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What are your favorite books?
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May 23, 2012 03:45PM
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That's typically true, though not always. I do like some of the "popular" movies, but you're right, most of them are either depressing or stupid.
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I'll read any book as long as it sounds interesting, no matter who the author is or whatever. I've found that even if I might not like one book by an author that doesn't mean I won't like another one. I am a pretty picky reader though ;)
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I won't usually finish reading a book I don't like. I am picky with the kinds of things I like but I am willing to take suggestions from friends. It just depends on the kind of book it is. There are some things I just don't really care for.
Avi is an author I have admired for a long time because he can write in sooo many different genres successfully, and his historical novels are both well-researched and fun adventures. He can have a female and a male character together without there being any annoying romances! Yay! There are some flaws with the storyline of "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle," but it's still good. I really love his "Crispin Trilogy" (medieval) and his "Beyond the Western Sea" series (about Irish immigrants to America).
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Hazel depending on the book i am reading. if it is horrible then i will stop but i hate putting a book down and it has only happened once. other times i just push through. if it is a series and they have a bad book i wont give up the series, (usually though it has happened) they usually get batter.
Mara, I still have to get into reading Avi (so many books to read!)Emily, I agree if it's a series, espicially from a first-time author, you have to give them a little leeway for improval (that's not a word is it?) And sometimes I will read through a book I don't like just to say I did so I could argue with people about it properly :P
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Haha that's funny ;) I remember my friend making me read stuff too, and she's quite the argumentative type, so I have to know my stuff to prove a point to her. Even then it's not usually worth it, haha ;)
@ Emily: Sounds like you read
@ Hazel: I think the word you're searching for is "improvement," not "improval." ;) Though honestly, I like the sound of "improval"
Haha, well this was the weekend where my mind was shot, but hey, I have always wanted to make up words like The Bard ;)
Slightly off topic: you've seen the Horrible Histories episode where Shakespeare engages in a "word duel," right?I always maintain that if Shakespeare could make up so many words, why can't we? ;)
Yes! Love that one! There's a new one now that's a Shakespeare song, you'll have to see it ;)Yes I am always making up words. I made up "gaberyaks" (it's people who talk all the time :P)
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and Mara i dont think that was the book but maybe i have the wrong Author i mean it was a while ago that i read it.
Well, I don't intentionally make up words, haha ;) Most of the time they are just silly typos :P
Was it by chance
Which is a good book as well. Need to re-read it.
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"Red Badge of Courage" maybe? That's one of the next books I'm going to read. I loved Johnny Tremain, it's been a long time since I read that one too.
Oohh, I still need to read "The Red Badge of Courage." My old paperback copy disappeared mysteriously a few years back . . . I suspect my evil cousin hid it just to be irritating.
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Emily I have one more suggestion for you ;)
Don't know if that's it but I remember reading this a while ago and I thought it wasn't too bad.
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Oh okay ;) Yeah, this book was pretty good from what I remember about it.
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Haha well at least you found it ;) I have seen that book and wanted to read it too, I'll have to add it to my list.
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Haha, well I'm sure it's good, but it will probably be a while before I get around to reading it.
"The Fighting Ground" is good. It's one of Avi's much shorter books because it's intended for a younger audience, but I still remember liking it. "Give Me Liberty" is also really good.
I haven't been into the Rev War stuff for a while since that was practically all I was reading for a long time. I was going to write a book, but it wasn't speaking to me :P So I had done all that research and never wrote the book haha. But I do like the time period ;)
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I kind of fell in love with HF when I read the American Girl series when I was about eight or so, which was when I started loving history in school too. My favorite series were the "Felicity" books and that's why I have always loved the American Revolution. Have you read any of Anne Rinaldi's books? They are really good too. Some of my favorites are "Time Enough for Drums" (a Rev War novel) and "Girl in Blue" which is a Civil War novel.
Other than fairy tales, historical fiction was about all I was allowed to read when I was little, so I learned to love it. It's hard to find good Revolutionary War books anymore, though.
was amazingly good.
I definitely want to read that one! When I feel like reading another Rev War novel, I'll definitely look that one up.
Oh there's a sequel to it? I didn't know that.
Yep! It follows the boy character's story. I think she's writing - or has written - a third one, too. This is a set of books that could have quite a few sequels and all of them be good.
There is so much you can do with this time period. The war itself can generate several long novels. I know because I was planning on writing one eventually and I know it's going to be really long if I want to add in all the people I want to ;)
I still want to try rewriting an old Revolution-based story. I called it "The Fight for Freedom" and a girl joins the militia disguised as a boy, and acts as a spy for them. She's trying to find her older brother. It's a good idea; I just need to rework it.
That sounds cool. I have another story that I'm going to put up once I re-work it. It's about a girl who finds a wounded spy. It could have been a lot longer than it was but it was one I wrote for a contest and they always have stupid word limits ;)
You could always make it longer and publish it.
Well, I had actually planned to extend it, because I have had requests to do so ;) The part I have is good in itself, it's just the story could definitely continue and I have a few ideas of how it could go. I'll post what I have within the next few days and eventually I might write more for it.
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Well I found my spy story and I edited it so I might get it up later. It's not great, but it's not horrible either ;)
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Haha, well thank ye ;) You do realize I only put the ones up that I am still fond of though. Not all my stories are very great :P
Every writer has some "embarrassing" writings. I have two at least (I don't count the one I wrote when I was seven). One I wrote when I was 12; it's 50 pages and just weird. And extremely bloody. And very badly written. I'm rather disturbed at how casually I wrote deaths at that age. ;) And then the other one is actually a series of books. Considering when I wrote them, they are not all that bad and I hope to revive them in some form eventually. But my characters had some pretty bad mood swings. ;)
Haha, I wrote some really bloody things at that age too. I was totally into decapitating and dismemberment. Rather scary. Now I still have lots of gore, but it's not like that anymore ;P
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