What are your favourite books?

SP book? what series are you talking about Lady kandrakar?

It's short for "Skulduggery Pleasant", I couldn't have been bothered to type the full name so i typed SP

For a while now, my favorite books have been the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. I'm also a big fan of Redwall, Lord of the Rings, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Edit: Oh, and I just recently read two more very good books: The Last Lecture, which is a sort of autobiography written a few years ago by a college professor after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer; and The Art of Racing in the Rain, which is one of those "human nature as told by a dog" type books.

This post has been edited by The Phantom Squee on 18 April 2009 22:52

OOooh I'm also a fan of redwall. I also like Lord of the Rings, Pendragon, anything written by Tamora Pierce, the Silverwing series, shadow children, keys to the kingdom, the tale of despereaux, three came home, and truth be told i could go on forever (i like reading ...bet you've already guessed)

I like Cornelia Funke. She's a german writer who writes those really cool fantasy books. i have two of them at home (Inkheart). I read them again and again.

cool! I like her too! have you read the theif lord by her. It's one of my faves! hmm...maybe i should update my list...

Yes, I read thief lord, but my favorite of her is Dragon Rider (or something like that)

i read that one too. it's pretty good as well!

mine favourites are:
my sister the vampire(switched and fangtastic)by Sienna mercer
tokyo mew mew ala mode (1 and2)by reiko yoshida and mia ikumi
and w.i.t.c.h. guardians of the veil

edit:Ink heart by Cornelia funke
the cruell empress(hay lis's adventure book)by lene Kaaberol(sorry about the bad spelling)


This post has been edited by Magix on 1 November 2009 21:26

my faves are:
Nancy Drew, Fear Street, My Mother was Never a Kid(i wonder what my mother thinks of the title ), Baby-sitters Club, and Goosebumps..

I used to love goosebumps when I was a kid.

I mostly have a collection of various manga, along with Anne Rice's vampire chronicles, some by Stephen King, Marilyn Manson's biography and books that I read for my English lit degree.

oh wait, i read one stephen king book back then.. i instantly loved it.. it was about a girl with this old lady and they went back in time then they met this guy who makes magic orbs and stuff.. i just can't remember the title but it has something to do with a lady in the mirror (or something, anything framed like a picture frame, painting.. i'm not sure anymore).. ever heard of that, loopy??

This post has been edited by haylinfan on 2 May 2009 14:45

i recently just bought inkheart by Cornelia funke.It's a greaty book but I haven't finished it just yet.I think I'll probably buy the sequel called inkspell if inkheart has a good ending.

It does It's a great series. Another one of the series I got into while waiting for a new Harry Potter book.

If going by sheer quantity, it'd have to be the Star Trek novels I collected in the 1990's. Got more of those than anything else.

If going by re-readability, then it'd have to be the Chronicles Of Narnia and the Inheritance series (the author of the later living ~200km from me). It's rare for me to reread anything, and I've read the Chronicles at least three times, and the Inheritance series (what's published) twice.

Eeeeeeh, Inheritance. I can read those because I'm a fantasy fan, but the sheer number of cliches in them makes me facepalm constantly, and Paolini's pacing needs a lot of work. And also the whole "Hey guys elves are superior in every way and also they are super vegetarians and atheists! I'm not using them as a mouthpiece at all!"

This post has been edited by The Phantom Squee on 2 November 2009 19:06

I think I will finish the Inheritance series one day. I could never get through Eldest

Elves being vegetarian, atheists, and/or superior to humans aren't new concepts to me, so I guess I'm not seeing what you are. In more than one work of fiction have I come across similar elven notions.

That's true, it's just that it's getting old by this point, you know? People are getting tired of seeing the superhuman elves trope again and again. It's really more a matter of relativity than the series being objectively bad or anything.

I mostly read fantasy books. the latest series i read was ''Molly moon'' (great book it is funny and has a nice plot!) and Laura. The latest series i read is Harry Potter ! i love it is so much better than the films. i read the 1st book,the 2nd,the 7th (i loved it !)the 5th,4th and now i've been reading the 6th book !

Oh I have read the Molly moon books, they are really good

hm, I see I've posted on this topic a long time ago, but I'll do it again!

If you don't count manga or Witch:

Harry Potter series (J.K. Rowling)
Eragon series (Christopher Paolini)
Poison (Chris Wooding)
Een Schitterend Gebrek (Arthur Japin) (A beautiful Flaw?)
Twilight series (Stephany Meyer)
Stravaganza series (forgot name of the author)
De Macht van het Zwaard (Anne West) (The power of the Sword?)

At the moment I'm reading Inkdeath, the last book in the Inkheart trilogy. I've had the book for a while now, but I've had to read it in little bits because I haven't had the time to read it lately.

the secret garden
matilda
willy wanka

same here. I think I got halfway through the book and had to stop for school. I think I'll get back to it and reread it.

Right now I'm reading the Immortal series by Alyson Noel. I get to meet her and get her autograph on June 24 right after the 4th book comes out! I love meeting authors. She'll be the 3rd New York Times bestselling author and 4th in all that I get to meet