I thaught V.C.Andrews-flowers in the attic .......but after my last question(just a few mins ago) a few of you thaught I was a little out of line by wanting that type of book for my daughter.....SO,anyway tell me a book or two, or even a series of books that are in joyable.
2006-10-03 19:16:52 · 8 answers · asked by jay 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
SO SORRY ABOUT INCORRECT SPELLING...............STEPHANIE S.
2006-10-03 20:14:05 · update #1
Get the Miles Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold!!! I *still* read them over and over and over, and I'm 28... how's that for holding your interest? lol I've had to buy new copies when my old ones fall apart. They're wonderful coming-of-age, overcoming-obstacles, space adventure stories. I think more kids would read if they got to read fun books like these. They get you looking at life in a positive light, too...
They *do* have a little sex in them, but it's sort of inferred. (You know, "The next morning....") And kind of necessary, as it's about a guy growing up and eventually getting married. Definitely not nearly as bad as VC Andrews.
The Lord of the Rings is REALLY boring. Really. I only read them as a teen because I felt it was my cultural duty. The first one is okay, I guess, but then it's just a lot of talking. The author is more interested in world-building, making his own languages, and so on than in telling a story. I was amazed that they could actually get enough action out of the second book to make a movie based on it.
Other popular books that you really don't want to recommend because they're actually boring as hell: Terry Goodwind, Robert Jordan (both pump out a series just to be pumping out a series), Anita Blake (she starts okay, then gets worse and worse), Stephen King ("suspense" means nothing happens until the last three chapters, and there's way too much pointless sex).
Let's see... also... The Ender series by Orson Scott Card is something most literate teenagers read at some point.
Neil Gaiman is very fun. "Good Omens," for example, is about the apocolyse. It's British comedy, like Douglas Adams, only smarter. The Red Dwarf books, too - very like the TV series, if you've seen it. Fun, fun stuff.
And the Vlad Taltos books by Steven Brust, if you don't mind your daughter reading about a hired assassin. That's in the sword-and-sorcery genre.
Second the Harry Potter recommendation. The movies - especially the first two - are practically verbatim, if you want to know what they're like. I don't know, though... seems like at 17, I'd want to avoid "kid's" books, even if adults would like them.
I know you'd love all of these, too, if it comes down to that. =) Good luck!
2006-10-03 19:44:39 · answer #1 · answered by Heather 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You probably need to read a bit more because your spelling is atrocious! But... maybe you are foreign, so I will not be so judgmental.
Anyway... I am VERY particular in what I read... nothing keeps my interest. I found Memoirs of a Geisha to be VERY captivating and I don't know anyone who didn't think the same.
I really like Kurt Vonnegut books, try Breakfast of Champions.
The Da Vinci Code is a page-turner too... easy and suspenseful read.
2006-10-04 02:34:56 · answer #2 · answered by Stephanie S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Mirror of Her Dreams" by Stephen R Donaldson is a great Sci-Fi/fantasy/romance, along with its sequel "A Man Rides Through." Stephen R Donaldson's series 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" are really good; read them in order! "The Lord of the Flies" is a heartbreaking but great novel.Try Robert Ludlum, John Steinbeck, Pearl S. Buck, and Walter Farley.
I read "Flowers in the Attic" when I was seventeen; there are better novels out there.
2006-10-04 02:30:12 · answer #3 · answered by Caffeinated 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter is 17 and she loves to read Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Stephen King and cookbooks (she wants to be a chef) :)
I don't think she would like VC Andrews either. I remember reading that and I think a 17 year old nowadays would just find it stupid.
Oh - and she really enjoyed Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (the book before The DaVinci Code, I believe)
But I guess it really depends on what kind of 17 year old you have. :)
2006-10-04 02:21:15 · answer #4 · answered by StephanieW 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate it when you ask people about a good book to read and the first thing they think about is harry potter.
What i suggest for your daughter is "Where the Red fern grows"
She will love that.
Very interesting book. I am suggestion you see the details on amazon.com
2006-10-07 14:36:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what about eoin colfer? the series of artemis fowl are quite interesting.
and another advice: if she doesn't want to read books right now, don't push her. she'll come around eventually and will look for herself for what she likes to read.
2006-10-04 02:27:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
try Sydney Sheldon, or Erich Segal, or Jane Austin, or Jeffery Archer, or Paolo Coelho, or Stephen King, or.....
2006-10-04 02:22:50 · answer #7 · answered by fAr stAr 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think she would like to read NANCY DREW books(that's a series of more than 300 books)
enid blyton's FAMOUS FIVE is a good book of younger ages. but, i still like it so, maybe your daughter also likes it!
HAPPY READING TO YOUR DAUGHTER!
2006-10-07 15:07:54 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋