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Recommendations of good novels to read?

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mare:

--- Quote from: honey on April 18, 2008, 02:37:52 PM ---Oddly enough most of my reading has been in the action adventure category. Like I've read most of Michael Crighton and a lot of the Dirk Pitt series by Clive Cussler. Not romance at all lol.

but yeah, I know there are some teenagers here on this board. What are you guys reading these days?  Oh lord that just made me sound so old. LMAO.

I really do need to find some good books that are geared toward teenagers. Like the twilight series or the Traveling Pants series... stuff like that.

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one of my 6th graders was reading the third book in the Twilight series today. I thought of you lol She was reading the first book last Friday so it didn't take her long to get through them.

honey:
aww. Mare thinks of me.  :)  haha yes. I just devoured those silly books. and 6th graders... that sounds about right lol. Though I know a ton of adults that love those books as well. Stephenie Meyer is actually publishing a new book soon in the Adult market and she actually went through a different publisher and everything. I don't know if she's going to use another name or not for that one, but I will be curious to see the genre switch.

mare:
on a random note about teens. They enjoy big print lol little print scares them.

starbeamz:
Jennifer Crusie is one of those beach/chick lit authors, and she's part comedy/drama/mystery/romance...one of those that's a perfect mix of it all lol

Megan McCafferty writes this series that started off in high school. It's the diaries of this one average teenage girl and pretty much follows her musings and what goes on around her in school and life lol There's only 4 books and they move fairly fast.  I loved the first two: Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings.

I know every time I'm in Target, I always check out the book section and Gossip Girls and this other set of teen fiction (TTYL I think is the name of one of the books lol) are always right up there at the top of the teen reads. 

AAH! Meg Cabot! How could I forget her?! She wrote the Princess Diaries books along with a bunch of others, and I think your stories mirror hers in a lot of ways as well.

Wow, it's been a while since I've touched young adult lol and I'm only 20

honey:

--- Quote from: mare on April 18, 2008, 02:40:06 PM ---Anne Tyler's books are more conedy then drama but yes, the others are more drama centered.

Wally Lamb just does a great job writing in first POV as a woman in She's Come Undone that you almost think it was written by a woman. It's a drama but there are a lot of very funny parts in it as well. I Know This Much is True is an incredibly huge book but a great one. It's a story in a story about identical twins but one of them is mentally ill. Those are the only books he's written actually lol I don't know, maybe because of my upbringing and my families dysfuntion but both books really spoke to me and inspired me to write Mel's. The first draft lol

Deception Point is another great book. It's Dan Brown and a suspense action one and I read it in about three days lol I couldn't put it down.



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haha well I might have to read that one. I mean I am the queen of mental illness.  :D  And as for him writing well as a woman? My hats off to the man. Because I just wrote a book from the boys perspective and he's soooo girly. That's hard to do. Really fun, channeling my inner boy, but hard.

The only Dan Brown I've read is the Da Vinci Code. But I really enjoyed it. Much more than the movie.  I'll have to put Anne Tyler on my list first then cause I tend to flock to the more humor and less drama books.

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