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Funny in Farsi is one of my favorite books
It's a funny little novel that is extremely awesome and really hits home (especially if you come from a large foreign family lol)

:) I highly suggest it
 

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Dude. I just read Divergent. Awesome awesome book. Its one of those books where you can't wait to see a character's name, because every scene with him in it is wonderful. Ahhhhh I just read it in like... 3 1/2 hours. I'm a little starstruck right now XD
 

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Dude. I just read Divergent. Awesome awesome book. Its one of those books where you can't wait to see a character's name, because every scene with him in it is wonderful. Ahhhhh I just read it in like... 3 1/2 hours. I'm a little starstruck right now XD
Woohoo glad you liked!
 
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Dude. I just read Divergent. Awesome awesome book. Its one of those books where you can't wait to see a character's name, because every scene with him in it is wonderful. Ahhhhh I just read it in like... 3 1/2 hours. I'm a little starstruck right now XD
Gah! I did it again!!! Started this around 12:30 last night...yep, stayed up to finish it. I really liked it.
 
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Read Changeling today/night - really enjoyed it. Going to start Fire now, but am REALLY wanting to read Bitterblue to catch back up with the characters I just read about..

Have to wait til 5/1 for that AND the next book after Divergent. Have I mentioned I dont have much patience???
 

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Have to wait til 5/1 for that AND the next book after Divergent. Have I mentioned I dont have much patience???
This is why I don't like being in the loop on books until way behind everyone else. I didn't read Twilight until they started making the movie, so all books were out, and I am so glad I didn't discover them until then, because I read the entire series in a week. Same with Hunger Games, I read them last spring, but all the books were already out, so I could read them back to back and didn't have to wait to finish the story, I would have gone crazy waiting for the last book to come out!

So I see everyone talking about Divergent, and it looks good, but I think I am going to wait, because I hate waiting for the next book to come out, and I am already waiting on a couple books, that I didn't know all the books weren't out in the series until I read the first book. Now I know to always research first!
 
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THe good thing about Divergent though...it does have an ending that is fairly finished. I mean, there is lots open but they are at a fairly steady point in the end if that makes sense. Some series (like the fae series by Karen Marie Moning) oh my, each book ended on a total cliffhanger!
 

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I need some ideas for some more 'adult' books. I really like sci-fi and fantasy but tend to only read YA stuff. I want something quite a bit meatier to read that is really good. Some ideas that I can read in between some easier YA reads. I'm reading The Hunger Games right now. I'm kind of meh on it so far. I find the writing really choppy.

My favorite books (for ideas) are things like Dune, LOTR, The Count of Monte Cristo.

Also for a recommendation that no one ever knows of I like City of Bones by Martha Wells. There's another book with the same title that is much more popular but I haven't read it. We read Martha Well's book though for my sci fi lit class and it was really a good book. It's not a love story which I liked about it. A lot less predictable and well thought out than much fantasy I read. I've also read another of her books and it was also really good.

http://www.marthawells.com/city.htm

You pretty much have to buy them online. I rarely see her stuff in book stores

Oh and Neil Gaiman's stuff I generally love. I've read all of his books and most his short stories. It's very different but very good.
 

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I liked the first two Hitchhikers books, but after that... meh.

DISCWORLD, though! I LOVE DISCWORLD! Terry Pratchett ftw.

Also! Neil Gaiman!
Okay where do I START on Discworld. I love Good Omens and my best friend raves about Discworld so I think I'd like it. But there's just too dang many books.
 
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I need some ideas for some more 'adult' books. I really like sci-fi and fantasy but tend to only read YA stuff. I want something quite a bit meatier to read that is really good. Some ideas that I can read in between some easier YA reads. I'm reading The Hunger Games right now. I'm kind of meh on it so far. I find the writing really choppy.

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Many of the ones I listed here would probably fit...most are adult books. Karen Marie Moning (Fae series), Kelley Armstrong, Illona Andrews, Keri Arthur, and Laurell K Hamilton. Honestly, the Anita Blake series, the first 7-10 are SO freakin good (IMO) The latest ones have been meh but I am so sucked in now I still have to read them.

There are some other fantasy that my brother had me read that were pretty good...DragonLance Chronicles and R.A. Salvatores the Dark Elf trilogy.

One of my all time favorites is The Mists of Avalon - it is obviously Arthurian but SO different from the other ones out there. It is part of a series but the other books, while very good, are kind of hard to read as they are kind of depressing.
 

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DragonLance (weis and Hickman) are what I grew up reading because my brother and sister read them forever ago and left them at my moms house :p they definitely aren't YA though.

And I'd you havent read Game Of Thrones you need to.
 

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THe good thing about Divergent though...it does have an ending that is fairly finished. I mean, there is lots open but they are at a fairly steady point in the end if that makes sense. Some series (like the fae series by Karen Marie Moning) oh my, each book ended on a total cliffhanger!
That's kind of my opinion too. They didn't leave you hanging thinking "OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW!!?!?" So I'm not really too impatient about waiting for the next book.

A series like The Hunger Games? Ummm yeah I couldn't even fall asleep at night while I was reading that series because I was so consumed with just wanting to know how it all ended. I would have went NUTS if I would have caught on to it before all the books were out.

But at the same time, that's part of the fun about being into a series :D
 

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I read 263 pages of the Hunger Games last night. I'm on the fence about it, really. I think it's a fun read but it's not anything really meaty. I don't know, I feel like I'm constantly just scratching the surface of a story and missing out on what's really there. I don't feel like the characters are that well developed, even Katniss.

Everyone in my family and at work has been raving about it and I have to admit that I'm a touch disappointed.
 
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I read 263 pages of the Hunger Games last night. I'm on the fence about it, really. I think it's a fun read but it's not anything really meaty. I don't know, I feel like I'm constantly just scratching the surface of a story and missing out on what's really there. I don't feel like the characters are that well developed, even Katniss.

Everyone in my family and at work has been raving about it and I have to admit that I'm a touch disappointed.
That may be the issue? I was expecting to NOT like it so was very pleasantly surprised when I did. I do think the characters arent totally flushed out but I was able to fill them in enough myself to be happy
 

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That may be the issue? I was expecting to NOT like it so was very pleasantly surprised when I did. I do think the characters arent totally flushed out but I was able to fill them in enough myself to be happy
Yeah maybe that but I think if I had read it without those expectations I'd feel the same way. Plus I feel like the 'love' hinted at between Katniss and Peeta is very very cliche and dull. I dunno. The whole thing, while exciting, gives me the feeling of the world and the characters just not being very realistic or tacked down at all. I don't find much in the book believable. It moves too fast and you get thrown into the choosing people for the games right off the bat. Not enough time to really establish the world and I think that is what is undermining to me. They briefly explain the reason to have the games but it's maybe a page long? I'm not one of those people who will just accept what an author gives to me. They have to make it believable.

I think that's why I like Dune and LOTR so much. There is such an obvious laboring over making the universe the stories occur in very rich and intense in ways that most sci fi/fantasy authors just do not do.

And I know that this is all coming from inside Katniss' head but there are so many fragments in this book that it drives me a little crazy. I want complete sentences! (I know that is just from having a minor in English though, lol)

I will probably still read the others though, since they're such a short read.
 

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Laur, have you read Battle Royale? It's darker (gorier) and more adult but basically the same as Hunger Games, without the love story. Might be interested in picking that up instead. I won't read it because I can't do that gross gory stuff but I know lots of people do like it.
 

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Haven't even heard of it. When you say gory do you mean like The Jungle gory? Cause that was too much for me. But THG was not gory at all to me (although people said it was) I will have to look into it.
 

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Ehhh... it's got some pretty disturbing descriptions of kids killing other kids (and/or the game organizers killing them) in it. I haven't read it, I've only been told parts of it, and it's enough to make me not want to read it. Ever. Or have anybody describe it to me ever again either. But I'm REALLY sensitive to that stuff. Can't watch horror movies and stuff for the same reason. Way too empathetic.
So it might be too much. I'm sure there are people here who have read it or seen the movie or even read the manga interpretation that can tell you.
 
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Yeah, HG did tend to move pretty fast and IMO shouldve been a lot longer to really fill in the details, back story, etc. I do think that peeta's feelings for Katniss were a bit abrupt but more details do come throughout the story and fill it in a bit.
 

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