Last Book You Read and Your Review of It

[Bastian]

I liked Wrinkle and Swiftly Turning Planet well enough, but Wind in the Door seems terribly predictable, and obsessed over the fractal view of existence.

Yeah, it was my least fav of the lot. Probably my absolute fav is everyone's least favorite which is Many Waters with just the twins as the main characters in the Noah's Arc story. I think it was only my fav because when I was a kid I thought the cover picture of the twins was HOT . . . but not really, cause I wasn't gay . . . :P
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You can't tell, but they totally looked like Zach from Saved By the Bell (during the last season) but way more ripped. And then the second time I read it, it was in this copy, where they looked just cute:
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I just finished The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. I wasn't a huge fan of the writing style, it seemed too tame and bland.

I can see that. I think his aim was to write it as simplistically as possible, to make it feel like a fairytale. I had qualms with the book. I felt it was trying too hard to rip off The Neverending Story and failing. Also, I felt like the darkness of the violence was in utter contrast to everything else. But maybe that's what he aimed for? And so it was effective? Yet not quite my cup of tea.

Speaking of other books I thought I'd like but didn't which totally ripped off The Neverending Story: Inkheart. I HATED it. Not only was it far too dark and gloomy and repetitive, it felt rather amaturish. Maybe it's just the English translation.

Aaaaaaanyway, I've been re-reading my fav fantasy series I read when I was in middle school: The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman. I've been too afraid to re-read it all these years thinking it couldn't stand up to the awesome stuff I'd been reading in the years to follow. Well, it's still pretty awesome as far as your generic scifi/fantasy goes. Nothing too outstanding, but a good light read. I just started on book five, Hand of Chaos, where things get VERY interesting.