~Take a look, It's in a BOOK, Back She Goes~

by **The Dude** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 12:27:24

This is for a boy, and I was wrong, he's 9 so he's a bit older. But thanks all for these suggestions

by **WheelsFellOff** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 12:30:02

Hell, just take the kid to the library and let him pick whatever interests him in the slightest.

by **The Dude** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 12:31:06

can't really do that. its a kid at my wife's work

by **TenuredVulture** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 12:31:24

Other lost classics to consider--Ursula Leguin's Wizard of Earthsea Trilogy, and of course Madeleine L'Engle's Wrinkle in time.

by **swishnicholson** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 12:57:21

The Dude wrote:This is for a boy, and I was wrong, he's 9 so he's a bit older. But thanks all for these suggestions

Lot of good suggestions here..

Guys read is an excellent website (and puts out equally excellent books) run by Jon (Stinky cheese Man) Scieszka that can help identify books that boys might like.

by **slugsrbad** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 12:58:54

Animooooooooooooorphs

by **swishnicholson** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 13:19:10

Ethan Canin's A Doubter's Almanac took a long time to get where it was going but was ultimately worthwhile. You don't have to know a lot about math (I certainly don't) to enjoy it, but if you do certain parts will probably be a lot more entertaining. A lot of critical reviews are about how the main character treats and regards women (poorly) and how his son (who narrates the second half of the book) fights to avoid this but in some ways continues it. I don't quite get the criticism since it's one of the main themes of the book and the author obviously recognizes and doesn't endorse it. But I can understand how the behavior would be objectionable. I guess I don't have to worry about that with this audience though. :wink:

by **Phred** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 13:25:40

My son (he's 10) ate up Percy Jackson and Harry Potter (obviously).

Right now is reading The Hunger Games trilogy.

Artemis Fowl was a good series.

by **Bill McNeal** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 13:41:25

My son (9) loves the captain underpants books, Star Wars, Minecraft (there's a pretty good series called the gameknight99 series) he's reading some avengers graphic novels, read hatchet over the summer.

by **Phred** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 14:20:45

Bill McNeal wrote:My son (9) loves the captain underpants books, Star Wars, Minecraft (there's a pretty good series called the gameknight99 series) he's reading some avengers graphic novels, read hatchet over the summer.

My son also liked Captain Underpants. There also was a series called Origami Yoda or something like that.

by **swishnicholson** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 22:09:53

The Dude wrote:This is for a boy, and I was wrong, he's 9 so he's a bit older. But thanks all for these suggestions

by **drsmooth** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 23:38:45

swishnicholson wrote:
The Dude wrote:This is for a boy, and I was wrong, he's 9 so he's a bit older. But thanks all for these suggestions

Fondly remember the Classics Illustrated Junior treatment of this one

by **Woody** » Fri Sep 30, 2016 09:30:43

Bought a copy of this for each of my kids as soon as they could speak

by **drsmooth** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 20:35:39

Recently finished two books that do NOT have shit in their title, but are essentially about the world going to shit, or becoming dominated by humankind, which itself may be going to shit: Martin Ford's The Rise of the Robots and Yuval Harari's Sapiens.

2nd is better-written; 1st is more ... pragmatic, though Valley denizen Ford is predictably squeamish about the economic implications of his principal thesis, which, to simplify, is that the contribution that people make to production processes is dwindling, and soon enough won't amount to much.

One of Harari's themes is a favorite of mine; that humankind's ability not merely to imagine, but to give fealty to concepts made mostly of our imagination - stuff like religion, and money, and "corporate persons" - is practically indispensible to why we've thrived as a species.

Starting Adam Hochschild's Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War. It's one of those historical periods, and a collection of historical characters, I only know from too many old movies.

The story of the defense of a doomed republic seemed in the spirit of our current mean season.

by **Bucky** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 21:05:51

James Patterson is great for a 9YO

by **Grotewold** » Mon Nov 28, 2016 14:24:47

Strangers in Their Own Land was really well done. Although this focused on Louisiana, seems like PSUsarge was spot on.

On to Hillbilly Elegy

by **JUburton** » Mon Nov 28, 2016 14:33:40

Grotewold wrote:Strangers in Their Own Land was really well done. Although this focused on Louisiana, seems like PSUsarge was spot on.

On to Hillbilly Elegy

damn, election did a number on your reading list.

just finished Passan's book, The Arm. Was pretty good. Reading The Hike now cause I want something easy and dumb.

by **Grotewold** » Mon Nov 28, 2016 14:34:55

JUburton wrote:damn, election did a number on your reading list.

brutal. although I had been in a slump prior

they are very complementary, though -- one thorough and sociological, the other highly personal but affirming the other

by **Stay_Disappointed** » Wed Nov 30, 2016 21:47:07

Reading James Michener for the first time. Never really knew much about him or that he wrote historical fiction. Yes he is awesome.

by **phatj** » Wed Nov 30, 2016 22:06:07

Warszawa wrote:Reading James Michener for the first time. Never really knew much about him or that he wrote historical fiction. Yes he is awesome.

Which book?

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