Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered As for my favorite, hard to choose. My least favorite is easy though, Opal. That one makes me want to reach through the book and, well, I'm sure you can imagine. I don't like self-centered, arrogant, mentally unstable morons, and Opal

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered @Cookie, Niel gaiman is well worth a try, his stuff is fantastic, also I absolutely loved Jo Hill's nos4atu recently, which sort of hovers between horror and magical wimsy and is one of the best books I've read for a considerable time.

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered Just reread the first Artemis Fowl book and was pleasantly surprised.Yes, it's generally for kids. There are some plot holes, and some convenient bits that make the story go faster. But I laughed out loud a couple of times; the author is fair

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered As long as you know and decided it wasn't for you.  I just wanted to make sure you knew such things existed; it would suck for everyone involved if you didn't and didn't decide you liked "adult" books because you were o

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered My idea, based on everything I had forced down my throat, and a bunch of mistakes, is a bunch of weirdness, confusion, and things I can't follow. Most of what I've seen is just not for me. I do look in different sections of the get b

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered @23See Discworld (pretty much any of them, but Thief of Time is along the lines of the sort of thing you're talking about), Matthew Swift (telephone god/mystical mayor of London/sorcerer vs. the embodied death of cities in the second one), Dre

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered Lol it's not like I'm still reading Magic Tree House or anything. I like from about fifth to 12th grade level stuff mostly. It's that balance of magic and real life that draws me in. I do read some adult stuff, Stephen King and Ja

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered @Cookie, I agree with camlorn, there's no specific reason why adult books, or at least books supposedly intended for adults don't have relatable characters, or for that matter lack of extreme content. Hobb has likable characters, howe

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered Not to mention I have some issues with explicit content URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/564181/#p564181 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/ma

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered there's lots of books with relatable characters, at least in my opinion: Wayfarers, for one, anything by Hobb (though I don't like her for pacing), quite a lot of Discworld, to name a few that come to mind immediately.  Highfire as wel

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered I find the problem with most adult books out there is no relatable characters. It's like authors think grownups don't need to relate to characters, which is totally incorrect. I would rather have relatable characters and get laughed at

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered @13Highfire is odd.  If I say last living dragon in the world hiding in a swamp in the southeastern U.S., you will come away thinking "yay, world-saving adventure".  SO I guess I have to say last living dragon hiding in a swamp in the s

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered End of the fifth book. It was a time travel thing URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/564101/#p564101 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/lis

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered i think the first four books wee quite good. then the series went downhill very quickly. I listened to the fifth one but i skiped all the others except for the eigth one. I kinda want to read the fowl twins. it seems to be  a spin-off of the ori

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered I'm forcing myself to stay away from the last three books. Here's the problem though, me staying away from books is about as hard as a magnet staying away from the piece of metal right next to it. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered Don't even get me started on Opal. You don't want to hear what I think. Honestly, Harry Potter never peaked my interest in the slightest. I want at least 1 character I can relate to on some level, and Harry Potter had none of those. H

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered Really enjoyed these as a kid. What is high fire about? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/564010/#p564010 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/ma

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered I'd take Colfer over Rowling any day. I tried to reread Harry Potter as an adult, and it was just a complete chore. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/563994/#p563994 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered @Camlorn, again this is probably where either my reading them with me having the flew, or me not taking them too seriously kicks in. Usually, I'm the first to jump on authors for shallow characters and convenient contrivances in plot, but wi

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered I'd be more forgiving of the humans are bastards trope usage except that I can only think of one character outside Artemis's family who is a "good" human.  In general, don't read them for the character depth.Also, the seq

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered @Cookie, I agree I have a thing about finishing book series as well, though unfortunately with Artemis Fowl, by the time I realised there were more books in the series I'd sort of lost touch with them, and while I enjoyed them as fun wi

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered When I read the first Harry Potter novel, I was pretty disappointed. I thought for many years that if the series was this basic and simplistic, ultimately I was going to get bored with it. I stuck it out, and it resulted in some very pleasurable re

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered I think me and everyone I know has read and liked these; Colfer is generally a good author.  Unfortunately they're easy to age out of and they get a little bit anvilicious with the preserving-the-environment points (well, a lot, really, but fo

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered If there's one thing I hate, it's not finishing a book series I really enjoy. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/563919/#p563919 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com htt

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered @TheEvilChocolateCookie, I'm glad you could enjoy them. I'll check in a few place (RNIB Bookshare, Reading Services, Audible, ETC). URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/563917/#p563917 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audio

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered I have to disagree on the narration. I got the first 3 on CD from a public library, finished 2 and a half, and had to return them. They weren't on overdrive or anything that I could find, and I just managed to find them. Now I want to finish

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered I had an interesting history with this series.Back in 2000, the braille library produced a short book of extracts and mini reviews of titles they'd recently brailled. There were ones for each different genre, from romance, to horror, to cri

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered I had an interesting history with this series.Back in 2000, the braille library produced a short book of extracts and mini reviews of titles they'd recently brailled. There were ones for each different genre, from romance, to horror, to cri

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered I had an interesting history with this series.Back in 2000, the braille library produced a short book of extracts and mini reviews of titles they'd recently brailled. There were ones for each different genre, from romance, to horror, to cri

Re: Another series I've rediscovered

Re: Another series I've rediscovered I got a hold of the first book on CD years ago, and I absolutely *hated* the narration. Perhaps I'll get a hold of an eBook version or give it another go. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/563891/#p563891 -- Audiogames-reflector ma

Another series I've rediscovered

Another series I've rediscovered Hello wonderful humans. I just wanted to talk about yet another series of books I started reading years ago. This time, our subject is Artemis Fowl, the books, not the horrible thing Disney calls a movie. Does anyone remember these books? If so, wha