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Book recommendations

PostPosted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 8:25 pm
by Will
List your top three books! (or series of books)

1. His Dark Materials (of course)
2. The Discworld
3. David Eddings (the ones with Sparhawk)

PostPosted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 9:54 pm
by Tristan
1. Watership Down
2. His Dark Materials
3. Ender Quartet

I dunno, read too many good books... WD is my all time favorite for sure, but 2 on down is always changing depending on my current feelings and what I'm reading.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 10:28 pm
by Nix
HHGTTG/HDM/LOTR
HP/Artemis Fowl/Discworld
Enders Game+Shadow/Wind in the Willows and other tales of the riverbank

PostPosted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 10:42 pm
by AySz88
  1. The Amber Spyglass
  2. The Golden Compass
  3. The Subtle Knife

:lol:

PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 3:26 am
by Saraneth
1. Old Kingdom Series
2. His Dark Materials
3. LOTR ((even tho im not finished yet o well))

PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 1:54 pm
by Shivy
oooh.. don't make me choose...

Fire Bringer - David Clement Davies,
His Dark Materials,
Harry Potter,
Bloodtide - Melvin Burgess,
Wheel of Time series.. Robert Jordan

in no particular order.. and theres more than that.. i read too many books

(i know.. i can't count either)

PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 11:32 pm
by AySz88
But, seriously:

  1. His Dark Materials
  2. Harry Potter
  3. Inherit the Wind

So what if the third one's a play?

PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 12:26 am
by katinka
harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban
northern lights
some other book. i will come back to this.

PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 1:53 am
by Daniel
1. His Dark Materials
2. 1984
3. whatever i'm reading right now (usually)

PostPosted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 4:16 pm
by Will
It really is quite hard to decide, isn't it?

Too...difficult...to...decide...don't...make...me...choose!

PostPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 11:06 pm
by Kaleidoscope Eyes
Top three hmmmmmmm? That's difficult.

My number one book that I've read so far has to be HDM, closely followed by Harry Potter, but after that I really don't know! My list would probably look something like this:

1. His Dark Materials
2. Harry Potter
3. Noughts & Crosses, Georgia Nicolson, LoTR, HHGTtG, Princess Diaries, Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, Witch Child, The Hobbit, Sally Lockhart, Wind on Fire, Goodnight Mister Tom, A Little Love Song - and any other books that are on my "favourite" bookshelf, tie in third place.

PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 9:18 pm
by Will
I'm sure there's already been one, but has there been a poll on the site as to which HDM book is best? I bet it went in the same order as Soup's list did (look back up a bit).

PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 10:45 pm
by Shivy
probably somewhere.. there's a thread, not sure about a poll..

PostPosted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 6:33 pm
by jleigh
1. Gabaldon's Outlander Series
2. HP or HDM... ahh I can't choose.
3. Ender's Game or L'Engle Time Quartet.. again... I can't choose.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 12:30 pm
by DominaSnow
Can't decide....I'll just put three of my favorites
Not in any particular order:

A Clash of Kings

The October Horse

The Subtle Knife

PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 7:27 pm
by TheLadyofShalott
1. His Dark Materials
2. Abhorsen Trilogy or Old Kingdom Series or Sabriel books (someone please make up their mind what they are called)
3. Lord of the Rings
4. The Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy
5. Dune (not the following books, just the 1st)
6. Georgia Nicolson books
7. Harry Potter
8. Prydain Chronicles (loved these when I was younger, so I couldn't leave them out)
9. Patricia C. Wrede series (so what if they're for little kids, I still like them)
10. Robert Cormier books

PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 8:01 pm
by Isobel
I love the Georgia books! :)
Here are some of my favourites, no particular order:
HDM (of course) - my favourite of the series is TAS
Tamora Pierce's Tortall books - my favourite is Emperor Mage
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase series
The Everlasting Story of Nory
Goodnight Mr Tom
Marianne Dreams
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess

I know there's a lot more that I've left out. :wink:
Okay, I thought of another: From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. basil E. Frankweiler. I want to run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art too!

PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 8:08 pm
by Justine
HDM books
Many Waters (Madeline L'Engle)
ummm... I dunno

PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 8:12 pm
by Isobel
Many Waters is good. I really liked the whole Wrinkle in Time series. Also, I like her books about Vicky Austin. :)

PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 8:43 pm
by Tristan
Many Waters was probably the best one in the wrinkle in time series/thingy. I liked the interesting take on the story of noah... that was cool.