I liked the frist 2 books of artemis fowl, the others seems a lil too forced.
Also the Dark Tower is an amazing saga, along with A Song of Ice and Fire, althought I won't reccomed them for child-reading
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I can't read Artemis Fowl. I'm too horrified with what Ioan Colfer did with the Hitch-hiker's Guide series. Seriously, have you read his attempt at a sequel? It's garbage. Absolute and complete shite.
The Dark Tower series rocks. King is writing a new one, by the way, intended to go in before Wolves of The Cala. I can't wait; I really don't like his horror stuff, but the Dark Tower is masterful.
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Morpheus91
MemberExcellent recommendations, thanks all! :-) I've been meaning to get ahold of the Dark Tower series at some point, and my brother really enjoyed the Inkheart books; I've only seen the Inkheart movie, which was only "okay" imo.
I'm halfway through Prince Caspian (darn odd work/school schedules that have me watching half a movie and then postponing the rest!), and so far I enjoy the darker tone it has taken. Have to say I loved the exchange: "I'm tired of being treated like kids." "We *are* kids!" "I wasn't always!"
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kessy_athena
MemberI first came across the Narnia books when I was in 5th grade, and had absolutely no idea for many years afterwards that it had anything at all to do with Christianity. Which is rather amusing, since at the time I read the entire series straight through and wrote a fairly long essay on them for extra credit. I was analyzing the role of Aslan - I pointed out that although Aslan was a heroic character in the first book, after that he became much more ambiguous. He was generally not scene except in glimpses here and there, and it didn't seem like he was acting to protect and help the protagonists like he was in the first book. It also seemed to me that Aslan was acting according to some unknown agenda, which may or may not have been in the best interests of the protagonists.
When I did find out about the Christian basis of the books, I was angry. I really felt betrayed and used by Lewis, liked he lied to me, pretending to just be telling a good story when he was really trying to brainwash me. Well, maybe brainwash isn't the right term. Unethically and immorally trying to manipulate me.
Even before I found out about that, I still much preferred Tolkein. But actually my favorite high fantasy series by far at the time was The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander. It's still my favorite of the three, and I highly recommend it. It's quite openly based on Welsh mythology, so there's zero Christian overtones.
I had a hard time with His Dark Materials - which I only read fairly recently. I found it had a really huge squick factor for me, kind of like reading a novel set in a world where Hitler won the war and the story revolved around people trying to deal with a worldwide Nazi regime, ruled by the Gestapo and the SS.
Posted 11 months ago #
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