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[Syrin of Neopia]

Rachiee, do you like humor as well as fantasy? If so, Christopher Moore has a great trilogy, Bloodsucking Fiends, You Suck, & Bite Me. There's a bit of romance, but it's a very humorous series about a woman who becomes a vampire & is trying to come to grips with the situation, ends up finding this really dorky male to run errands for her/let her drink his blood & ends up turning him (I think by accident at first) when he threatens to leave her.

 

Actually, Christopher Moore writes a lot of fantasy humor, so I recommend him if it fits your style.

 

As far as general fantasy/sci-fi, I've been going back and reading some old classics, like I, Robot and I Am Legend, things of that nature, and then trying to find modernized versions or novels that center around a similar theme. Also, checking Amazon and seeing what people also bought when they bought those books sometimes helps a lot too. Or check GoodReads.com.

 

 

I'm a big reading/writing nerd so I could go on about this for hours . . . :)

[Ybele]

Personally I LOVE books by authors like Ted Dekker and James Patterson.

But I'm a total Eragon nerd :D I love that series. Harry Potter too :D

[Spritzie]

I've only read a couple of James Patterson's books. My mom reads all of his though.

[khaos]

The only books i like to read besidde fantasy is MANGA. >:D I bought some manga a while ago. :)

[Spritzie]

Mangas are nice, but aren't long enough. I can read one very quickly. Books generally last me a whole day.

[Syrin of Neopia]

I'm with Spritzie on that. I love manga but even the first one I got (waaayy back) I remember my mom got mad at me because I read it on the car ride home from the mall and was done with it by the time we got home :)

 

Still, there are some like Azumanga Daioh that I can read over and over again, so it is sometimes well worth it

[Spritzie]

My mom always got upset with that when I read comic books when I was younger. She'd buy me a ton, and I'd have them all read in no time. :laughingsmiley:

[khaos]

Lol, that's amazing Syrin. :P

 

And it depends on the manga you actually get. The manga I got was pretty large. It has over 500 pages.

[Noog]

I've never read a manga before. I don't think that I've ever had a reason to.

[Spritzie]

My husband got me started on them. He's big on them. Now, I enjoy them. They're a nice break from the usual stuff I read.

[Luciana]

I should really pick up a good manga sometime. I've really been wanting to read Akira, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Uzumaki but I've never bothered to actually buy the books. /lazy :(

[rachiee]

Manga is okay. I haven't really read any in a while though. It's kind of hard for me to find a series that I can read past one or two volumes though.

If I do find a series (anime or manga) I like, I won't do fanfics or fanart 'cause I don't want to be labelled as a weeaboo. That's probably one of the worst things you can be labelled as xD

[Luciana]

^ Don't let the idea that people might call you names prevent you from doing something you like. Generally, if you're mature and don't act like an obsessive crazy fangirl, no one will say anything rude to you.

[rachiee]

Well, I never acted like an obvious fangirl (over anything anime/manga-related or not) in the first place. But I don't do fanart/fanfics in general unless I know a lot about the book, series, movie, etc. :P

[Luciana]

Just saying if you ever find something you like a lot don't be afraid to express your love for it. :-)

[jumpingbeans]

Luciana! I don't remember seeing you for a while!

[khaos]

I do. :P

 

Rach, don't worry about people might call you. I'vve had friends come over and fall down laughing at my fanart. (It's bad, but still.) Just ignore it.

[Syrin of Neopia]

Rach, I used to write fanfics all the time. Bah to what others think! I enjoy writing, no matter what the form, & if others don't like it, I just ignore 'em!

[Luciana]

Hey, JB! I haven't seen you around the forums either. Where have you been posting? :-O

 

Syrin- Wow really? I am so jealous! Writing looks like so much fun and I've always wanted to be able to write things (including fanfiction) but I have no idea how. :'(

[khaos]

Neither do I. :(

 

I made fanart of basically the cell games saga from dbz in a nutshell. but the form of reading manga was off, it was one page, and it sucked. :P

[-Ryan]

JB's been over at JN like I should be.

Sorry about not being able to be active with HAMS, JB. ;-;

[khaos]

But Ryan, in January you didn't even know who Dave and Nynex were??!

[Tedhaun]

Really, Ryan has a JNF account and have no clue on the staff over there. I stopped being active on Jellyneo (I do stop by there every now and then) and moved over here at TDN due to better community and more devoted Neopets players, too.

[khaos]

I have a JNF account, but I don't go there often. I like the Graphics Battles over there, though, it's fun to see all of them. I entered for the first time :3

 

Personally, I think TDN is better than JNF.

[Wembly]

Hi HOP. I feel like I haven't been in here in a while. It's been a busy summer.