Our favourite Books' reviews

[Furai]

I'm going to buy myself a book but I don't have any idea what's worth reading lately. I want it to be written in English. I've read 3 Christopher Paolini's volumes (Eragon, Eldest, and Brisingr) and loved it.

So you know now that I like fantasy genre in general. Can you give me some titles? I was wondering...how about Tolkien's trilogy (remember that I want it to be in English). What's your thoughts?

[croat1gamer]

A Song of Ice and Fire

[Furai]

Author? Genre? What it is about in general (I don't want to know ending...)? I should have specified more exactly what I meant...

[Memxio]

Be forewarned, the Wikipedia article does contain spoilers.

The Once and Future King - T. H. White

Life of King Arthur.

[Graham]

Be a man.

[iDante]

So you know now that I like fantasy genre in general. Can you give me some titles? I was wondering...how about Tolkien's trilogy (remember that I want it to be in English). What's your thoughts?

They are very boring. Very. Boring. Sure you should read them just because they defined a genre and whatnot, but very. boring.

[Graham]

So you know now that I like fantasy genre in general. Can you give me some titles? I was wondering...how about Tolkien's trilogy (remember that I want it to be in English). What's your thoughts?

They are very boring. Very. Boring. Sure you should read them just because they defined a genre and whatnot, but very. boring.

I have an extremely short attention span but they kept me entertained. Someone stole my 3rd book though so I never got to finish it.

[Lord Frunkamunch]

Hrmm...fantasy...try the Bartimaeus trilogy. They're slightly less serious than Paolini's stuff, but much better written in my opinion.

[jrgp]

 - Congo, Sphere, Airframe by Michael Chrichton. (JP/LW are overrated imho)
 - Goldfinger by Ian Fleming.
 - Hobbit/LOTR by Tolkien
 - Everything by Anne Rice

[SadistAtHeart]

Due to college and other bollocks I still haven't started Slaughterhouse Five. Lazyness.

[Blacksheepboy]

They are very boring. Very. Boring.

The beginning of the second book was so uninteresting that I put it down for a full year before reading it and the last. I have a friend that did the same. Even then, I highly recommend plowing through them.

[iDante]

If you haven't read them the golden compass and the subtle knife are good. The last one totally sucks though.

[Furai]

I've read LOTR in my origin language and I like it, even though it had enormous land descriptions (First book - then watched film). Hobbit was fine too - read it multiple times. I may look at your propositions.

2nd thought: Change this topic into "Our favourite Books' reviews". Post here your notices about books you've read.

[Farah]

Sophie's World is quite good as far as solipsist fantasies go. Though I don't like how this thread is limited to fantasy books.

[Furai]

I'm only interseted in fantasy books but you can describe in details whatever book you want.

[Shard]

If you haven't read them the golden compass and the subtle knife are good. The last one totally sucks though.

Ugh, thank you American cinema...Its not the Golden Compass, its The Northern Lights. The trilogy is called His Dark Materials. And the Subtle Knife nad the 3rd one, The Amber Spyglass, are 2 of the best books I have ever read.

I'm going to buy myself a book but I don't have any idea what's worth reading lately. I want it to be written in English. I've read 3 Christopher Paolini's volumes (Eragon, Eldest, and Brisingr) and loved it.

So you know now that I like fantasy genre in general. Can you give me some titles? I was wondering...how about Tolkien's trilogy (remember that I want it to be in English). What's your thoughts?

ERAGON FTW, filmed sucked ass. Do you know when the 4th book is out? Definitely read LOTR, and the Hobbit. Terry Pratchett is good too, he has lots of good books. The Book Of Dragons, it's a book full of short stories about, dragons! Very good.

[10th_account]

The Princess Bride is quite decent. And guess what? It's written in English.

[VijchtiDoodah]

Ugh, thank you American cinema...Its not the Golden Compass, its The Northern Lights.

Books are released under different titles in different areas. In North America, it's The Golden Compass.

From wikipedia:

For some time during the pre-publication process, the series of novels was known as The Golden Compasses. The word Compasses referred to a pair of compasses—the circle-drawing instrument—rather than a navigational compass. Pullman then settled on Northern Lights as the title for the first book, and continued to refer to the trilogy as The Golden Compasses. Like the eventual title for the trilogy, the original title The Golden Compasses comes from a line in Milton's Paradise Lost.[1]

In the United States, in their discussions over the publication of the first book, the publishers Alfred A. Knopf had been calling it The Golden Compass (omitting the plural), which they mistakenly believed referred to Lyra's alethiometer, because the device superficially resembles a navigational compass. Meanwhile, in the UK, Pullman had replaced The Golden Compasses with His Dark Materials (a title that Pullman had taken from a line in Paradise Lost) as the title of the trilogy. According to Pullman, the publishers had become so attached to The Golden Compass that they insisted on publishing the U.S. edition of the first book under that title, rather than Northern Lights with the title used in the UK and Australia.

[iDante]

If you haven't read them the golden compass and the subtle knife are good. The last one totally sucks though.

Ugh, thank you American cinema...Its not the Golden Compass, its The Northern Lights. The trilogy is called His Dark Materials. And the Subtle Knife nad the 3rd one, The Amber Spyglass, are 2 of the best books I have ever read.

I haven't seen the movie, as Vijcht pointed out it is called that in the USA. Sorry if I offended.

I just remembered several books that I really liked as a younger person. The Sea of Trolls and the next two books in the series are very good. They got me to learn a bit about Norse mythology.