Kids/Teens Book Club discussion

Who is your favorite author? Authors you recommend? Little know Authors others should know about? Authors that you are about to read?

Rick Riordan
J.R.R. Tolkien
Lloyd Alexander
Stephenie Meyer
C.S. Lewis
Dr. Seuss

Sarah Dessen
J.K. Rowling
Rick Riordan
Meg Cabot
James Patterson ((love the Max Ride books!!!))
Shannon Hale
Suzanne Collins
Christopher Paolini
and many more.....

derek landy

darren shan

John flanagan

rick riordan

j.k. rowling

brothers grimm

michael buckly

J.D. Salinger
Haruki Murakami
Isaac Asimov
Douglas Adams
Alexander Dumas

wow, rick riordan's *REPRESENTED*

i like Cornelia Funke, JK Rowling, and Astrid Lindgren :)

Some of my favorites:

J.R.R. Tolkien
Philip Pullman
J.K. Rowling
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Jonathan Stroud
Harper Lee (I love To Kill a Mockingbird)
Agatha Christie (Though I've only read 8-10 of her books)

"Though I've only read 8-10 of her books"

I've only read 4, and I count her as one of my favorites. I love your list, although I haven't read everyone on it. Most (maybe all) of them are on my list of authors to read eventually. What did Jonathan Stroud write?

He wrote the Bartimaeus Trilogy. I think it's a great fantasy series with a lot of humor and action. The story takes place in England and concerns magicians and commoners, but it doesn't rip-off Harry Potter.

Oh cool, I've heard of that series before. I'll be sure to check it out. :D

Pandy wrote: "He wrote the Bartimaeus Trilogy. I think it's a great fantasy series with a lot of humor and action. The story takes place in England and concerns magicians and commoners, but it doesn't rip-off Ha..."

i soooo wanted to read those, but i heard that something happens that's...kinda a bummer, so idk. i guess sense stroud's one of your favorite authors, that means you like them a lot! would you recommend reading them anyway?

J.K. Rowling
Sarah Dessen
Rick Riordan
Deb Caletti
Suzanne Collins
Shannon Hale
Maureen Johnson
Chris Crutcher

and tons more....but i had a brain fart

Rick Riordan
Stephenie Meyer
Kate Dicamillo
Brandon Mull
J.K. Rowling
C.S. Lewis
Pam Munoz Ryan

and maybe a few more that i can't conjure up at the moment

Amelia*annabeth&percy*sittin in a tree* wrote: "Pandy wrote: "He wrote the Bartimaeus Trilogy. I think it's a great fantasy series with a lot of humor and action. The story takes place in England and concerns magicians and commoners, but it does..."

I would certainly recommend the Bartimaeus Trilogy, even though the end of the third one does make me sad. (Though I do think I would have liked another chapter or a re-arranging of chapters at the end, but that might just be me. I wanted more closure.)

doesn't it seem almost every book series always ends with a tragedy?

Really? Most of the series I've read don't end tragically. There is usually some sadness (and sometimes death), of course, but I don't call that a tragedy. I wouldn't call the ending of the Bartimaeus trilogy a tragedy either.

Well when I say tragedy I mean like ONE tragedy. Death is considered a tragedy.

well, The Last Olympian doesnt :DDDD
it ends in a bubble underwater, right shelby?!?!?!

BUT LUKE DIES!!!! HOW IS THAT NOT TRAGIC??!!

And Chris Beckendorf dies, and the gods would have left so many of their children around the country without knowing who their parent was. They would have been perfectly fine with that. I find that really sad.

it is kind of a really crappy situation when you think of the gods all immortal and stuff, just running around procreating just for the fun on it, creating this kids that are gonna be chased by monsters. no protection, no child support! haha. but yeah, rick presents all this stuff in a very kid-frienly way that doesnt make you like boggled down in depressed-ville.

All of those kids are doomed to an awful childhood, and will grow up to be very bitter adults, like Luke would have...

but not percy and annabeth.
i think they ended up getting married.
dont you?

O.O i don't!
you don't like ANNABETH?!


and: RIGHT AMELIA! yet its still tragic with Beckendorf and Luke, like Rachel said
THATS TWOOO TRAGEDIES!

Humph.

Oh well that's more like it!
Rachel sucks.

lol...this is very reminiscent of the PERCABETH VS PERACHEL debate (that's not really a debate, because everybody hates rachel)

Me too!
but AMELIA doesn't like Calypso.
In my opinion, if it wasn't Annabeth, i would want it to be Calypso.

Logan Lerman & PJO Fanatic wrote: "Oh well that's more like it!
Rachel sucks."

I feel so loved!

I liked Rachel! I don't think that she and Percy were right for each other, but I still liked her. What's wrong with her, anyways?

She kissed Percy!
and was MEAN to Annabeth!

1). That's what you do if you like someone, and they like you.

2). Annabeth was competition. It's a natural reaction. It doesn't make it right, but it's understandable to be upset at the person whom your crush (maybe more...) is in love with.

oh gawd. im like the only person on here who thinks calypso's a hoe. just like her epic counterpart in THE ODYSSEY. i freaking hate calypso. lindsey and i have this little "fanfic" we concocted where annabeth goes back to her island and kicks the snot out of her. HAHA.

ps--i gotta admit, though, i dont recall rachel ever being mean to annabeth: that was pretty much annabeth all the way ("they asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb"/ "was it HARD?") lol yeah annabeth was kinda the pissy one, lol but i would have done the same thing! it was cute!

I liked the take on Calypso in the PJO. In the Odyssey, she was very, well, slutty. She seemed to be offering Percy an easy way out of everything he had to do. Hmmm...*thinks of Elisabeth/Der Tod parallels*...I think I actually like them more now that I think of it that way.

i think she was trying to seduce percy cause she's a slut, lol. and i was disappointed percy didnt seem more disinterested. cause the last time he saw annabeth, she had KISSED him, for crying out loud! ive got lots of guy friends and 2 brothers, and if a teen boy gets kissed, it's all they can think about, all they can talk about, for a verrrrrrrrry long time! how could he have forgotten? how could he not have cared?? ohh gawd now i need my inhaler... brb

Well, here's a summary of the Odyssey: Odysseus spends 10 years getting back to his wife. He spends one of those years sailing and fighting sea monsters. He spends one of those years sleeping with Circe. He spends eight of those years sleeping with/in a vegatative state (we didn't read this section, and just had a very confusing summary) with Calypso.

I think that she was really just lonely in the series. Also, I thinks that she probably had one of those aura/atmospheres influencing Percy, like Ares's did.

i just dont like percy with *anybody* other than annabeth. and technically, he never was. but there was just enough rachel & calypso to make me run for my inhaler.

i usually dont like lead characters with *anybody* other than one person. The Chronicles of Prydain were perfect for me because of that :P ohhh, those are good books! and you know, not a lot of love triangles in LOTR! haha anyway...

Really?! I didn't notice! ;)

I don't mind the leads with other characters, as long as they end up with the right person in the end. Or not. I don't mind that all that much either, although I can't think of a time that that's happened off the top of my head.

lol, im pretty flexible with stories EXCEPT for love/romantic scenarios. cause to me, that seems kind of like an "off-limits" sort of thing that shouldnt be messed with--there's so much crap in real life, i like reading about romantic stuff in books, even if they're not that realistic :P

I hate romance without all the complicated stuff. It's no fun without that.

lol...you might not like my books then :(((
buuuuuut my stories tend to be more adventure-driven with characters who end up developing feelings gradually and wind up together at the end. is that boring?

No, I just don't like stuff that only has romance (one of my main Twilight problems), and there is nothing complicating their relationship.

well what do think about stories that are more action-fantasy oriented BUT whose romatic subplots are gradual and...well i dont want to say "uncomplicated," they just dont have swinging characters, lol...?

i can already predict that some people will find my work "predictable." and that's okay to me, cause sometimes nowadays i think authors try too hard to keep people constantly guessing and their word gets extremely convoluted as a result

Amelia*annabeth&percy*sittin in a tree* wrote: "well what do think about stories that are more action-fantasy oriented BUT whose romatic subplots are gradual and...well i dont want to say "uncomplicated," they just dont have swinging characters,..."

If it focuses on the action, then I'm fine with it, although I still prefer complicated romances.

i thought TWILIGHT was complicated enough... you know the whole "im a human and youre a vampire" and "jacob or edward?" and all that

too much complications can turn into "gossip-girl"ish soap operas and thats REALLY boring :/

But it's not much of a complication. I mean, it causes some internal problems for him, but but Bella would be perfectly fine with being a vampire. I mean, she wants to be one! And at first, Edward is all worried about not being able to control himself, but then they start making out, and "Oh, that was easier than I thought!" And it was really obvious who she's going to end up with.

Those are repetitive complications. I like the more original ones. Like in Jane Eyre, how he's actually already married and keeps his crazy wife locked up in the attic. That's pretty original. And then there are others, too, that are complicated and original.

oh yeah you're totally right about the TWILIGHT thing, rachel: that aspect could have been a lot more "complicated" than it was presented, but still, the human/vampire scenario is supposed to set up some kind of paranormal angst. SUPPOSEDLY there are complications, but whether or not readers really feel like they are presented effectively is a matter for debate, i guess

and see, JANE EYRE is a story that i find interesting, but NOT romatic in the slightest. i just dont like rochester, though. i think he's wimpy :P like maxim!

ohhh, could it be?!?! i think i've actually thought of a romantic-triangle that i ACTUALLY like!!!!














A Tale of Two Cities

Jane Eyre is one of my ideal romances! It's one of the only things I've read where the romance is a major part, and it doesn't bother me. I love Rochester! He wasn't perfect, but there was just something about him. And I liked Maxim at points, but there were some points were he really annoyed me. Neither of them struck me as "wimpy", though.

I plan on reading that someday. I love the sound of it!

And Chandlowski, I love the Hunger Games romance! Gale and Peeta are just too perfect!

ugghhh you can have rochester :P
i'll take sydney carton :D

oh and marius!

Yay!

Who's Sydney Carton?

Hey, I want Marius! And Enjolras. And Combferre.