TV/MOVIE and BOOK suggestions, please!

[aimeekitty]

TV AND MOVIE SUGGESTIONS PLEASE!
hook me up with some suggestions for your favorite. Doesn't matter whether it's Chinese or Korean or Japanese or whatever. (must have subtitles)

Also open to BBC and Bollywood suggestions. <3

Prefer romantic or action stuff, don't mind drama as long as it's not drama for drama-sake. If everyone dies at the end, it better have been a really good trip to get to that point. Extra points for pretty costumes, total adorableness or tragic heroes.

BOOK SUGGESTIONS PLEASE!
I'd like to read some more fiction lately. Maybe recommend your favorite sci/fi, fantasy or fairy-tale book? Young Adult stuff is fair game, too. I used to read Star Wars books back in highschool and liked some of them... (but haven't read any for years...) and I've enjoyed the New!Who! Audio books I've listened to so far. I also like stuff like Robin Mckinley's retelling of Beauty and the Beast, and I love the book of Howl's Moving Castle. I love Jane Austen and I love The Count of Monte Cristo. I love Sherlock Holmes. I'm enjoying reading Ella Enchanted right now. I liked Dune, but not the sequels... I didn't really care for the Sookie Stackhouse books or Laurel K. Hamilton's stuff. Don't really like the Pern books either.
I tend to enjoy stuff with really strong character development and I particularly like uplifting stories of coming of age, or a character who has a very strong character arc (ie like Kirk going from a kid in the middle of nowhere to being a StarFleet captain.)

EDIT: feel free to keep making recs, I'm going to make a list. <3
For my Dragoncon books, I'm going to start with Stardust and finish up Ella Enchanted since that's what they had at the library. I put holds though on several books you guys rec'd

Please see previous post for Dragoncon schedule.

Comments

[lberghol.livejournal.com]

You already mentioned you've read Howl's Moving Castle, but I'm going to go ahead and reccomend anything by Dianne Wynne Jones as AWESOME SAUCE..I've recently been catching up on some titles of hers that I missed the first time around (including the sequel to Howl: "The House of Many Ways")

My favorites of hers would have to be the Dalemark Quartet, and the Chrestomanci series. You might enjoy Deep Secret as an avid Con goer ;)

Some other series I've really enjoyed in the past have been The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix, and despite the fact that it is HUGE and BIG and slow to start, I really ended up enjoying Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.....

I've been trying to get back into reading myself so I've had books on the brain lately ;)

[singingraisin.livejournal.com]

Yes! I will second Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It took me a while to finish, but it's fun. It's kind of Austen-y alternate history fantasy... I've never read anything else like it.

[revassez.livejournal.com]

I third Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I also recommend Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, but only if you really want to spend a long time reading. They are an excellent set of fantasy novels.

[lberghol.livejournal.com]

I know! It's so.."other"...but towards the end I couldn't get enough of it..I have her "sequel" collection of fairytales sitting on my bedside table once I finish my current book..

[thehornedgod.livejournal.com]

Thirding Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, that's what I was going to say, and DWJ is lovely too. I liked a lot of her books, but Power of Three seems to have left the sharpest impression on my mind.

[roxyk630.livejournal.com]

Can concur with anything Dianne Wynn Jones.

You said Howl's. LOVE that book.