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[Libby Belmont]

"I've read the Clifford the Big Red Dog series, all of the Arthur books, Harry Potter, the Baby Sitter's Club, Goosebumps and Letters From Mother Earth.  Trust me, I can handle anything."

[Reese Walker]

Basically. Actually, I think that she might have cited Harry Potter as an example; I dunno. It was a while ago.

[Aimee Forsyth]

Dude, I wouldn't do that.  I had an eleven year old come in and ask for a Stephen King book.  All I did was say, 'You read books like that?' and she said yes, and I got it for her.  More power to the kids who go above their usual reading level.  At that age, I'd have been irritated at YOU for suggesting that book was too mature for me.  If someone asks for a specific book, that's what I get for them, whether I agree with the choice or not. 

Besides, I read some weird/adult shit when I was younger.  Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf was probably a bit too much for a fifth grader, but I liked it. 

LOL, although, Lock has a point.  Lock, you can't read Blood and Chocolate.  It's too mature for you.  Go back to Clifford!

[Reese Walker]

True, but there is a difference between a mature twelve and an immature twelve, and this seemed like the second variety. A lot. And, when I thought 'Ok, so maybe she has just read a lot of adult books, so maybe she'll like it' and asked what some of the other books she'd read and really liked were, she give me the list of sissy books.

This was when I was all like 'Hm, I've read Blood and Chocolate and it's a good book, but I know a few that you might like better.' Did she listen? Of course not.

OH. WAIT. ERAGON. ERAGON WAS ON THE LIST.

[Libby Belmont]

Look here.  I never read the Baby Sitter's Club or Goosebumps.  So there.  (And excuse me, but Clifford is HARDCORE.)

I hate reading.  <3  And to add to my mini collection of Books I've Read, I also finished The Magician's Nephew, The Looking Glass Wars, The Last Unicorn and Fight Club.  So THERE.

lolololololol

And I still write better than most people.  Ooooh, ownage.

[Aimee Forsyth]

Yeah, well, Eragon has become a necessary evil.  Unfortunately, many younger kids have, and will, read that monstrosity. 


......Lock.  You've READ Fight Club?  Seriously?

Is it sad that I can hear you saying all of that?   TLU was good, and I'm glad I got you to read it.  Aren't you?  Totally, you know you are.  I'll agree, the Looking Glass Wars was good, and I haven't touched Narnia yet.  It's on my shelf.

[Danielle Vida]

Dude! I read Tanith Lee's Unicorn books, and I LOVED THEM. I WANTED a PEEVE!

And I was like 13.

[Libby Belmont]

Yeah, I read Fight Club.  It was a weird read.  The writing style in it is awkward and the main character doesn't get real dialogue.  It just sorta says, "And I asked her why and she said, "Blahblahblah.""  It was still neat, though, and it moved fast enough for me to not get bored.  lol

Edit: Hear me saying all of that?  What, like my voice?  I should make it look more like the way I sound then.  Lemme knock of some g's an' stuff.

[Reese Walker]

lol, Narnia is love and SPEAKING OF UNICORN BOOKS! Into the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville WOOT WOOT.

lol, I got that out of the library when I was, like, ten and loved it. Though it took him SO FLIPPIN LONG to write the stupid sequel.

Actually, it's not a stupid sequel, though I'm still not sure I enjoy it as much as the first. BUT STILL!!!!!

[Aimee Forsyth]

Some kid bought that Coville book at our store recently.  Never read it, but unicorns weren't exactly my thing growing up.  They were cool, but I had Coville's short story collections.  Book of Nightmares, Book of Monsters, etc.  Oh, and the black and white Schultz Scary Stories books.  I had a lot of those stories memorized for camping trips and all.  I was the only one who HAD scary stories for camping trips, actually.

Coville's not a bad author, though definitely for a certain age group.  He has a lot of good ideas, though.

I heard a lot of things about Fight Club, including that it was a weird read.  I still can't believe you read it, though.  That's awesome.

[Danielle Vida]

I had the Scary Stories books

[Libby Belmont]

Yeah, sometimes I read things on my own.  Isn't it weird?  Usually I read things because I'm told to, like for school.  Although I didn't even really do it then, I just pretended like I read it and talked to people about it and paid attention in class.  I never had to crack open Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.    Score!

And since we're talking about books that you read as a kid, I used to bring home those animal books.  Like the ones about dinosaurs and lions with the pretty pictures?  That was my trip to the library.  Oh, and the I Spy books were good for incorporating into group games.  ;3

Most of my time in the library was because I was a student council representative and we did the morning announcements in there.  lol

[Reese Walker]

*laughs* I'll read anything that doesn't run away fast enough. WAAAAAAY back when, when I was in 1st grade or something, I hated reading and the homework was we had to read half an hour a day, so I'd sit in the kitchen with the oven timer on and read for just that amount of time and then run outside and play. And then one day something just clicked and the timer went off and I kept on reading.

Loved reading ever since then.

[Libby Belmont]

Wow, you actually did your homework?  You're an inspiration. 

[Aimee Forsyth]

It pains me that you don't read, Lock, but I can't complain nearly as much anymore.  My free time is now occupied mostly by the internet, and reading the stuff YOU GUYS write.  Now, I probably read only a little more than Lock, depending on my mood.  Sometimes I whip through a few books, if I'm on a kick.

I think there was....one book for school that I didn't read and just BSed, and it was one of those summer reading books.  The Chosen, by Chaim Potok.  Yeah, started it, not interested.  Period.  I liked the teacher I ended up with, though, and she admitted she didn't like either of the books we had to read, too.  I ended up telling her I didn't read it all, and she just laughed.  It was fail, that book.  I think I did my homework up until around my junior/senior year.  That's when I got tired of it and made life harder on myself by not doing math homework and then finally barely doing the rest.  Fortunately, I had....one academic class in my senior year and the teacher adored me.