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I loved The Hunger Games! It’s set a bit in the future in a collapsed society with a heavy-handed central government and stars young adults growing up.
If you enjoyed The Giver, you should read The Hunger Games.
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Pretty good.
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This is the eleventh of thirteen in a Series of Unfortunate Events. The first six or seven are ok, but there’s a distinct change midway through the series. The writing gets better, the situations are extremely surreal, and it gets a little fanwanky by being pro-reading. It doesn’t feel like an advertisement or a PSA, because you have to get through seven novels or so to get there.
I really liked this.
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The Graveyard Book is a good spooky-themed retelling of The Jungle Book. This book has since won a bajillion awards. While it’s not a bad book, I’m a little confused how it’s won so many awards. This is recommended, especially as it’s a pretty quick read.
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I loved this book! This book is in my top ten novels I’ve read this year. Ideas drip off every page. Two polities have the slogan “Brilliancy, speed, lightness, and glory!” and I instantly glommed on to it. Just brilliant.
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The Family Trade is the first novel of a six series set about a woman, Miriam, who finds out she can travel between worlds. The other world feels like a typical fantasy world, and I almost set the book down. I haven’t been disappointed by Stross, so I kept reading. It has a bit of the “Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” feel. Stross pulls it off well.
I really enjoyed this set.
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The entire novel of is an inversion of a typical Culture novel, and it’s one of my favorites.
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I enjoyed this anthology.
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I like everything I’ve read by Iain M. Banks. This is a Culture novel, and I rank it near the middle of his Culture stuff.
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I didn’t like this book as much as I liked The City of Ember. I often find that when authors have a series that makes them fairly famous, the initial novel is much better than the others.