Kids/Teens Book Club discussion

bye!!! XD
and have fun in the pool
*groans* what i wouldn't do for a pool
thank god its night at least
*sighs*

Amber wrote: "Hi y'all! I'm Amber and I'm from(as typical) the U.S.A. :) I'm in the 7th grade this year. I love lengthy books that actually take me a while to read like Gone/Hunger, Harry Potter, PJ, and Shiver. :)"

Nice to meet you Amber, and i agree! i love books that take a while to read, because the details that the authors put in those books are AMAZING.

totally (agrees)

it depepnds i guess.
Boooks with detail are good, but if they just take tooooo long, then you loose interest.

yeah, like lord of the rings!

Honestly… I couldn't get past the prologue of LOTR.
Not because it was boring, though.
Just because I had no time to read a bazillion paged book.

Amber wrote: "I think it's partailly because we aren't adults yet, so we don't understand it's "beauty" of whatever. :P"

That's true.
I can't understand the "beauty" of the long and complicated sentences.

LOTR can be challenging: you gotta really get into them. i couldnt read them until a few years ago because they are so detailed...but you grow up a bit and come to really enjoy the level of detail that goes into them (and the movies totally help, too!)

Ha MOVIES are more like it.
Actually, I can barely understand and get into those, too…

Yeah i know, i tried reading them in like grade three- big no no
But then i tried again in year five and i mangaged though i gave up half way through the third! XD kinda sad
i'll finish the series one day but intill then...

WHAT!
the movies are AWESOME!
you have to love peter jackson
hang on, did we have like a huge love fest about him only before
i dunno
anyway, i find the movies never really as good as the books and the lord of the rings movies are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO different from the actual movies, but still SOOOOOOOOO good!

Oh the Lovely Bones! I SO want to see that. <3

Weirdos, yes! That's why they are weird.
Haha you love my heart… that's funny... because heart=love…
Never mind.

Hahaha. :P

the LOTR movies arent *that* different. actually, when you think of how much stuff is in the books, a great most of the important stuff made it on screen. they just rearranged the order of events... lol

peter said that he changed around the order of events just because he wanted things presented chronologically...which actually makes sense. i just thought he displayed Ultra-LOTR-Fan-Skills by making a storyboard timeline and following that.
because of the multiple perspectives in the books, sometimes events get a bit off-timeline. and the movies bridge that better...
but yeah i remember after we saw THE TWO TOWERS, my mom was like "where's that freaking giant evil spider??" and then we read somewhere that they were putting that into the 3rd movie instead... stuff like that.

I agree about the LotR movies - it makes sense for the climaxes of the different parts of the story to coincide. I can't say that the portrayal of Faramir makes me completely happy, but I think moving Shelob to the third movie and making Faramir's release of Frodo and Sam the end of The Two Towers works nicely. Still, I can't say the movies are or ever will be better than the books. I fell in love with the books when I was eight. I don't think I would have picked them up myself, but my dad started reading them to me, and by the time the Hobbits met Aragorn at the Prancing Pony, I was hooked and had to continue reading them myself.

haha yeah, my parents called faramir "farfromthebookamir" lol
and the only thing my mom didnt like about the series is the absence of tom bombadil...but you know, you cant have everything :D

ack i really need to read these dont i???

i think i'll start reading them soon :)

Hello. HALEE. <3
I love how you spell your name. ;)

Hello my name is Luna Potter (my real name is ________) I am from the USA but I wish I was from England because England ROCKS!!

Oh yeah and I am obsessed with Maximum Ride, Uglies, and of course HARRY POTTER!!

i think luna is a mighty fine name...but i bet you're real name is pretty, too, whatever it is!

Thank you!

:) hello Luna!

Hi!

Bonjour

Salut

(thats french for hi)

OMG no way!!!

im in disbelief....

Booklover23 wrote: "(Salut...thats french for hi) "

Then, what's "bonjour"?

'bonjour' is: Hello

So, Salut is informal?

it just means HI.

Salut is a familiar form of hello. You COULD say it to someone who you don't know or someone you have to respect (like a teacher or something) but it's much more proper to say bonjour unless they're your friend or someone your age.
:)

isnt that what people say when they're toasting?
((BTW, if someone ever says "shalom" to you, technically they're not saying "hello" they're saying "peace"...but it's still used as a greeting!))

Toasting? Meaning….?

I really want to read Lord of the Rings. Right. Now. But I have other library books to finish too first.

I would like to read Lord Of The Rings also, but i have sooooo many books to read.
But it is very rare for me to borrow a library book. I own so many, and i just keep buying them.

I don't buy many books, but the books I add just add up and add up. XD

me too. But 99% of the books i read are on my bookshelf right now.

I love LotR! I don't find it hard to get through at all, but I one of those people who really like descriptions. I hope you guys have time to read LotR sometime. I know what you mean about having so many books to read. :)

Logan Lerman & PJO•••Percy, Jace,Edward wrote: "Toasting? Meaning….?

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lol. like when you make a toast. you raise your glass and saying "salud" or whatever.

Heyy I'm Kendall! I live in Texas and I love reading and writing:)

Welcome Kendall!!!!

Thank you! :)

Hi i just joined today :)

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