mercredi, novembre 24, 2004 The first book which made me cry was in Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series - the Magic trilogy, to be precise. The books in that trilogy are: Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise, and Magic's Price. I've read most of her Valdemar books, and I like that her timelines are mostly broken up into trilogies, which makes locating them in libraries that much easier. (You can also try her Brainship series, which were interesting until The City That Fought.)Continuing on in the same vein, Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain (more young adult than kids) is another fantasy book series worth looking into, as is Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising sequence. Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted, recently remade into a suckky movie, Margaret Mahy's The Changeover - ooh, this is a good one from the New Zealand author. Issac Asimov - but only if you have the patience: the Foundation series has got to have at least 5 or 6 books, and TONS AND TONS of other short stories and essays on it. After that, if you're not tired, move on to his Robot series. Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere and American Gods are on different wavelengths, but both good - Neverwhere especially, and if you want to see what he can do as a kid's author, pick up Coraline (young adult fiction), or The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish. And of course, not forgetting his 11-book series of Sandman graphic novels. Nick Hornby's About A Boy, and Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. But the ultimate book for me seems to be the bible - opened it when I was small, still reading it now. No other book can boast that it's been to 10 different countries with me. :-) (Next time leave your name! Or at least your URL so I can check out YOUR books.) [Books which rocked my world?] |
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