Books you love/ or hate

[brokenquill92]

Books you love/ or hate

[kumainpink]

Books I love:

The Snow Was Black

The Wicked Years Series

The Secret Circle Trilogy

Harry Potter series

The Good Guy

The Dating Game

A Stir Of Bones

[brokenquill92]

LOVE

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Carrie by Stephen King
My Only Love by Cheryl Holt
Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr
The Wicked Years by Gregory Maguire
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Shifter by Janice Hardy
The Circle of Magic quartet by Tamora Pierce

[GoddessofWeird]

LOVE
Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead
Fever series by Karen Marie Moning
The Beyonders by Brandon Mull
Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull
PJO and HoO series by Rick Riordan
The Lovely Bones
The Night World series, Forbidden Games, and Dark Visions by L.J. Smith
The Royal Diary Series(I love royal history)
Shadows of a Princess
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Most likely more, but can't think of more

[G. Novella]

LOVE

Anything in Tamora Pierce's Tortall world
Harry Potter
Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series
Shakespeare but most if all Hamlet (that's my favorite)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Deltora series by Emily Rodda


And a ton more that I can't think off

[Dimcairien]

Love:

Tolkien (anything written by him, I don't want to list it all for your sakes)
Shakespeare (again, most anything, though my top plays are Hamlet, King Lear, Much Ado, and Twelfth Night'.
Harry Potter
Hunger Games
A Song of Ice and Fire (series by George Martin. I've only read the first book and am partway through the second, but it's really good)

There are a lot more, but these are the main ones I can think of.

With this discussion, is anyone on goodreads? I am, and if any of you are, send me a PM here, and I'll add you as a friend.

[sherza]

Love:

Most Star Trek TNG books
The Thrawn Trilogy (Star Wars)
The Courtship of Princess Leia (Star Wars again)
can't remember the name of it offhand, but the first (chronologically speaking) Star Wars book post-Endor ... the one that deals with those lizard guys. T'was awesome.
Most Dirk Pitt books (Clive Cussler), but Dragon is my all-time favorite of that bunch.
DragonFlight (Anne McCaffrey) My first fandom. *grins*
Most romances by Catherine Anderson
Most romances by Suzanne Brockman
Crystal Singer series (Anne McCaffrey)
The City Who Won (Anne McCaffrey again)
The Last Dragonlord and Dragon and Phoenix by Joanne Bertin
Tales of Kolmar series by Elizabeth Kerner (more dragons)

Hate:
Skies of Pern and beyond, chronologically, in the Pern series (Anne McCaffrey)
Renegades of Pern (Anne McCaffrey)
Anything other than the named Star Wars books. I have actually actively boycotted the book series because so many of them are awful, and the way they killed off Chewie. Just bleah.

[codygotkilld]

Love:
Dresden Files
30 Days of Night series
Harry Potter
Neverwhere
Lord of the Rings
The Dark Tower series
The Divine Comedy
Faust
Odyssey
Hamlet
Much Ado About Nothing
The Tempest
Othello
Redwall series
Paradise Lost
Catch-22
To Kill a Mockingbird
World War Z

...And many, many more

Hate:
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series (Turned into erotica)
Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood series (Same as above)
Romeo & Juliet (Way to over-rated)
Artemis Fowl
Any Richard Laymon novel
All of Ed Lee's work
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities
Fifty Shades Trilogy (Poorly written smut from my browse)
The Great Gatzby
Lord of the Flies
The Scarlet Letter
Animal Farm

...And many more that I can't stand

[brokenquill92]

Hate
Misery by Stephen King
What sort of arrogant prick thinks they are so great they make a MarySue of themselves and have supposedly rabid fans that want o butcher them just really

[kumainpink]

I actually liked the movie... it gave me the creeps!

[codygotkilld]

Ah Misery, now that is one of the few Stephan King novels that I cannot stand.

[kumainpink]

I've never read the book myself. Why couldn't you stand it?

[codygotkilld]

The book itself is pretty boring other then a few moments here or there and the whole fact that King was basically placing himself in the novel.

[kumainpink]

Ah, well that would get kind of boring...

[codygotkilld]

When it comes to King's work I am more inclined to read his short stories and older novels with a few newer works (1990-201?) here or there.

[physicssquid]

Love
Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt Adventures & Oregon Files
Dragonmaster by Chris Bunch
Most Star Trek novels
The Forgotten Legion by Ben Kane (& its sequels)
Simon Scarrow's Eagle series
the Redwall series
and many more I can't think of at the moment.

I can't think of any books that I hate, not right now anyway.

[Silvertongue]

HATE

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Had to study this book for English and got so sick of it by the end of the year.

[physicssquid]

Hate
MacBeth, after having to spend an entire year analysing it for school
A Man For All Seasons, see above.

[Silvertongue]

Also hate Tantalize. It sucked balls.

[pamy]

Love:

Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
A walk to remember by Nicholas Sparks
The lady in the tower by Alisson Weir
Mary, queen of france by Jean Plaidy
Murder most royal by Jean Plaidy
The captive of Kensington palace by Jean plaidy
Castille for Isabelle by Jean Plaidy
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The green mile by Stephen King
Promis of the wolves by Dorothy Hearst
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
A little princess by Francess Hudgson Burnett
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The confession by John Grisham
Harry potter series
Game of thrones (first two books, haven't read the rest)


and so many more

Hate

Twilight series (especially breaking dawn)
My sister's keeper by Jodi picoult
The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway

[19811945]

Love
Harry Potter Series by JKR
Any books by James Patterson, mainly the detective series of either Lyndsay Boxer or Alex Cross.

I haven't read the Twilight series. I just don't have the urge to read them either.

[bluestar]

Favorites:

PJO and HoO: I've been obsessed with the series for nearly 3 years now and i think i still will be for a few more. Love Son of Neptune and cant wait for Mark of Athena. I dont like Jason.

Harry Potter

Lord of the Rings.

Shakespeare. (had to read Julius Caesar in English and i just love Mark Antony's speech.)

The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

many many more i cant really remember right now.


Hate:

Twilight



Can anyone recommend any good mysteries or any genre actually?

[19811945]

Agatha Christie - Poirot or Miss Marple. They good, even though they are a little outdated.

[readingwizard4]

Like-Harry Potter, Star Wars (Too many to list), Shannara books by Terry Brooks, Dune Series by Frank and Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Timeline 191 series by Harry Turtledove, Robot, Empire and Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov, Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, 1984, Saga of the Seven Suns, The Hunger Games and A Song of Ice and Fire and many others

I don't have any books that I outright hate. Not even Twilight

[readingwizard4]

Jul 9, 2012 1:07:14 GMT -5 sherza said:

Love:

Most Star Trek TNG books
The Thrawn Trilogy (Star Wars)
The Courtship of Princess Leia (Star Wars again)
can't remember the name of it offhand, but the first (chronologically speaking) Star Wars book post-Endor ... the one that deals with those lizard guys. T'was awesome.
Most Dirk Pitt books (Clive Cussler), but Dragon is my all-time favorite of that bunch.
DragonFlight (Anne McCaffrey) My first fandom. *grins*
Most romances by Catherine Anderson
Most romances by Suzanne Brockman
Crystal Singer series (Anne McCaffrey)
The City Who Won (Anne McCaffrey again)
The Last Dragonlord and Dragon and Phoenix by Joanne Bertin
Tales of Kolmar series by Elizabeth Kerner (more dragons)

Hate:
Skies of Pern and beyond, chronologically, in the Pern series (Anne McCaffrey)
Renegades of Pern (Anne McCaffrey)
Anything other than the named Star Wars books. I have actually actively boycotted the book series because so many of them are awful, and the way they killed off Chewie. Just bleah.

The Thrawn Trilogy and The Courtship of Princess Leia are great books. The 1st book post ROTJ is Truce At Bakura. A portion of the SW aren't class A literature but I love all of them the same. I hated that they killed off Chewie the first time I read Vector Prime but I pulled through it and am still a fan. I think they way he died was fitting, something bigger than life killed him. A falling moon. What's more epic than that? When the rest of the movie characters die which they will if Legacy is any indication it will have to be big. That death made me realize that we aren't invincible wether in real life or in fiction. So that doesn't bother me anymore I kept reading the rest of the series for Chewie and I wanted to see how it ended. I am very emotional attached to the characters. Though I will admit I don't care for the path the authors have taken in the post NJO universe except for the Legacy comic series but every time I read one of those books I end up liking it regardless. They wasted so much potential in the DNT/LOTF/FOTJ arc.

[dracosfairmaiden]

I love:
Harry Potter series
the Royal Diaries series
the Little House series
Macbeth (favorite Shakespeare play)
the Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963
the Help

I hate:
Twilight
anything with too much romance
the Scarlet Letter

[G. Novella]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 'nuff said

[codygotkilld]

Ah, I knew I forgot something when I made my favs. Thanks for adding Douglas Adams masterpiece Gnovella.

[blackroses77]

Love:

Harry Potter (That's a given ;D)
anything by Tami Hoag who writes the best mysteries
Most of Catherine Anderson's books
Star Wars but only the books that fall between just before ANH and Vector Prime absolutely nothing after that.

I'll add more as I think of them.

Hate:

See above for Star Wars
Wicked (If I were to ever burn a book it would be that one)

[physicssquid]

Obviously we all like Harry Potter. If we didn't we wouldn't be here, and bored out of our minds.