GamerchickRaven wrote:
The Trylle books, I can't say I really enjoyed them, but I found enough redeeming qualities to recommend them over some of the other teen girl books. At the very least, it seemed she made choices based on personal integrity (well, as much as can be expected) rather than figuring odds on circumstance and accepting the results.
It does make me wonder what your favorite books would be now.
As it seems that you are responding to (insulting?) me, I'll bite.
I don't think we were reading the same books. Hocking A) couldn't write her way out of a paper bag with a map and a flashlight and B) "wrote" characters that were both dumb & weak. At least Meyer's are just stupid.
I'm no longer a teen, but most of my recent reading has been YA.
My favorites include A Little Princess, Little Women, Harry Potter - all of them, specifically OotP, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Brave New World, Atlas Shrugged, (and no, I'm not some crazy Tea Party Libertarian, either), The Codex Alera series, Orson Scott Card's Ender & Bean series, Justin Cronin's The Passage, Divergent was brilliant but Insurgent was crap, The Children of Men, The Handmaid's Tale, the modern version Wither - although Fever sucked and Wither only makes the list because as I read it, I read THT, Restoring Harmony, Legend, The Empyrion Saga, The Long Walk, The Hunger Games, Shatter Me, Blood Red Road, Oryx and Crake, Graceling and Fire, Z is for Zachariah.
