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colaroid

Please read the Red Dwarf series

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these books are amazing, I can't recommend them enough. Everyone I have forced to read them has laughed out loud from start to finish
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colaroid wrote:these books are amazing, I can't recommend them enough. Everyone I have forced to read them has laughed out loud from start to finish
What books are you referring to?
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Post by ChrisSamsDad »

Oh wait, you've changed the post title - I can see you're talking about 'Red Dwarf' now.

Weelllll, Red Dwarf used to be funny, for the first few TV series, but they flogged it to death and it gradually got less and less funny (The books are written from the TV series by the way).
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sorry first post, it was written in the title which isn't on the post. The Red Dwarf Trilogy.
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doh again
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The books are much much better than the first few series of red dwarf, bits of the episodes are in the books but they aren't based on the episodes.
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colaroid wrote:The books are much much better than the first few series of red dwarf, bits of the episodes are in the books but they aren't based on the episodes.
Really? I must say I haven't read any for a while, but I'm sure the ones I read were based on episodes.
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I recommend the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix. I also thought that I wouldn't be able to find a suitable replacement for Harry Potter, but this series actually SURPASSES Harry Potter, in my opinion. Why, you ask?

Harry Potter, while being quite entertaining, is built in a world that is fairly familiar to us. Sure, there is magic, but we've all heard of witches and wizards that wave wands and fly brooms. The base was all set up for J.K. Rowling to play in.

In Keys to the Kingdom, the world is extremely unique and like nothing you've ever heard of. They have their own species, magic, government, and even a religion that is proven to be true. I promise you'll like the series a lot. Lets put it this way: the only people I've heard that haven't loved it are the people that haven't read it.
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Why don't you try 'Journey to the west', by, eh-oh I've forgotten the author's name! the author is Chinese and the novel involves a Chinese legend. I found it a fantastic fantasy.
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Moonheart50 wrote:I recommend the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix. I also thought that I wouldn't be able to find a suitable replacement for Harry Potter, but this series actually SURPASSES Harry Potter, in my opinion. Why, you ask?

Harry Potter, while being quite entertaining, is built in a world that is fairly familiar to us. Sure, there is magic, but we've all heard of witches and wizards that wave wands and fly brooms. The base was all set up for J.K. Rowling to play in.

In Keys to the Kingdom, the world is extremely unique and like nothing you've ever heard of. They have their own species, magic, government, and even a religion that is proven to be true. I promise you'll like the series a lot. Lets put it this way: the only people I've heard that haven't loved it are the people that haven't read it.
Actually, I'm reading that series right now. I'm on Sir Thursday...just started.
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rooserfeather wrote:Why don't you try 'Journey to the west', by, eh-oh I've forgotten the author's name! the author is Chinese and the novel involves a Chinese legend. I found it a fantastic fantasy.
That sounds interesting. I will add that to my list of books I need to read.
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There can never be anything like Harry Potter series or even close to it. I guess we all just miss it..
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