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May 05, 2013 07:22PM
I have a teen that loves high fantasy epic stories...have u read it and could you recommend it to a teenager?
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Jennifer wrote: "I have a teen that loves high fantasy epic stories...have u read it and could you recommend it to a teenager?"I haven't read the book, but the show on HBO IS NOT CLEAN by any means. Extremely violent and sexual to the point of being pornographic. (IMHO)
My husband read this. He says it's full of sex and violence.
Thanks very much! I had a feeling it might go there . . . I read the 112 page sample and since it follows tons of different characters, it never went deep enough to show its true colors.
I started reading the first book in the series and had to put it down. I could not get past the incest!!I wonder if your son might like any books by Walter Moers? They are unique - fun and adventurous - a little graphic at times as far as violence goes - but way cleaner than Game of Thrones.
I just read "The Book of Lost Things" by John Connolly. That is more of a fairy tale but really good.
I'm assuming he has already read C.S. Lewis? His are my favorite, especially "Till We Have Faces".
Reconsidering my John Connolly recommendation...it is pretty clean as far as sex is concerned but just be warned - the violence is fairly gruesome. It is definitely a darker, more mature type of fairy tale!Also - I was thinking of the Dragonlance books. Has he read them? I read them in Middle School and High School and remember them being pretty clean. The writing is a little bit cheesy now, but I really enjoyed them then.
Okay, last post I promise! Diana Wynn Jones is great. Maybe too young for a teenager?? But I have been reading them in my thirties and I am really liking them! Completely clean.
My son and I both love The Ranger's Apprentice Series. It has a little language (farm words) and violence, but not graphic. There are 10 books in the series.
