Skulduggery Pleasant discussion
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How you came to find read this series.
I found the skulddugery pleasant series through school.
Niamh wrote: "I found the skulddugery pleasant series through school."That is so lucky that your school has them.
Mr Pleasant and Valkyrie came into my life by sure luck. One day, I was at my best friend's house. We sat down - drinking tea and chatting away - when her sister came barging in the door, book in hand. "This is awesome!" she shrieked and gave it to my friend/her sister. I was able to read the summery and thought it sounded cool. My friend said that she'd read it and after a while she gave it to me. She thought it was boring and didn't finish it. "I know you're big into this stuff, so maybe you'd like it better."
Daniel wrote: "Niamh wrote: "I found the skulddugery pleasant series through school."That is so lucky that your school has them."
they only had the 2nd and 5th book and I read the 5th one first.( yes very stupid of me )
I saw it in Waterstones. The pages were orange. I fell in love :D
Well my brother read it and loved them and mum read them and loved them (at this point only like 3 were out) so i decided to read them. loved them. read them again. and then read them again each time another was released and we have all of them now and one novella.:)
Your family sounds a bit like mine, we all pass our book obsessions on to one another as well. Me and my brother are currently encouraging our little sister to read them :D
My family doesn't pas. We steal from each other. :) Family love! (Although when my mother stole my SP's from me, I nearly pooped a brick.)
My family doesn't pas. We steal from each other. :) Family love! (Although when my mother stole my SP's from me, I nearly pooped a brick.)
"What happened if she drops it in the bath/puddle/pool of mud/a volcano? What if she crinkles the pages. *GASPS* WHAT IF SHE DOG-EARED THE PAGES??????"
You'll just have to kill her. I'm sure the courts will make an exception when you tell them she dog eared your books!! ;D
I can only share books within my family becuase I know they will return them to me in prime condition. (becuase they know I WILL kill them if they don't)
here in GR. I was just browsing and saw the blurb, read it, become intrigue, read it and IM A CERTIFIED ADDICT.Sadly no one reads in the family now except me.
I have the same problem Hud-c. No one in my family reads them. I tried to get my mother to but she decided to read a few other series , so I have to come here and express my love of this series instead
Its lucky you have us then Daniel and Hud-c. :D
My family don't really read but mumAnd if they even DARE to dog ear ONE! Of my books
Well I go ape
Down with dog ears! (On books of course :) )
Haha, I know how you feel Arrow, but I'm glad your excluding actual dog's ears ;D
Ela wrote: "Haha, I know how you feel Arrow, but I'm glad your excluding actual dog's ears ;D"yeah I hate laoning books since most people don't know how to handle them
I found them through my brother and now he dreads what he did because I am a tad obsessed with the series
Welcome to the club. This is a safe place to be obsessive about the series.
My aunty bought me the first book and i never bothered to read it, but then my teacher at school started reading the series the I bought all the books and haven't looked back since
Kaketin wrote: "My aunty bought me the first book and i never bothered to read it, but then my teacher at school started reading the series the I bought all the books and haven't looked back since"That is so unfair! Your teacher read them to your class! I want cool teachers like that!
i think my teachers would've winced if they'd ever seen me reading books about walking skeleton detective.. saying i'm too old for this and everything.. :(
I would have got the same reaction from my teachers
My teacher read it to us, we were a multi class (4-7) as we were in a small school, and he would read the books to us as we had nothing to do for about half an hour after lunch. He found the books after his son wanted to read them and he said they were good, so our teacher started reading them to us.
I was in year 7 so, I have only been reading these books 4 years (I'm in year 10 now), I know that isn't as long as some of the fans, but I am a massive fan of him and his books now!!!!!!
Oh and I have all the books (even the newest one) and have read them ALL MULTIPLE TIMES. And even though my favourite is Death Bringer, I read the books in order to get to number 6!!!!!! It only takes me about a week depending on how fast I read.
Sorry about the long "repl".
Sam wrote: "I found them through my brother and now he dreads what he did because I am a tad obsessed with the series"Yes, my sister found them through me and now she bugs to me to read the new books every time I get one. When I buy it and before I have read it.
It is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo annoying.
That is the only good part about not having anyone else reading them. I don't have to share these books when I get them
Skuldugery 1 was on the Carnegie longlist when it first came out and I thought it was awesome, so I recommended it to my kids. Now they're more hooked than I was LOL.
i found it by my sister 'Kaketin' i just love the series now and she doesn't like me reading books that she bought before she reads them :(
Kaketin wrote: "Sam wrote: "I found them through my brother and now he dreads what he did because I am a tad obsessed with the series"Yes, my sister found them through me and now she bugs to me to read the new b..."
yey Kaketin im soo annoying well what about u u wont let me read the nxt book !!!!!!
she is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo annoying
Daniel wrote: "So I am guessing you two are sisters?"Yup your right there :)
Daniel wrote: "So I am guessing you two are sisters?"BTW EMMA. I am now reading Tanith Low and the Maleficent Seven. It is so good!!!!
I was introduced to it through a friend and then convinced to read it by my school librarian haha
Seems like everyone has been lucky enough to have had someone refer them to this series.
Yeah, Thank Goodness for cousins and sch librarians!(btw I didn't realise Emma and Kaketin were sisters either o.O)
I found out about it through the library. I actually knew about it for years. I first saw it when I was eleven years old, actually. I was both afraid to check it out because my parents would check every book I checked out (I was therefore a very sheltered boy :P), and somewhat repulsed by the skeleton. (I guess it teaches you to NEVER judge a book by it's cover)When I finally worked up the nerve to check it out (the first book), I saved that book for last. (By then, my parent's stopped checking, thank goodness. :P) 1 word in. ONE word in, I was hooked. As Mulch said in Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code, "Hook, line and, sinker."
I immediately placed holds on every book that succeeded it, and devoured it with the voracity of a hungry piranha. Every book got better, and better with each read (and MANY subsequent re-reads). Death Bringer is probably my current favorite, although with the books seemingly getting better every volume, it will probably be usurped, again, by TLSODM.
I started reading the books, because my mom is obsessed with books on tape. So one day we were going to go on a long car ride, and she wanted something to listen to. She saw the scepter of the ancients book on tape in the library, and thought it was cool so she checked it out. When I saw the cover I thought it was another one of her wierd books, but once I actually listened to it, I loved it. My whole family enjoyed it, but I was the only one who started reading the other books. And since that day the skulduggery series has always been my favorite. So I guess I can thank my mom for that.
Saw it in Dymocks, thought it had a nice front cover. Interestingly enough I saw it in the old cover a month before that and it was in the sceptre hard cover and I turned it away. Though it was Tom Percival's illustration that really brought me into finding out what the book was really about, and after the first book I was hooked.
I thought that reading books would eventually make me smarter. I picked 2 book at random from our local bookstore. I was lucky to get this. It drove me to read more books.
I saw the first book - the original UK paperback, with this cover:
- in a local shop (amazing in and of itself, as we don't get all that many English books, a shelf or two at best), and of course it caught my eye immediately.When I picked it up for a closer look, I remembered an online friend had mentioned it some time before as a fun book, so the cover + that decided it. Although I actually had it sitting on my shelf at home for some time before I started reading it, but once I did, well.
I do have to say I didn't go from "ooh, I enjoy this, this is fun" to the "OMG WHERE'S THE NEXT BOOK MUST READ NOW I AM OBSESSED FOREVER" stage until the end of The Faceless Ones. The first trilogy is great fun, but it wasn't until it took a more serious turn that I became a fan in the true "fanatic" sense of the word.
When I was younger my aunty gave me the first book, but I never read it because i thought it didn't look too appealing. Then, in year 7 ( I am not in year 11) my teacher started to read the series to my class. And as they say... the rest is history.
You.. Are 11 years old!?(There's still hope then...)
Ps. Re read everything later, i mean everything, I remember reading Harry potter when I was 12, then when I re-read it at the age of 15 it was like I'd missed ninety percent of the damn thing. So I make it a habit to re-read things, you'd be surprised.
Wait... Or do you mean grade?Humph, go too excited there, thoughts of children actually reading almost brought me to tears... (Of joy)
Nobody wrote: "Humph, go too excited there, thoughts of children actually reading almost brought me to tears... (Of joy)"There were so many excited little kids (8-9 years old) at the LSODM signings last year.
With mothers who chatted to one another, saying they'd read the first book and it's great fun for kids.
Hah.
I found out about from the strangeland news letter, from randomhouse, I get once a month or so in my email.