Alaska is my least favorite of the 3 John Green books I've read (not to say that it isn't good, just that I liked Paper Towns and Will Grayson better). It's not what one would call a very happy book. More "cathartic", perhaps. I have plans to pick up all the Skullduggery books when I'm in the UK, since there are some that aren't out yet in the US, so I think it's more an issue of "which are you in the mood for?"
Xander: Just once I'd like to run into a cult of bunny worshippers. Anya: Great. Thank you very much for those nightmares.
'Sleeper'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DebetEsse - Feb 18, 2013 7:02:21 pm PST #20464 of 28359
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Polter-Cow - Feb 18, 2013 9:24:13 pm PST #20465 of 28359
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Five hundred votes for The Book Thief.
Calli - Feb 19, 2013 1:58:14 am PST #20466 of 28359
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I bought the Duane ebook bundle last year, too. I think there was one sort of fundraiser? Anyway, I haven't started them, partially because Mount Toberead is reaching Everest proportions and partially because I'm not sure about the order. Does anyone have a link to a series chronology, please?
Strix - Feb 19, 2013 2:55:41 am PST #20467 of 28359
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
SKULDUGGGERY!
But I am intending to read The Book Thief one of these days.
dcp - Feb 19, 2013 2:59:35 am PST #20468 of 28359
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Gris - Feb 19, 2013 7:39:48 am PST #20469 of 28359
Hey. New board.
I like them all. Looking for Alaska is not the best John Green, but it was my first and I liked it. The Book Thief is brilliant. Skulduggery is pure fun. So... any of them?
Amy - Feb 19, 2013 7:45:12 am PST #20470 of 28359
Because books.
You people are no help. Or possibly too much help.
I think I'm going to finish Montmaray and then start The Book Thief.
We'll see, anyway.
EpicTangent - Feb 19, 2013 10:30:15 am PST #20471 of 28359
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Well, if you are interested, Duane is re-releasing an edited and updated set of the novels, which take into account advances in technology in the time since she started writing the series.
This is definitely of interest. I'll definitely have to look into them. Especially as ebooks, given the piles of literature currently threatening to bury me in the next big quake.
Cass - Feb 19, 2013 6:50:50 pm PST #20472 of 28359
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Mount Toberead
One day, I hope to summit it.
Even just the analog version. I can kinda hide the digital, the actual books taunt me.
Ginger - Feb 19, 2013 7:07:58 pm PST #20473 of 28359
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I have been working on Mount Toberead and Mount Tobeshelved for the last several days, because the avalanches have been getting in the way of walking around.