Wow,you have Let The Right One In,that's so cool ^^ You read a lot of great books,I recommend you to read the novel Angelology by Danielle Trussoni,it's a very well written book ^^
I love Matilda and and the Witches. I used to listen to Matilda on book on tape all the time cause I love the voices in it. I like all of Roald Dahl books but those two especially.
I'm not sure if you'll like the books or the author, but you should check out Flowers in the Attic. Also, I think you should check out Generation Dead by Daniel Waters. I'm not sure if you'll like them, but I figured I'd give you suggestions.
Yeah I agree with you. Blood and Chocolate is one of the best supernatural romance books out there. It actually has some effort put into it, it's not some boring trilogy, the main character isn't overly emo and enjoys becoming a werewolf, and there's actually a lesson to be learned in the end.
OMG!!!!! Kick Ass is a new edition to my book collection. Also Dr. Horrible but ZOMG your collection of books is fantastic. You had a lot of good reads. Love your nice collection of zombie books. Very nice. Although I would have liked to se your manga collection. Keep on READING! ;)
w00t just got back from a used bookstore. Galatic North, Revelation Space and Chasm City, by Alastair Reynolds, and Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, 2001 a Space Odyssey and the Fountains of Paradise by Arthur Clarke. quite a good haul for $30. w00t and next weekend my library is having a used book sale. added to the SF and nonfiction books i inherited from my grampa i have a good lila collection going :)
also since i shamed you by pointing out your lack of classic and modern great SF i will do myself, i never read The Giver, or Harry Potter(to be fair i hate how Rowling is with numbers, and found Potter a very generic character). I also figured out i have the Grapes of Wrath(seems stolen from mo HS library) and haven't read it. i also am not a Lovecraft fan. now i am shamed too :(
yes i was just pointing out i have never read those(popular and well regarded books), cause i also pointed out your seeming lack of Arthur C. Clarke(well known and regarded), Alastair Reynolds and China Meiville(somewhat well known but well regarded). really you need some good SF start with what i recommended.
how do you feel about steampunk? Terminal World is very much inspired by steampunk(hoorah for airships!). and how about cyberpunk(hoorah for cybernetic implants and surgery making you a demigod!)?
i am not really into fantasy myself, but strangely i love dungeon crawler games which all i have played have been fantasy. i wanna make a SF dungeon crawler, with instead of a tower or dungeon an ancient space habitat, also the everpresent horror of nothing lurking so near.
though i am unable to present my fear of life terminating nothing in a way that is as true as it is. hell the scariest story i read was "The Nothing Equation" and that wasn't meant to be horror, i think anyway. Steven King stories can't even come close. for weeks afterwards i was afraid our magnetosphere would give way and solar winds would destroy our atmosphere. the night sky has never been so terrifying.
the discrepancies of how many people are in hogwarts in each grade, the games they had, which have huge amounts of wizards, and a otherthings about stuff like that mostly. especially with the wizard games they held, and number of students compared to total wizard kids.
most(all?) who noticed it and other discrepancies in the number of students in the books are nerds probably with ocd of somesort, who are also fans of hard sf fans(nerds). so consider yourself lucky ;)
not bashing her, they are good stories, just that has always bothered me.
it's why i prefer the movies over the books, though they do tend to leave a lot out of them. i love the set pieces though.
but yes what is with changing of book covers? i use the library mostly so i have a surprisingly small bookshelf, just Reynolds and other books not found at the library(i need to find a used book store to get Clarke), they did order Let the Right One in for me. paperback you had i prefer the older hardcover look before the movie was released. i never read the books you were talking about so don't know how the cover changes look.
C'mon no Arthur C. Clarke(best author and best Arthur)? Rendezvous with Rama(ignore the rest of Rama series) has one of my fav covers. Alastair Reynolds is also great Diamond Dogs/Turquoise Days, Chasm City, and Terminal World should be there atleast, and his upcoming series Poseidon's Children if you wanna hop on that series at the beginning. and A.E. Van Vogt's(lighter than previous two) Voyage of the Space Beagle(first part inspired Alien), Empire of Isher, Anarchistic Colossus, and Null-A.
No china Meiville either 'The City and the City' is a good new one. no Petshop of Horrors mangas? have you heard of Despara? a manga of that followed by an anime made by the same people that made Lain(watch it it's great cyberpunk) is in the works ABe is my fav manga artist.
for a taste of Reynolds go to infinityplus website, Spirey and the Queen made me first like stories in first person. A Spy In Europa is a good short to be found there. Propagation of Light in a Vacuum(not reynolds) is cute
just have a quick question have you ever read a book by Diane Hoh she writes pretty good, and the best book i have ever read by her was "Dont Let Me Die" and it has both an awesome plot and a great message to it.
I recommend Laurie Halse Anderson's books(especially Speak), Wake by Lisa McMann, and the Hell series by Rosemary Clement-Moore. Also Shannon Hale's (esp. The Goose Girl), whose new covers are worse than the Artemis Fowl ones.
Hey Melina. I saw this vid and was pretty inspired like you were to show off my book shelf. But everytime I do it it goes way over the time limit. How do you edit your videos? Is it easy? =/
@PuffyAmiYumi Oh heck no. This video was 30 min long unedited >.<
Basically I only showed you the titles and cut out all the discussion. If you want you can have the book and then say what you would rate it to give people an idea of how you felt for it. :3
Like some other commenters have said, if you haven't read Markus Zusak's books, i highly recommend them. The Book Thief was AMAZING and so was I Am the Messenger.
What do you think about Going Bovine? I'm about half way through and I think it's pretty interesting.
Wow...you need to do your manga books! I'd love to see what you got! I have quite a few 'Naruto' is demoniting my shelf mostly but I have a few others. I dont nearly have as many as you do though. Oh and have you ever read the book "SunShine" it's really good by Robin McKinley. Read my Junior year of school. Love it, I just randomly wondered if you have. If not you should, I'd bet you'd like it. ^_~ Awesome collection!
I wish my bookshelf was as awesome as yours. I'm so mad because I was in the middle of the Historian but I had to return it because someone else was waiting for it x(
World War Z is one of the best books I've ever read in life.. Youshould check out Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter its also by Seth Grahame-Smith.. And Skulduggery Pleasant has similar humor to Artemis Fowl.. And I'm gonna stop b4 I make a long list of book recommendations.. Lol
Wow, what a great collection you've got! You have so many great classics and I was real happy to see many of my favourites on your bookshelf too :) A Little Princess is also one of my all-time favourites ;)
I must say my #1 favourite story of all time is the Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (which the Return of the King is the third part of). I was really excited to see you have it! If you haven't already read the first two parts, I highly recommend them!
This reminds me of my own bookshelf. The disorganization, the piles of books, and the random genres scattered all about. :) Barnes & Nobles classics are made of <3.
Wow...Your shelf reminds me of my best friend's. I can't afford that many books. I usually buy secondhand or the cheap Penguin Classics books. I currently have about 1/8 of your collection. XD
Okay now I feel like doing one of these videos lol, I totally agree that the amount of books you have is an indication of how much you've spent! AND I'm not even finished yet!
OMG you got a book signed by Tamora Pierce that is awesome! So your favorite books by her are the immoratals, that's cool my favorite is the song of the lioness XD
You got books signed by Tamora Pierce and Holly Black? Lucky! I like Blood and Chocolate, but I think Vivian's attitude and how quickly she fell in love with Aiden puts people off. And I'm a Triss fan too! I had this horrible nightmare that I lost my copy of Let the Right One In. By the way, are you going to check out Rick Riodarn's new series? It's supposed to feature characters from PJ series.
Awesome book shelf collection. I have to read The Zombie Survival Guide and I Am Legend- and speaking of brain~scaring, I tried reading Wicked (the wizard of oz one) when I was ten or eleven. I made it halfway through, too- but yeah. Anyway, I was grinning like the Cheshire Cat when you pulled out the Artemis Fowl Series. Besides that, it was awesome to see Roald Dahl get some love- his books are my childhood favorites.
Bravo,bravo!Amazing taste in books.:).I'm also writing down some titles I would like to check out.:).Am I going to be noisy if I ask can we see your DVD collection as well some day?:P.Thank you in advance.
I noticed you only had one Kelly Armstrong book.. have you read the rest of the Women of the Otherworld series? I've read up to Broken, and I like them all. Well, Dimestore Magic was ok.
What an awesome collection! I'm already writing down a few titles I want to read =D Makes me mat to make a video of all the books in my bookcase, maybe I will, I'll just clean up my room first~ so no one notices what a mess I always make XDD
Wow,you have Let The Right One In,that's so cool ^^ You read a lot of great books,I recommend you to read the novel Angelology by Danielle Trussoni,it's a very well written book ^^
KaraAnimee 1 month ago
I wish I had the money to buy all that. :(
Thank god for libraries. <3
EmilieAutumnXO 4 months ago
I would have loved to heard what you had to say about the books though I understand that would have been long
Icy199512 4 months ago
I love Matilda and and the Witches. I used to listen to Matilda on book on tape all the time cause I love the voices in it. I like all of Roald Dahl books but those two especially.
WorldTraveler17 8 months ago
Wow; you have like 2 dozen books that i want to get. :)
cherub4eva2 9 months ago
I'm not sure if you'll like the books or the author, but you should check out Flowers in the Attic. Also, I think you should check out Generation Dead by Daniel Waters. I'm not sure if you'll like them, but I figured I'd give you suggestions.
DarkAngelBakuraLover 11 months ago
Yeah I agree with you. Blood and Chocolate is one of the best supernatural romance books out there. It actually has some effort put into it, it's not some boring trilogy, the main character isn't overly emo and enjoys becoming a werewolf, and there's actually a lesson to be learned in the end.
LeaxoftheUnderworld 11 months ago
Jeez, I am so jealous of your book collection o_o You lucky duck lol
I miss my Ramses the Damned book... D:
xXMusicMuseXx 1 year ago
OMG!!!!! Kick Ass is a new edition to my book collection. Also Dr. Horrible but ZOMG your collection of books is fantastic. You had a lot of good reads. Love your nice collection of zombie books. Very nice. Although I would have liked to se your manga collection. Keep on READING! ;)
DjHamHam411 1 year ago
w00t just got back from a used bookstore. Galatic North, Revelation Space and Chasm City, by Alastair Reynolds, and Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, 2001 a Space Odyssey and the Fountains of Paradise by Arthur Clarke. quite a good haul for $30. w00t and next weekend my library is having a used book sale. added to the SF and nonfiction books i inherited from my grampa i have a good lila collection going :)
Drmofothegreat 1 year ago
also since i shamed you by pointing out your lack of classic and modern great SF i will do myself, i never read The Giver, or Harry Potter(to be fair i hate how Rowling is with numbers, and found Potter a very generic character). I also figured out i have the Grapes of Wrath(seems stolen from mo HS library) and haven't read it. i also am not a Lovecraft fan. now i am shamed too :(
Drmofothegreat 1 year ago
@Drmofothegreat I have Harry Potter, I didn't show it...I have the Giver as well. <3
MelinaPendulum 1 year ago
@MelinaPendulum
yes i was just pointing out i have never read those(popular and well regarded books), cause i also pointed out your seeming lack of Arthur C. Clarke(well known and regarded), Alastair Reynolds and China Meiville(somewhat well known but well regarded). really you need some good SF start with what i recommended.
Drmofothegreat 1 year ago
@Drmofothegreat I am just not a big SF reader. Just watcher.
MelinaPendulum 1 year ago
@MelinaPendulum
how do you feel about steampunk? Terminal World is very much inspired by steampunk(hoorah for airships!). and how about cyberpunk(hoorah for cybernetic implants and surgery making you a demigod!)?
i am not really into fantasy myself, but strangely i love dungeon crawler games which all i have played have been fantasy. i wanna make a SF dungeon crawler, with instead of a tower or dungeon an ancient space habitat, also the everpresent horror of nothing lurking so near.
Drmofothegreat 1 year ago
though i am unable to present my fear of life terminating nothing in a way that is as true as it is. hell the scariest story i read was "The Nothing Equation" and that wasn't meant to be horror, i think anyway. Steven King stories can't even come close. for weeks afterwards i was afraid our magnetosphere would give way and solar winds would destroy our atmosphere. the night sky has never been so terrifying.
Drmofothegreat 1 year ago
@Drmofothegreat what do you mean how Rowling is with numbers??
TheBlondiesNr1 1 year ago
@TheBlondiesNr1
the discrepancies of how many people are in hogwarts in each grade, the games they had, which have huge amounts of wizards, and a otherthings about stuff like that mostly. especially with the wizard games they held, and number of students compared to total wizard kids.
Drmofothegreat 1 year ago
@Drmofothegreat i never noticed of that, not even once. And i've never heard anyone else mention it .
TheBlondiesNr1 1 year ago
@TheBlondiesNr1
most(all?) who noticed it and other discrepancies in the number of students in the books are nerds probably with ocd of somesort, who are also fans of hard sf fans(nerds). so consider yourself lucky ;)
not bashing her, they are good stories, just that has always bothered me.
it's why i prefer the movies over the books, though they do tend to leave a lot out of them. i love the set pieces though.
Drmofothegreat 1 year ago
@Drmofothegreat You haven't read The Giver?! Go NOW to your library and get it!
kipkayify 1 month ago
but yes what is with changing of book covers? i use the library mostly so i have a surprisingly small bookshelf, just Reynolds and other books not found at the library(i need to find a used book store to get Clarke), they did order Let the Right One in for me. paperback you had i prefer the older hardcover look before the movie was released. i never read the books you were talking about so don't know how the cover changes look.
Drmofothegreat 1 year ago
C'mon no Arthur C. Clarke(best author and best Arthur)? Rendezvous with Rama(ignore the rest of Rama series) has one of my fav covers. Alastair Reynolds is also great Diamond Dogs/Turquoise Days, Chasm City, and Terminal World should be there atleast, and his upcoming series Poseidon's Children if you wanna hop on that series at the beginning. and A.E. Van Vogt's(lighter than previous two) Voyage of the Space Beagle(first part inspired Alien), Empire of Isher, Anarchistic Colossus, and Null-A.
Drmofothegreat 1 year ago
No china Meiville either 'The City and the City' is a good new one. no Petshop of Horrors mangas? have you heard of Despara? a manga of that followed by an anime made by the same people that made Lain(watch it it's great cyberpunk) is in the works ABe is my fav manga artist.
for a taste of Reynolds go to infinityplus website, Spirey and the Queen made me first like stories in first person. A Spy In Europa is a good short to be found there. Propagation of Light in a Vacuum(not reynolds) is cute
Drmofothegreat 1 year ago
just have a quick question have you ever read a book by Diane Hoh she writes pretty good, and the best book i have ever read by her was "Dont Let Me Die" and it has both an awesome plot and a great message to it.
TheBookwurm82 1 year ago
Whats the longest book youve ever read?
kelseyhm 1 year ago
Holly Black! YAY!
I recommend Laurie Halse Anderson's books(especially Speak), Wake by Lisa McMann, and the Hell series by Rosemary Clement-Moore. Also Shannon Hale's (esp. The Goose Girl), whose new covers are worse than the Artemis Fowl ones.
lyflorida 1 year ago
You have a lot of books. But my Dad has like 10 times as many. Have you read all of those?
thebloodfiend1 1 year ago
Hey Melina. I saw this vid and was pretty inspired like you were to show off my book shelf. But everytime I do it it goes way over the time limit. How do you edit your videos? Is it easy? =/
PuffyAmiYumi 1 year ago
@PuffyAmiYumi Oh heck no. This video was 30 min long unedited >.<
Basically I only showed you the titles and cut out all the discussion. If you want you can have the book and then say what you would rate it to give people an idea of how you felt for it. :3
MelinaPendulum 1 year ago
Like some other commenters have said, if you haven't read Markus Zusak's books, i highly recommend them. The Book Thief was AMAZING and so was I Am the Messenger.
What do you think about Going Bovine? I'm about half way through and I think it's pretty interesting.
gagirl1231 1 year ago
SANDMAN!!!!!! :D
Lythya 1 year ago
Wow...you need to do your manga books! I'd love to see what you got! I have quite a few 'Naruto' is demoniting my shelf mostly but I have a few others. I dont nearly have as many as you do though. Oh and have you ever read the book "SunShine" it's really good by Robin McKinley. Read my Junior year of school. Love it, I just randomly wondered if you have. If not you should, I'd bet you'd like it. ^_~ Awesome collection!
DeathCatEyes 1 year ago
a part of me was hoping you'd whip out Captain Underpants :(
Cuddlebunzzz 1 year ago
@Cuddlebunzzz lol I have Captain underpants
MelinaPendulum 1 year ago
I wish there were people like you in my high school! We'd get along so well!
Graddee 1 year ago
Have you ever read "The Book Thief" by Markus Zuzak? If so, what do you think about it? Of not, I can highly recommend it!
MeanMFA 1 year ago
Is that Chiibi Vampire (Karin) I see? Or just something with a similar back cover?
InsanityandChocolate 1 year ago
I wish my bookshelf was as awesome as yours. I'm so mad because I was in the middle of the Historian but I had to return it because someone else was waiting for it x(
morgan111213 1 year ago
@KikyoChanXD lol. Ik I edited it out because pretty much everyone has at least one potter book.
Its years of money, sweat and tears. :3
MelinaPendulum 1 year ago
World War Z is one of the best books I've ever read in life.. Youshould check out Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter its also by Seth Grahame-Smith.. And Skulduggery Pleasant has similar humor to Artemis Fowl.. And I'm gonna stop b4 I make a long list of book recommendations.. Lol
TeasyMan 1 year ago
You have Matilda! One of my all-time favorite books!
SaichanRadioPlay1 1 year ago
Blood and Chocolate sounds like an interesting book.
RhythmWily 1 year ago
Wow, what a great collection you've got! You have so many great classics and I was real happy to see many of my favourites on your bookshelf too :) A Little Princess is also one of my all-time favourites ;)
I must say my #1 favourite story of all time is the Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (which the Return of the King is the third part of). I was really excited to see you have it! If you haven't already read the first two parts, I highly recommend them!
Thanks very much for the tour :-)
Jianlibao 1 year ago
No Watchmen? D=
WinterxBlazes 1 year ago
This reminds me of my own bookshelf. The disorganization, the piles of books, and the random genres scattered all about. :) Barnes & Nobles classics are made of <3.
LexTempus 1 year ago
I kept laughing at the parts that you would start to go into a conversation and then it would cut off. lol
jadenkorr15 1 year ago
Blood and Chocolate <3!!
fozique 1 year ago
Great collection!
Bat earrings? Very cute ^^
MissAliceGrimm 1 year ago
I love seeing piles of books on bookshelves. <3
MysteryGreenTea 1 year ago
Wow...Your shelf reminds me of my best friend's. I can't afford that many books. I usually buy secondhand or the cheap Penguin Classics books. I currently have about 1/8 of your collection. XD
jusk8lp 1 year ago
This video makes me want to go to the book store. :D
TheMartianPrince 1 year ago
This makes me want to do this. :/
LeslieWilsonPerry 1 year ago
Well, I've only read around 6 of the books you've shown in this video, so if I ever need a good read, I know which video to watch =]
whitehousesvc729 1 year ago
I liked the old Artemis Fowl covers, too, even though I didn't like anything published after the third book.
I surprised you don't have the Legend of the Seeker books.
FinalFantasyXIILover 1 year ago
Okay now I feel like doing one of these videos lol, I totally agree that the amount of books you have is an indication of how much you've spent! AND I'm not even finished yet!
PuffyAmiYumi 1 year ago
Reading the Atlantic Complex! I was so excited to get it, hope you enjoy it! :)
xMusicToMex 1 year ago
OMG you got a book signed by Tamora Pierce that is awesome! So your favorite books by her are the immoratals, that's cool my favorite is the song of the lioness XD
RainbowFirefly 1 year ago
I have that same Betty and Veronica! XD
Not that I ever read them, but I have a couple kicking around.
None the less, great collection. Never would have thought you'd have quite so many vampire books.
LorChan1919 1 year ago
You got books signed by Tamora Pierce and Holly Black? Lucky! I like Blood and Chocolate, but I think Vivian's attitude and how quickly she fell in love with Aiden puts people off. And I'm a Triss fan too! I had this horrible nightmare that I lost my copy of Let the Right One In. By the way, are you going to check out Rick Riodarn's new series? It's supposed to feature characters from PJ series.
bookwormfaeriegirl 1 year ago
That is one hell of a collection you got there, Melina!
I quite liked Blood and Chocolate. Didn't dig the writing style, but I loved how original and realistic it was about the situation.
LIBBA BRAY FTW!
FantasmaLuna 1 year ago
Why did you take down the Good Sue vs Bad Sue vid? I favorited that video. That was epic.
GimmeBooks 1 year ago
@GimmeBooks I'm going to reupload it after I make a few changes on my other account. I'll send it to you when I do.
MelinaPendulum 1 year ago
@MelinaPendulum Ok thank you :)
GimmeBooks 1 year ago
Now I got to do this! XD
laurariddle292 1 year ago
@MelinaPendulum you should read Mistborn by brandon sanderson. also nightside by Simon R. Green
reviewman 1 year ago
"the empress" has a very similar cover to "Across the nightingale floor"
emopufferfish 1 year ago
You've read Lolita? I could never get through it.
GingerFarnsworth 1 year ago
Nice
You look good in purple by the way.
ZipBlockBloody 1 year ago
Huh. I got the same version of Carrie you do!
Phoenixangelgal 1 year ago
definitely gonna write some of these down on my list of things to buy!
kingfish12 1 year ago
edited twilight out? (A)
welme23 1 year ago
Awesome book shelf collection. I have to read The Zombie Survival Guide and I Am Legend- and speaking of brain~scaring, I tried reading Wicked (the wizard of oz one) when I was ten or eleven. I made it halfway through, too- but yeah. Anyway, I was grinning like the Cheshire Cat when you pulled out the Artemis Fowl Series. Besides that, it was awesome to see Roald Dahl get some love- his books are my childhood favorites.
Sarasirk531 1 year ago
Bravo,bravo!Amazing taste in books.:).I'm also writing down some titles I would like to check out.:).Am I going to be noisy if I ask can we see your DVD collection as well some day?:P.Thank you in advance.
SnitchSeeker 1 year ago
I noticed you only had one Kelly Armstrong book.. have you read the rest of the Women of the Otherworld series? I've read up to Broken, and I like them all. Well, Dimestore Magic was ok.
xoxVikki15xox 1 year ago
ok i like your collection..but no HP?
kelseyhm 1 year ago
@kelseyhm I have HP, its on the topshelf, but it got edited out
MelinaPendulum 1 year ago
@MelinaPendulum o...:P ok
kelseyhm 1 year ago
Holy crap..
Amenat 1 year ago
What an awesome collection! I'm already writing down a few titles I want to read =D Makes me mat to make a video of all the books in my bookcase, maybe I will, I'll just clean up my room first~ so no one notices what a mess I always make XDD
Lecinea 1 year ago
You should check out the Ghost Girl series by Tonya Hurley, I really enjoyed reading that series!
OreosGoRAWR 1 year ago
You have a nice collection but no HP.... I guess it isn't your cup of tea
mavsguru41 1 year ago
@mavsguru41 I have HP its at the top I didn't show it because it was too heavy.
MelinaPendulum 1 year ago
Wow. O.O I have a lot of the books you do, although I'm surprised you don't have The Book Thief.
DragonflameWolfpaw 1 year ago