Richard Adams | Jean Auel | Ray Bradbury | Marion Zimmer Bradley | Lois McMaster Bujold
Richard Adams
When I was in 6th grade I read Watership Down. I thought it
was wonderful...ok, I have a thing for cute fuzzy bunnies, but that doesn't stop it from
being a great book! I tried reading The Plague Dogs at one point, but didn't
get very far. Watership Down is the only book I've read. The movie version of
it is cute, but it leaves out huge sections of stuff. Well, it's a movie based on a
book, what do you expect?
Jean Auel
One of the many authors I discovered accidentally when I was looking through my
parent's bookshelves for something to read. Her stories, set in the time of the last Ice
Age, bring that world to life, with its problems and pleasures. The Clan of the
Cave Bear is about a young girl who loses her family in an earthquake and is found
and raised by Neanderthals. Ayla learns their ways of life, but has no recollection of her
past, except her inability to truly fit in. The Clan of the Cave Bear is part of
the Earth's Children series. Four out of six books are available.
Ray
Bradbury
I've only read a few things by this author, and most of them have been required for
English classes, but what I have read I liked, as opposed to most of my required reading.
Fahrenheit 451 is a rather chilling story about a time when the written
word was illegal. Books were burned and the houses with them. The book was written in
1954, and it didn't seem all that unlikely at the time... All Summer in a Day.
Venus. Hot, humid, wet. It's rains all the time...and I do mean all the time. The
sun comes out once every seven years for an hour. But how can you believe, when you
haven't ever seen it?
Marion Zimmer Bradley
She is one of the most wonderful writers I have ever found. I always
immensely enjoyed the stories, and she won't be writing anymore. She died September
25, 1999. We will miss you!
Lois McMaster Bujold
I can't understand how I hadn't found this remarkable woman's stories
before. They are well-written and have characters you can love and hate. I
found it almost impossible to put them down, which was really bad for my work ethic, but I
just couldn't stop reading. Cordelia's Honor is a two-in-one publication of
Shards of Honor and Barrayar, two stories which follow each other in
sequence and very tightly. I was fascinated by the directions the plot took, often
doing something completely counter to what I thought would happen.
Richard Adams | Jean Auel | Ray Bradbury | Marion Zimmer Bradley | Lois McMaster Bujold
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