Yeah I think we should, When I finish the Rode Code I will read a Make-Up book.
I finally got round, after having seen the film which was so hauntingly marvellous that if it doesn’t get Oscar nominations i will cry, to reading We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver…which my mum actually lent to me about 3 years ago and I simply never got round to pick it up. I found it to be a very well crafted, heartfelt and melancholy book.
Is it sad?
The Road Code is almost finished so then I can go to the Make-Up book. 
It’s rather…ugh, i’m not too sure how to describe it. Sad, but strangely whimsical. Nice mix of emotions.
I don’t know if anyone has asked this here before.
What was the first book you guys read?
I can’t for the life of me remember the name of the books, but i distinctly remember having a series of books with characters from the alphabet, like, Little A, Little B, and so on, and they had a box and they had to fill the box up with things that start with the letter of their name.
I also read Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne very early on. I believe I had a really nice picture book with it. I also read books like The Hobbit, the first few Harry Potter books, the His Dark Materials series, the Lemony Snicket series and so on at an early age. Sadly i don’t read nearly as much as i used to.
I think mine was The Cat in the Hat.
I think it was Cat In The Hat too. Because I remember My mum buying it from a second hand bookstore.
I remember wa had ir when I was really young. I’m not sure anymore because we don’t have a lot of are children books anymore.
I have lot’s of children books on one part of my shelf, I have so many books.
Yeah I defintely don’t remember the first book I read. They’ve always been in my life.
I think why it is easy for me to remember because I am still a kid.
I specifically remember the first book I read on my own. It was Sam’s Cookie, about a boy who has a cookie that a dog tries to steal.
I still enjoy looking at children’s books because of the simple stories and diverse illustration styles. In my senior year of high school, I wrote and illustrated a children’s book for a poetry class and it was actually quite good for something thrown together at the last minute. I want to write more!
That book reminds me of the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie for some reason.
Anyone remember The Rainbow Fish?
Same, it’s impossible to me.
I am reading a Archie Comic.
I read The Hunger Games trilogy last week. Really good themes overall, specially on the effects of mass media and the dangers of power.
Anyway, I felt each book was weaker than the previous, with the last one being quite disappointing to me.
Also, I wanted to like Katniss, but I couldn’t. I like flawed character, but she had too many, specially selfishness. Then Peeta is described as the nicest guy around and I disliked him even more than her. The third main character, Gale, who forms an utterly disgusting [spoil]love triangle with the other two[/spoil], begins as the only likable one but as the series progress, I realized I he wasn’t nice either. Some other minor characters are a little better, but just so.
I liked the books, but was unable to love them because of the characters and, as I said, because of the ending. So many good series with a great potential for an epic ending have been disappointing, so I’m already used to this. I want to hug Rowling every time I remember she managed to give her series a reasonably satisfying finale.
So yes, I recommend the books to anyone interested in dystopian literature. But if you still have a bad taste about love triangles incremented by Twilight, keep away from this.
PS: The Twilight comparison is limited to the “love” story. The rest of the plot is waaaaaaay better.
I totally agree with all of what you’ve said.
I loved the first two books, but wasn’t all that satisfied with the third one. It kind of threw the main characters into a completely different setting and didn’t give us enough time to get used to it before it started [spoil]killing everyone off.[/spoil] The ending was kind of a letdown as well, all I was thinking when I finished it was “Uh, okay then. Is that it?”
From what I’ve read and heard, the movie’s shaping up to be extremely good though. Which is surprising considering its subject matter, I’d have thought Hollywood would tone a lot of the themes down to try to please everyone. How on Earth they’re going to adapt the third book, which is essentially the story of [spoil]an extremist left-wing rebellion overpowering the extremist right-wing government[/spoil] without offending liberals and conservatives alike is beyond me.
It would be a real shame to see them ruin what could be a great movie by toning down or removing completely some of the more controversial themes. I was so excited when I heard Northern Lights was being adapted into a movie, but the epic ball of fail that was The Golden Compass, stripped bare of all the religious themes, ended up being one of my most hated movies of all time.
That, too, was one of my main criticisms. I forgot to write about it.