Science fiction is intense...the furthest I've ever got with it was 'The Chrysalids' by John Gresham -and that was prescribed reading for school. But it was really interesting, and involved telepathy, which was pretty darn cool. Otherwise I'm a (normal) fictional social commentary kind of person

I've recently picked up Utopia, by Thomas More. I didn't realise the language would be so ancient, but it's rather fun to decipher. I'm only a few pages in to the actual story, I got caught up reading More's biography and letters -which are fascinating, by the way. Anyone else read it?

I'm reading a play about Thomas More: A Man For All Seasons. Great play so far. He was really a remarkable man, and a secular take on his life is super-interesting.

Utopia...I might try to find that one. Should be interesting if I do!

so cool Libby! If it's really a first edition, it's probably worth something! Not that I'd ever sell it

yeah, it was a really cool and rare find! I would never sell it! I can't believe that it's in such good condition!

Made a trip to the bookstore today to pick up A Conspiracy of Kings (YAY!), Lord Sunday, and The Chestnut King. It was a good trip.

Ooh! Lord Sunday is out now? MUST. GET. ASAP!

And A Conspiracy of Kings, though I think I should re-read the others first. I just bought The King of Attolia a little while ago. Though I'm waiting for the paperback of CoK to come out before I buy it.

P.S."Brooklyn!"

*happiness*
I finally own all three books of the "Dive Trilogy" the "Everest Trilogy" and the Island Trilogy" (all by Gordon Korman)! yay! I have bee collecting them.....

Oh the joy of going to the library to check out those tried and true classics named Nancy Drew. I will forever have memories of the smell of old books with faded covers. Alright. Now for my favorite books. I like The Christy Miller Stories. The Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series are cool but kind of odd....

^^ The Castaways Of The Flying Dutchman? who wrote that?

Brian Jacques, the author of the Redwall series.

When I was younger I was crazy about the Flying Dutchman books...my favorite was the first, the others got too confusing and random for me I really should reread them again!

Right now I'm loving Shel Silverstein's poetry. They're meant for children but I think if I'd read them when I was a lot younger I would have been a bit frightened, some of them are kind of gruesome.

Brian Jacques, the author of the Redwall series.

oh.....i wasn't much into the Redwall Series......

has anybody read the Leven Thumps series by Obert Skye? those books are awesome!

My favorite Castaways book was the second one. The third was the odd one. I wonder if he will write any more of them. I hope so!

Liberty, I was never a fan of Redwall at all, but I enjoyed the Castaways books. They're not really anything alike.

I used to like the Redwall books a lot, and I've read all of them, but they've started to get kind of repetitive. I tried to reread them, but other than a few favorites I don't really like them anymore.
I've read the first two Castaways books, and I thought they were okay.

I have read lots of anthony howartz books latley. Anyoen heard of him?. he rights books for childern and teenagers. Also ahs avery plain taste in character names(eg bob,tom, henery).