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What kid books do you like?
When talking about those kind of books, I don't mean books like Enders game, which are adult books in a simple cover, but stuff say... Hardy Boys for mystery novels or Animorphs in Scifi.

Animorphs, definitly, Goosebumps, i enjoyed as well,

Earthsea, was very good.
Artemis Fowl


As long as the book has a good plot, good charactisations, i will read it, but if its really really boring, then i shall put it down and never ever read it again.

Earthsea was a kids book?

The nice thing about kid books is that they don't waste time on technicalties, or deep discriptions, they get on with the plot and witty dialogue, which is fun.

Earthsea, Artemis fowl, the "kid" discworld book's, some book about giant cities on legs (pretty good though), used to like Animorphs when i was 13,
If it's interesting then i'l read it.

Cmic book's also, not just Sandman and the like.

Ace Pace wrote:Earthsea was a kids book?

The nice thing about kid books is that they don't waste time on technicalties, or deep discriptions, they get on with the plot and witty dialogue, which is fun.

Earthsea was originally written as a kids book. when the sequals came out, it gained a cult following amongst the adult readers,

I remember the Wizard of Earthsea was in my 7th grade english book in Tampa, Fl. Best story in it! I loved that book and I love the series.

But Goosebumps also rank up there. And the cult classics The Cat in the Hat!

The Wind in the Willows.

Bar none.

The Hobbit

The Black Cauldron series (I can't remember the real title)

Brian Daley's Han Solo trilogy.

The Riddlemaster of Hed.

Most of the rest of the stuff I read as a child counted as adult books.

Forgot the Hobbit :banghead: (normal version + illustrated "comic" version).

The Black Cauldron series (I can't remember the real title)

The chronicles of prydain

Brian Daley's Han Solo trilogy.

Isnt it A something's?

Wait... I forgot the Jungle Book! Foolish me - censoring more Kipling. Of course, I read stuff like the Muddle-Headed Wombat and God knows what else...

Dark lord of the megas wrote: Isnt it A something's?

No, I'm talking about the the one written in the late 70s, early 80s. Han Solo at Star's End, Han Solo's Revenge, andHan Solo and the Lost Legacy. Vastly superior to all that Vong/NJO crap. Exciting, dramatic, and with Han Solo being the man.

NJO, while it did have its bad moments, was not that bad. There were a few redeeming gems.

Dartzap wrote:NJO, while it did have its bad moments, was not that bad. There were a few redeeming gems.

True "Unifying force" was one of my top 10 favorite SW book's.

Also Kipling, Aesop were a pleasure to read, even today :thumbsup

Indeed, Star By Star is another good choice.

Both of those, and Traitor.

Traitor, love it or hate it, does re-define ALOT about everything SW related.

Ace Pace wrote:Both of those, and Traitor.

Traitor, love it or hate it, does re-define ALOT about everything SW related.

Was well written but "no more Dark side" :thumbsdown po'ed .

Not a good idea

I encountered far too much garbage to continue reading the NJO. I'm not saying its all bad, I'm saying the ones I started to read were bad, so I stopped reading them.

Dark lord of the megas wrote:

Ace Pace wrote:Both of those, and Traitor.

Traitor, love it or hate it, does re-define ALOT about everything SW related.

Was well written but "no more Dark side" :thumbsdown po'ed .

Not a good idea

I could've lived with the 'No true Dark side' stuff if they'd actually followed that story thread. The whole novel leads one to believe that Jacen is on the brink of revolutionary discoveries about the nature of the Force, but they follow up by having everything generally fall back into the standard storyline.

One of the big problems with the NJO, in hindsight, was the lack of coordination between the writers with regards to what direction they were taking the series in.

My favorite part? The fact that they reintroduced suspense to the setting. Because they killed Chewie and (spoilerized for those who might not have read it) Anakin, after building him up as the great savior of the Jedi, the novels actually made you worry about the characters when they were in peril. Toward the end, they even had me going on the possibility that Han might get killed.

That was damned cool.

Charlotte's Web

ANYTHING Dr Seus ^~

(Can I count FR here? I really do qualify those as childrens novels :P )

Tamora Pierce's Alanna series ... read'em all before I turned 14...

Mercedes Lackey and her infinite series (har har). Technically NOT children's books; however all her other work before that WAS, and so I do kind of consider it still adolescent-level reading.

And ... uh ...

Ya. Stuff.

*shifty eyes*
(I don't think I can count Emily Dickinson here even though I read her a lot in my teens. A LOT a lot ...)

*bounces off*

Petrosjko wrote:

Dark lord of the megas wrote:

Ace Pace wrote:Both of those, and Traitor.

Traitor, love it or hate it, does re-define ALOT about everything SW related.

Was well written but "no more Dark side" :thumbsdown po'ed .

Not a good idea

I could've lived with the 'No true Dark side' stuff if they'd actually followed that story thread. The whole novel leads one to believe that Jacen is on the brink of revolutionary discoveries about the nature of the Force, but they follow up by having everything generally fall back into the standard storyline.

One of the big problems with the NJO, in hindsight, was the lack of coordination between the writers with regards to what direction they were taking the series in.

My favorite part? The fact that they reintroduced suspense to the setting. Because they killed Chewie and (spoilerized for those who might not have read it) Anakin, after building him up as the great savior of the Jedi, the novels actually made you worry about the characters when they were in peril. Toward the end, they even had me going on the possibility that Han might get killed.

That was damned cool.

That suspense was also added(flame me here>) by Dark Journy, Jaina as a dark Knight, think of the possebilities?

They should have made Jaina a fallen jedi.'
Tamora pierce is very good (except for circle of magic),
Redwall :D , Roald Dahl

FUCK, how did I forget Redwall.


Destiny's way or Red Wall.....hmn....

fuck that, I'll read both now

Ace Pace wrote:FUCK, how did I forget Redwall.


Destiny's way or Red Wall.....hmn....

fuck that, I'll read both now

The first ones are good before it got disgustingly predictable, cliched and spent pages describing their food .
Mossflower, Salamandastron, Outcast are probably the best.

I disagree with Outcast being on the best list. I liked it up to Salamandastron since every one before and to then was expanding the history and world, but then along with the previous complaints Jacques constantly changing the already very established geography and history of Redwall and the surrounding world. Outcast of Redwall was the start of the downhill trend to me.

Anybody else here read the Lost Years of Merlin series? I liked those, as well as whatever the series was called that had the book The Dark is Rising in it.

Mayabird wrote:I disagree with Outcast being on the best list. I liked it up to Salamandastron since every one before and to then was expanding the history and world, but then along with the previous complaints Jacques constantly changing the already very established geography and history of Redwall and the surrounding world. Outcast of Redwall was the start of the downhill trend to me.

Anybody else here read the Lost Years of Merlin series? I liked those, as well as whatever the series was called that had the book The Dark is Rising in it.

It did have one of the last real badgers beore they became nurse-maids, the pearls of lutra was als quite good, as was Martin the warrior (a story about martin of redwalls fathe)
My favorite was mossflower, good plot, no annoying feasts, great fights and intelligent attacks by the heroes rather than deus ex army of good of the week.