Book plea!

[eibbil_libbie]

Not for me for...DJ, believe it or not.

Seriously. We came home from seeing The Hunger Games and he decided he wanted to read it. And he did...in a week. Then he asked me to help him get a Fire because he hated carrying books around. I went half with him and boom. He's devouring books like a termite in a wood pile.

Yeah, you read that right. DJ. The gamer.

So! My problem is that I'm running out of things to recommend for him. Right now he's eating up dystopian/post-apocalyptic stuff.

To date, he has read:

Collins' The Hunger Games
Roth's Divergent/Insurgent
Aguirre's Enclave
Lu's Legend

And I think he's starting either Wells' Partials or Dashner's Maze Runner tonight (he's started reading the free samples first - if the first chapter doesn't pull him, he won't continue...and the first victim of the no-pull was Price's Starters.)


Okay, flist. What have you got? Older, newer, hit me up.

Comments

[heinous_bitca]

I almost recommended this!

As a young boy, he may not find Cordelia's Honor (the compilation of Shards of Honor and Barrayar) as compelling, so I'm going to go against my usual recommendations and say if he sounds at least vaguely interested in these books, start with Warrior's Apprentice.

[tryslora]

My husband loves all of them, so the Cordelia books appeal to some boys. :) On the other hand, my husband has a few authors he loves that write romantic space opera.

While we're here, Steve Miller and Sharon Lee's Liaden books are excellent space opera and have appealed to many boys I've known. Folks tend to consider them similar in some ways to the Bujold books.

[heinous_bitca]

Was more thinking young boys, not older boys! Lou loves them too! But I wasn't sure if the focus on Cordelia might be off-putting, though she's of course, an amazing woman.

[tryslora]

...I totally didn't read the name on that comment and thus didn't realize that was you I was talking to. *headdesk* Er. Hi. :) Especially funny since I think it's all your fault I finally caved and read the Bujold books after Kev had been bugging me to do so, AND I think y'all recced the Liad books to us.

Since Libbie said I could rec YA with a female protagonist, I figured Cordelia might work out well too.

What do you think of the potential for Sarah's (eBear's) books? Think they'd appeal?

[heinous_bitca]

I am a bad friend and have only read one of Sarah's books. :(

Liaden books are definitely a possibility, though not dystopian or post-apocalyptic. Val Con is great; hmm...not sure if I'd start with Val Con and Miri as I did, or start with the earlier books. Not all the way back to Cantra, of course, but the Conflict of Honors stuff. Hmm.

[stinaleigh]

Yes, Warrior's Apprentice. I couldn't think of that last night without getting back out of bed. ;)