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Discussion: Book discussion
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I really want to try Murakami, which book should I read first? Anyway I finally started reading Harry Potter, I'm reading the 5th book now and I love it.
Also do you guys know some good fantasy/young adult series?
I love The Witcher, SOIAF, Lord of The Rings and now Harry Potter and I'm looking for some new to start reading after Harry Potter.
I hate series where the lead character fall in love with someone and then they make stupid desicions because of them (like Divergent and The Hunger Games.) So if it's gonna be series without love interest I'm gonna love you!
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Originally posted by Nayke
I really want to try Murakami, which book should I read first? Anyway I finally started reading Harry Potter, I'm reading the 5th book now and I love it.
Also do you guys know some good fantasy/young adult series?
I love The Witcher, SOIAF, Lord of The Rings and now Harry Potter and I'm looking for some new to start reading after Harry Potter.
I hate series where the lead character fall in love with someone and then they make stupid desicions because of them (like Divergent and The Hunger Games.) So if it's gonna be series without love interest I'm gonna love you!
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I have only read one Murakami book (Norweigan Wood), but I loved that so much. I guess that was a great start.
Red Rising would be nice, I guess. I have read the first two books of the series and I find the series amazing.
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I'm reading The Kite Runner now by Khaled Hosseini. It's so good.
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After seeing that I've only watched 9 tv series for multiple seasons in the last 10 years, I decided to look up the book series in the last 10 years for which I've read at least 3 installments:
Dresden Files (8 novels + 2 novellas, avg 4 stars)
Daughter of Smoke and Bone (3 novels + novella, avg 4 stars)
Kathleen Mallory (3 novels, avg 4 stars)
Fever (6 novels, 3.3 stars)
Romney Marsh (7 novels, avg 3 stars)
Unwind (5 novels, avg 3 stars)
Unearthly (3 novels + novella, avg 3 stars)
Will Trent (5 novels, avg 2.8 stars)
Millennium (4 novels, avg 2.8 stars)
Hollows (7 novels, avg 2.7 stars)
Madison Avery (3 novels, avg 2.7 stars)
Mistborn (6 novels + novella, avg 2.6 stars)
Parasol Protectorate (5 novels, avg 2.6 stars)
Darkest Minds (3 novels + novella, avg 2.5 stars)
Buffy Season 8 (8 novels, avg 2.4 stars)
Pretty Little Liars (4 novels, avg 2.3 stars)
Cormoran Strike, His Fair Assassin, Dreamcatcher, Skinjacker, Thirst (3 novels, avg 2.3 stars)
A Need So Beautiful (2 novels + novella, avg 2.3 stars)
Alcatraz (4 novels, avg 2 stars)
Delirium (3 novels + 2 novellas, avg 2 stars)
Hunger Games, Wheel of Time, Throne of Glass, Ruby Oliver, Percy Jackson (3 novels, avg 2 stars)
Cousins’ War, Reckoners, Lunar Chronicles, Bride Quartet (3 novels, avg 1.7 stars)
Shopaholic (3 novels, avg 1.3 stars)
Vampire Academy (6 novels, avg 1.2 stars)
Mortal Instruments (5 novels, avg 1 star)
Twilight (4 novels + novella, avg 1 star)
Divergent (3 novels + novella, avg 1 star)
Selection (2 novels + 2 novellas, avg 1 star)
Grisha, House of Night, Fifty Shades (3 novels, avg 1 star)
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Originally posted by -mUsIcLoVeR-
I have only read one Murakami book (Norweigan Wood), but I loved that so much. I guess that was a great start.
Red Rising would be nice, I guess. I have read the first two books of the series and I find the series amazing.
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Thanks! I'm gonna try the Norweigan Wood.
Red Rising is still not translated to czech language, but it should be out in a few weeks, so I'm definitely gonna read it, it looks great!
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Just finished reading The Girl on the Train. Suspenseful. Nice read. I didn't expect the ending. Y'all better check it out.
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Originally posted by Nayke
Thanks! I'm gonna try the Norweigan Wood.
Red Rising is still not translated to czech language, but it should be out in a few weeks, so I'm definitely gonna read it, it looks great!
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Hopefully the next books in the series would be translated in your language asap as well.
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Originally posted by Yves
Just finished reading The Girl on the Train. Suspenseful. Nice read. I didn't expect the ending. Y'all better check it out.
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Loved this book. Read this summer last year, and I loved it.
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lolzjustinwat, velocity, and I are going to do a reading challenge soon.
I'll be posting details soon if anyone else wants to join.
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I read Perks of Being A Wallflower today, and it really affected me emotionally. It's definitely one of my favourite books I've read, if not the favourite. I connected a lot with the character, and the experiences, and it just left me sitting there thinking and all emotional.
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Today I finished reading The Artificial Silk Girl ( Das kunstseidene Mädchen) by Irmgard Keun. It's such a beautiful novel that depicts the roaring twenties as a time of so much life, joy, economic suffering, and resistance in Berlin
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I'm thinking i'll start Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl later this week
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Does anyone get super-consumed by books when they read. I tend to seek out books that are heavy and intense and then the stories and characters consume my life and I care about them more than things in my own life.
Anyways, I am currently reading H2O by Virginia Bergin and it's about a poison in the rain that instantly kills people upon contact. I am really loving it but I care about the fictional characters way more than I should
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I read Perks my first year of HS, so it hit me pretty damn hard. Great book.
I finished American Gods, it's AMAZING.
Next book will be 300,000,000 by Blake Butler. I need Tom Rob Smith to drop another masterpiece also.
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gonna read this soon!
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Originally posted by Wicked
I read Perks my first year of HS, so it hit me pretty damn hard. Great book.
I finished American Gods, it's AMAZING.
Next book will be 300,000,000 by Blake Butler. I need Tom Rob Smith to drop another masterpiece also.
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I've wanted to read American Gods for the longest time
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So I finally finished the Harry Potter series. I honestly loved it and it made me rewatch all the movies.
Anyway now I want to read Perks of being a wallflower and Norweigan wood.
I read Girl on the train but I really didn't like it. It was really weirdly translated and that does a lot so I didn't enjoy it much.
Anyway have any of you read The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult? I loved that book I finished it in one day, I went to sleep at 2 am, it was so good.
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I am rereading Eat, Pray Love
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Originally posted by Nayke
So I finally finished the Harry Potter series. I honestly loved it and it made me rewatch all the movies.
Anyway now I want to read Perks of being a wallflower and Norweigan wood.
I read Girl on the train but I really didn't like it. It was really weirdly translated and that does a lot so I didn't enjoy it much.
Anyway have any of you read The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult? I loved that book I finished it in one day, I went to sleep at 2 am, it was so good.
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I read last year. The ending was a mess. But it's Picoult btw. What do you expect.
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Originally posted by Donquizote
I read last year. The ending was a mess. But it's Picoult btw. What do you expect.
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Well the ending was kinda bad, I also didn't like the romance with the detective or whatever he was, but I loved her grandmas storytelling, that kept me going.
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