Book Recommendations

[alexcub1]

I agree with Pedro and bingo on Maximum Ride.  After I'd finished reading Angel, I thought about it a went 'And why did I read all of those?'  They got really repetitious, and it's really annoying about Fang and Dylan.

[MadCatta]

Maximum Ride just isn't good... I really ought to sell my copies.... they annoy me so..

And I love how Howard Rougan is written in light blue on blue background, whilst James Patterson gets orange on blue... that's nice, that is.

And also, if you get someone else to write some of the book, yet it's your name on the cover.... how ridiculous. And twattish.

[DilanMelis]

It really depends on the series. I think a lot of the Nancy Drew's and Sweet Valley High books were written by others.

[Rider rules]

My sister was reading this 29 clues series or something, and all the books are written by different well-known authors. A pretty clever team effort if you ask me.
Also, I read Darren Shan's 'Lord Loss', and although it should have terrified me, it was so overly gory that it seemed kinda feeble; like it was so gory and scary that I couldn't actually imagine it. It wasn't relatable.

[TiggsRulz:)]

Ugh - is this the 39 clues you're talking about? I reckon that was highly over-rated. I mean it was ok, but the way everyone was drooling over it was a bit excessive...

[Rider rules]

Yeah, it was OK, but I think it was kinda sweet the way all the authors teamed up together! 

[bingo]

OOooh, could someone say more about 39 Clues please?

It really depends on the series. I think a lot of the Nancy Drew's and Sweet Valley High books were written by others.

Well, that's different though! I mean, the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys had over hundreds and hundreds of different books /in different series/. And I reckon each series was written by the same author, too. Maximum Ride is only about six or seven books, and James Patterson is a living author taking credit for all of it, whereas the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys were all under the pennames, weren't they?

I do quite miss those books. I think the Hardy Boys Casefiles were especially good, anyone else remember those? I also loved the Hardy Boys AND Nancy Drew teamups :') Oh, good times.

[DilanMelis]

I was strictly a Nancy Drew girl. I tried the Hardy Boys, but could never really get into it. I made it my life mission to read the first of the  ND books, and only recently achieved this through sites like book depo, before that I was limited to whatever was available in Aus.

[bingo]

Well, some of the Hardy Boys were fairly boring, especially the old ones. But I really quite loved the Casefiles, they were all very interesting. The Phoenix trilogy or something, especially, was really good.

[Rider rules]

Oh My God. I read THE most TERRIBLE book ever!!!
It's called Spy Girl and it TOTALLY sucks!!! I never thought I'd see the day when there would be a book worse than Jimmy Coates...
But seriously, Spy Girl brings a whole new meaning to the word 'anticlimatic'!

[Pedro-ologist]

You shoul never have read it. The title says EVERYTHING! I am guessing that the cover was also bad too...

I am really into non-fiction at the moment, so unless you want books on British history to read...I have nothing to recommend (British history is the section of non-fiction I am in at the moment, then I am moving on to science and, in particular, astronomy books. I also have a Dickens which I plan to slip in somewhere.

I do know what to recommend though, Nation by Terry Pratchett. Fabulous book.

[Rocket]

Oooooooh which Dickens? Read Great Expectations. It's great. Just like the title suggests. Nothing to do with the fact that I watched the adaptation last night. And that Douglas booth is BEAUTIFUL.

[TiggsRulz:)]

I've read great expectations! And a few other Dickens books - they're good but the different style of writing does take some getting used to.

I don't really like non-fiction books all too much - the only non-fiction that I read is mainly about animals or dogs, but then I did once read some of the SAS survival guide for fun 
I have a really interesting non-fiction book about dogs I'm reading at the moment - it's called 'Dog'  and it's by a vet called Bruce Fogle. It's really interesting if you love dogs!

Yes I've read some of the Terry Pratchett books and they are quite good!

[Rocket]

I like some non-fiction. It depends on what it is about really. I like history books.

[Pedro-ologist]

The dickens that I have with me is great expectations...

I am currently reading Empire by Niall Ferguson. It is a history of the British Empire, with a very economic view of things. It is by the guy who did the ascent of money.

1066 and all that is also good if you know a decent amount of English history and you want to read the take off version of just about every history book...ever. It is hilarious...