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Trying to remember the name of a book I saw in a shop a couple of years back. it had a picture of the Silence of the Lambs poster (deaths-head moth) on the cover, and it was called something like "1001 Unforgettable Movie Scenes" or something.
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I remember reading this book when I was very young. It was about this cat, and he was watching this astronaut go through training to go to the Moon. The cat ended up going to the moon with the astronaut. So, on the moon, he found this mountain filled with these alien plants, and had his suit ruptured. The alien plant was able to be used to patch it, merging completely with the suit. There was something about a spider. I remember this book was fairly old and worn-looking. I'm sorry if this is too vague/incorrect.
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Years and years ago, I recall reading this short, illustrated children's book that involved a girl with what I think was an eye disease, who needed to have an operation, and a phoenix or firebird (I don't remember how the latter was involved). I can't remember what it was called. The girl's mother kept asking her if the girl was ready to have the operation, and I think she had several brothers and/or sisters. The last page had her in bed, in hospital, with a blindfold. I also think that the girl and her family, and possibly the author, were "ethnic," that is; Hispanic, or native-American, or some such.
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Hey yo,
A book where a young fit male gets dropped off into this testing facility with other fit males and no contact with the outside world.
Every morning, the walls open up and runners have to run and map out the new maze that forms outside the walls. The runners have to get back to base before dark or else the walls will close and they'll disappear/become monsters/be new drug test subjects (can't remember).
New supplies are provided for the group via an elevator — the same one the main character arrived in.
Then a girl shows up, she's pale and pretty. The main character and she discover that they can Mindlink.
By overlaying the maps of the mazes, they figure out a code, and they use it to get out (or something).
Title was Wall Runner or The Runners, maybe.
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A kid's horror book, from a guy who I understand did a lot of them. It was about a cursed three-cent piece with a colorful backstory involving cavalry in the Civil War - I think this was the first book I read that mentioned what swaggering idiots nineteenth-century cavaliers were. The main character is a boy with a female best friend and a taxidermically stuffed owl. He may have worn the three-cent piece around his neck; I remember cringing when Lord Of The Rings first mentioned Frodo doing likewise.
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There was this book I read when I was younger (probably in the Young Adult genre or whatever you call it) where a girl believes she is living in colonial times (I think) but is actually living in the present. Her mom then encourages her to escape. I think the mom gave her a pair of old blue jeans before she left. That's all I remember...
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I am thinking of a fantasy novel similar to Circle Of Magic; Four children sent to live separate from there families for various reasons and also to learn magic by there "mentors". For the most part the similarities end there. The story has none of Tamora Pierce Anvilicious, though not without a moral, its never the focus. The government is The Empire, and the "mentors" are getting ready to commit treason. The main character has wind power and is sent to live in the house because his parents have died and his siblings are grieving to the point that they can hardly look after themselves let alone anyone else. A Fire magic girl that may be the 28 princess and is the mains love intrest. The water magic girl that I remember little of. And a earth magic boy that is older but shorter then the main. There is another boy that can see when people will die I think, he becomes as important as the main. Everything is fine at first, but after the fire magic girl dies the secret is out and those that don't die go into hiding. After this the main is forced to become a knight to prove his loyalty, which he does because he is. Later on near the end of the story the main kills the other traitors with the help of the now man that see when people will die.
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A picture book about a girl who lived all her life in a cave and was forbidden from going Outside, capitalized so. She had black hair, and maybe ragged clothes. It was drawn in a realistic style. IIRC, Outside turned out to be a lot better than advertised, but the story still ended badly.
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A fiction book featuring a moose riding man that had physic powers
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I have two books to remember.
The first was a short book I read in elementary school, so it would have been the mid- to late 70's. A boy is reading a book in school, and the word 'roc' gets blurry then starts to jump around the page, and even grows a beak. Soon, it starts to grow into an actual roc.
About the only other thing I remember about it was the description of the roc. It had bright blue feathers, and at full size its eyes were as big and as orange as basketballs.
The second one, also from my elementary school days, was about a family who adopted an injured baby owl, and named him Lwo, because that was 'owl' backwards. That's really all I remember about that one because we all thought it was funny to hear the teacher try to pronounce "Lwo."
Has anyone else heard of these?
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Teen novel, probably written in the 70's or 80s, about a girl who is convinced to join a band. Her and the guy in the band sing amazing when she's angry with him, but lose the spark when she's happy. They fall in love, which messes with their dynamic. The band becomes really popular.
I'm not sure I liked the book, but it fascinated me, especially how dated everything seemed. I'm not sure if they were punk or rock, but I could see their big hair and hear their screaming 'music'.
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I went on a wiki walk here and ended up reading a series of short stories, I think at Baen. One of the stories was Bluffing the Advance Scout, the other was the science goes away. The specific mechanism of the science going away was a device that changed the conductivity of metals in a range. For various irrelevant reasons I can't go over to Baen and wikiwalk the webscriptions stories, and a quick read of Bluffing the Advance Scout doesn't help me.
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A young adult novel about a young couple who run away from home to live in the wilderness after the girl's family is killed in a car crash. They live off the land in the deep forest of a mountainous national park, and come very close to having sex but stop because they don't want to risk pregnancy, which would force them to rejoin society. Eventually the girl recovers from her grief and decides to return to their home town, but the boy refuses and is implied to spend the rest of his life in the wild, having rejected the outside world more fully than she did.
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Okay, this is a book - Originally written by a Norwegian and later translated into English - About a guy that has Autism/Asperger's Syndrome - He has one of those toys you have for kids where you hammer blocks into a board - Pretty sure he visits America at some point
Just can't remember the title...
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There was a book that I loved when I was little. It had a talking parrot who got a couple of kids to help him save an underground kingdom where all the magical creatures moved after people began to forget about them. The parrot was the caretaker of a talking Dictionary, a talking Thesaurus (I think) and a book of magic as well.
There was also a sea serpent who thought the boat the characters were using at one point was a blue crumpet. Anyone remember this?
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This was a children's book about an Asian woman (I think she was Chinese) and an American guy, and their first couple dates. She calls up her British friend to teach her how to eat Western style with a knife and fork, while the American guy gets someone to teach him how to eat with chopsticks. At the Western style date he comments about the British way she holds her utensils, which is where I learned it was apparently different in Europe. I remember the illustration of how the woman speared several peas on one tine of her fork before she ate them. At the Asian style date, he isn't very good at using the chopsticks but gets through and she's proud.
The British friend had glasses, the Asian woman wore her hair in a bun and may have worn a green dress at some point, and the American man had fair hair and I think he wore a blue shirt on one of the dates.
I got this from the library some time in the mid '90s, but I think it was written least 15 years before. The illustrations were rather stylized line drawings, I think drawn with a brush- there was some influence of Asian art- and colored with watercolors. Minimal backgrounds I think, just the basic idea of the setting, or washes of color. It may have been set in San Francisco.
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Looking for a collection of sci-fi stories The book was required reading for me in middle school and featured a story about a man who turns to metal after entering a strange valley. A story about a woman reprogramming her home AI to be more motherly. And, of course "There Will Come Soft Rains".
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I'm looking for an Artemis Fowl fanfic I read a while back. It's after Artemis get's mindwiped, and the whole plot is that his Da wants to spend time with him, but there's so much that Artemis already knows how to do, until he finds out that Artemis doesn't know how to drive. Hilarity Ensues. I've been looking on FF.net, which is where I thought it was from? But I'm not sure about it, so...
Edit Nevermind. Apparently my brain decided to give me the one freaking keyword to search for this fic as soon as I posted. -_-;
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I read a short story and I don't remember the exact title or the name of the author. The title was something like "I'll Meet You on Uranus" and it was in a collection of short stories (all by the same author) that may have been named after this particular story. It was an epidemic of people coming down with what was called "suit," in which a silver spacesuit grows onto the person's body and ultimately they float up into space. The main character was a man whose wife had contracted suit and he kind of realizes how much he loves her as the suit grows onto her body and he has to deal with the fact that she'll float away. When she finally does, he tries to grab a hold of her to keep her on earth, and there's a Title Drop when she floats away.
I read it online on Google Books or something like that, I don't remember, and I tried to search for it on Google Books and couldn't find it. I read it in 2008 but it had been out for a while by then. I want to say it was written in the 90s but I can't be sure.
It's an epic historical(ish) fantasy. There are four novels in the series, written at least five years ago. Each novel takes place in a different time period - the first book was pre-medieval times, the last was closed to modern day (1960-70s). Each book took place around the same physical location that becomes a well-known modern city. The basic premise of the story was that a small group of characters were struggling to control a hidden, powerful labyrinth. All of them initially failed, but their souls and those of several other involved family members became caught up in the conflict through some ritual magic and were destined to be reborn in the future to continue their struggle - the 2nd to 4th books were of them in different lives recalling their past and being drawn together again into the same city and battle. There was a lot more character development than actual fighting, though, and by the final book they mostly banded together to destroy a malevolence coming from the labyrinth rather than control it.