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 Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 3:42 pm
Reader's LoungeWelcome readers, to a place just for you. Here you can get together and discuss your favorite books-- or maybe your not so favorites. You can even recommend your good-reads to be added to The List. Let's get started, shall we? Rules-No spoilers. That's what pm's are for. -If you want to recommend a book, fill out the form. -Don't come in here just to say that you don't like to read. It's spam. This is a thread for mainly fiction works, though non-fiction will have its own post. However, manga will not be added to the list. The Form[color=violet][b]Title:
Author:
Genre:
Number of Pages: (Or volumes)
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 3:43 pm
The List
Index
Post Three- Post ----------
3. Action
4. Adventure
5. Fantasy
4. Romance
6. Horror
7. Comedy
8. Mystery
9. Other
10. Non-Fiction
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:11 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:13 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:14 pm
Fantasy
Title: The Phoenix Unchained
Author: i can't remember DX sorry
Genre: Fantasy
Number of Pages/Volumes: Two-book series
Rating: Teenage+
Summary: The city of Armethalieh is no longer ruled by mages, and High Magick itself is forgotten. Then Tiercel Rolfort, the scholarly son of lower nobility, rediscovers High Magick. Beset with visions and physically weakening, Tiercel decides his best hope is to take a journey to find a Wild Mage. Meanwhile, Wild Mage Bisochim has become convinced of his calling to set the balance aright by bringing darkness back into the world. Having found and bonded with the dragon Saravasse, he plans to draw on her power to further his dark goals.
Title: Mistborn- The Final Empire
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Genre: Fantasy
Number of Pages/Volumes: Three-book series
Rating: Teenage+
Summary: The Sliver of Infinity, the Lord Ruler, is the locus of religious and temporal order in a world in which the skaa are slaves or worse. Half-skaa erstwhile thief Kelsior is the only person to survive and escape the Lord Ruler's most brutal prison, in which, however, he discovered he has the powers of the Mistborn, which are based on the internal "burning" of certain metals, all of which the Mistborn can use, while most others can burn only one. Now Kelsior plans his most daring raid ever, into the center of the palace to discover the secret of the Lord Ruler's power. Can they deafeat the Deepness for good?
Title: Nightworld Series
Author: L.J Smith
Genre: Fantasy
Number of Pages/Volumes: Nine-book series
Rating: Teenage+
Summary: Night World is a series of nine young-adult fiction novels written by L. J. Smith. The series takes place in a world similar to our own but one where vampires, witches, werewolves and shape-shifters live among humans without their knowledge. These supernatural races make up a secret society known as the Night World, which enforces two fundamental laws to prevent discovery: 1) Never allow humans to gain knowledge of the Night World's existence and, 2) Never fall in love with one of them.
Title: Tithe- A Modern Tale Of Faerie
Author: Holly Black
Genre: Fantasy
Number of Pages: 326 pages
Rating: Young Adult+
Summary: A girl named Kaye has to move around with her rockband mother, who tries to be the lead singer of rockbands. Her mother and herself must move around from place to place, homeless to her mother meeting some groggy manager. But moving back to her grandmothers house with her mother for a while, strange things start unravel. Her faerie friends come to her with a message, and she finds out a baffling secret of her own. Danger, Love, and Fear follow her every move
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:15 pm
Romance
Title: As Simple As Snow
Author: Gregory Galloway
Genre: Romance, Mystery
Number of Pages/Volume: 308 pages, single-volume
Rating: Teenager+
Summary: The narrator, an unnamed character, said he was as boring a water. And yet when Anna, a goth, moves to the neighborhood, he finds himself pursude. This seemingly strange girl starts to bring joy to his life; entertaining him with postacards, messages, the scavenger hunts. He finds himself in love, and just as soon she fanishes. Some say she drowned, others say she was killed, and still others insist that the whole mystery is a joke. Only it's not. The narrator proceeds to look for her, searching for a sign of her disappearance. He finds the clues she left behind, but can he find her?
Title: Leap of Faith
Author: Danielle Steel
Genre: Roamnce
Number of Pages/Volumes: 202 pages, single-volume
Rating: Teenage+
Summary: At age 11, Marie-Ange's idyllic, rich, sheltered life in rural France is shattered when her adoring parents are killed in a car accident. She's sent off to gruff great-aunt Carol to live on an Iowa farm, and Marie becomes Carol's "slave" and wears clothes from the Goodwill store. Her only moments of happiness are with her friend Billy at school. When Marie comes of age, she learns that she is wealthy; her aunt did not use any of her large trust fund. On a return trip to the family chateau in France she meets and falls in love with Bernard, a widower. But what are his motives? Who should Marie trust?
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:16 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:18 pm
Comedy
Title: Death: A Life
Author: George Pendle
Genre: Comedy, Religion
Number of Pages/Volumes: 250 pages, single-volume
Rating: Young Adult+
Summary: Death tells the morbid yet humerous story of his life. His father is Satan and his mother (and sister) is Sin. His story goes from Hell to Heaven, and finally Earth. There things take an interesting turn. How did his career of leading souls into the abyss start? By accidentally killing a unicorn, that's how. Death plays a large an entertaining role in Earth's history, and this book is a must-read. Hilarious and dark, it pokes fun at religion as well as Death's interesting life.
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:25 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:26 pm
Other
Title: Silent Honor
Author: Danielle Steel
Genre: Hardship, Romance
Number of Pages/Volumes: 353 pages, single-volume
Rating: Adult+
Summary: At 18, Hiroko faces an unfamiliar culture and racial prejudice when she arrives to attend college in America. Her American cousins and Peter, their Caucasian friend, help her adapt to her new life, but nothing can prepare them for what follows the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Suddenly viewed as enemies, Japanese residents and even U.S. citizens of Japanese descent are deprived of jobs, property, and freedom and sent to internment camps. Secretly married to Peter before he enters the army, Hiroko endures many hardships and losses in the camps. Believing Peter to be missing in action, she returns to Japan after the war only to discover that her entire family has perished. At this bleakest moment in her life, Peter reappears, providing the promise of a happy future.
Title: Of Mice and Men
Author: John Steinbeck
Genre: Tragedy
Number of Pages: 118 pages, single volume.
Rating: Young Adult+
Summary: Of Mice and Men tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California. That's all I'm gonna say right now.
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:27 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:27 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:01 pm
Yay!
I know lots of good books, but like I dun know summaries and stuff. XD
Hehe but I will fill out some stuffs. :3
Good Idea on a topic!
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:11 pm
Thanks, Chika! >w<
I myself had some trouble writing summaries for the books I entered, seeing as I read them a while ago. I just looked the book up on my local library's site and you can used the summaries they hadthere to help me write one. ;]
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:28 pm
CHEATER! LOL!
Kidding XD
I like Danielle Steel's stuff and stuff. XD
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