The Collector by John Fowles.

Your turn! Let's talk books! :whistle:

For the one-billionth time,

The Hours by Michael Cunningham.

The His Dark Materials series by Philipp Pullman
It is an awesome fantasy/scifi series

The Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind as well as the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. :geek:

..and I agree, we will rule the world. :devil:

I agree! I adore the His Dark Materials trilogy! Such an amazingly good read... :wub:

It's great to meet another fan! :D

Ah, my brother's reading the Wheel of Time series! ^_^

I'm going to have to get round to them one day... :geek:

The world is ours, Shrouded. It's just that no-one else knows it yet. We'll just bide our time (reading) until we can take it back and rule it forever! :devil:

WOT is very good. It was slow at the start but it became very interesting at the end. Now the Sword of Truth novels are very inspiring(something I did not expect for a fantasy book), it really gave me a new outlook in life. :geek:

:devil: Tis' a plan then!!! They shall all cower in their dark corners whenever they hear our names!!!
( :whistle: anyways, check your PM)

Done and dusted! :lol:

Now that's a good recommendation! If you don't mind that I'm inviting you rant, then I'd love to hear you elaborate a little. How do you feel about the series, and how did it change your outlook? Sorry if I'm prying, but I'm really interested... :geek:

Yes! It will be so! Let us amass our bookish army of darkness! :ph43r:

Wheel of Time and Sword of Truth sound interesting...what are they about? :D

I'd like to know, too! They sound like two series worth checking out.

As for me, I'm reading Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination at the moment. Helen Fielding, I love thee so... :)

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and Barrel Fever by David Sedaris. This guy is hilarious! :lol:

Speak by Laurie Halsen Anderson. Verrrry dark... verrry lovely, really. Scabby lips remind me of... MEEEE!!! :winner:

Spoilers--Well not really, just some overview. :cloud:

Wheel Of Time is about a very powerful hero who gets reborn every few centuries or so to battle the great "dark one". It's a typical "good destroys evil and save the world" kinda thing.

:cloud: With a twist...

You see, the hero is also prophesized to go crazy and kill everyone near him(he kills more than half of the world's population every century or so). So this reborn hero not only needs to worry about the "dark one", he also needs to worry about his sanity. :P

Overall, I love the character development here. There's also some pretty neat plot twists here too.

... but that's nowhere compared to the Sword of Truth novels. It's basically the same premise, a hero is foretold to be born and destroy the coming evil. However, this is more complex than WOT.

The book delves heavily into the grey areas of good and evil. It challenges your moral standards of right and wrong. You'll see the hero punishing a lil girl by severing her tongue from her body. You'll even see him kill a bunch of violence-hating pacifists.

This book gave me a new outlook because the it tells you how to exactly look at everything as a whole before you make a conclusion out of it. You question everything that you don't understand and learn every information no matter how irrelevent it is before making a move.

:ph43r:

Wow... *looks up at Shroudy's statements* All of those books seem very interesting... if not a little dark. I personally love thought-provoking books - they give you something to roll over in your mind.

Currently though, I'm not reading anything like the above statements. :unsure: I'm reading The Witches of Worm, which actually is interesting for a child's book...

The Silmarillion, Lord of The Rings, Pride and Prejudice, Wicked, and any books that has Drizzt Do'Urden and/or Artemis Entreri written by R.A. Salvador...

...I also read Star Wars and Star Trek Voyager books...

Ever tried the New Jedi Order? I loved it...until they killed off my fave character :sad:

I'm now reading The Vampire Armand and it's making me blush. :blush: It is very...uh...graphic. Let's just say that Anne Rice is a yaoi fangirl's dream. :/

I've always been a big fan of Anne Rice books until Merrick came to surface. Blood and Gold has always been a personal favorite of mine. Be sure to catch that one if you haven't.

Hmm, call me weird, but I wasn't interested with the new gen characters (Jacen, Jaina, Anakin). I stopped getting SW books when I heard they killed off Chewbacca and Mon Mothma... >.<

Am also not interested with the Old Republic novels...

I love the Silmarillion. It's a truly great book. Everyone has heard of and/or read Lord of the Rings, but so few people have read the Silmarillion. :(

I'm reading the Warriors series by Erin Hunter (excellent series, they look silly but are extremely good), and Fire-Bringer by David Clement-Davies (I hope someone here has read The Sight... I love that book.) I <3 animal fantasy.

Dancer in the Wings - Lorna Hill

I currently have only three books which she wrote and I'm still looking till I find all.
I like the way she writes and according to what I heard, her books are classics, maybe that's why they're quite rare.

I've only read 'The Queen Of the Damned' and honestly it took me aruond a month to finish reading. I guess that goes to show that my patience is very low, but when I can, I may read more of Anne Rice's works. :D

Sigh... one of my favourites. The language, the imagination is beyond this world. :D

I'm into classics right now; I'm reading the Little Women series, right from the first book to the sequels; Little Men and Jo's Boys. I just love her books.

GAHHH!!! This book is like a nightmare that I can't escape! :puke:
I hate the characters, the plot, the looong pages and thick books, almost everything about it. But I'm still reading it.

It's like I don't want to but something's forcing me to read every freaking book that comes out in this series. I've lost count... 12 books already?

The main character's is a guy who experiences a total personality surgery once he acquires 'The Great Power' a.k.a forbidden magic which men/guys are not supposed to have because it'll corrupt the minds of those who wield it.

At the beginning of the series he was a lovely, naive boy going out into the world, full of fresh hopes and dreams. I liked him there. But once he realizes he can wield the 'One Power' at 'The Blight', and gets 'The Sword' (what's it called again?) from 'The Castle', he changes into such an arsehole who forgets his friends, gets into moody swings, demands a whole lot of crap from his supposedly 'loyal' people, and marries 3 women (which none of them the girl he planned to marry in the beginning *sniff*).

And don't get me started on the 3 women who happens to be the hero's wives...

Oops, am I ranting again?

But then again, I rather enjoy the Aes Sedai and the One Power/True Power elements... only when they don't involve the main character.

Oooh, sounds juicy... ::encourages rant:: :devil:

I'm now reading The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki (and a book of poems by Carmen Willcox called Luminarium: In Search of the DreamChild on the side). ^_^

:lol: The first book of the Wheel of Time was GREAT, but the story went downhill from there. I should rant about it sometime. And yes, I HATE the fact that he turns into a polygamist.

I'm currently reading, for the billionth time, Anna Karenina. ^_^

" Grass for His Pillow " by Lian Hearn,it's a really great book.

Unfortunately thanks to grad school most of my reading has now been completely centered around academic books. However, a personal favorite of mine is Frank Herbert's Dune.

Anyone ever read it? If you are a SciFi fan, you need to put this book on your list.

Chewie's death was done very well...really heroic. His nephew's a Jedi. A Wookie Jedi...now that was weird.

I loved Little Women but I turned sour in the end when Jo turned down handsome, funny Laurie and married that ugly old Mr. Bhaer!!!

Yeah, that *was* bad... but I'm a fan of Laurie/Amy, so it didn't bother me much. :angel:

Actually me too. When Amy married Laurie, I was like "Mwahahaha, poor Jo doesn't know what she's missing" :P

Does anyone have any recommendations for a fantasy type book? I need to get my friend a gift. -_-

And the last book I read was the DaVinci code. That was a while ago, though. I don't read books that often to be honest but when I do, I get really into them. XD

The "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman...ah, I've mentioned it before but trust me, it's good!

Hey, has anyone read the short story titled 'The Scream' by H.Briscoe (if I remembered corretly:unsure: )???

Well my English class lecturer at the Uni. assigned a project and asked us to choose from a few listed short stories and change it into something other than a short storie. in a group of 4 people we developed an online comic based on that short storie and well it turned out pretty good.


We assigned each other with jobs, I was the reporter and the script writer , the senior student in our group, she was the artist, my other classmate was the presenter and the one who did the power point for the class presentation and the latest member of our group was the webmaster.

From a normal short story, we morphed it into a horror manga. Hope you enjoy it.:)

The way my friend drew and coloured it, I noticed some similarity to Cloud and Aerith in the two girls ( though we changed the characters from sisters to classmates)

I hope you don't mind me sharing it with all of you and I hope I posted this in the right section .

http://www.scream-online.cjb.net/

(if it doesn't work , I'll repost the link)

IM actually reading like 99 books at once(which is odd since i dont normally read) IM readin these books

Finder
Trigun volume 1 of season 2
and some other books whos title I forgot and am to lazy to stand up and look.

Well those are the books I am reading..I dont normally cuase 1. I dont have time, and 2. I jsut dont want to I guess. I do get caught up in it big time when I do though, I get sucked right in and have to force myself out, its kinda funny...funny and a little sad.(tidus qoute right there)

I was *supposed* to be reading Belinda by Anne Rice, but all the mature themes were getting to me. I quit reading sometime in the middle. Maybe next time... :ermm:

So now I'm reading Beijing Doll by Chun Sue. Just bought it yesterday, and I'm almost halfway through. If only I could remember the Chinese names, they sound so alike. XD

The Dragonrealm Series (for the 2nd time) by Richard Knaak. I actually have a signed copy of The Horse King. :D

hmmmm does MANGA count as reading? :unsure:
if not then i'll put the other one i was reading on the net it was:
BATTOUSAI VS KENSHIN (.........)

I'm reading The Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones. It's really funny. ^_^

I’m reading Many Waters by Madeleine L’ Engle. I'm not a big L'Engle fan, but this is one of my favorite books. Biblical and sci-fi at the same time...weird combination but it works!

Madeline L'Engle is EXCELLENT. My favorite book of hers is A Swiftly Tilting Panet. I love Charles Wallace!

Swiftly Tilting Planet is the only one of the Time Quartet i haven't read. I liked A Wrinkle in Time except for the climax ("I love you! I love you!" *grabs barf bag*) A Wind in the Door was bizarre but fun. Many Waters though...I found it deep and profound...so many seemingly incongruent themes fitted into one story...in short, I loved it! Just finished reading it for the bazillionth time.

I'm now reading The Phoenix and the Carpet, which is the sequel to Five Children and It. It's supposed to be a children's book but this is my first time reading it :unsure:

It's a classic. :D

I'm only on the 4th one. :)

AHHHH!!! What happened to him and Eguene??(SP) Never mind don't tell me!! I'll find it myself. >_< The sword's name btw is Calandor(sp) I believe...

Fireworks by Angela Carter.