Has anyone read books by Tamora Pierce?

[MagikMelody]

I love Tamora Pierce's books. i have read all of her books and some of her short stories. My sister gave me books by her and thats how i became (re)influenced into this whole fantasy thing I love Daine's books. I just love how she can shapechange. I liked her most recent 2 in the Tortall series (Trickter's Choice & Trickster's Queen) but i wish she wrote them in a quartet like she usually does. I felt like i didnt know the characters in those books as well as i knew Alanna or Daine or Kel or any of her Cricle Of Magic books...


oki. im done now.

Summary: I love her books. Sorry if u read through all that before finding this here....

[Cheeto]

EEEK!!!!! Finally, I have found Tamora Pierce fans!!!! After YEARS of waiting, (Well, no, actually, 2) I've found you! Righ tnow, I'm finally getting into her other series' but I am a TOTAL Circlefan!! The Circle Reforged is just one book, and I hope that there'll be more. I can't find the audiobook anywhere, even though I'm in the US ! Oh well, was never an audiobook person anyway.
Oh, and Hi! The name's Cheeto. I'm new, so ignore any idiotic newbie remarks emanating from me.

[singer]

um, I've read the Will. it was horrible. I LOVE DAINE!

Mmmm. . .I read the first two Immortals books, got halfway through the third, then quit. It happens. I really like Garth Nix. Abhorsen is a great read. My favorite book to re-read would have to be The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. Greatest. Book. Evah. I keep it with me at all times, for any situation that might herald bordom. No time for that sort of nonsense, wot wot! Now, back to homework!

Kinsey, who just discovered that one of the smilies has wings and is flying. Her joy level is through the roof.

* Edit: Okay, SYWTBAW is the greatest book ever, but The Zombie Survival guide can be opened to any point and read, making it more convinient for a short read. Also, when zombies do attack, I will be totally and utterly prepared.

[Herb87]

actually...yeah.

the ones i read were awesome

Why you ask?

[campsoup1988]

Amazingly I actually found a Circle Reforged Book! I did not think they existed. The one I found is called "The will of the empress"

[alla]

Garrett:
I'm also partial to Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion for learning-to-be-a-warrior fiction, but that one's not as kid-friendly as TP's series.

Yes that is a great followup to the TP books.

Hey Alyson, I know two bookshops that are local to me that you can order the YW books in through. And they usually have a decent stock of all of the ones that are in paperback. Also, if you're anywhere near Coolangatta, 'The Book Shop' is a good secondhand bookshop to find out of print stuff.

[Angel_Star]

I found Wild Magic while just browsing in Barnes and Noble sometime long, long ago. Well, I think it was sixth grade or something, so what, three years ago? The title and the cover art caught my eye, so I thought to myself, "Self, I think that this book will be worth your time." And that is how it all started!

Please excuse the <STRIKE>temporary</STRIKE> insanity.

One of my friends loaned me Magic Steps, which got me interested in the Circle books. I just had to go back and read the first ones. I have all those books in paperback, except for Shatterglass... It messes up the order of my shelf. Hehe.

My top three authors would have to be DD (of course), Tamora Pierce, and Robert Jordan. Robert Jordan wrote the Wheel of Time books that I absolutely fell in love with, but they totally ruined every other book I read after them because I haven't found any to live up to the standard of writing. Everything seems so childish, or poorly written, or just not interesting. That's probably why I kind of got out of the habit of reading constantly. I used to read like a book a day, but lately... *sigh*

Now that I went off chasing rabbit trails...

I read The Will of the Empress (isn't that it? correct me if my memory fails) and thoroughly enjoyed it. It wasn't my favorite of Tamora Pierce's, but I thought that it was quite nice. There were a few things that I didn't like, but that was more plot things than writing.

[Garrett Fitzgerald]

I actually have The Woman Who Rides Like a Man in my backpack for a re-read at the moment. I think I like Protector of the Small best, though.

I'm also partial to Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion for learning-to-be-a-warrior fiction, but that one's not as kid-friendly as TP's series.

[humanblackhole]

I love TP especially the PotS books. She is in my top 5 favorite authors with Garth Nix, Diane Duane, J, K, Rowling, and D. J. MacHale. Please don't ask me to rank them.

I didn't really like her last three books as much as the others.

[saash3120]

*Waves hand emphatically* Me too, me too! My English teacher of two years ago thought I was the biggest Tamora Pierce fan in this universe, and probably all the rest of them, too. I even wrote a paper on her for a massive English project, which was really fun. I'm still a pretty big fan, although since I first started reading her books I've begun to find the early ones a little simplistic, especially in terms of characters, and also idealistic (I have big big BIG problems with idealistic fiction). What I've noticed, though, is that her writing has developed a ton as she's written more books, and those problems have faded out almost completely. By the way, yay for Alanna, Aly, and Kel! (My three favorite characters, did you guess?)

I'd say that my favorite Tamora Pierce books are the Daughter of the Lioness duet. The writing, characters, plot, and everything else that I can't think of right now were so good. The only problem with it is what Blue said (a while back) about the unoriginality of the main character finding her "true love" in the end; I can deal with it, though, because everything else was so good. Interestingly enough, I learned while doing that English project that Tammy didn't have much luck with boyfriends when she was young. Maybe that has something to do with the "true love" issue?

And yeah, I also love Protector of the Small, because Kel is such a tough and original character. At the end, you get the feeling that she really earned everything she got. I hope Tammy writes more about her in the future.

I also don't like the Circle books as much as the Tortall books. For some reason they didn't click with me very much. I can't put my finger on why, though.

[Alyson-Devereaux]

Hey singer, is that a quote from a redwall hare that you have as your sig? I love the Redwall books (by Brian Jacques), even though I don't read them as much as I used to. My favourites are Pearls of Lutra and The Long Patrol - the hares are priceless!

[singer]

big Tammy fan here. I own the last two Immortals book and Tris' Book. Tris and Daine are my favorites.

i'm the biggest bookworm in my family/neighborhood that I know. my only compostion is my neighbor behind me. I re-read all 18 of the Redwall Chronicles all this year from Febraury. I re-read all of Garth Nix's Key to the Kingdom in a month, one per week. I read the Order of the Phoenix in 1 day as Christopher Paolini's Eldest.

[lostx in memory]

I love Tamora Peirce, especially her Tortall ones, the Trickster's Choice and Queen, and the Circle of Magic books (and the Circle Opens and Circle Reforged.)

[Alyson-Devereaux]

Yep, looks like it was pretty long. Oh well, I like making long posts, because no-one can tell me to shut up, which they do frequently in real life, because when I start talking it's hard to stop, which seems to be happening again. And actually I probably can be told to shut it online, but will it do any good? Probably not. There, I stopped. *types slower so it feels like she's talking slower* Sorry about that, it's just that I got a new keyboard recently and it's a major improvement on the old one, ie it actually works.
Bugger, I gotta go. Will yabber again some other time.