wednesday

I'm currently reading Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid and will soon be reading The Hunger Games with a very thorough review coming soon!

Cool... your friend is right about reading it

Perhaps, it's OK, but it's not what I was expecting... With all the hype on how great it is I'm kind of disappointed.

How far are you?

Beginning Chapter 3 right now. It's not so bad... It lies somewhere between how great I thought it would be and the utter rubbish my cousin thought it would be. ;) Closer to my expectations, thankfully.

Don't worry, it gets much better!

(*happy dance*)

Much better *prays that you will like it*

*dances around living room and then runs away when realises whole family is there watching a movie*

Haha... *laughs really loudly and family looks strangly at me*

ROFL!