Is anyone else here guilty...?

I love Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter (I'm one of those crazy go-at-midnight-and-wait-in-line-with-the-kids-in-costume people), and right now I'm reading 'Please Don't Kill the Freshmen' by Zoe Trope.

I admit it....
I'm also a LOTR freak

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by kingchuffalo [/i]
[B]we gotta be careful or this is gonna turn into a hobbit lovefest, hahaha [/B][/QUOTE]

or what abouts a aragorn, legolas, and weareallalittlecrazy lovefest.... i think id like that......

I'll look through a children's book sometimes when I'm walking through a bookstore. A lot of the time the illustrations are awesome. I still read some YA books occasionally. Although I'm not into Harry Potter at all. And LOTR is just okay (hides and apologizes)

Like I said a day or two ago in another thread, I'm reading Matilda again right now.

I don't know if anyone else has heard of her, but I saw a book tv thing with some woman, her name was Esme something. (Her webpage is PlanetEsme.com) who had written a book on how to get your kid to like reading. She was showing people how to read a children's book, how to make things interesting and all that. I got caught up in all of it. She said the only kind of book she reads for the most part is children's books. So no. We're not the only ones.

And it only takes like five minutes to read one book, how great is that!

Matilda is good. I also love Junie B. Jones (I think that's the right name...). Every time I go to my best friends house, I polish off one of her little sister's Junie B. Jones books. They're incredibly funny.

i was forced to read the trash of harry potter (which gets no ittalics or capitals since i hate it so). and im not guilty about it, i'm pissed

guilty as charged. some junior/young adult/childrens books are still written better than their adult counterparts.
childrens books tend to get their point across without all the extras, so can be pretty good informational resources if you're just looking for a minor fact or point.

Chronicles of Mutha Fukkin Narnia, but i don't consider myself guilty. even though the books were originally started as something to send to CS Lewis' bed-ridden neice, he turned a simple idea into an entire series simple to read but rich in symbolism, so much so that they're still discovering things he put in there (such as the recent 'discovery' that each book corresponds to a certain astrological sign).
uh... i've never read Harry Potter, or anything like that.
i do own the complete Prydain Chronicles series, the one with The Black Cauldron in it. that's also pretty simple reading, and one of them go turned into a Disney movie. but, hey, the simpler fantasy books are almost always better than the long & complex 'half-naked-bikini-wearing-dragon-riding-chick-on-the-cover' variation.

The Chocolate War and After THe Choclate War are classified as Young Adult. I think these are really good thought provking books. Of course, I am also the Cult's Village Idiot so there you go.

Ive also started threads about Captain Underpants and Harry Potter....

as far as YA books go, LOTR and The Giver are good

i hated The Giver sooooooo much. i thought it was just so stupi dand bad

i read ethan hawkes books.

and enjoyed them very much.

/shame

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Lazlosdead [/i]
[B]The Chocolate War and After THe Choclate War are classified as Young Adult. I think these are really good thought provking books. [/B][/QUOTE]

I haven't read After, but I agree about The Chocolate War. I really enjoyed that. Did you ever see the movie? I liked it as well.

I'm also reading Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, which is pretty funny, and I have to read The Velveteen Rabbit at least once a year...and damn if I don't always get teary-eyed in the same spot.

I read all of the Harry Potter books in jail, it was an easy distraction, and the alternative choices were sparce. Most popular books in jail; Louise lamour, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, tells you something doesn't it?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by fullmetalbrak [/i]
[B]I haven't read After, but I agree about The Chocolate War. I really enjoyed that. Did you ever see the movie? I liked it as well. [/B][/QUOTE]

it's called After The Chocolate War or Beyond The Chocolate War and I liked it quite a bit. I never saw the movie, I didn't even know there was one.

LoTR is so not a young adults book....but yes they are my favorite books.
however i am guilty of harry potter as well which is YA.

When I go and babysit, I read the kid's books. I while ago I had to go babysit in this really boring house, so I read Where The Wild Things Are, literally three times. Possibly one of the best books ever.

Now and then, I'll pick up one of my old Judy Blume books off the shelf. I love them to bits.

Just finished Harry Potter 3, which was a lovely thing to come home to and open up just before bed. I don't like Harry Potter THAT much though, I'll read the next one a few weeks before the fourth movie'll come out...etc.

what about space brat, does anybody remember space brat?

Snow...I so agree with you about Where the Wild Things are.
And I love Are You There God, It's Me Margaret.

Space Brat? Never heard of it, glam.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by SnowWhite [/i]
[B]When I go and babysit, I read the kid's books. I while ago I had to go babysit in this really boring house, so I read Where The Wild Things Are, literally three times. Possibly one of the best books ever.

Now and then, I'll pick up one of my old Judy Blume books off the shelf. I love them to bits.

Just finished Harry Potter 3, which was a lovely thing to come home to and open up just before bed. I don't like Harry Potter THAT much though, I'll read the next one a few weeks before the fourth movie'll come out...etc. [/B][/QUOTE]

Judy Blume is writing "adult" literature now. By "adult" I mean "erotic".

There's something very disturbing about reading "adult" lit written by an author that you adored as a child. I read Roald Dahl's "Omnibus" in high school, and now I wish I never had. Totally warped my perception of some of my favorite childhood books.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by glamhoth [/i]
[B]LoTR is so not a young adults book....but yes they are my favorite books.
however i am guilty of harry potter as well which is YA. [/B][/QUOTE]

I have always wondered what level they are considered.... at my lib we have them in the adult section as well as the young adult section....
hmm who knows

any other opinions?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by jane s. [/i]
[B]There's something very disturbing about reading "adult" lit written by an author that you adored as a child. I read Roald Dahl's "Omnibus" in high school, and now I wish I never had. Totally warped my perception of some of my favorite childhood books. [/B][/QUOTE]

i agree on that thought
i loved Judy Blume as a young one.. then this past year I read Wifey..an adult novel by her.. I'll never see Judy the same...

was that roald dahl book any good? i saw his stuff in the lit section and i wanted to get it but i wasn't sure if it'd be actually good.

Also, I think that people sometimes say LoTR is YA because it has little graphic violence/sex, that doesnt make it young adult though, imo. Also the Hobbit was written for children, so sometimes people lump them in together I guess.

I love all of Roald Dahl's stuff. Even though it's not YA, it still has that imagination in it. And he still wrote it, so yeah, I'd say it's good.

And it wasn't disturbing for me, it's like he grew with me or something. Although I haven't read Judy Blume's adult stuff...that might be a bit disturbing being erotic lit.

I read trashy YA Supernatural romance by LJ Smith, Cate Tiernan, etc. I also read point Horror! It's hard to kickThe Habit of a lifetime.

I didn't know it was something to be ashamed of.

PS, I hate LOTR, since the films came out it's like it's become okay to like it! In my day the LOTR lovers were banished to the front of the class.

hmmm i liked it before the movies came out, i wasn't banished for it...although i was ostracized for many other reasons. I've never seen Tolkien fans treated like trekkies. i mean, the hippies liked it dammit, they weren't ostracized to any front of class.

also what kind of lit is the roald dahl? what makes it not YA?

I think there's a story about switching wives for the night.

I haven't read it in a long time, so I can't remember all of the stories very well. Which tells me I need to read the dang thing again... I think it's more adult themes, stuff like that. (Not exactly adult/erotic stuff though) Maybe language? I can't remember.

In Omnibus, there was a story about wife-switching, a story about Hitler's mother, one about a man who fed his kid Royal Bee Jelly (I know that doesn't sound sinister, but it really, really was) and one about this kid who imagines he's dying of snakebites or something. There are a lot more; very creepy shit.

Roald Dahl ROCKS YOUR SOCKS OFF!

Also, The Lord of the Rings is great stuff.
maybe the Hardy Boys (not that I read them anymore...sadly)

Harry Potter blows.

ok now i do want to read this roald dahl shit

I've really wanted to read those newfangled Lemony Snicket books. They just sound so ironically dark.

I'm also a big harry potter fan, along with Fransesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat books. I'm also planning on picking up PDKTF soon enough. So, I guess you could commit me as someone who definitely indulges in some YA lit.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by twomoredays [/i]
[B]I've really wanted to read those newfangled Lemony Snicket books. They just sound so ironically dark.

I'm also a big harry potter fan, along with Fransesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat books. I'm also planning on picking up PDKTF soon enough. So, I guess you could commit me as someone who definitely indulges in some YA lit. [/B][/QUOTE]
Check out Lemony's real life alter ego Daniel Handler who has writen two excelent and rather dark adult books The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth

LoL am I the only dorky one here....?

:confused: [/B][/QUOTE]

Hell no.
Dude. I just bought Alice's Adventures in Wonderland last week.