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

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

I watched Lost in Austen (I think at your rec, actually!) It was cute, but I didn't really care for it that much. I can't explain it! haha.. :">

I've actually never READ the Princess Bride, that's probably a good choice!

Do you like the Inkheart one??

If you find ANYTHING along the vien of Monte Cristo, obviously I'm all over that. I tried some of Dumas' other books, and they're ok, but Cristo is my favorite.

[singingraisin.livejournal.com]

Inkheart I really enjoyed. It's translated from German, which probably messes with the flow a little bit, but I like German fantasy (we all remember Neverending Story), and it's kind of unique. I really enjoyed the movie, but the book is very different. I need to pick up the next two!

I can totally understand disliking Lost in Austen. It's Mary Sue fanfic, basically, but I think on the heels of P&P&Z, it was what I needed.

Go, right now, to a bookstore and get yourself Princess Bride. Right now. The structure of that book is fantastic, and, while very different from the movie, it is awesome. (Probably because the same guy wrote both... William Goldman is just that cool.) He's a fan of adventure stories (like Monte Cristo) and it really comes through there. Just... you must read this. Now.

[april-art.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... Monte Cristo...

Have you red _The Scarlet Pimpernel_ and sequels? Those are great fun.