The Biblomaniac Army (booklovers, UNITE!) v.2

[glassea]

You've probably heard of all or most of these, but I can give you some fantasy/sci-fi recommendations: The Golden Compass, The Mortal Instruments, A Great and Terrible Beauty, The Warrior Heir (trilogy), The Roar, The Sight, To Say Nothing of the Dog (really good sic-fi time travel book), Merlin's Harp (fantasy book set in King Arthur's time), The Chronicles of Prydain, and Howl's Moving Castle. That's kind of a lot, now that I look at it. I hope you have fun in Peru, that sounds really cool!

{ Haha, thanks <3

I'll have to check out that Dog one, and reread the Roar! It's one of my favorites but I'd forgotten all about it. And I have to read Merlin's Harp too, one of my friends recommended it to me. If it pops up twice it must be good c:

[Hobbit]

@SejiYume Robin McKinley has taken my favorite of the most well known fairy-tales and done wonderful things with them in Beauty and in Rose Daughter. As a kid, my problems with Grimm's and other well known fairy-tales were their brevity and the impersonality of them. Perhaps this is why fairy-tales retold are so popular? Returning to McKinley's works, she wrote a book called Pegasus, which I also suggest. She's written a good deal more, but those are my top three.

[Ziranos]

@SejiYume

Thank yoouu : )

You read Mortal Instruments? I really want to read those, but only the first two or so are translated into norwegian (and not even available in pocket). So I might wait, or maybe read the whole series in english.

I understand you when you say you're worried about the Mortal Instuments movie. Movies-from-books haven't done so good, huh?
But Twilight (sorry for this example), Hunger games and Harry Potter did good. I hope Septimus Heap, Maximum Ride, Mortal Instruments and the other movie-from-book movies will do good. But I've lost hope in MR, seems like nothing's gonna happen.
And yeah, Eragon and Percy Jackson are great examples of fails >.<

I've heard about Matched. Something about a perfect world in the future, right? And it's a love-story, right?
Ok, I found out it's in norwegian. But the third book isn't released yet, not even in english : ( Oh, and I love the artwork of the cover! Beautiful *o*
I read Disney bought the rights to make the movie. It better be good.



@Oakstar47

Hmm... Think we did once, but none of the books I found looked interesting. Just some novels I never heard of, children's books and old history books about Norway : / Boooring. But you were obviously luckier than me.

[SilverBlade]

You read Mortal Instruments? I really want to read those, but only the first two or so are translated into norwegian (and not even available in pocket). So I might wait, or maybe read the whole series in english.

I understand you when you say you're worried about the Mortal Instuments movie. Movies-from-books haven't done so good, huh?
But Twilight (sorry for this example), Hunger games and Harry Potter did good.

They're epic, you should read them. c: Well, I mainly agree, those examples were pretty good as movies.

[Ziranos]

I'll get to read them as soon as possible, but I have a giant to-read-list. I also ordered the first three books in Maximum Ride, but they haven't arrived yet. /sadface :c

[The Growling Wolf]

{ Okay, so;
I'm going to Peru over spring break (yay!) and it's over a fifteen hour flight (aww). I must have book recommendations! Does anyone have any good fantasy/sci-fi books up their sleeves? I've read many of the ones that made it to the NY Times list, but I'm also searching for some relatively obscure books I can read, love, and make roleplays out of. Hehe.

Have you read enders game. its more sci-fi and takes a bit of getting into, but its very very good!

[AnImperialAffliction]

Username:
Nuama
Nickname (if any):
Just Nuama, or Nua
Top Ten Favorite Books:
I'm also gonna use series in here...
Wheel of Time series (OMG <3)
The Fault in Our Stars (I honestly cannot explain how touched I was by this book...)
Dewey (This is like an amazing book... the biography of a library cat)
Heartbeat (Written in poetry form, not as girly-girl as it sounds)
Percy Jackson series (and the second one)
The Inheritance Cycle (I used to worship this series... now the Wheel of Time takes its place xD)
Warriors series
The Hunger Games series
Harry Potter series
Thirteen Reasons Why
Average amount of time it takes you to finish a book:
It depends on the book. I can read around 300 pages in one sitting, though.
How many of the above symptoms you regularly experience:
.....All of them. xD

[Nitro Indigo]

How does one simply find a GOGH book which isn't that movie-branded version of The Capture. >_<

Has anyone ever read a book series in the wrong order? *Raises hand for Animorphs and Seekers*

[glassea]

{ I, for one, barely ever read things in the wrong order c: The Chronicles of Narnia being an exception, of course.

So do you gs have a go-to book? One that you always reccommend to people when they ask, or that you just read over and over? Mine would have to be The Roar, Candy Shop War, and Graceling :3

[Roonil Wazlib]

How does one simply find a GOGH book which isn't that movie-branded version of The Capture. >_<

Has anyone ever read a book series in the wrong order? *Raises hand for Animorphs and Seekers*

Oh, I know it's so annoying. I don't like movie covers, the actors rarely look like the characters :P

Hmm...I think some of the Lemony Snicket ones. And I almost read a different series out of order because the books weren't numbered. Then I realized I had no idea what was going on xD