First check your feet, then choose your dance.

[fox1013]

Periodically, one goes through an author renaissance. Thanks to a book sale last weekend, my current *___*-inspiring author is Gordon Korman, who I hope to god does not track himself on twitter, because if he does he probably has a restraining order against me

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[killerweasel]

I met Gordon Korman long ago when I was in 5th grade at a book signing. He was fantastic.

A few of my favorite books by him would include No More Dead Dogs, the Macdonald Hall series, and Don't Care High.

[fox1013]

I met him a year or two ago at a book signing. I brought a copy of I WANT TO GO HOME that I'd gotten off EBay and asked him why I couldn't find a copy in the US. /o\ I was, btw, in my mid-twenties.

MacDonald Hall is the ACTUAL GREATEST. &BRUNO AND BOOTS;

[elucreh]

GORDON KORMAN IS THE BEST EVER. WAS. (I think it is so sad that he went away to college and they killed his gordonkormanosity. In most cases I approve of college but not in Gordon Korman's.)

Wait until you read...well, all of them, actually! I think my faaaaaaaavorite favorite may be Losing Joe's Place, but Don't Care High and Semester and Twinkie Squad and BRUNO AND BOOTS FOREVER AND EVER AMEN and...*squeak*

HOW AMAZING IS QUERADA? For serious. He is the amazingest.

[elucreh]

Also I am going to read this Julian person.

[fox1013]

You have to do it in small doses, because all of his books are quirky in virtually the exact same way, but it is SO WORTH IT OMG.

[fox1013]

I know! Seriously, SOMETIMES YOU DO NOT MESS WITH GENIUS, HIGHER EDUCATION >:(

I've read a lot of his books, but not for a while, so it's like I'm rediscovering all of them. It's wonderful! :DDDDD

[misura]

Let me be the third person in a row to name Don't Care High as a favorite - not to mention probably the reason why I kept on hunting his books down after having read a few of his more recent books which just ... didn't quite have the same charm (the uh mountain-climbing one?). Although I've got high hopes for Son of the Mob. (And he's wrote, like, tons of books, so I dare say I'll be happily hunting them down for a while, although it seems the really great ones are mostly out-of-print.)

[elucreh]

Son of the Mob was better than a lot of the in-between-Chicken-and-Mob ones, but still not quiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite up to standard, I'm afraid. D:

[fox1013]

Contemporary GK is so frustrating. :(

[misura]

*adjusts expectations accordingly*

From what I've read, he does seem at his best writing about high school, although from the backcover blurb, I gather SotM also involves the Mob (... surprise!), the FBI and romance. (First book of his I'm going to read that involves that last one, I think.)

[eccentrici]

I love Gordon Korman! I need to read more of his work. I'm always recommending Born to Rock and Schooled to my teens at the library.

[fox1013]

If you have any of the older ones (out of print now, for the most part), RECOMMEND THEM. They are completely amazing.

[wal_lace]

... Knowing nothing whatsoever of this Grounding, I feel I have to point out that putting either Octavian from the first season of Rome or John Connor from the second season of The Sarah Connor Chronicles in there would be A) Awesome and B) Completely unfair on the enemy.

[fox1013]

:D Fun times!

Grounding of Group Six on Amazon, if you're curious.