Comments on: Spoiler Free Since 1993

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:45:50 +0000

Librarian: Public libraries are great. Free books. Such a cool concept; I wish more people would a) read b) take advantage of the libraries. Holds have been placed on the two Oppel books you recommended as well as Connolly’s. Just have to wait for them to come in.

By: your neighborhood librarian

your neighborhood librarian — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:21:11 +0000

Ok then if you’ve read His Dark Materials (which I am increasingly helping adult readers find, I think the word’s getting out), try Ken Oppel’s two airship books, Airborn and Skybreaker; also Eoin Colfer’s Supernaturalists - his Artemis Fowl books are cute but more kid-like, so you might pass on them.

Also, in the adult arena - The Book of Lost things by John Connolly and anything you can find by Liz Jensen. Cory Doctorow. Christopher Moore (obvs). Gregory Maguire.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:14:19 +0000

Snay: You’re not alone. A few of my friends decided to read the entire set over again; even though they started a month or two ago, I doubt I would have had the time or discipline to do it.

Librarian: I think the stuttering is a British thing. Novelists and script-writers alike prefer to type cast themselves that way. I don’t get it. I’ve actually read Pullman’s stuff. I really loved the daemon concept. Any description of their appearance aside, I always imagine Beastie — the mascot for the FreeBSD operating system — as tagging along when I think of those books. I’m always on the lookup for a good read; I’ll have to check out Riordan and Horowitz.

By: your neighborhood librarian

your neighborhood librarian — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:46:59 +0000

There are 2 other kids’ book series that I recommend for adults who have read Harry Potter. Both are better written (all that fucking stuttering, god, there ARE other ways to indicate emotion, lady) and briskly plotted. One is even funny.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
The Alex Ryder series by Anthony Horowitz
Oh, also, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, which by all rights should be shelved as adult - it’s pretty deep.

There’s a lot to be said for the best juvenile literature - it’s well-crafted, densely imagined, and moves right along, and if it’s sometimes a little predictable, that doesn’t take away from the fun of reading it.

By: Malnurtured Snay

Malnurtured Snay — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:19:07 +0000

I reread all the books beforehand so I’d be up to date. I remember reading Half Blood Prince and being “Luna Lovegood? WHO?”