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I'm really enjoying The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory. Does someone think that it's not her best? I've read on some websites that it's definetely not her most breathtaking book. Which is her best, then?

I have a strip cartoon of Bilbo The Hobbit, really beautiful. I'll reread the two volumes, so I will have a summary of the whole thing. And it's really nice, it's this one: http://www.amazon.fr/Bilbo-Hobbit-tomes-Coffret-Wenzel/dp/2869679971

I used to read Sepulchre veeeryyyy slooowlyyy because my English level wasn't the same, now I think I can get along with it more easily... I love when Kate Mosse writes spelling mistakes in French, I find it cute when English or American authors miss French words. I read today in The Other Queen: "En ma fin est ma commencement" (in my end is my beginning). That's poetic, ok, but it's "MON commencement", cute

I have read a lot of The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory last night, from 22:00 to 23:15 (oh my god I had to stop at 23:00 I'm a rebel ), so there are a hundred pages left. I will finish it quickly, and then... I'll read Alone by Lisa Gardner!

I will take all the books I'll have to read for my "preparation classes" (hm, I don't know if it exists in England... After the final exam (A level, baccalaur

Wooh I leave one day and when I come back I have a whole library before my eyes! Karsa Orlong => I have never heard about these three authors, because I never have read any Fantasy book, I didn't care before... a week. xD So I recapitulate to see it easily: David Eddings: Pawn of Prophecy of 'The Belgariad', which is five books long. The Diamond Throne, first book in a trilogy called 'The Elenium'. Raymond E. Feist there's Magician, which is the first book in his 'Riftwar' trilogy. Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair, which is the first of his trilogy called 'Memory, Sorrow & Thorn'. Robin Hobb, starting with her 'Farseer' trilogy. vinay87 => "The Sword of Shannara" by Terry Brooks, noted! I'm 17 years old, and never really afraid of what I read. What scares me is what I hear, so I'm uneasily shocked by books... Maybe at the end of some creepy book I can have a thought about it like "oh my god, poor little boy", but two days after I don't think of it. If the problem is blood or sickening battle or torture scenes, I can think of something else, like I did with Battle Royale. I have LOTR in French at home, so for the language I will be able to understand it more easily than I do with English books... Even though I'm not disturbed by reading in English, but I don't want to read a book with a dictionnary in hand all the time! LOTR in English would be hard I think, because I have never seen the specific vocabulary of it. Crime novels, now historic novels, it's okay, but Fantasy isn't yet in my head! pickle => David Eddings and Stephen Donaldson's Mordants Need, noted! Maybe I'll try first Mordants Need, I have checked the summary on Wikipedia and it may interest me... The last choice will be made at the library with the books that will be there! Ski[sorry for the accent ><]rnir => A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin interests me a lot! I'm gonna check this one as soon as possible, even if they're huge. I love huge books, that's why I don't read them fast and ends up with 4 books read in five months. Which makes me think that I'm trying for a whole year to learn your language, and I find it the most difficult one ever, you're lucky to know it by birth! For Eragon, I have read the first two and borrowed it to a friend who suffered from leukemia (she never took them back, but I'm not gonna rush at her house to claim two books I'll never ever reread. Then I bought the third, but I couldn't continue it, it was like the magic was gone. ToT I have to say that I was lining up to have an autograph of my favourite author when I got the book, so I wasn't really enjoying it at the moment... Maybe I'll continue it someday. Even though I've spotted an awful spelling mistake in it, what a shame. Chrissy => I have read the first two and maybe the beginning of the third (Le Miroir d'Ambre), and even if I can't remember at all the story (it was too long ago!) I remember that I loved the second. And there was a leopard, I believe. But at this time of my life I started being a strange girl. xD Oh my God, THAT was a novel. I think I've understood why I want to read Fantasy books: I find this genre esthetic, and I'm in my drawing period.

I have read three Philip Pullman books, but I'd like books more like Lord of the Rings (I'll start with... Lord of the Rings xD). But I have have only read Northern Lights (in French it's more like Northern Kingdoms, if I remember the translation), maybe the others will please me... And they are easy to find, even in France. I'll check this out!

You can't hear me, what a shame, but I swear I can say it xD It's the Eyjafjallaj

I have read a few pages of The Other Queen (Philippa Gregory), more when I get to bed... I think I have more suspense than you all, because I never learned any single thing about Tudor England at school! But I must say something: the only thing I know is the end of this "Other Queen", too bad. I MUST finish it quick, I have to read Alone by Lisa Gardner, I've received it after two months! I hate this volcano. =_=" Even though I know how to spell it perfectly. ^o^

I'm 17, I have read one of the... most special French guy, the Marquis de Sade, and I wouldn't say he's the pride of my country I wasn't really shocked, only curious of something: did he REALLY think he could be published? There are things that should not be written. So thanks, I'm noting these two books, I hope I will find them!

Hello everybody! Since I started reading Harry Potter (I was 7 years old back then), I stopped immediately reading Fantasy stories, even though there were a looot of books like these for my age at the moment. Vampires were not the current fashion at this epoch... So I was like "oh no, I don't read it, I'm not a little girl" (I was 10 ) and I started reading a lot of creepy books because I loved the idea of being someone scary. BUT. Last week I found that I really wanted to read a Fantasy book, a story with elves, creatures, giants, bow fights etc. Things I should have read before. So I'd really like to find a reaaally good Fantasy book, if possible not too long (the book can be long, but I wouldn't want a thousand books series, because I see that it's the way Fantasy is often written! Not that it's a wrong thing, but I won't have the right to buy 5 books in a row, you don't know my mother ). Aaand, last condition, if it could not be the most unknown author of the world, that could help me! (I will try to find it in a big library in France, but still there won't be all the books in the world so...) And since I haven't read a single Fantasy book, all the possibilities can exist! [oh my god, my English is terrible tonight] I will also say that I have in my bedroom Lord of the Rings, and I really think I'm going to start it. Because Merry is cool. I think I should just write a Fantasy novel, I'm gifted to make you waste your time by reading my everlasting post! Thanks!

I'm reading The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory, at the beginning I couldn't understand who was Elizabeth. xD Tired, I think.

I'm reading Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner, and I reaaally love her now! I knew she was my favourite american author when I read Hide, but now at the middle of Say Goodbye I want to read all her other books.

I don't know if it surprises me, for I haven't read any summary of it or seen the movie (are we talking about the same story?), but I keep it in mind too!

I think that when Joseph is talking, I nearly don't read what he's saying because I already have problems to understand the rest, so he's nice but I don't know what he's talking about (things from the Bible sometimes, I think). And yes it's a special book, especially because

Thank you everyone, I guess that Stephen King and Lovecraft are my men then. And Koji Suzuki too... I'm looking forward all these authors!

I'm finding this book reaaaally good, but at the first time it was really hard because I couldn't understand the story (I'm French, too much old English words I guess), but now that I've understood the beginning, everything is more simple.

Hello there, this is my list for 2010! Books read in 2010 : Mark Salisbury | Tim Burton : Interviews (100%) Fr Jeff Lindsay | Darkly Dreaming Dexter (100%) Fr Lisa Gardner | Say Goodbye (100%) Eng Manuel | Epict�te (100%) Fr Philippa Gregory | The Other Queen (100%) Eng Poul Anderson | The High Crusade (100%) Fr Anne Rice | Angel Time (100%) Fr Hwang Sok-Yong | Shim Chong, Sold Girl (100%) Fr Lisa Gardner | Alone (100%) Eng Stephen King | Shining (100%) Fr R. Gordon & B. Williams | Tunnels t.3, Freefall (100%) Fr Bernard Werber | Le rire du Cyclope (100%) Fr Stephen King | Carrie (100%) Fr Jeffrey Eugenides | Middlesex (100%) Fr William Shakespeare | Hamlet (100%) Fr William Shakespeare | Macbeth (100%) Fr William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet (100%) Fr Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Profession de Foi du Vicaire Savoyard (100%) Fr Jean Giono | Les Âmes Fortes (100%) Fr Reading (at the same time ) : Jeff Lindsay | Dearly Devoted Dexter (1%) Fr Emily Bront� | Wuthering Heights (55%) Eng Kate Mosse | Sepulchre (70%) Eng Kate Mosse | Labyrinth (0%) Eng Oscar Wilde | Short Stories (80%) Eng Sigmund Freud | Cinq Psychanalyses (40%) Fr Isaac Asimov | Foundation (90%) Fr To Be Bought : George R. R. Martin | A Song of Ice and Fire Nicholas Sparks | The Notebook

Hello everyone, I don't think that books creepy and macabre like Silent Hill games (or the movie, but it's the same kind of atmosphere) exist, but I'm looking for a book who could be scary like it (with a strange sense of poetry, if you see what I mean ). Have you ever read a book who reminded you of this atmosphere? There's no need to have seen monsters in it, I think I'm only searching scary books after all. So, as I am in my Silent Hill period (although I'm too scared to play more thant two minutes ), I'm looking forward horror in a novel, now! Hope I won't be too scared by it. Thank youuu!

I've been so lost with Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront

I don't know if I'm a strange girl, but my favourite reading place is... the WC I think it's because it's the quietest place in all my life, and in my bed my back hurts when I try to read lying on my bed. xD

Thanks Nollaig, I remembered this story but not the details!

Thank you Janet, even if I'm not really responsible of my name. xD Candide is a funny book when you remember that the authors of this epoch couldn't write what they wanted... Voltaire can say a lot of things in a simple way without explicitly criticize something, and it's often really violent when he starts criticize something.