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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:02 am
by Crow
Reviving this thread!

I've read a lot of books, but most of it's just stuff aimed at kids and teenagers.

One of my favourite series, which I read a few books of, is The Quentaris Chronicles. It's written by several different Australian authors. I reckon it's what got me into fantasy. I also loved reading anything by Paul Jennings, the Australian author. He also co-wrote Deadly! with another author, Morris Gleitzman. It was a six-part story and I had all of the books into one huge one. It was an awesome story and I really enjoyed it.

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:46 pm
by TCB
Started reading this novel my neighbor lent me; Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill. At first the premise seemed as basic; an avid collector buys a suit of an fake eBay site. Normal right? Nope - he was tricked into buying the thing by some woman who had a vandetta against him for causing the death of her sister, whom he lived with.


And wow...this thread is back...yay.

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:37 pm
by Quills on Wheels
I'm more of the spy kids fan. Books like Cherub or Alex rider are my main interest.

Even yet, I don't mind reading other action books like kids on the run and stuff. I recently finished the Conspiracy 365 books. Though I still have Revenge, the extra final book, to go but I'll read it when I find it in the library.

Every now and then, I also find fiction books about kids and Egypt. I'm not too big when it comes to history but I do like Egypt and it's... life. I finally found the second book of the Kane Chronicles in the library so I'm gonna start reading it after I re-read The first book, Red Pyramid to refresh my mind.

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 3:49 pm
by Crow
I forgot to mention Carole Wilkinson, another children's author!

She wrote this great trilogy about a girl in China who raises a dragon.

I even have the dragon encyclopedia she wrote! It's got some nice illustrations too.

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:09 pm
by TCB
huntergemini wrote:I forgot to mention Carole Wilkinson, another children's author!

She wrote this great trilogy about a girl in China who raises a dragon.

I even have the dragon encyclopedia she wrote! It's got some nice illustrations too.
Sounds interesting; is there some picture of it somewhere? I'm sure there is...please?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:43 pm
by Crow
TheChaosBlue wrote:Sounds interesting; is there some picture of it somewhere? I'm sure there is...please?

I did a search for the illustrator of the dragon encyclopedia, with no luck.

All I could find was the cover of the book;

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/1452 ... iginal.jpg

Dragonkeeper was the name of the series I mentioned.

http://www.carolewilkinson.com.au/books/dragonkeeper

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:29 am
by TCB
huntergemini wrote:I did a search for the illustrator of the dragon encyclopedia, with no luck.

All I could find was the cover of the book;

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/1452 ... iginal.jpg

Dragonkeeper was the name of the series I mentioned.

http://www.carolewilkinson.com.au/books/dragonkeeper

Cool cover; getting some good vibes from this. Might look it up on TV Tropes perhaps.

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:03 am
by Reknoc
TV Tropes seems like a weird site to use to research something.

Added Game of Thrones to shit I need to read now, even started it and everything... I really need to buy a new lamp and some power cable extensions.

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:24 am
by TCB
Reknoc wrote:TV Tropes seems like a weird site to use to research something.

Added Game of Thrones to shit I need to read now, even started it and everything... I really need to buy a new lamp and some power cable extensions.

It's not like I research everything there mind you; it's just that I tend to look up informal subjects and things there. Everthing else, such as formal and offical studies, to offical sources.

That's how I go about it.

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:41 am
by Reknoc
But surely all TVTropes is going to do is spoil stuff.