The Literary Thread

[bloody jumper]

the alex rider series is my current favorite book series. i used to like the warriors series but after the first 2 series i sort of stopped liking it.

i'm currently reading the restaurant at the end of the universe and recently finished the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. they're both excellent books if you like humorous stories.

I've read both series's Alex Rider was my main pass time for quite while while I was reading it, it's action packed has a good and constantly dangerous world for Alex while he tries to make sense of his life. Also, the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is spectacular and funny also I actually got complaints from my teachers to my parents for reading TOO MUCH.

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[fawkes..]

The last Alex Rider book was so bad I felt like burning it, I was expecting something really good for the last one and it was appauling.

[Wynd_Fox]

Anyone else read the Daniel X series? I read book one and felt like shooting the author.

[psychomutt]

I read The Hound of the Baskervilles. That was the first Sherlock Holmes book I ever read. I liked it.

[Katadeus]

Let me just list a bunch of books I read and loved

Redwall Series, I loved them when I was a kid. Just read them over and over like a little imbecile.
LotR. All of everything, including The Hobbit.
Bartimaeus Trilogy. Great humor, great plot, just excellent overall.
Artemis Fowl. Same general reasons that I loved Bartimaeus books, but the characters were more fun to me (not to dis Bartimaeus or Ptolemy.)
Godel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Brain food, loved it.
The Way Things Work. Another old-time favorite.
I liked some of the Narnia books but others just bored me.
Eragon Series. A good read overall, but mainly for the epic plot; I wasn't particularly struck by it as being good writing.
I read some of the Pern series because my sister had it and I needed something to read, and I did like some of it. However, it's kinda just an epitome of a genre.
Ender's Game is an excellent, excellent book and I recommend it for anyone.
The Discworld Series. High humor and fun plot. What more could I ask for?
Foucault's Pendulum. Read it a while back and was immersed by it. The detail was so exquisite that you had to be careful not to get lost and forget the current situation. I still didn't get as much out of it as I could have because I was trying to read for both the detail and the overall plot and thus skimped on both.
Young Merlin Series was quite a good read for me; kind of classical fantasy.

I'll probably think of some others and come back to this list.

[BanishedLetters]

writing is my favorite hobby and probably one of the only things I'm actually good at

[Wynd_Fox]

Writing is probably my greatest skill, but I'm still quite bad at it. :(
Getting motivated to actually write is difficult for me, too.

[Wheatley]

Half way through "Sea of Monsters"

Percey the & Olimpians is a great series btw. Hoping to read all the books.

I used to love that series. I never got past the one with the labyrinth though, because by the time a new one came out I both hadn't heard of it and had also lost interest in it.

I remember buying the Sea of Monsters at a school bookfair, not realizing it was part of a series until I actually got into the book.

[Coolsauce]

To Kill a Mockingbird

[BanishedLetters]

Writing is probably my greatest skill, but I'm still quite bad at it. :(
Getting motivated to actually write is difficult for me, too.

yeah I know that feeling :c

i follow all these tumblr blogs that are devoted to writers and they give little stubs of a story to inspire people to write a whole story based off of it. although a good bit of the ones I find are really cliché and dumb ;-;

[fred da kiko]

the inheritance series is pretty good. IMO it does a good job of creating a sense of scale.

[Dodger]

My Ranking of the Narnia series on a scale of 1-10 for each book:

Magicians Nephew : 7
Lion, Witch, Wardrobe : 8
Horse and His boy : 7
Prince Caspian : 7
Voyage of Dawn Treader : 8
Silver Chair: 8
The Last Battle : 6

[fawkes..]

Eragon Series. A good read overall, but mainly for the epic plot; I wasn't particularly struck by it as being good writing.

I think it's wrote well, especially the later books! It's probably my favourite book i've read so far

[Katadeus]

My feeling is that the flow of it is great, the level of detail is satisfactory, but other than that nothing stands out.

[Gojira]

On a scale of 1-10
Ender's Game - 11
Hunger Games - 6
I have a lot more but I couldn't be assed to rate them.