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I've never heard of The Golden Ocean.....who wrote it?

John The Ax wrote:Chronicles of Narnia are an excellent allegory! My family's listening to them on tape, but it's a dramatic thing with actors, not a reading. I've read them previously, and some are better on a tape (Horse and his Boy)

I got the entire 7 book set for x-mas! The horse and his boy, the voyage of the dawn treador, the silver chair and the magicians nephew were the best ones.

I am reading Night Shift riTe now and it is a pretty good book. Its a whole bunch of short stories by Steven King. I recommend this to anyone who likes Steven King or horror stories.

kazer0 wrote:

John The Ax wrote:Chronicles of Narnia are an excellent allegory! My family's listening to them on tape, but it's a dramatic thing with actors, not a reading. I've read them previously, and some are better on a tape (Horse and his Boy)

I got the entire 7 book set for x-mas! The horse and his boy, the voyage of the dawn treador, the silver chair and the magicians nephew were the best ones.

I only own the Silver Chair, which I did love.

I like Clive Cussler's adventure novels. They are about this guy, Dirk Pitt, who gets into all thease adventures having to do with archaology, or grave robbers, or any kind of adventures you can have with bad guys in the middle of the jungle, or in the middle of the Pacific or on top of a volcano. Stuff like that. Also Dirk always finds a hot chick to go around with him in the book and is always ready to bed down with Dirk anywhere. Like on a beach at sunrise or stuff like that. Dirk also has a gigantic classic car collection, and is very handy with guns.
You can always pick up his latest at the drug store. I have 29 of his books.

I just re-rented the Golden Ocean by Patrick O Brien.

Just finnished Sea Wolf. It was Ok.

I'm reading The Golden Compass right now. It's the first book in the "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Good, so far.

Yeah, I read that about in elementary school. Then I read The Subtle Knife, and had to wait YEARS for the final book to come out. It was like this: Back of Subtle Knife: Last book coming out in November of 1999.
Goes to Border's Books in September to ask about it: "It's not coming out until April"
Goes in April: "It's not out yet"
Goes in June: "It's not out yet, coming out in August"
Goes in August: It was finally in! I had to wait three years to read the last book!

Actually, that series gets pretty weird near the end, but overall they are pretty good.

John The Ax wrote: "The island of doctor monroe"

One of those movies was filmed here.

im still waiting for the 5th harry pottr book to come out. It says comming november of 2001. Hum.... just a tad late...

Hum... Cant wait untl 2001!

I heard July in the US

anyone read The Lord of the Flies? it's really good. based on the phsycology of humans.

GAMER_girl

Yeah. What did the pig head represent to you? I thought it was fear, myself.

i thought it represented what the boys had become. i don't think the way the conch shell was destroyed worked. he should have realised the uselessness of it and what they had done and thrown it.

GAMER_girl

• The Thirty-Nine Steps
• The White Mountains and The City of Gold and Lead
• The Andromeda Strain (Crichton)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (of course)
• Tolkien and C.S. Lewis are both great. Has anyone read Lewis' Space Trilogy
• That's just about it. I will post any more that I think of in the future.

P.S. If you want the authors of any of these books, just PM me...

Lord of the Flies is definitely not for a younger audience. Despite the fact that there is nothing in there that sohuld not be read by kids, there isn't really much in the story that will hold a 10 year old's interest, and -most- lil ones will not "get it".

As for my "reccomended reading" list...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I can't believe noone mentioned this yet. For shame. These are the best books ever written, imo, and I've read lotsa lotsa books. Don't Panic.

Clockwork, by Philip Pullman.
Short, deep and satisfying. Clockwork is only 100 short pages yet it manages to pack quite a whallop. Deeper and more intricate than most books 5x as long. Philip Pullman proves himself a modern-day Poe, and I don't say that lightly. Chilling.

The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan.
Long and political is a good way to describe these books, which now number 10 with an expectancy of 12. The series starts with "The Eye of the World", which is an action packed fantasy adventure master-piece. Beware, though, not to get in over your head with this series. Later on (after book 5 it really starts) the books get really political and slow moving. Some people may not like this in their fantasy books, but personally, I love how fleshed out all the characters and their motives are. Definitely not for everyone, as it is not your typical swords-and-sorcery fantasy book, but definitely for some people who can appreciate a fully realized world with an epic story to tell. Probably the most complicated series I have ever read. EAch book is looong, some over 1000 pages. So before you go in, make sure to take care of your other, shorter, reading first.

Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card.
Orson Scott Card is the best author alive and Ender's Game is his magnum opus. A sci-fi thrill ride like no other with an absolutely amazing plot with seemingly unlimited twists. Card's characters and dialogue is life-like. The way this guy writes makes you want to jump into the story and take part. You will not be able to put this book down.

The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis.
Often scorned because of the underlying Christian aspects, Narnia often gets wrongfully ignored among the LotR's and HP's pf the world. If there was any justice, this book would be where Harry Potter is right now.

The Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe.
True, it's not a book, but it is the best single piece of literature ever composed. Read it.

eViL bOrIs I wrote:As for my "reccomended reading" list...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I can't believe noone mentioned this yet. For shame. These are the best books ever written, imo, and I've read lotsa lotsa books. Don't Panic.

Indeed. They are some of the best books written, I've read all of them, Douglas Adams is an awesome writer.

The Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe.
True, it's not a book, but it is the best single piece of literature ever composed. Read it.

If you're going to read one work by Poe, I would suggest The Fall of The House of Usher, it's truly fantastic. If you're more in the mood for symbolic alligories (all of Poe's works are, (which is what made him famous) but some are more so than others) I would suggest The Mask of The Red Death. It's one of those stories that really makes you sit down for a few hours and think about the point being made. (Hint: if you don't understand the colors of the seven rooms read "The Seven Colors of Life" by William Shakespear, it'll give you a radically new perspective on the story)

The Raven is by far his best work and the work that made him posthumously famous (he was the town drunk and a loser who married his niece, whom I assume was named Lenore, judging by most of his poetry).
I'd have to say that The Pit and the Pendulum is his second best, followed by The Mask of Red Death, The Gold Bug, and The Fall of the House of Usher. House of Usher is just a terrifying story.
A lesser known poem of his, Bells, is also among my favorites, as is Lenore.