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  • estar9821
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    "Excuse me, but why are you talking to our luggage?"

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  • Tobiasscrabble
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    I to also agree

    That high wizardry was an important role in the series and the fact that spot is dairines alter ego dairine bold outgoing and tough spot shy mysterious relible makes them a great team

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  • estar9821
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    Yes! It is a mix of sci-fi fantasy. When I first came across SYWTBAW in Borders two years ago, I thought it looked so fantasyish, which is what I was really into then, so I got it. Now I'm more of a sci-fi person, but then I wasn't. So I was kinda dissapointed when I started to read it and it was way more sci-fi than fantasy. Two years and a lot more knowledge of outer space later, I love the books! I thought the first two were a lot more fantasy than the third though, the third was sci-fi through and through while the first two still had a touch of fantasy.

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  • Kathy Li
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    GIGO = Garbage In Garbage Out. I just plain loved the whole book, because I'm a computer geek and I identified with Dairine as a tearaway kid sister with a much more responsible older sister.

    On top of that, it's exceedingly rare to read fiction that can combine science fiction and fantasy in a way that feels true to both. DD can do that. The only other writer I've read recently who can do that particular hat trick is Charles Stross.
    Last edited by Kathy Li; December 4, 2009, 12:07:59 AM.

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  • estar9821
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    Ummm...this may be kinda dumb to ask, but what does GIGO stand for anyway?
    I liked the part on Rirhath B. Best part in the book, in my oppinion. I also liked how the motherboard planet was in a satellite galaxy of a barred spiral, and how every night the galaxy rose. I once saw a piece of space art that was very similar, it showed a spectacular view of the Milky Way covering the sky of a hypothetical planet in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our own galaxy's satellite galaxies.

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  • Amethystpen
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    High Wizardry

    High Wizardry was my favorite YW book until I read Wizards at War. It had so much change going on with it, that every book before it was so different than every book after it(and I also loved GIGO). I also loved Wizards at War because, well, it was just really good. I still haven't been able to choose between those two.

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  • Cinnamon Wind
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    I think HW and WAW are my favorite in the series. I used to say all of them except Abroad and Alone, but I have narrowed it down to these two. WaW I love because it is spectacular, but I love HW because...

    I love seeing Dairine out of confident I-know-everything mode.
    I love Gigo.
    This is the first book where Nita really focuses on her relationship with Kit, and how it's changing.
    The last battle with the Lone Power utterly, utterly rocked. Some of the best lines in the series are from that bit. If you have not heard Christina Moore saying "Just admit it! And get it over with!", you cannot truly have appreciated that scene.

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  • estar9821
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    I just finished High Wizardry yesterday...by FAR the best in the series that I've read so far. I thought it was so sudden, a shift from whales and staying on earth to all of a sudden planet hopping and galaxy hopping!
    I have the same problem with telling my family about books...I don't think my brother has the reading attention span for these books, he likes action better. Sometime when I come upon a funny part, (like where Dairine attempts to speak to the alien's luggage) I just have to tell someone, but I can't just read that paragraph without giving background info. So then my jokes get too long and become unfunny...
    I just think you have to be pretty serious and prefer info to action to like this books.
    Last edited by estar9821; August 20, 2011, 09:00:45 PM.

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  • Poliester
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    High Wizardy is not my favorite book, but it is the book in which DD shifts more from fantasy to science-fiction and that's what I like about the book. I just finished reading it (for the 5th time) about 10 minutes ago and I realized this book is what made me take this series seriously.

    I can relate to the book so much that it's scary. I am Nita (minus anything special) and my little sister is Dairine. I never got the advantage of having anything to myself that I could keep from my sister (referring to Nita's wizardry, more in DW than HW) and I had a major connection with the characters. I felt jealous of Nita in DW when she had something unique that her sister couldn't take and I felt jealous and maybe even upset in HW when Dairine ended up taking it anyway (as often happens with my own sister).

    Unfortunately, my sister thinks the series is complete bunk. I tried to get her to read it when she was little (she LOVED to read) and she didn't like it. She was too much into Inkheart and Harry Potter and other fantasy series. Now all she reads is cheesy vampire novels. I've tried to tell her that this series is truly amazing, but she and I are just too disimilar to agree.

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  • Violet
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    I've only gotten up to HW, ad my mom has grounded me from buying any more books, and the library (TOTURE!), and I only discovered the series a couple days ago... I think... anyways, I'm so far behind on this series, it makes me sad...

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  • Rubywolf
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    It was nice to see Dairine as a wizard, but the techno apeal didn't really get to me. And the Characters weren't aS complicated as Ed. I love Ed! And i love him all the more now that he's dead!

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  • Raine~
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    i don't see anything in it that makes it the absolute best.
    ***SPOILERS***

    1. Dairine became a wizard
    2. spot was born
    3. They go planet hopping
    4. Battle between Dairine as super-wizard and the one power
    5. One power's redemption

    ***end spoilers***

    What can I say beyond that?
    The later books like WD do go considerably deeper into things and I appreciate that.

    This one could have been an ending point to the series if DD had wished it, though I must say I'm thankful she did not. ^_^

    I love Nita and Kit, not to mention the other friends and family they have, but I think Dairine is my favorite character in the end, thus this story appeals to me, being primarily hers.
    Last edited by Kathy Li; August 11, 2009, 04:35:01 PM. Reason: fixed spoiler marking

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  • Dragon Writer
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    i will always be willing to admit that this was a great book, but i still don't think it was the best...that's reserved for wizard's dillema in my oppinion. i like that darine became a wizard here, but still...i don't see anything in it that makes it the absolute best. though it was a big turning point the lp...but to each their own. *runs off for more posting*

    [edited to remove unneeded quoting. --kli]

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  • the5potters
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    i totally agree that HW is the best of the earlier books. I really liked it because Dairine became a wizard. Dairine has always been one of my favorite characters and i was very very very very excited to see her performing spells and such

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  • Raine~
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    bla, Christmas business. I've been rushing all to and fro across the earth *COUGH* I mean town, getting ready.

    Anyway, WHAT kk? that' horrible. I had a friend like that whose mom was really strangely oppinionated and would randomly ban him from everything that had any relation to magic every so often. So lame. People (especially parents) need to be more open minded and look beyond the surface when evaluating what is around them. So silly to read 5 PAGES for goodness sake and then arbitrarly decide against it.

    What can you do though? When people are going to be like that, nothing is going to stop them except some drastic change.

    I agree W@W was spectacular in it's scope and depth. It's probably my favorite since HW. Not to say anything against you Young reader ^^. I absolutely loved WD too.

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