[HPFGU-OTChatter] Great Great Books

[kemper mentor]

bbkkyy55 <bbkkyy55 at yahoo.com> wrote:
  I haven't posted for a loooong time.  I think I'm in mourning.  How 
can we wait two years for the next Harry Potter.  I've been trying to 
find some other books that I can care about as much as Harry. While I 
have really enjoyed some of them I must say they don't grab me the 
way Harry does.  I'm not sure what I love about Harry, maybe it's the 
depth of feeling that is shown in the main characters.

Many of my friends are startled when they hear I'm rereading a book.  
Great books can be reread because you enjoy the trip.  You're not 
just speeding to the end to find out what happens.

Harry got me started on Fantasy/Science Fiction.  Here's my list of 
good books I enjoyed.  Terry Brooks "Shannara Series",  Robert 
Jordan's "Wheel of Time Series".  Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game".  
Christopher Paolini's "Eldest".  Philip Pullman "His Dark Materials" 
Trilogy (not done with book 3 yet). I'm sure there are others.

But, the Great books.  The ones I can read over and over, I even have 
to make myself stop reading them again.  Charles Dickens "Bleak 
House", "David Copperfield", "Nicholas Nickleby", and others.  "Jane 
Eyre".  "Lord of the Rings".  Harry Potter (especially book 5).

I'd love to hear what you all think are the "Great Books".  Maybe I 
can broaden my horizons, or at least figure out why these books grab 
me like they do.

Anxious to hear your ideas ...
   
   
  Kemper now:
  Hi Bonnie... here are my thoughts on great books.
   
  First, I agree with Steve regarding Stroud's Barteaumus Trilogy.  The third book was quite powerful and really took the story from great to excellent. (Steve, can you direct me to your thoughts on these regarding HP, plz... I wasn't done reading the 3rd book when you posted something about it)  Second, I must be the only person who thinks people need to stay away from Eragon/Eldest, but to each their own library.
   
  Other Great Books:
   
  Forest Gump
  The story is unbelievably different than the movie.  It's ridiculus.  It's one of the few books that I've laughed out loud, frequently.  But only read the first book, the second one deconstructs the first because of the author's resentments towards the Studio.  It's very not funny.
   
  The Giver and Gathering Blue, two books by Lois Lowery
  Hard to describe the Greatness. 
   
  Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne
  A story told via journal entries by a 14 year gifted student.  This book, too, is one of the funniest books I've ever read.  But read it near a dictionary... unless you too are deviously gifted with the world's best vocabulary.
   
  Midnight Blue by Nancy A. Collins
  The best vampire trilogy ever writen. EVER!  Stoker and Rice have nothing on Collins.  NOTHING!!!  They are hacks!  Midnight Blue is the name of the trade paperback that combines the Sonya Blue Trilogy.  There are other Sonya Blue novels which are as awesome, but start with Midnight Blue.
   
   
  I've read all of the above several times...
   
  I'm out.
   
   
   
    
  
  


			
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