Comments on: Eldest reviews

By: Caroline Smailes

Caroline Smailes — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:40:51 +0000

yip, he has some on his tbr pile x

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:19:16 +0000

How about Terry Pratchett? I love all his books, the adult and the non-adult

By: Caroline Smailes

Caroline Smailes — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:15:12 +0000

Beth -thank you! We’ll see if he’ll do any more…

Matt – thank you, that means a lot.

Nik – thank you. That’s very lovely of you.

xxx

By: Nik Perring

Nik Perring — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:43:21 +0000

What a brilliant thing to hear! Go, you!

Nik

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:43:38 +0000

You know, you should get your very talented young man on Douglas Adams as soon as possible. One of my regrets is my parents never found it funny. 12 isn’t too young.

The Iron Man is also incredible, but probably a bit too young of a story for him now. I remember stealing an Andy McNab book from a Dad’s friend at 12 and finding a whole new world of male. But it’d teach him bad writing habits (and casual nationalism) so then again, maybe not. I will ask around and see if there are any others. But bravo to these reviews and to his clever brains!

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:17:14 +0000

I enjoyed reading these reviews Eldest! Hope to read more of them in the future.

By: Caroline Smailes

Caroline Smailes — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:32:02 +0000

Jamieson,

Thanks so much for this detailed reply. Eldest has a real passion for books and you’ve given us lots of wonderful ideas. “Where The Wild Things Are” was one of the first books we bought him, so the Dave Eggers version would be a special gift.

Thanks so much

By: Jamieson Wolf

Jamieson Wolf — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:26:51 +0000

I would acctually reccomend two books I recently read: Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman (which was short, funny, and lovely) and Matchless by Gregory Maguire (again short, bittersweet and lovely).

I’d also suggest Skeleton Creek and Ghost In the Machine by Patrick Cameron; they’re both FABULOUS scary books that are told as a journal and, even cooler, you get to go to a web site to watch videos that have another part of the story.

Return to the Hundred Acre Wood was BEAUTIFUL and I loved every moment of it. The Wild Things by Dave Eggers is a lovely book and is based losely around Where The Wild Things Are. It starts out sad, but it is SUCH a wonderful book.

There’s also The Spiderwick Chronicles and Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles (five books and then three) which are fun and fantastic and really easy to read.

That’s a whole lot of suggestions…I only meant to put one or two, but there you go. LOL Yay books!

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:12:59 +0000

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This post was mentioned on Twitter by Caroline_S: 2 book reviews from my almost 12 yr old son http://bit.ly/2mVweg and I’d appreciate any recommendations for that age group….