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AirbusHayden 
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 Topic: Just Finished Harry Potter! What Next?Posted: 15 Dec 2009 at 7:58pm |
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Just finished reading the Harry Potter Books!!!
 So what other book series |
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Edward Longe
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Posted: 15 Dec 2009 at 8:02pm |
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I can't believe you wasted your time on those books. Boring and predictable
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dale_tem
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Posted: 15 Dec 2009 at 8:19pm |
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Phillip Pullman (i think) trilogy (golden compass)
Twilight sage
eragon is part of a trilogy
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Edward Longe
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Posted: 15 Dec 2009 at 8:21pm |
Don't even think about that irratateing waste of paper! |
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jj163
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Posted: 15 Dec 2009 at 8:43pm |
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Trudi Canavan's the Magician's Guild trilogy
JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (Start with the Hobbit though, don't bother with the Silmarilion it's too heavy going.)
I *personally* liked some of the Star Wars novels (The ones by Timothy Zahn are particularly good)
Tom Clancy's books (the Jack Ryan ones) are very good (although Red Storm Rising which stands alone is excellent)
What sort of Genre of book are you looking for?
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Posted: 15 Dec 2009 at 8:57pm |
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'A series of Unfortunate events' is a good book, but it's more for younger people.
These are not series of books, but some recommendations.
'All My Sons' - it's actually a play, and very sad, with the main plot being that a man called Joe Keller sold faulty cylinder heads to aircraft, which he knew were going to crash hundred of planes and kill lives.
'Of Mice and Men' - Love this book, main theme is friendship between Lennie and George.
'Kidnapped' - By Robert Louis Stevenson. Set in historic times, where friendship is the main theme.
'When We Were Orphans' Highly recommend this book! The opening few pages were used in the 2009 Standard Grade English close reading.
Hope this has given you a few ideas.
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Edward Longe
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Posted: 15 Dec 2009 at 8:59pm |
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'Of Mice and Men' - Love this book, main theme is friendship between Lennie and George.
I am studying this book as part of GCSE English |
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Posted: 15 Dec 2009 at 9:00pm |
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Have you read to the end yet?
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Posted: 15 Dec 2009 at 9:02pm |
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Have you read to the end yet?
Haven't started it yet. We are starting it after Xmas. |
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Posted: 15 Dec 2009 at 9:03pm |
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You'll get a shock at the end, I studied it for my English SG last year, it's not what you expect.
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Posted: 15 Dec 2009 at 9:50pm |
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Depends what you're into. If you like near-future cyberpunk, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash is the seminal work, not forgetting Gibson's Neuromancer.
On the non-cyberpunk front, there's Good Omens, a collaboration between Terry Pratchet (he of the monotonous Discworld fame) and Neil Gaiman (author of the you-gotta-read-this Sandman graphic novels. Then staying with the graphic novel theme, there's Watchmen which should need no introduction, and Batman: The Dark Knight Knight Returns and I've always been a huge fan of Nemesis the Warlock. Topical, but entertaining if you're into Victoriana are the original Sherlock Holmes stories - The Strand illustrated versions are the best, and then taking that into the modern age is The difference engine, an alternate universe of Victorian life where the Babbage engine actually worked. Anything by Jon Courtenay Grimwood is also excellent, and I've recently discovered Charles Stross - but he's a bit heavy on the future stuff. And you can't beat the Tolkien, any day of the week! If horror (understated and simmering) is your thing, then get ye to the alter of the Great Cthulhu and worship H.P. Lovecraft at the Mountains of Madness and other short stories (nice and accessible short reads). |
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dale_tem
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Posted: 15 Dec 2009 at 10:25pm |
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2nd the Timothy Zahn star wars books.
There are various authers of the books, which starts about 4 hours after return of the jedi, so do some googling if you are interested to find out the correct order so you don't miss anything
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Posted: 16 Dec 2009 at 9:14pm |
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How about the Hardy Boys ?
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