Top 5 must-read books

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Top 5 must-read books
Topic Started: Mar 29 2009, 08:42 PM (321 Views)
UnknownSoldier	May 1 2009, 07:13 PM Post #11
iBelieve Posts: 435 Group: Writers Member #57 Joined: Oct 25, 2008	pjh1: I loved Everlost! Another one of N. Shusterman's books is Unwind, which I read recently. It was better, IMO. I love the way he writes. As for the 5 must-reads.. (in order) 1. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom -Bill Martin and John Archambault (because all kids must love this book). 2. Z is for Zamboni -Matt Napier (Canadiana and hockey combined)! 3. Impulse -Ellen Hopkins (I just really like this one). 4. Can't Get There From Here -Todd Strasser (short, but amazing). 5. Elsewhere -Gabrielle Zevin (interesting and strangely peaceful). Honourable Mention (these I read recently, so I can't throw them in yet) Unwind -Neil Shusterman The Dead and The Gone -Susan Beth Pfeffer North of Beautiful -Justina Chen Headley The Hunger Games -Suzanne Collins Right Behind You -Gail Giles Series 1. Inheritance Trilogy -Christopher Paolini (some of the only long books I can read. Better than HP, IMO). 2. The Morganville Vampires -Rachel Caine (the dialogue's super witty. Love books like that). 3. Shadow Children -Magaret Peterson Haddix (Love her, favourite series in Gr. 6) 4. The Bar Code Tattoo and sequel(s) -Suzanne Weyn (I love the concepts in the second one, The Bar Code Rebellion) 5. Molly Moon -Gerogia Byng (loved them a few years ago) .. there just can't be five and just five, can there?
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Thundra	May 17 2009, 11:59 PM Post #12
The Secret Author Posts: 29 Group: Writers Member #12 Joined: Mar 29, 2008	Oh, gosh. Five books? 1. Pendragon Series (DJ MacHale) 2. New Moon (Stephenie Meyer) 3. Inheritance Cycle (Christopher Paolini) 4. Breaking Dawn (Stephenie Meyer) 5. The Host (Stephenie Meyer) I know I didn't list The Twilight Saga in general, but that's because Twilight and Eclipse sucked...
	Quote: The world can only do so much; the rest is up to you. -Thundra (ME!!!) Quote: It's not the trees that pollute the world with their oxygen, it is us humans who pollute the world with our carbon dioxide. our increasing the greenhouse gases by driving to places we could have just as easily walked to. By living the way we do. We're all destroying the world, one piece at a time. -Thundra (Me, again.)


UnknownSoldier	May 18 2009, 01:41 PM Post #13
iBelieve Posts: 435 Group: Writers Member #57 Joined: Oct 25, 2008	Thundra: Really? Twilight was the best, and then they got progressively worse for me. A lot of serieses are like that. I also used to read Pendragon, but didn't get past the 7th book. What are they on now?
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Icey	May 19 2009, 10:07 AM Post #14
Let's play a love game, play a love game... Posts: 888 Group: Administrators Member #38 Joined: Aug 4, 2008	blinks I am the anti-Meyer ....ex-fangirl ._. And I've only read the first Pendragon book. Is the rest of the series good?
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Allyson	May 19 2009, 02:36 PM Post #15
Observer of all Posts: 2,337 Group: Root Administrator Member #1 Joined: Jan 29, 2008	I've never read the Pendragon series...are they that bad?
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RedHead97	May 19 2009, 03:53 PM Post #16
Writes 50 Words Per Chapter Posts: 275 Group: Writers Member #81 Joined: Feb 21, 2009	I've never read Pendragon either. A boy in my class reads them, and they're pretty much his favorite books. Edited by RedHead97, May 23 2009, 10:15 AM.



UnknownSoldier	May 19 2009, 04:48 PM Post #17
iBelieve Posts: 435 Group: Writers Member #57 Joined: Oct 25, 2008	They're pretty good, I read them a few years ago.. they're about a boy named Bobby who is a Traveler. Basically, there are different worlds accesible through um, magic doorways called "flumes", and each land is different, but there are also past and future worlds (ie. First Earth, Second Earth, Third Earth). Bobby's from Second Earth, which is the present, and he's gotta save "Halla" (the universe) from an evil guy named Saint Dane. Talk about pressure! I had to look it up on Wiki to remember, haha. :P Edited by UnknownSoldier, May 19 2009, 04:48 PM.
	Faith. Hope. Love. Vengeance. Heart. Pain. Charisma. Fate.


Thundra	May 22 2009, 09:39 PM Post #18
The Secret Author Posts: 29 Group: Writers Member #12 Joined: Mar 29, 2008	I've only just finished book 6 of the Pendragon series, because the school library doesn't have book 7. And as far as I remember, I think book 8 or 9 should be published now, because book 6 was published in 2005, and DJ was spitting out a book a year. And as for Meyer's Twilight Saga. I did kind of like Twilight, up until Edward became all ga-ga over Bella. New Moon was, in my opinion, the best thing that ever happened to the series, because Edward left, and the werewolves came in. Eclipse was, just... icky... and Breaking Dawn (at least book 3 of it) was the best, because of getting a different perspective of Alice.
	Quote: The world can only do so much; the rest is up to you. -Thundra (ME!!!) Quote: It's not the trees that pollute the world with their oxygen, it is us humans who pollute the world with our carbon dioxide. our increasing the greenhouse gases by driving to places we could have just as easily walked to. By living the way we do. We're all destroying the world, one piece at a time. -Thundra (Me, again.)


God.	May 23 2009, 05:39 PM Post #19
GOOGLE, IS, GOD. Posts: 182 Group: Writers+ Member #90 Joined: Apr 14, 2009	ZOMG THIS IS TERRIBLE! Never, ever list Twilight or the Pendragon or Eragon series as "top-5 books." It's like I'm breathing some form of francium fluoride. Iz bad. IZ BAD! [edit] Okay, yes I'm anti-teen fiction. Paolini's ... just awful. Meyer's like ... like ... some kind of lavender on acid. And a lot of the other work by those kind of writer's is like a cliché slowly ripping my skull apart. Edited by God., May 23 2009, 05:43 PM.
	Everybody loves the universe. If you can look past the black holes, the rogue asteroids, the gym teachers, and that paper boy who keeps throwing your magazines into the bushes, it's a simple place most of us can call a happy home. It's a good thing. However, even the obviously non-sentient universe has a sense of irony. You see, the universe is going to end. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not 10120 years from now, but it will happen. One of the ways science predicts our inevitable demise is by pissing off God. But that's another story. Instead, another way that science predicts the universe will cease to function is through the "heat death of the universe" theory.


Caelum	Jun 2 2009, 09:43 AM Post #20
I refuse to use a custom member title. Posts: 106 Group: Writers+ Member #31 Joined: Jul 2, 2008	Well, Paolini is okay in my opinion, though not much more than that. I can't actually think of a list of top 5, though notable books definitely include the Song of Ice and Fire, Terry Goodkind's series & Raymond E. Feist's series (though he does get into clichés a lot after a while). Will update when I think of more :P



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