While She Knits

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Gosh, it's been quiet around here!

What great things have you read recently that are totally obscure?  Something other people are unlikely to ever find on their own?

I'll go first:

Boris by Cynthia Rylant - if you've ever loved a pet, you'll like this one.  So sweet!  And, it's told in verse.

A teen sci-fi series that you'll like if you're a Star Trek nerd * - the Galahad series by Dom Testa.  A comet has infected the earth with a disease that is killing off all the adults.  As a last-ditch effort to save the human race, scientists build a spaceship to travel to another planet, and choose 251 disease-free teens who must learn how to get the ship there, and colonize the planet.  Lots of fun.  The first book is The Comet's Curse.



* No, not me.  Not a bit.

Comments

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

Well, almost everyting I've rad this year I read on the reccommendation of a fellow Sounisian, so I don't neccessarily have anything y'all havent already head of. And actually, there were a few series I considered obscure before I joined Sounis. Then I met Sounisians who had readthem, which justgoes to prove how well read Sounisians are! XD

Otherwise, I've just finished reading The Hunger Games, ad right now I'm reading "Throne of Glass" which is OK - altough I cold have told the main character on page 80 what she's just now figuring out on page 310...Seriously, Celaena, who told you you were an assassin? And I also read te first two books of te Ryria Revelations by Michael Sullivan. The read alot like The Legend of Eli Monpress, but a little more to the epic fantasy side. It's best not to compare the two series though, because the RR thief and swordsman are very similar to th LoEM thief and swordsman - if they swapped personlities....It can be a little distracting!

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I must apologize for the atrocious spelling on my first comment - my computer was so slow yesterday that it was not even typing properly, skipping every few letters. I really can spell better than that! *blushes*

[1221bookworm.livejournal.com]

Your deducing in "Throne of Glass" means that you are probably suspicious enough to read the next QT book. Consider it a warm up for the real thing ...

I second the recommendation for Ryria Revelations. I think you're right, they're best not compared, but definelty have some of the same themes: Two guys who only care about money, until it comes time to save the world - then they will do the right thing, but take away the catastrophe, and they'll only care about money. They try to look tough, but they're not!! :)

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

Hah! MWT would *never* write something that obvious, and Gen and co. are all much too clever to be deceived for that long. Well, except possibly Costis, or Sopos, and definitely Berrone XD

Yeah, Hadrian especially is a marshmallow...But the other biggest difference is that Ryria doesn't have a Nico on their team, which makes them exactly 1/3 less awesome. Oh yeah, and they not as good at keeping secrets..."Wait, what? You knew I was an elf?" ...LOL