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Stealer:
--- Quote from: kops on November 04, 2021, 22:08 ---Terry pratchett can do no wrong. Very fond memories of those books. I'm just starting my older kid on The Colour of Magic but it's not as compelling as I remember. Might skip to a later one.
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Mort was a better concept I feel. Or anything with the witches (Granny weatherwax etc). Think Pratchett was just toying with his newly created conceptual world on colour of magic, was a good book though, from what I recall.
I read all of Roald Dahls (BFG etc) books when I was a kid too, I suppose they kind of got me into reading: might help?
Used to love 2000AD comics, I guess comics are a dying industry with soo much technology available :(
What age range are we talking about? Just trying to help ya Kopsicle 8)
kops:
--- Quote from: Piglet on November 04, 2021, 22:36 ---Start with The Wee Free Men Kops. That's right for this age group.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/96852-discworld---tiffany-aching
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Yes, he loved that one, thank you! I bought it a year or so back when you recommended it.
--- Quote from: Stealer on November 04, 2021, 23:32 ---What age range are we talking about? Just trying to help ya Kopsicle 8)
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He's 12. Recent books he's enjoyed are Project Hail Mary, The Martian, and a little curiously Sophie's World although I'm not sure how much he understood of that one.
Piglet:
--- Quote from: kops on November 05, 2021, 09:13 ---Yes, he loved that one, thank you! I bought it a year or so back when you recommended it.
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There are more in the series. I think they get better.
While too slow for children, this series is utterly brilliant. The concept is of a problem with a human colony spaceship causing them to get lost and limping to a planet....where the locals are at the steam age. Humans "invade" and nearly get wiped out.
What is so good about this series is the way that humans are the aliens, and the locals relate to each other very differently to how humans do.
It's the only series I have every book. I re-read the lot each time a new book in the series comes out. I've put the latest to one side un-read....saving it....
Just be warned, the first half of the first book is the background....set 100 years before the rest of the story. Don't get too attached to any character in that first half a book. They die of old age in one turn of a page.....
kops:
Nice! have grabbed the first 2 to read, thanks.
Have grabbed the first in the Amtrack Wars series and In The Miso Soup, cheers :)
tirofijo!!:
ohhh nice graphic novels are being talked here!! im not too much into them, but i like battle angel alita manga cause a friend give me a disc with pdf of it back then in the 2006, i think it is good for 12 years old children, got me really with the sci fi punk holocaustic future, movie is really bad in comparison... like always with books and adaptations XD
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