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Oh I've wanted to read The Time Machine for a long time! War of the Worlds was amazing and I haven't read anything else by H.G. Wells. I need to.


Mind you, if we have a children/youth book month, I might be in trouble :)













What to do? What to do?





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Gahhhh! Thanks, now I have several more books to add to my TBR!!!! giggle giggle! :)

Glad that I could help out to increase your reading! ;)"
Heeheehee!~ It's a problem really:) I'm just glad I don't have to pay for all the books I add to my TBR list here, I'd be one broke gal! :) I seriously have to make myself NOT check out all your pages on here...or It'd be worse than it is!...so much to read, so little reading time! Ahhh....there's the real reason I like vampire books! They have so much time to read!

I do have the first four books, but I'm pretty sure I will not be able to read them all in a month! What with other book discussions coming up, and others that I want to get to this year, it may be a while before I get to the others. I did put the first one on my list here when I joined the group, though, so I will be achieving that goal!

Yes! Read The Sword of Shannara!!! You will not be sorry! I love that series (although there are even more in it that I haven't read - I've read about nine of them).

Well, I don't have the series on DVD. Yet - it is definitely a series I want to own! I think I may wait until it's all over and see if they put out a special complete set, like I did for Lost, which was worth it!
Plus, I bought the DVD of The Children's Hour (a movie I have loved for many years) specifically for the page-to-screen challenge, since I've had the play since a year or two ago, and I'm looking forward to watching it again!
I need to reread Name of the Wind so that can get pushed in ther e- but I know I have other non-read books around that fall into this category :)







Well, Glad you're enjoying GoT...I've got it on my tbr list, but it's going to have to wait until winter! Can't wait to see what you think along the way! Good luck with your other reads/clubs! :)

LOL. I think I'm with you. And perhaps it would have been different if it weren't for the twilight series (I don't respect it enough to use capital letters) ruining that whole genre for me.. whatever it was supposed to be.

I don't care how you spin it, but Twilight is nowhere near Fantasy/Sci-Fi.

I agree! Is there a teen angst genre? Cause that's what it is! (and this is coming from someone who actually liked the books...but they are NOT Sci-Fi..maybe a wee bit of fantasy..because it has vampires?) I still say it needs it's own!



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Jessika, I hope you enjoy The White Dragon! That's a really good one!

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Well, maybe you all can help me. If The Time Traveler's Wife & The Handmaid's Tale are indeed sci-fi (as some have labelled them) then I don't totally hate the genre. Any recommendations that are similar to these?
(Also, I am listening to The Hunger Games on cd right now - does that count?)

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Well, maybe you all can help me. If The Time Traveler's Wife & The Handmaid's Tale are indeed sci-fi (as some have labelled them) ..."
Personally I'd say you prob get away with calling handmaids tale & the hunger games scif. They're both dystopian which is sort of a branch of scifi (in my non scifi reading opinion). I may be biased though as I don't read a lot of the genre so I'm happy to put anything I can in there.
Perhaps something equally dystopian like 1984 or Brave New World, both of which I really enjoyed.

This right there.
I haven't actually started on Hecate's Cauldron yet, despite putting it on my current shelf, so that will count. And then there's a whole bunch of Sword & Sorceress volumes to go through!

(Also, I am listening to The Hunger Games on cd right now - does that count?) "
First off, I'd say that The Hunger Games and The Time Traveler's Wife both would count as Sci-Fi.
From your Dusty Books, I also see House of Leaves which some would consider to have some Sci-Fi elements (I haven't read it, so don't know first-hand.) From your to-read books, I found The Giver and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (which I would consider Fantasy.)
A couple of other Science Fiction books that you might like that I have read are: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang and A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Hope that helps out.

Thanks for taking the time to look for me. I read about 200 pages of House of Leaves already but it was a library book and I just couldn't finish it before it was due. I received it as a gift two Christmases ago but it's so daunting I haven't picked it back up. Thanks for the other recs - I will look at them now.
Elaine wrote: "April wrote: "April wrote: "I agree! Is there a teen angst genre?"
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Well, maybe you all can help me. If The Time Traveler's Wife & The Handmaid's Tale are indeed sci-fi (as some have l..."
I have actually read both Brave New World and 1984! I liked 1984 okay, didn't like Brave New World. One of my majors in college was English lit, so I've read a lot of the "classics."

I minored in English Lit, so I know what you mean. I also thought of a couple of fantasy novels that you might try that I read and enjoyed as part of a Fable & Fantasy class: Deerskin and Ombria in Shadow.

I minored in English Lit, so I know what you mean. I also thought of a couple of ..."
I took a fantasy class two summer ago. We read The Hobbit, American Gods, and Assassin's Apprentice. It was really enjoyable, he even worked as D&D back in the 80s. The only problem was that the professor used The Hero's Jounery way too much.

I will check out Deerskin. Although (as you said) the cover is creepy, it sounds okay. But you lost me on Ombria with the words "political intrigue" - gag me ;)


The The White Dragon is one of my favorite covers. I just love the way Michael Whelan did the orginial cover:



Yes, isn't it great?! I've read quite a few of the Pern books, and that is one of my favorites.


I'm just starting it, and oh! Treebeard! I don't know if I can handle forty pages of him!

I'm reading Return of the King this month. Enjoy Two Towers!

This is also the toughest of the movies for me to get through; I still love it, but if I'm tired or something, it's easy to doze off in the middle of all the war preparations, hahah. (:
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