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  • March 26, 2009 at 11:31 am #40253
    Jordan
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    I happen to think that this is the toughest question you can ask a good book lover. For this thread, feel free to be a little broad and post a top five, ten, fifty, or hundred. :D

    I’m still thinking about my answer…

    March 26, 2009 at 1:48 pm #44668
    wyatt
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    #1 is Inkheart. #2 is Pearls of Lutra. #3 is Taggerung. That’s all for now. :D

    March 26, 2009 at 2:48 pm #44669
    Sarah
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    Eek! What kind of a question is that?!? I’ll just have to post some of my favorite books, because putting them in order of preference is too hard.

    -The Gammage Cup

    -The Hobbit

    -The Chronicles of Narnia

    -The Wilderking Trilogy (yay feechiefolk!!)

    March 26, 2009 at 3:38 pm #44670
    Alassiel
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    That is definitely the toughest question ever. I don’t know if I could narrow it down enough to even make a list.

    March 26, 2009 at 4:15 pm #44671
    C Triebold
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    I went through all the books i have ever read and picked out ALL of my absolute favorites, 35 books (which is about 9% of all the books I’ve read total). They are not in any sort of order.

    Isle of Swords – Wayne Batson

    Isle of Fire – Wayne Batson

    The Door Within – Wayne Batson

    The Rise of the Wyrm Lord – Wayne Batson

    The Final Storm – Wayne Batson

    The Dangerous Days of Daniel X – James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge

    House of Dark Shadows – Robert Liparulo

    Chosen – Ted Dekker

    Renegade – Ted Dekker

    Hangman’s Curse – Frank Peretti

    The Door In the Dragon’s Throat – Frank Peretti

    The Deadly Curse of Toco-Rey – Frank Peretti

    The Tombs of Anak – Frank Peretti

    Escape from the Island of Aquarius – Frank Peretti

    Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer

    Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code – Eoin Colfer

    Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony – Eoin Colfer

    Skulduggery Pleasant – Derek Landy

    Playing With Fire – Derek Landy

    100 Cupboards – N. D. Wilson

    Hoot – Carl Hiaasen

    Beyond the Reflections’ Edge – Bryan Davis

    The Bad Beginning – Lemony Snicket

    The Reptile Room – Lemony Snicket

    The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket

    The Ersatz Elevator – Lemony Snicket

    The Vile Village – Lemony Snicket

    The Hostile Hospital – Lemony Snicket

    The Carnivorous Carnival – Lemony Snicket

    The Slippery Slope – Lemony Snicket

    The Penultimate Peril – Lemony Snicket

    Broken Angel – Sigmund Brouwer

    Magnus – Sigmund Brouwer

    Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson

    Holes – Louis Sachar

    March 26, 2009 at 6:08 pm #44672
    Alyosha
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    Les Miserables

    The Horse and His Boy and The Magician’s Nephew

    Enemy Brothers

    The Lord of the Rings

    The Attolia books especially KoA

    I Am David

    The Story of the Treasure Seekers

    Waking Rose and The Midnight Dancers

    Various nonfiction

    That about sums it up :P

    March 26, 2009 at 9:54 pm #44673
    Alassiel
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    Wow, I’m impressed, C Triebold. I should try to narrow it down to a list of absolute favorites, the “take with me to a deserted tropical island” favorites.

    March 26, 2009 at 11:05 pm #44674
    C Triebold
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    Alassiel said:

    Wow, I’m impressed, C Triebold.

    *bows* :-)

    March 26, 2009 at 11:10 pm #44675
    Adalin
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    Oh wow, this is difficult.

    Isle of swords

    Isle of fire

    The door within trilogy

    All the Binding of the blade

    There are more but these are the ones that come immediately to mind.

    March 27, 2009 at 12:43 pm #44676
    Jordan
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    Okay, I’ve thought long enough…

    My top books can be determined as the ones with a world deep enough that my brother and I are constantly speculating about nitpicky details. Those would be:

    Anything I’ve read by Bryan Davis.

    Tolkien’s LOTR and Hobbit.

    Nothing else comes to mind right now…

    March 27, 2009 at 8:30 pm #44677
    Owan
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    C Triebold said:

    100 Cupboards – N. D. Wilson

    Holes – Louis Sachar

    Yay! Other than these, which please me quite thoroughly, our tastes are quite different. ;)

    The Magician’s Nephew, Alyosha? Huh, that’s probably my least favorite. ;) I art glad you have seen the wonders of King of Attolia. *is happy, now*

    If I defined my favorites the way you do, Jordan, than I’d have to go with the Fairy Tale Novels as an answer. ;)

    March 28, 2009 at 12:53 am #44678
    Alyosha
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    And PC is my least favourite so we’re even. ;) HHB is the best, but MN has a very cool…atmosphere…and the descriptions are beautiful and a good bit happens in our world (turn of the century London, no less) and Digory reminds me of me. That is all. *shrugs*

    Eh, what? I’ve always liked KoA. ;)

    I think all of my favourites fall into the nitpickingable category though that’s not why I like them. Why that criteria, particularly? *is curious* Would that limit your favourite books to fantasy only or do you ever nitpick historical fiction?

    March 28, 2009 at 12:56 am #44679
    Jordan
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    I’m a world person. To me a great book is defined by the scope of the worlds. If the author sticks little bitty details all over the place, and then ties them into a backstory or world, I feel a part of it.

    Kind of hard to explain, I guess. I could nitpick historical fiction, I suppose. I nitpick history a lot… But mostly fantasy.

    March 28, 2009 at 2:52 am #44680
    Owan
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    I have the idea that The Magician’s Nephew could make a lovely, epochal movie, Alyosha, if done right (not likely) and paired with the right music (possible, I suppose.) Yes, it is lovely. [:D] Digory reminds you of yourself? Interesting, interesting. *has nothing to say about HHB*

    Hopefully I’m not mistaken but you did like The Queen best, didn’t you?

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