Recomended Books - Page 3

**kyrilliondaemon** · 03-20-2012, 03:59 PM

My username is a bit of a giveaway that I also like the His Dark Materials trilogy. I got it at least 5 years ago, I think more and still re-read it when I remember its there and am not reading something else.

The Da Vinci Code is good too, I got that when I was about 16 and have always enjoyed reading that. I also have the entire series of unfortunate events books

Can't think of much that hasn't been suggested though - probably because I can't remember all the books I own lol

Lougarry · 03-21-2012, 12:12 AM

Eek, I hated The da Vinci Code. I thought it was very lazily written.

souffle · 03-21-2012, 01:36 AM

Helen Dunmore's Ingo series is fabulous. Even I was spellbound by it and I'm a 'grown up' I think!

Mikayla · 03-21-2012, 06:51 AM

I'm kind of pathetic. I just re-read Harry Potter when I don't have anything to read xD I'll find some of my favorites and post them later

Charlottington-K · 03-21-2012, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Teddybearhamster420

YAYYYY!! Someone else whos 14. Theres not too many 14 year olds' here. Nice to meet you

City of Bones? That sounds cool. Im not to much of a fan for Lord of the Rings, though. I think Ill look up some reviews for City of bones on Google, then maybe buy it on my Kindle. Thanks

Yaaaaaaaaaay i'm also 14!!!

I thought i was the only one here!!!

I looooooooove the hunger games, harry potter, the hobbit, war horse, and plenty more!!!

TracyMM · 03-26-2012, 03:57 AM

Hey, Vectis Hamstery - you're the only person I have come across who's read the Silver Brumby series - I loved them when I was about 11. Plus KM Peynton's Flambard's trilogy. Anything with a horse or even the slightest promise of a horse, or even a horse on the cover! (I remember making a mistake with Neville Shute's A Town Like Alice, because it had a horse on the front)

Has anyone read A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck? Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men?

And I must put in a word for Patrick Suskind's Perfume, but this is another book which requires maturity; it's not 'rude' per se, but it's about the murder of young women. (But not for the usual serial killer reasons etc).

And one book I can never read again because it is truly heartbreaking on so many different levels - Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton. (And actually anything by Edith Wharton).

Antoine de Saint Exupery's The Little Prince?

Kissa · 03-26-2012, 04:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Vectis Hamstery

Kissa, I love Jean Auel's books (except for the last one). I picked up one while I was at my Grandma's when I was 12 and yes, I'd agree they are for older teens

I also love J D Robb's In Death series (futuristic police crime series), but there again not for younger members

I made the mistake of lending them to my Grandad, who enjoyed the books but was shocked that I had read something "rude"

They were in the school library with a note that only year nine and above could take them out (so 14+).

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Originally Posted by kyrilliondaemon

My username is a bit of a giveaway that I also like the His Dark Materials trilogy. I got it at least 5 years ago, I think more and still re-read it when I remember its there and am not reading something else.

I was obsessed with the trilogy for a while, I really wanted a daemon

but it is a good trilogy.

Also Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen by Garth Nix, and Neverwhere by Neil Gaimon!

Lougarry · 03-26-2012, 05:04 AM

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Originally Posted by TracyMM

Hey, Vectis Hamstery - you're the only person I have come across who's read the Silver Brumby series - I loved them when I was about 11.

I got them all out of Portishead library when I was a kid. Wonderful.

Vectis Hamstery · 03-26-2012, 05:06 AM

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Originally Posted by TracyMM

Hey, Vectis Hamstery - you're the only person I have come across who's read the Silver Brumby series - I loved them when I was about 11. Plus KM Peynton's Flambard's trilogy. Anything with a horse or even the slightest promise of a horse, or even a horse on the cover! (I remember making a mistake with Neville Shute's A Town Like Alice, because it had a horse on the front.

Yay! Someone else who read them! I still have my original rather battered copy of the Silver Brumby books on the shelf next to Anne of Green Gables. I had a similar book choosing style to yours which is how I came across Jean Auel (the second book is called Valley of Horses and has a picture of horses on the cover!). Although lacking in horses, I did like A Town Like Alice, and have recently started retreading another of the books I 'borrowed' from my dad's shelf - Catch-22.

Kissa, Neverwhere was another favourite of mine. I remember staying up late to watch the Tv programme with my Dad.