What comes AFTER HP?

[Pinoikoi]

I mean really? there is only one more Harry Potter book. One more Robert Jordan (and he is really, ill I have heard) and I think there is only one more George RR Martin...

So what is next for me to look forward to? What is the next big series?

Oh, there is another Paolini coming.. but I am far less impressed..

[Sisyphus]

Originally Posted by alaskanteach

I mean really? there is only one more Harry Potter book. One more Robert Jordan (and he is really, ill I have heard) and I think there is only one more George RR Martin...

So what is next for me to look forward to? What is the next big series?

Oh, there is another Paolini coming.. but I am far less impressed..

Therapy?

I dunno... I'll manage to fill my reading time somehow, I'm sure

[WeasleyMum]

Nothing. The world ends on Saturday... haha.

Seriously I don't know what I'm going to do, first time in 6-7 years without another book to theorize/look forward to/ obsess about. How can the story be OVER? : This is like a major chapter of my life closing!

[MamaMisfit]

I know what you mean...but still I as an adult have always found so much to look forward to. The last one that I felt had the pull of HP to keep me reading and wondering was Davinci Code, but I also enjoyed going back to the classics like the Count of Monte Cristo.

My son, on the other hand, had a real problem finding something to get into next. Librarians tried to push Lemony Snicket on him, but he hated it. Now after really looking hard, he loves Jules Vern, the Warriors series, and the Gregpr series. None of them truly compare to HP though.

I recently heard someone use the "Potter Generation" tag for kids his age, and I have to say that the influence has been that great.

[moonfirefaery]

Do you believe in life after HP?

I don't...*sigh*

[greenjenny]

JKR wrote on her website that she might do an 8th book, for charity, that was full of her ideas that never got put into the HP series. That could be fun.

[mandib50]

i'm going to reread the whole series after and buy the rest of the movies and watch them :
at the rate i can read a book and watch movies though that oughta get me through the next four years
and don't forget all the spin-off harry books like, What Happens in Harry Potter 7, So You think you Know Harry Potter etc etc

[kittywitty]

Originally Posted by Sisyphus

Therapy?

I dunno... I'll manage to fill my reading time somehow, I'm sure

:

I can't even imagine life after HP. Desperately awaiting new JK books, I suppose.

[JessicaS]

Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell is very good.


OMG Robert Jordan BETTER only have one more book

[MaWhit]

I'm looking forward to re-reading them all once I know how it ends, to identify foreshadowing, etc. Yeah, literary geek here.

[3.14_Opal]

Originally Posted by greenjenny

JKR wrote on her website that she might do an 8th book, for charity, that was full of her ideas that never got put into the HP series. That could be fun.

Oooh, intriguing! I hope so

[vac70]

Originally Posted by mandib50

i'm going to reread the whole series after and buy the rest of the movies and watch them :
at the rate i can read a book and watch movies though that oughta get me through the next four years

:
Also a good cry!

[Pinoikoi]

Well, I completely plan on buying all the dvds.. but...

I need a new series! Someone please recommend a good one! All the ones I like seem to be ending at the wrong time.. and

I

feel

abandoned.. :

[JessicaS]

Originally Posted by alaskanteach

Well, I completely plan on buying all the dvds.. but...

I need a new series! Someone please recommend a good one! All the ones I like seem to be ending at the wrong time.. and

I

feel

abandoned.. :

Artemis Fowl? Septimus Heap? Eragon?

[Ruthla]

I plan to wander through my library's Young Adult Fiction section and/or Adult Fiction section and pick up whatever looks interesting. We'll probably stick to the YA section for now, and maybe move into the Adult section when we exhaust the YA section or whenever DD2 is ready for adult books. DD2 (anoyingreader) and I like to read the same books so we can discuss them.

[alaskaberry]

Robert Jordan

...got really annoying after book 4! It's one thing to have several different plotlines going, keeps ya interested, y'know, but to be following plotlines of characters you don't even care about? UGH. The only book I really enjoyed (and I read all 11--I'm a fast reader, don't get me started) after awhile was the prequel, A New Spring (about Morgaine and Siaun and Lan and how it all began).

[JessicaS]

Originally Posted by alaskaberry

...got really annoying after book 4! It's one thing to have several different plotlines going, keeps ya interested, y'know, but to be following plotlines of characters you don't even care about? UGH. The only book I really enjoyed (and I read all 11--I'm a fast reader, don't get me started) after awhile was the prequel, A New Spring (about Morgaine and Siaun and Lan and how it all began).

I did like New Spring but for the love of GOD stop putting out the same ^*&%&$^%$#^#^#)$ book over and over!!



At least the last book seemed to be getting somewhere a bit. : I swear he puts the same thing in multiple books but giving different points of view and I am getting so SICK of it.

OMG shut up about the Taint going away already! Move on!

[JessicaS]

Originally Posted by Ruthla

I plan to wander through my library's Young Adult Fiction section and/or Adult Fiction section and pick up whatever looks interesting. We'll probably stick to the YA section for now, and maybe move into the Adult section when we exhaust the YA section or whenever DD2 is ready for adult books. DD2 (anoyingreader) and I like to read the same books so we can discuss them.

I was bored and out of things to read and actually just picked a book cause the cover looked cool.

It was the Abhorsen series and it was excellent, the first book is Sabriel they are by Garth Nix.

He has a series that is not finished called Keys to the Kingdom, the first book is Mister Monday.

However if you read his books, read Shade's Children before sharing them with the children. That one, while excellent is *darker* than the others. I am not sure what your kids are like so I just wanted to give a gentle warning that sensitive children might have problems with it..