Your Favourite Books/Authors

[sakura_85]

my favourite book is one of my country (Romania) that is not known in other countries.
from international writers i like Maurice Leblanc, Jules Vernes, Alexandre Dumas, Karl May and Fenimoore Cooper. from the french authors i had the ocasion to read their books in their own language, but the other two i read the translation of their books. is not the same as the original, but my english is not so good so is difficult for me to read a whole book in english.

[mangaluva]

I want to reccomend the Tales Of The Otori series. It's set in a fictional version of Feudal Era Japan, revolving around a peasant boy who discovers that he is secretly the son of one of the greatest assassins in the land, part of a mysterious clan known as the Tribe who train their bodies to develop super strength, speed, senses, invisibility, and other abilities. He is adopted by a great lord and falls in love with the most beautiful princess in the land, and sets out to overthrow the cruel lord of the land. I know it all sounds very trite and similar to a million other story plots, but it's actually really, really good and clever. The first book is Across the Nightingale Floor, then there are two more books in the trilogy, a sequel set many years later and a prequel. All are beautiful books and I strongly reccomend that you read 'em.

[Boxcar Children]

when I was young I would read Boxcar Children and Nancy Drew and My Side of the Mountain,The Secret Garden,
A Little Princess,and By Sherry Garland the Silent Storm
[those where my fav books when I was little }
then I stop reading them and got into other things; the middle ages or history,Classics and Origns of fairy tails(Because almost every fairy tail was change when they became a moive and i wanted to find origenel and I found many of thre origenals.)My goal is all the movies that I like as  a child (and ones I didnt like) to read all of them.
I also read these seris that I reamender

(I've read most of athors books or series)
By Brian Jaques,Redwall*The Chronicles of Narnia By C.S. lewis*By Madeleine L'Enle ,A Wrinkle in time*By Geroge Madonnald,The Princess and the Goblin*By Aexander Key,Escape to Which Mountian*By L.M.Mongomeeny,The Anne of Green Gables Novles*

The classic books I like or read

Spoiler:

By William Shakespeare  The Tempest, A Midsummers Nights Dream( hatted  Romeo & Juliet because for many ressons there love was a fluke):By H. G. Wells  the time Machine*;By Alexandre Dumas The count of Monte Cristo*;By Jules Verne , A Journy to the Center of the Earth,The Msterious island (I loved that one) **;By Robert Louis Stevenson (I love Stevensons books there my fav)  Kidnapped ,the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,Treaure Island ,Black Arrow *;By Mark Twain the Adventures of tom Sawyer*;By Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol *;By Jack London ,the Call of the wild*By Howard Pyle ,The Merry Adventures of Robion Hood ,King Arthur and the knights of the round table ,Men of Iron;* By Anna sewell ,Black Beauty*:by John Bunganpilgrims Prgress :* by Washinton IrvingRip Van Winkle

fairy tales, I like or read

Spoiler:

peter Pan by J.m. barrie*:Bambi by Feilx Salten:*By L.Frank Baum,The Wizard of OZ;**By Hans Christin Anderson,The Little Match Girl ,[glow=red,2,300]The Little Mermaid[/glow](the book is sad but I love it when it's sad) ,The Nightingale ,The Emperor's New Clothes,Little Tiny or Thumbelina (1835),The Ugly Duckling,The wild Swans,The Snow Queen,The Princess and the Pea (also known as The Real Princess)  The Red Shoes,Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind (1860) ,Tinder-Box, The (1835)*;By Lewis Pyle, Alice in Wonderland ,Alice threw the looking glass,*:by Andrew lang ,the Forty thieves,Aladdin and the Wonder lamp,The Princess on the Glass hill,:*By Josph Jacobs ,Jack and the Beanstalk,Lazy Jack,Whitting adnd his cat,The history of Tom Thumb,Teeny-Tiny*:By Grimm Brothers ,Six Servants,Hansel and Gretel,Rumpelstilltzkin,the Twelve Danceing Princesses, Little one eye  little Two eyes and Three eyes,The Eves and the shoemaker, the brave little tailor,Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs;*By Paker Fillmore, Mighty Mikko Retold*:By Carlo CollodiPinocchio ;*By Charles Perrault ,Cinderella or the little Glass Slipper,The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods,the master Cat or Puss in Boots,Little Red Riding Hood(The Brothers Grimm retold their own versions of some of Perrault's fairy tales)*:

Now Im reading
Reading Sherlock Homes By A Conan Doyle
Another By Grimm Brothers Book
and 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies

(oh ya..... I didnt list the history books I read because I never made a list for them......)

[mangaluva]

b]By William Shakespeare[/b]  The Tempest, A Midsummers Nights Dream( hatted  Romeo & Juliet because for many ressons there love was a fluke)

...can't disagree with that. They made a lot of disastrously stupid mistakes, kinda like Claudio and Hero in "Much Ado About Nothing", whom I hate for being unbelievebly dim despite MAAN being my favourite rom-com (I like Beatrice and Benedick much, much better); Hamlet's my favourite tragedy. I even wrote a Hamlet-based MK fanfic (Toichi's ghost called upon Kaito to take vengeance...)

Midsummer Night's Dream is also awesome, though I want to know what he was smoking when he wrote it. How many of the sexual references did you catch? (the play is literally packed with them.)

[ranger]

b]By William Shakespeare[/b]  The Tempest, A Midsummers Nights Dream( hatted  Romeo & Juliet because for many ressons there love was a fluke)

...can't disagree with that. They made a lot of disastrously stupid mistakes, kinda like Claudio and Hero in "Much Ado About Nothing", whom I hate for being unbelievebly dim despite MAAN being my favourite rom-com (I like Beatrice and Benedick much, much better); Hamlet's my favourite tragedy. I even wrote a Hamlet-based MK fanfic (Toichi's ghost called upon Kaito to take vengeance...)

I'm reading that right now in my Shakespeare class, and yeah I agree, Beatrice and Benedict are much more interesting, it isn't just a sappy love story.  Hero has like, hardly any background at all, she is more of an object, like a trophy wife...and Claudio is just the typical war soldier who falls in love at first sight.

Hamlet...eh, I had a bad experience with it inclass, but I give props to it.  Not a huge a fan of Shakespeare really, especially out of school...I don't quite see the beauty in the language, I just find it hard to read as hell.  Then again, I don't plan on doing anything related to essays or english out of HS, but yeah - my two cents.

What's that one Shakespeare book where like, someone cuts off someone's tongue, and the whole play ends up as a massacre?  I want to read that!

[mangaluva]

b]By William Shakespeare[/b]  The Tempest, A Midsummers Nights Dream( hatted  Romeo & Juliet because for many ressons there love was a fluke)

...can't disagree with that. They made a lot of disastrously stupid mistakes, kinda like Claudio and Hero in "Much Ado About Nothing", whom I hate for being unbelievebly dim despite MAAN being my favourite rom-com (I like Beatrice and Benedick much, much better); Hamlet's my favourite tragedy. I even wrote a Hamlet-based MK fanfic (Toichi's ghost called upon Kaito to take vengeance...)

I'm reading that right now in my Shakespeare class, and yeah I agree, Beatrice and Benedict are much more interesting, it isn't just a sappy love story.  Hero has like, hardly any background at all, she is more of an object, like a trophy wife...and Claudio is just the typical war soldier who falls in love at first sight.

Hamlet...eh, I had a bad experience with it inclass, but I give props to it.  Not a huge a fan of Shakespeare really, especially out of school...I don't quite see the beauty in the language, I just find it hard to read as hell.  Then again, I don't plan on doing anything related to essays or english out of HS, but yeah - my two cents.

What's that one Shakespeare book where like, someone cuts off someone's tongue, and the whole play ends up as a massacre?  I want to read that!

I think there's a Greek play where somebody's tongue gets cut off and there's a massacre as a result, can't remember what it's called... in "King Lear" a guy's eyes get pulled out and pretty much everyone dies.

[Holmes]

My fav form Shakspeare are " Macbeth ", "Hamlet ", " The comedy of errors " (I loled so much with this one)

[Boxcar Children]

b]By William Shakespeare[/b]  The Tempest, A Midsummers Nights Dream( hatted  Romeo & Juliet because for many ressons there love was a fluke)

...can't disagree with that. They made a lot of disastrously stupid mistakes, kinda like Claudio and Hero in "Much Ado About Nothing", whom I hate for being unbelievebly dim despite MAAN being my favourite rom-com (I like Beatrice and Benedick much, much better);

The reson why I didnt like there love was because both Romeo & Juliet where Into diffrent relation ships at the time and there love gust seem so childish. But then I wach the play and read a little of the scipt.
But It's stil not my fav.

Hamlet's my favourite tragedy. I even wrote a Hamlet-based MK fanfic (Toichi's ghost called upon Kaito to take vengeance...)

I kind of like the begining and the middle of the story but the endin was weriding me out
Maybe I'll give it another try and read it again.

Midsummer Night's Dream is also awesome, though I want to know what he was smoking when he wrote it. How many of the sexual references did you catch? (the play is literally packed with them.)

maybe I miss that part.....all well It's sitll my fav

Beatrice and Benedict

Whats that ? himmm goin to find out

I think there's a Greek play where somebody's tongue gets cut off and there's a massacre as a result, can't remember what it's called... in "King Lear" a guy's eyes get pulled out and pretty much everyone dies.

I dont know this one.
but I've heard of another story where a girl gets her tongue gets cut off--

[ranger]

Beatrice and Benedict are from Much Ado About Nothing, a comedic/campy play by Shakespeare.


I dunno if the play i was talking about, (the person getting his/her tongue cutoff) was by Shakespeare...I thought it was.  And yes, I believe it was a girl.  Actually, if I remember, it had a rather greek name..so you might be right.  What is it called?

[mangaluva]

Beatrice and Benedict are from Much Ado About Nothing, a comedic/campy play by Shakespeare.


I dunno if the play i was talking about, (the person getting his/her tongue cutoff) was by Shakespeare...I thought it was.  And yes, I believe it was a girl.  Actually, if I remember, it had a rather greek name..so you might be right.  What is it called?

...damn, I can't find it again. I've got stacks and stacks of history books in my room and I have no idea where I read it... It may have been Roman rather than Greek though, because the Romans often substituted criminals for actors in gory scenes so that they could actually maul or burn or kill them. I'll get back to you if I find it. *starts digging through stack of books*

[bluekaitou1412]

i liked Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

[caribou]

I like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories (obviously) , I like Agatha Christie too though I find some of her stories aren't as good as others (I tend to like the Hercule Poirot ones better than Miss Marple). GK Chesterton is pretty good too although I find it hard to understand him sometimes cos he writes in a very old, classics style. I like Alexander McCall Smith too, but sometimes I find his philosophical element a bit overpowering (i get very picky about books haha).

outside of the detective/murder mystery realm... Roald Dahl is brilliant. both his children's stories and adult's stories are worth reading, every single one! Neil Gaiman is another one with very interesting ideas and writing style, I've only read The Graveyard Book and Coraline but hoping to read more. c: also love Jonathan Safran Foer. He wrote Everything Is Illuminated, and Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close. his works are a bit on the mature side though (just a word of caution)

ALSO I really enjoyed Harry Potter but my feelings about the series after the 4th book are kinda on-and-off (anybody else feel the same? :S). I liked Tolkien's The Hobbit (but LOTR was too much for me). ...and i REALLY LIKE Bridget Jones' Diary and its inspiration Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen). sorry, i'm a girl

[Boxcar Children]

i liked Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

I want to read that book

[Tanner-kun]

my fav auther is gosho exept or the fact the series is to long

[ranger]

my fav auther is gosho exept or the fact the series is to long

lol