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

[iamchubbybunny.livejournal.com]

Pride & Prejudice and Zombies.

haven't actually read it msyelf yet, but hear it's awesome haha... Theyre also coming out with Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters later in Sept... must get my hands on that.

I'm really behind the times, but the Golden Compass books were really great- just read those a few months ago.

The Eragon series is actually alright- the first book being the weakest, but I just finished the third and i really enjoyed it :0 I am a dragon nerd.

Also, as a kid, I really enjoyed Anne McCaffrey's Dragon books. SUPER NERD. A good start for that is the Harper's Trilogy. It starts with a book called "Dragonsinger". It's so... formula. But there are tiny dragons so who gives a crap haha.

Uhmm... what else.... I want recommendations for stuff, too Lol... I will continue reading this post!

[singingraisin.livejournal.com]

I will give you my P&P&Z if you really want to read it, but I thought it was absolute garbage. The only good thing about that book is the title and cover and idea of it. All the rest made me very sad, and I'm a little disgusted with myself for actually finishing it.

But yeah! Yours if you want it!


(Golden Compass books were neat, though!... nice coming-of-age story underneath the controversial religious stuff.)

[iamchubbybunny.livejournal.com]

oh really? that sucks. Such a funny premise.

Hear anything good/bad about Mr. Darcy Vampyre? I saw that at a bookstore recently but haven't looked up on it.

Re: Golden Compass, I feel like almost everything is very religious, haha.

[singingraisin.livejournal.com]

I read some reviews that suggest Mr. Darcy Vampyre is pretty bad... and they were coming from Twilight fans. I think I might just skip that one!