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[IdlersDream]

I've been reading the Twilight series and I like it. Obviously it's pushed more towards the teenage girls. I wasn't even going to touch the series because it was becoming so popular but one day at the book store it was there for really cheap and I needed a book to read haha.

I'm about 3/4's through Eclipse now and I'm starting to get pissed off at the way she's moving the story line.

F--K JACOB BLACK! I just can't stand his stupid, annoying character. She should kill him off.

[Lluvy]

I've been reading the Twilight series and I like it. Obviously it's pushed more towards the teenage girls. I wasn't even going to touch the series because it was becoming so popular but one day at the book store it was there for really cheap and I needed a book to read haha.

I'm about 3/4's through Eclipse now and I'm starting to get pissed off at the way she's moving the story line.

F--K JACOB BLACK! I just can't stand his stupid, annoying character. She should kill him off.

trust me when I say Jacob will increasingly become the least annoying character in the fourth book. Bella is so whiny in the 4th book in makes it almost unbearable. The fourth book is plain AWFUL. I would just not even read the 4th and pretend the series ended with the 3rd.
Breaking Dawn is TERRIBLE.

I like a lot of the old stuff like Jane Eyre, To Kill a Mockinbird, Grapes of Wrath, etc. My favorite book of all time being Jane Eyre.
Hmmmm in modern I like the Pretty Little Liars series by Sara Shepard and the Private series by Kate Brian. The Clique series by Lisi Harrison is okay when nothing else is around and Im bored. Uhmmmmmmm anything by Anna Godbersen is pretty good as well.

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

I think it would be better to take Twilight discussion to it's own topic. Just sayin'. Now, to stay on topic myself, you know what book's really good? World War Z. s'got lots of short stories on the collapse of society and mankind's struggle during a zombie apocalypse.

[Zen Clarke]

I have to agree. There are enough things across the internet, world, and possibly even universe about Twilight. Anyway, has anyone read The Picture of Dorian Gray? I had to read it for English. I got (barely) to page 44 today, and almost fell asleep. I've been told it picks up, and I'm at chapter five, but can anyone tell me WHEN it starts to pick up?? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalacry.gif)

[Gabstah]

I just finished the "His Dark Materials" series. For anyone who's read them... the series made me cry a total of three times. Once in the second book and twice in the third. I don't want to give anything away so I'll be pretty vague... but for anyone who's read the last one, we finished reading it about 2 hours before Fraser was about to leave. It was definitely not a good way to start being apart from the one you love.

All in all, though, I adore that trilogy. It's kind of creepy how reading it makes you question your entire faith.

[IdlersDream]

Yes but, Twilight hardly has it's own topic. So I'll just say one more thing and I'll be done talking about it. :D

Thanks Marryed, I didn't know yet that he imprinted on the baby. Thanks for letting me know before I've even gotten there yet. And I still dislike him in the fourth book, even when we get his point of view, he's a whiney baby and needs to realize that they're married now and he should screw off.

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[Zen Clarke]

**I read that spoiler before. It creeps me out....**

Ok. No mo' Twilight! OoO

[IdlersDream]

Just bought Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. I've seen the movie so I know what happens but I've always really wanted to read the book. I'm going to start it once all my new stupid book study is done.

[Gabstah]

I have to take a hold on books that I want to read as I'm now in an english class with a focus on fiction novels. Right now we're reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist. It's really bizarre, it's all written as a monologue. There are only two characters, a Pakistani who is talking, and YOU, the American, who is in this little cafe in Lahore on "a mission."

[Bloody-Red]

Hercule Poirot's Christmas and other Agatha Christie's novels and I love mystery novels in general (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalasmile.gif)

[Harvest Girl]

Pokemon adventures(pokespe), detective conan, the law of ueki plus, lovely complex ^_^

[Daniella]

I've read 2 of the Lord of the Rings books and half of the Hobbit. They were too boring to finish. ._.

[IdlersDream]

^ What!? I love LOTR! Maybe you're too young to get into them. I started reading them when I was 11 and I couldn't get through the first book but I tried about a year ago and really enjoyed them.

Okay.. Finished Breaking Dawn last night. And I know 'no more Twilight' but I'm not giving anything away.
Well, the ending definitely could've been more exciting and better. Maybe explain more about their future sort of like in Harry Potter. Really, the best part of the last few pages was Stephenie Meyer's Thankyou page where she thanked INTERPOL{The beautiful men in my signature}!!! Other than that, she has crap taste in music and is sort of weird for a 30 something year old woman to be interested in that kind of music. Buuut, I'm off topic now lol.

But whatever, it was sort of disappointing and it seems like she just hurried up the ending because she wasted a lot of pages on the stupid Volturi.

[Lindstrom]

I probably sound like a jerk saying this, but it seems like younger folks don't appreciate the classics! Why, in my day... grumble grumble... and it's usually those tax evaders who.... blah blah blah blah...

Also, it seems like nowadays the quality of books has gone down too.

[Gabstah]

My english prof was talking to us about books (as an english prof tends to do) the other day. He was saying "there are good books and there are great books. Good books are the ones that you'll pick up and read on your own, but GREAT books are the ones that you're forced to read in school."
People see these classics and go "That must be terrible because I had to read it in school" and proceed to not enjoy it.

[Hasfusel]

I just finished the "His Dark Materials" series. For anyone who's read them... the series made me cry a total of three times. Once in the second book and twice in the third. I don't want to give anything away so I'll be pretty vague... but for anyone who's read the last one, we finished reading it about 2 hours before Fraser was about to leave. It was definitely not a good way to start being apart from the one you love.

All in all, though, I adore that trilogy. It's kind of creepy how reading it makes you question your entire faith.

I really liked those books. Excellent plot, universe, characters, and general quality of writing. I think the trilogy is Phillip Pullman's crowning acheivement.

EDIT: Oops, better not spoil the plot for those who haven't finished the series.

Spoiler:
Kinda sad how Will and Lyra get separated indefinately at the end. And I miss the balloonist guy. He was cool.

The American film wasn't great, though. Spoiled my outlook on the series. I met the actress who played the little girl, for about five minutes. Something to do with her mother coming for my mother's classes, or something.

I agree with Lindstrom, in general. They just don't produce books like they used to. Which is why I plan to change this at some point in my life, heh heh. A publisher looked at some of my previous work and said it was possible, y'know. It's been done. I know this other kid who got a book published at 12 (I won't shame him by saying how good it was, because that's another story (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalasad.gif) )

[Gabstah]

Those two times were two of the three times that I cried. The other one that I cried at was...

Spoiler:
When Lyra had to leave Pan when she went into the World of the Dead, and he was just this sad little puppy waiting all alone. I was BAWLING.

I haven't read any more of his work, but I definitely will. I always hated finishing a series... you feel so empty afterwards. Because we were reading the books outloud it took us just over a year (on and off) to read the three books. When you were done that was it, you were done.

And the movie was horrendous. I couldn't believe it. I had read the books and I was still confused by what was going on in the movie.

[Hasfusel]

I haven't read any more of his work, but I definitely will. I always hated finishing a series... you feel so empty afterwards. Because we were reading the books outloud it took us just over a year (on and off) to read the three books. When you were done that was it, you were done.

I know exactly how you feel. I don't want the twelth Wheel of Time book to come out, because when it does I'll finish it in a week and then...
There'll be nothing left for me, meaning I'll have to a) commit suicide, b) join a monestary or c) read those crappy Twilight books.
And there'll never be any more, because Robert Jordan died of Amyloidosis (very tragic) before he could finish the last book. This young guy's finishing it for him.

[Gabstah]

I heard about that, my brother is really into the wheel of time books. I remember my mom telling me that she once waited 12 YEARS for the last book of a series to come out. For some reason Clan of the Cave Bear is ringing a bell, but it might not have been that series.
Which was an excellent book, by the way. I haven't read it in FOREVER, I should do that.

[Hasfusel]

You should read The Wheel of Time, it's immensly quotable.

"Hi, Rand. Ah, I'm tired. Those Aiel women sure don't go easy on men. Good day?"
"Good day? Bloody heck, Matt, I just discovered you can disintegrate women's blouses at a distance using the Power! How good can things get?!"

Oh, and talk about a long wait for a sequel to come out. I've been waiting 36 years for the sequel to that awesome film The Wicker Man to come out. Are they waiting for Christopher Lee to die of old age or something?