10 best books for treating Harry Potter withdrawal »
Posted By Emmanuel70 1 year, 2 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentIs there life after book 7? Believe it or not, there is. Here are 10 books guaranteed to get you out of your post-Potter rut and back into a great reading experience.
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Emmanuel701 year, 2 months ago
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CRYMTYPHON, my apologies. Here's the link:
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Thanks Emmanuel70!
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Ok, that was an interesting list;
and only half of them, were the ones I was expecting.
Ender's Game
-- great sci-fi classic; but not really fantasy; also, card never wrote anything as good again .
The Chrestomanci Series - Diana Wynne Jones
-- these are great fantasy novels; and she has other books as good. Frankly, I think she is as good a writer as Rowling, but I have to be careful who I tell that too.
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
-- good scifi from the 50's; downer, though.
The Bartimaeus Trilogy - Jonathon Stroud
-- I have not read this; looks good.
Dune
-- great sci-fi classic that rivals Lord of the Rings; tho the sequels declined in quality.
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
-- read the first; liked it, but not enough.
The Discworld Series - Terry Pratchett
-- this has to be the single largest series of genius fantasy novels any one writer has produced; building an entire world you can imagine, and would want to visit.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
-- genius, but frequently incoherent. The plots are someone clever talking fast while drinking his 5th beer.
Any by Eva Ibbotson, but particularly The Secret of Platform 13
-- new to me; sound good.
Any works by Connie Willis
-- I just read 'to say nothing of the dog'; liked it, but I loved the eerie and lyrical 'Passage'.
I might have added, for anyone who liked Harry Potter:
The Series of Unfortunate Events
Coraline (Neil Gayman)
The Dresden Series (Jim Butcher)
The Seventh Tower ( Garth Nix )
The Keys of the Kingdom ( Nix, again )
And anything by John Bellaires.
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