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Post by RainFrost on Aug 28, 2004 8:40:40 GMT -5
Me? Love 'em. Practically everything I read is from the young adult section, though ironically at this very moment the two books I'm reading coming from the adult section . So have you read any good oung adult books? Have you read any bad young adult books? Don't be shy, discuss!
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Post by guinevere on Aug 28, 2004 16:14:44 GMT -5
I am a constant reader and since I work in a book store that is a good thing to be (or bad after I look at my checkbook)--I am nuts about mystery thrillers, but I confess that I can be found hanging out in the young adult section... great things lately:
Faerie Wars (absolutely great!) A Great and Terrible Beauty the Isabelle Allende series
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Post by Isbister15 on Aug 28, 2004 20:49:39 GMT -5
As I've stated before on this board (probably too many times ), one of my favourite books is Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. I think it's considered a young adult book, though it does deal with a sensitive subject. Another pretty good young adult book I read a while ago is Harley like a Person. Can't remember the author at the moment. It was somewhat unrealistic and predictable, but I still liked reading it. Two young adult books that I'd heard good things about but didn't like at all are Gingerbread and Brave New Girl. Didn't like the characters, didn't like the stories, didn't like the way they were written. I just didn't like them.
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Post by RainFrost on Aug 29, 2004 11:58:42 GMT -5
I really like Robin McKinley books because it's just magical how s/he (not sure about the gender of the author ) respins the old faerie tails and gives them so much more depth and detail.
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Post by nancy on Sept 5, 2004 0:03:49 GMT -5
Yeah, Speak is a great book. I love it.
The Artemis Fowl series is pretty good. Very irish, lots of imagination with the characters and stuff. They're ok.
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Post by RainFrost on Sept 5, 2004 0:11:02 GMT -5
I agree that Artemis Fowl was okay, not great. I was surprised when like the booksellers grouped the series in young adult because I personally thought it would fit more into children. Older children like 10-12 but still children. Yea, I'm thriteen but...
I always thought of young adult as really teenagers, I mean of course adults can read it and so can children (I know I was reading it when I was like 10 ) but I always thought it would be aimed for 13-17 years olds or something like that. Also young adult is a deceiving term methinks. It should logically make you think of a young adult, like someone in there early twenties.
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Post by Sphi on Sept 5, 2004 12:33:33 GMT -5
Isn't young adult aimed towards all teens, young and old?
I used to love the Ann Rinaldi books. She wrote all these historical fiction novels in the perspective of young girls. I recall one called The Secret of Sarah Revere, and although I can't remember much about it anymore, I remembered really liking it. Has anyone else read anything by Rinaldi?
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Post by hermoine on Sept 5, 2004 12:46:00 GMT -5
I think Young Adult books are originally targeted for teenagers, but then anyone can read them. Like, on Amazon, the Harry Potter books are rated as Young Adult but people of different ages, going to even 60 year olds read them.
I hope to be able to buy Garth Nix's trilogy which includes the books Lirael, Sabriel and Abhorsen. I heard they're really good. Thing is, I don't get to read Young Adult much because I am no way into going into a public library where the people who borrow the books don't even take care of them! I mean, you find books with papers stuck out of them then shuffled quickly inside, the spines are literally broken, dog ears....I hate that!
The only Young Adult books I have at home are mine, so I end up reading my dad's books instead when I've read all of mine. My dad's collection would include, loads of John Grisham, Wilbur Smith, Patricia Cornwell etc. Not that I don't like them, on the contrary, but sometimes, I would like that little bit of fantasy.
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Post by Will on Sept 5, 2004 19:08:15 GMT -5
I used to love the Ann Rinaldi books. She wrote all these historical fiction novels in the perspective of young girls. I recall one called The Secret of Sarah Revere, and although I can't remember much about it anymore, I remembered really liking it. Has anyone else read anything by Rinaldi? I don't believe so, but I do like reading historical fiction. Have you heard of the Dear America books? I use to read them in middle school. They were 'diaries' of the young people of different eras. You can learn a lot from them. I have four of them...
- Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan (1763)
- The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart (1777)
- The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition (1846)
- Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell (1847)
These are by various authors...
Then there was another one I remember reading a while ago. I think it was called My Brother Sam is Dead... It was good, but as you might have already gathered from the title, it was pretty darn depressing.
Aww... You are supposed to take care of libary books. They aren't yours.
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Post by Isbister15 on Sept 5, 2004 22:14:17 GMT -5
I've never read anything by Rinaldi either. I just read the book Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, which is a young adult book. I thought it was okay...nothing terrific but still a cute enough book. It was fairly predictable but not so much that it would make you want to stop reading it. I'd give it two stars out of five.
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Post by RainFrost on Sept 7, 2004 13:54:02 GMT -5
I hope to be able to buy Garth Nix's trilogy which includes the books Lirael, Sabriel and Abhorsen. I heard they're really good. Thing is, I don't get to read Young Adult much because I am no way into going into a public library where the people who borrow the books don't even take care of them! I mean, you find books with papers stuck out of them then shuffled quickly inside, the spines are literally broken, dog ears....I hate that! Ha! Do you know what's ironic, Hermoine? Right at this very second I am at the library and six inches away from my left hand that it typing right now is Lirael that I just got from the library because I had special ordered it. I was reading it while I was waiting for the computers. Hehe.
Ibister, I read Stargirl. It was cheerful enough and was unusual for me because I usually don't read many books from a guys point of view.
Willy, I read alot of those books, too! I had actually forgotten about them because it's probably been...say four years? since I've read them. I really enjoyed when they came out with like a sub-series of them that was about royalty from cultures like Ancient Egypt, Africa, Medevial France and stuff like that.
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Post by hermoine on Sept 7, 2004 13:58:35 GMT -5
Ha! Do you know what's ironic, Hermoine? Right at this very second I am at the library and six inches away from my left hand that it typing right now is Lirael that I just got from the library because I had special ordered it. I was reading it while I was waiting for the computers. Hehe.
No way! Talk about an act of coincidence. I hope to be able to buy it for this year's prize day. See, because when we do well in exams, that is you come 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in an exam, you get a voucher with an amount of money according to what place you came in the subject, which you can exchange for books from a particular shop. So, I've got my fingers crossed, that I have more than one prize this year, so that I can buy the 3 of the books.
Can't wait for the school year to start to check if I do have enough prizes.
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Post by RainFrost on Sept 9, 2004 16:37:54 GMT -5
I finished Lirael since we last spoke and I can't wait to get Abhorsen but unfortuantley it's checked out by someone else right now. I also finished The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants which I think I started today and ended today which is weird and I can't quite figure out if my brain is playing tricks on me. It was also strange because through the whole book I had the feeling I had read it before. *Shrugs.* Maybe I had and just forgot. I came to get the sequel but that was also checked out already at the library.
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Post by Isbister15 on Sept 9, 2004 21:38:56 GMT -5
^ You know what's funny about that? When I read The Sisterhood... the story also felt vaguely familiar to me, too. Maybe it's just because so many books and movies are made nowdays about teens trying to maintain connections to one another in various ways. Eh, I don't know. I read a short snippet of the sequel in a magazine a while back. It seemed kinda odd and a perhaps written a bit differently from the first, but I figure I'll read it eventually.
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Post by hermoine on Nov 12, 2004 12:47:24 GMT -5
Guess what I bought with my vouchers? Lirael and Sabriel! ;D They didn't have Abhorsen, but the owner told me the paperback will be out in January so I'll go back then and buy it. Yeepee!
And I went round the shop so much I got one of the owners grumbling because "some people keep going round and round the shop." I could only find one Terry Prachett book in the whole shop, so I bought it. I only had 35c left from the vouchers mind, so I had to add to it with my own money. It's called "The Wee Free Men" Have you guys read it or heard of it?
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