I love those books! I've only read a few of them, though, including the one about C.S.Lewis. *... was kind of obliged to read that one, even if none of the rest* 😛

I finished The Great Escape. It was so well told and I didn't want to put it down when I got to the last few chapters. The ending upset and angered me: I was really hoping for a better ending for them... *sighs* But that just isn't reality.

*patpats* I know. The film managed to salvage an ending though, when you get to watching it.

Hahahaha. In that case then, my chances of reading Maze Runner shrunk. 😀

I read the wikipedia pages on the on them because of the hype.
>.< IT seemed pretty pointless to me and sad.

I also started Reading Jan Karon's most recent book "Come Rain or Shine" I'm so excited for Lace and Dooley! *can't say more because spoilers!* 🙂

I read Ben-Hur for a school project before devouring The Aedyn Chronicles Book 2: Flight of the Outcasts by Alister McGrath. Now I've started North and South.

A Mulan retelling, a fantasy bestiary, some urban fantasy loosely inspired by Oliver Twist, and continuing slow progress on a mystery fiction anthology (currently in the Sherlock Holmes section of the book)

I just finished the Maze Runner. I only kept with it because my sister had just finished it and wanted someone to talk to about it, I'm continuing on with the series for the same reason. Well that and because the whole thing is based on the need to find out WHAT IS GOING ON?! Even if I really don't care much for the characters.

It's not recommended from me. Not because there's anything about it that's any more objectionable than anything else in the distopian YA genera, but because I just thought it wasn't a good book. Not a "Wasn't a good book" in the "This will scar your children!" sort of way, more in a "Can someone hit this guy over the head with a thesaurus" sort of way.

For one thing the author chose the wrong person to write it from. If he's only going to focus on Thomas (The most boring of the Gladers) he should at least make it first person instead of third person. Or if it's going to be third person then we should get to see some things that Thomas doesn't.

For another thing can Thomas have a personality? I don't mean a dark backstory, he's got that, I mean a personality other than that he's brave and selfless. He's a 16 year old boy not Jesus. Come on writer.

I cringed everytime the words "Thomas couldn't imagine anything worse than what he'd just seen". Yeah, we get it it's bad. Get a thesaurus. Or "Thomas couldn't remember". Come on, you're a writer. Come up with some new ways to say the same thing.

If you're making it about kid geniuses I expect a vocabulary to match. The Maze Runner didn't give this to me.

Well I just finished it as well and I'd like to give my (respectfully disagreeing) take on the books. 🙂

Lol, yeah, the plot had me on the edge of my seat the whole times in terms of "WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING." 😛

Don't care for the characters?? I adopted the characters as my children, lol. 😛

I, personally would HIGHLY recommend it...but to each his own.

I didn't find Tommy boring at all! I thought his moral struggle over how he used to be and the person he now wants to be was the best part of the whole series! But i do agree with you that it should've been written in 1st person. But James Dashner doesn't do 1st person. 😛

Lol, I suppose Tommeh did fall a little flat on his personality, but i didn't really notice because the books were SO GOOD.

Hmm, I never thought about the whole "kid genius vocabulary" thing...I was mostly happy to find a series where the characters said "man" and "dude" as much as i do, lol. 😛

idk, ya'll can listen to whichever of us you prefer...i think we both have points to consider, but i certainly won't be offended if you choose to listen to her. i personally thought they were really good, but i'm a teenage girl.....lol

Just finished Out of the Silent Planet - it actually wasn't as good as I was anticipating. I kinda chalked that up to the fact that Lewis wrote it fairly early in his career and hadn't really established a writing style yet.

We're reading King Lear in my English class and I'm /loving it/.

@Shield: I was pretty lost and bird with the Space Trilogy the first time, but I enjoyed it the second time around.

I'm planning on reading the rest of the series as soon as I can get a copy of them, since I kinda want to know how it ends.

Within the past three weeks I've read two memoirs of POWs who worked on the Thai-Burma railway, both different in their telling but compelling in their own ways (even as inspirational they are, they are for maturer readers due to the very heavy content); and Deathwatch, a strange but engaging story I wouldn't normally find myself reading - but I was so engrossed I felt myself getting tense when it was coming to an end!
I'm going to start on Farm Boy, a very short sequel to War Horse.

@Ela: Deathwatch by Robb White?

@Ariel: That's the one.

It is a bit of an oddball story, that one. 😆

I just started reading Jim Elliot. REALLY good so far! 😀