Book meme

Dec 29, 2014 23:02


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hamsterwoman December 30 2014, 22:09:29 UTC
Oh, P&P is an awesome choice for an iconic first line! :D

Hmm, I don't recognize any of your favorite childhood books except "Are You There, God?" -- but I generally find that this is where there is the most divergence between what I've read and what people my age who grew up in the US have read :P

"Hogfather" by PTerry. Oh, c'mon - close enough!

Ha, definitely! And my favorite novel-length Christmas story, too :D

Interesting that Lord of the Flies made an appearance for both of us for #14 but with different feelings :) We didn't read Moby Dick, for which I'm very grateful (I think I would've had to read it if I'd taken the end of the "survey of English lit" sequence in college, and that was one of the reasons I didn't :P), and "A Separate Peace" and "Animal Farm" were both taught in my high school, but not by the teachers I had. The teacher I TA'd for senior year loved teaching "Animal Farm", though, so I sat through those lessons more times than I would've even if I had gotten it in school XP (it's a good thing I do actually like Animal Farm).

And parts of Rick Riordan's The Lost Hero.

Huh, I did not realize this!

The first Gentleman Bastard book, the first Flora Segunda (both as examples of introducing me to series I loved), broadening my exposure to PTerry, etc etc.

I am always very happy to hear this :DDD

Or is it asking about a book I actually DID find under the tree?

That's what I assumed, because I think if this meme were done as a real advent calendar thing, that question would fall on Christmas Day. Otherwise, yeah, it feels too redundant with the earlier question.

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aome January 1 2015, 17:30:52 UTC
I can't remember - have you been reading Rick Riordan's second 5-book set of Percy Jackson stories, the ones that combine Greek and Roman mythology (and demigods)? The first one, The Lost Hero, has the Roman camp set hidden through a magical entrance near the Caldecott tunnels. The story ends with them rescuing one of the characters' dad, who has been kidnapped and taken to Mt Diablo, and, on the way to rescuing him, they end up at a cafe in Walnut Creek. :D

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hamsterwoman January 2 2015, 01:49:40 UTC
I haven't read the second series yet, nope, though I keep meaning to catch up. Didn't realize some of it took place around here, though -- I enjoyed that aspect of... was it book 3 in the original pentalogy? the one with the Golden Fleece, anyway.

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aome January 2 2015, 03:24:50 UTC
The Golden Fleece was the second book (Sea of Monsters) but the one that took place on Mt Tam, with Atlas (I think it was Atlas?) was the third book, I think. And IIRC, the fourth book, in the Labyrinth, has a scene where the Labyrinth dumps them out at Alcatraz.

In some ways the second series is More of the Same, but having the comparisons of Greek and Roman is kind of nice, and there are some new friendships that are made in the process. If you liked the first batch, then definitely continue on in the second. :)

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