Favorite Author or book.

[The Wild West Pyro]

My favorite book is actually a little embarassing to say, but what the heck.

Alex Rider

A story about a teenager who is drafted into the British secret service and has to go on missions to stop James Bond level villains with his smarts and a few gadgets (which always manage to get taken so he has to rely on himself). Imagine James Bond, as a teenager, and without the heart of ice that allows him to gun down mooks and you have Alex Rider. I think what I might love most about this series is that it really shows the evolution of the main character and how this missions really effect him both physically and mentally. If you have never given it a read then I highly recommend it the next time you are at your local library or book store.

By the by just to show how balls to the walls this series is allow me to copy pasta this little bit from tvtropes

Major Yu's plan to dispose of Alex: Slowly have his organs removed and sold on the black market, starting with his corneas and eventually reducing him to a husk on life support.

By the by this books normal place in the library? Middle School section.

OH I'VE READ STORMBREAKER, IT WAS AWESOME!

[Endless Sea]

My favorite book is actually a little embarassing to say, but what the heck.

Alex Rider

A story about a teenager who is drafted into the British secret service and has to go on missions to stop James Bond level villains with his smarts and a few gadgets (which always manage to get taken so he has to rely on himself). Imagine James Bond, as a teenager, and without the heart of ice that allows him to gun down mooks and you have Alex Rider. I think what I might love most about this series is that it really shows the evolution of the main character and how this missions really effect him both physically and mentally. If you have never given it a read then I highly recommend it the next time you are at your local library or book store.

By the by just to show how balls to the walls this series is allow me to copy pasta this little bit from tvtropes

Major Yu's plan to dispose of Alex: Slowly have his organs removed and sold on the black market, starting with his corneas and eventually reducing him to a husk on life support.

By the by this books normal place in the library? Middle School section.

Snakehead was a fun read. ^^ Still, if you really want ridiculously awesome, there's always blowing up helicopters with snowmobiles, drowning a guy in salt until his skin starts bubbling, destroying up a plane with a Game Boy cartridge, trashing another plane with a dude on a food cart to the engine, dropping a quasi-cyborg into a nuclear submarine pit via magnet crane... I'll stop here before I give away any more spoilers, but yeah. Glorious series, that. Started reading at Point Blank, incidentally, so I'll start by recommending that.

...that reminds me, I should check if the next book in the Raven's Gate series is out yet...

[IslaKariese]

I first heard of Alex Rider when my elementary school teacher was reading it aloud in class to us. It was Point Blank, but I wasn't paying all that much attention to it until about halfway through. Then I looked for the book myself, not realizing it was part of a series until high school (I think ought to be applauded for even remembering the name of the book for that long, seriously).

I've unfortunately been very slow in exploring the Rider-verse. I've read the first book and remember snippets from Point Blank, and that's about it.

[Lordxana0]

My favorite book is actually a little embarassing to say, but what the heck.

Alex Rider

A story about a teenager who is drafted into the British secret service and has to go on missions to stop James Bond level villains with his smarts and a few gadgets (which always manage to get taken so he has to rely on himself). Imagine James Bond, as a teenager, and without the heart of ice that allows him to gun down mooks and you have Alex Rider. I think what I might love most about this series is that it really shows the evolution of the main character and how this missions really effect him both physically and mentally. If you have never given it a read then I highly recommend it the next time you are at your local library or book store.

By the by just to show how balls to the walls this series is allow me to copy pasta this little bit from tvtropes

Major Yu's plan to dispose of Alex: Slowly have his organs removed and sold on the black market, starting with his corneas and eventually reducing him to a husk on life support.

By the by this books normal place in the library? Middle School section.

Snakehead was a fun read. ^^ Still, if you really want ridiculously awesome, there's always blowing up helicopters with snowmobiles, drowning a guy in salt until his skin starts bubbling, destroying up a plane with a Game Boy cartridge, trashing another plane with a dude on a food cart to the engine, dropping a quasi-cyborg into a nuclear submarine pit via magnet crane... I'll stop here before I give away any more spoilers, but yeah. Glorious series, that. Started reading at Point Blank, incidentally, so I'll start by recommending that.

...that reminds me, I should check if the next book in the Raven's Gate series is out yet...

Yeah dude the series is finished now. That was the series I was talking about yesterday.

[Endless Sea]

Really? I thought there were still two books after Necropolis. Did both come out, or did I mishear something, maybe?

[Lordxana0]

Really? I thought there were still two books after Necropolis. Did both come out, or did I mishear something, maybe?

Mishear. The last book is known as Oblivion

[Krika]

I've read all but the last 2 or 3 Rider books. I enjoyed it, although by the time I found out that more had been published I had lost interest in the series.

[Rick Healey]

At the risk of having folks conjecture about it...

The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster.

It's brilliant on so many levels. I actually have to get a new copy because I kinda wore out my old one; it's that good of a read. The conversation between Milo, King Azaz, and the Mathemagician after the climax contains one of the guiding philosophies in my life. Rather than say it here, though, I'm going to have people read it, because it's just that damn good.

[The Wild West Pyro]

At the risk of having folks conjecture about it...

The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster.

It's brilliant on so many levels. I actually have to get a new copy because I kinda wore out my old one; it's that good of a read. The conversation between Milo, King Azaz, and the Mathemagician after the climax contains one of the guiding philosophies in my life. Rather than say it here, though, I'm going to have people read it, because it's just that damn good.

I read that book too.

It. Was. Awesome.

I got it at the book sale during my school fair. It's got some of the best puns in history.

[The Wild West Pyro]

So I recently managed to find a copy of All Quiet on the Western Front.

It was wonderful. Paul is an engaging and complex narrator, the battle scenes are described in great detail, and it is a true tearjerking and heartwarming and awesome novel. I watched the 1930 film too, and that finally hammered one point home- War is Hell, despite what everyone thinks, it will always be Hell.

[IslaKariese]

So I recently managed to find a copy of All Quiet on the Western Front.

It was wonderful. Paul is an engaging and complex narrator, the battle scenes are described in great detail, and it is a true tearjerking and heartwarming and awesome novel. I watched the 1930 film too, and that finally hammered one point home- War is Hell, despite what everyone thinks, it will always be Hell.

That was a summer reading assignment for me once. I can't remember a word of it, unfortunately, though it's still on my bookshelf.

[The Wild West Pyro]

So I recently managed to find a copy of All Quiet on the Western Front.

It was wonderful. Paul is an engaging and complex narrator, the battle scenes are described in great detail, and it is a true tearjerking and heartwarming and awesome novel. I watched the 1930 film too, and that finally hammered one point home- War is Hell, despite what everyone thinks, it will always be Hell.

That was a summer reading assignment for me once. I can't remember a word of it, unfortunately, though it's still on my bookshelf.

You may want to reread. After I finished, I didn't realize how powerful it actually was until I took a good look at the Movieclips for the 1930 movie on Youtube. Then I realized how War really is hell.

Also, it is the goriest WWI novel I've read so far. Guy with half of his head blown off? OK. Guy with his face blown off? SQUICK.

[TheJester]

My favorite author? Dan Brown
My favorite book? The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

[Krika]

I haven't mentioned Tamora Pierce yet, have I? Because I do think she's an amazing author.

Also - Jim Butcher.

[Qara-Xuan Zenith]

I haven't mentioned Tamora Pierce yet, have I? Because I do think she's an amazing author.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

[Endless Sea]

Currently reading through Angelmass, another Tim Zahn book. It's pretty glorious. Gotta figure out a way to work a reference to it in at least one of my works...

[The Wild West Pyro]

I haven't mentioned Tamora Pierce yet, have I? Because I do think she's an amazing author.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Well, that escalated quickly.

Anyway, my favourite book now is War Horse, which I dug out for our WWI English Class.

Beautiful story, extremely likable characters and plenty of tearjerkers and heartwarmers throughout.

[eli_gone_crazy]

uhm.... I've been rereading The Princess Bride by Goldman, as well as rereading Codex Alera.

[The Wild West Pyro]

uhm.... I've been rereading The Princess Bride by Goldman, as well as rereading Codex Alera.

There was a book? I thought it was just a movie, and the book in it was a plot device.

[narrativedilettante]

uhm.... I've been rereading The Princess Bride by Goldman, as well as rereading Codex Alera.

There was a book? I thought it was just a movie, and the book in it was a plot device.

The book is AMAZING. The screenplay for the movie was also written by William Goldman, the author of the book, and the movie is great but the book is better. I highly recommend it. (Be sure to read the introduction; it's actually part of the framing device.)

[Qara-Xuan Zenith]

The movie was based on the book. Although it kills me (rule of adaptations purist) to say this, in many ways the movie was the "classic", distilled version; what it cut from the original were mostly things that could well have been missed. The book in the movie was a pragmatic replacement for a similar type of framing device used in the book, which wouldn't have translated as well to the screen.

That said, I'd say the Goldman book is well worth reading, particularly if you like the movie.

[narrativedilettante]

Although it kills me (rule of adaptations purist) to say this, in many ways the movie was the "classic", distilled version; what it cut from the original were mostly things that could well have been missed.

I STRONGLY disagree. My favorite parts of the book are things that not only weren't in the movie, but they COULDN'T be in the movie, because they're not cinematic... the little digressions when Goldman comments on the "original" version by S. Morgenstern, the backstories for Inigo and Fezzik, the stuff about how Buttercup wasn't THE most beautiful woman in the world at the start of the story... The book is a masterpiece in a totally different way than the movie.

[The Wild West Pyro]

uhm.... I've been rereading The Princess Bride by Goldman, as well as rereading Codex Alera.

There was a book? I thought it was just a movie, and the book in it was a plot device.

The book is AMAZING. The screenplay for the movie was also written by William Goldman, the author of the book, and the movie is great but the book is better. I highly recommend it. (Be sure to read the introduction; it's actually part of the framing device.)

Right, I'll hopefully be going to Page One today, I'll see if I can find it.

[H22]

Obviously, we just have awesome writers on my side of the pond

And George Orwell:gurt:

Who is my favourite author. (Douglas Adams is brilliant though.)

[SpiritfChaos]

I'd say my favorite author is probably Neil Gaiman, mainly for his comics work, but I've recently picked up a copy of American Gods.