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 Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:59 pm
Looking for a book, but don't want to go about it randomly?
Suggest as many book titles as you would like, to help out a fellow guildie. I will then place them in order by author as each comes in.
Easy enough, right?
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:05 pm
Post this with each suggestion::
[u]Book Title[/u]::
[u]Author[s][/u]::
[u]Genre[s][/u]::
[u]Quick Description[/u]:: [but remember, don't give away any spoilers!!]
[u]How You Rate the Book[/u]:: [5 to 10 scale. 5 being decently written. 10 being the best piece of literature you've ever come in contact with.]
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:06 pm
[The order goes by the author's last name.]
List of Books::
Adams, Douglas --- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy // Sci-fi Fantasy [Recommended by Unwritten_Hearts]
Bray, Libba --- A Great and Terrible Beauty // Fantasy/Romance/Victorian Era England [Recommended by Unwritten_Hearts]
Jordan, Sherryl --- The Raging Quiet // Fiction [Recommended by Emergency Room Affair]
Lahiri, Jhumpa --- Namesake // Fiction [Recommended by Unwritten_Hearts]
Meyer, Stephanie --- Twilight / New Moon / Eclipse / Breaking Dawn // Fantasy Fiction [Recommended by Unwritten_Hearts]
Miller, Rand and Robyn --- Myst: The book of Atrus // Sci-fi/Fantasy [Recommended by Unwritten_Hearts]
Skye, Obert --- Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo / Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret / Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want / Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra / -unknown title- // Fantasy [Recommended by Emergency Room Affair]
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:09 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:19 pm
I know from the sound of your breathing exactly what you are feeling..Book Title:: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Author:: Libba Bray
Genre:: Fantasy/Romance/Victorian Era England
Quick Description:: About a girl, who is forced to go to an all girls school, to learn the ways of court. She also learns that she has a special power passed onto her by her mother, and now everything is coming into chaos.
How You Rate the Book:: 8.5
[note: This books is the first in a trilogy, I suggest if you like this book continue on to the others. Rebel Angels (book2) The Sweet Far Thing(book3).
Book Title:: Myst: The book of Atrus
Author:: Rand and Robyn Miller
Genre:: Sci-fi/Fantasy
Quick Description:: This is difficult, but it's about a boy named Atrus who lives in a desert, with his grandmother. Then one day his father comes back, and brings him to an underground world to tell him he's part of a race called the D'ni... and that they can create worlds.
How You Rate the Book:: 9
[note: this books is also a trilogy: Myst: Book of Tiana(book2) Myst: Book of D'ni(book3)
Book Title:: Namesake
Author:: Jhumpa Lahiri
Genre:: Fiction
Quick Description::About a Bengali family and their son trying to find his path as an American, and still keep his Bengali heritage.
How You Rate the Book:: 9
Book Title:: Twilight Trilogy
Author:: Stephenie Meyer
Genre:: Fantasy Fiction
Quick Description:: About a human girl, who comes to live with her dad in a small town, to find that vampires are real, and she's fallen for one.
How You Rate the Book:: 9
(4 books in this series, but this is my favorite)
Book Title:: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Author:: Douglas Adams
Genre:: Sci-fi Fantasy
Quick Description::Honestly, I can't really tell you. But it's got space ships, time warp, planets, aliens, and comedy! A really really good read.
How You Rate the Book:: 7 .. This is why we make a good you and me .
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:45 pm
...Dom moj dostroen, no ya v nem odin, Hlopnula dver' za spinoj...  ...Veter osennij stuchitsya v okno, Plachet opyat' nado mnoj...Book Title:: Leven Thumps series
Author:: Obert Skye
Genre:: Fantasy
Quick Description:: The series deals with an orphaned 14-year old boy, Leven Thumps, who becomes involved in a battle between good and evil.
How You Rate the Book:: 9
Book Title:: The Raging Quiet
Author:: Sherryl Jordan
Genre:: Fiction
Quick Description:: Marnie is a young widow living in an isolated medieval community who already suspect she is a witch. Her only friends are a priest and a weird, mad youth called Raven. When Marnie realizes that Raven is deaf, not mad, they devise a system of hand words, which only makes matters worse for Marnie.
How You Rate the Book:: 10++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++{my house is built, but i am alone in it; the door got shut behind my back; the autumn wind is knocking on the window, crying again over me}
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:45 am
-Reserves Post, also decides to buy all those books-
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:02 am
You can avoid reality but...
Book Title:: Jane Eyre
Author:: Charolette Bronte
Genre:: Fiction
Quick Description:: About a girl raised by her evil aunt, then to a school for orphans, to be raised proper as a governess, very outspoken.
How You Rate the Book:: 8
Book Title:: The Glass Castle: A memoir
Author:: Janette Walls
Genre:: Non-Fiction I think...
Quick Description:: Memoirs of a young girl growing up in a difficult home life to prevail in life... [It's alot better than it sounds, trust me]
How You Rate the Book:: 8
Book Title:: Alanna: The First Adventure
Author:: Tamora Pierce
Genre:: Fantasy/Fiction
Quick Description:: A young noble girl disguises herself as a boy with the help of her twin brother, Thom, in order to realize her dream of becoming a Knight as Thome goes to a temple to become a Mage.
How You Rate the Book:: 9
Book Title:: In the Hand of the Goddess
Author:: Tamora Pierce
Genre:: Fantasy Fiction
Quick Description:: Finding it more difficult than imagined but still in her disguise, Alana serves as a squire to Prince jonathan of Conte, fights in a war alongside her master and struggles with the attention of teh evil Duke Roger of Conte.
How You Rate the Book:: 9
Book Title:: The Woman Who Rides Like A Man
Author:: Tamora Pierce
Genre:: Fantasy Fiction
Quick Description:: After gaining her shield 'Sir Alanna' travels south meetin up with a Bazhir tribe. After joining the tribe she must face the trial of changing the male-dominated Bazhir culture.
How You Rate the Book:: 9
Book Title:: Lioness Rampant
Author:: Tamora Pierce
Genre:: Fantasy Fiction
Quick Description:: Alanna travels to teh Roof of the World in search of the Dominion Jewel in order to prove her worth. The Dominion Jewel is a legendary artifact rumored to unite any ruler who holds it with the land that he or she rules. She also duels with Duke Roger after he is resurrected by her brother Thom, and tries once again to take over Tortall.
How You Rate the Book:: 9
Book Title:: First Test
Author:: Tamora Pierce
Genre:: Fantasy Fiction
Quick Description:: Keladry of Mindelan, the first official female page, faces giant spindrens, hazing, bullying and the mistrust of her superiors in her first probationary year as a page.
How You Rate the Book:: 9
Book Title:: Page
Author:: Tamora Pierce
Genre:: Fantasy Fiction
Quick Description:: Kel, to the suprise of many, is allowed to coplete her page's training. In this second book of the series Kel faces dangers that will change teh way pages are taught.
How You Rate the Book:: 9
Book Title:: Squire
Author:: Tamora Pierce
Genre:: Fantasy Fiction
Quick Description:: In the second half of her training, Kel has a new master, Raoul of Goldenlake, who gives her new duties, and teaches her new skills. Alongside her own study, Kel becomes increasingly involved with the war that brews on Tortall's northern border.
How You Rate the Book:: 9
Book Title:: Lady Knight
Author:: Tamora Pierce
Genre:: Fantasy Fiction
Quick Description:: Though she is a knight, Kell is still inexperienced. She struggles with her sense of duty when her commanders assign her not to front lines of war, but to manage a refugee camp.
How You Rate the Book:: 9
You cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
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