Top 10 favorite Authors (part 3)

3 This one is properly one of the most obvious on the list and needs the least explanation of all of the writers listed, J.K Rowling. I am a complete Harry Potter fan and have read the first six books about five times and the seventh one about three times (because there was so much going on in this one I couldn't speed read it like the other six). I really like all of the books but if I had to list them they would go like this: 1. The Half Blood Prince #6 2. The Order of Phoenix #5 3. The Deathly Hallows #7 4. The Goblet of Fire #4 5. The Prisoner of Azkaban #3 6. The Sorcerer of Stone #1 and finally 7. The Chamber of Secrets #2 .That is how I would have listed my favorite Harry Potter books. But if I had to list my favorite Harry Potter movies then the list would be a little different. 

2 Almost to number one everyone, but anyway my number two is Darren Shan. The very first Darren Shan book that I read was The Saga of Darren Shan: the manga. But then I found the original written series not long after and finished all twelve books in my freshmen year. I have also read all ten of The Demonata series and the novel The Thin Executioner which is similar to the story Huckleberry Finn without all the gore and interventions of gods. I also read two books of the other series that starred in Larten Creplsey but I don’t know the name of it. There is also a short series he wrote that had zombies in it that I really wanted to read but alas I have so many books that I have yet to finish but I will get to that zombie fic that is for sure. 

1 Finally were at number one. He wrote my book of all time and created my favorite character of all time as well, Eoin Colfer! My favorite character is from the Artemis Fowl series (7/8), and my favorite book Half Moon Investigation. I have also read the The Supernatrualist but it isn't on any of my favorite list like Artemis and Half-moon. But anyway he is my most Favorite because he wrote my favorite character and favorite book and that simply the reason why he is number one on this list. 

My Top 10 Favorite Authors (part 2)

7 She was my first favorite mystery writer of all times. Mary Higgins Clark and I read maybe about over 5 novels of hers which are: All Around the Town, Pretend, I heard that Song Before, Remember Me, and No Place like Home ect. I don’t remember which Mary Higgins Clark was my first but I do remember my favorite one is All Around the Town. One thing I do find odd about this author is that I have a hard time finding books by her. I mean in my middle school we had row of her books there but in my high school none even my local libraries had none of her books. How odd. 

6 She is probably one of the best mystery writers of all times, Dame Agatha Christie. I have already did an entire blog dedicated to her so I wont say much in this paragraph. But I will list the books that I have read from her: The Mysteries affairs at Styles, The murder at the Vicarage, Death on the Nile, Appointment with Death, Sad Cypress, The Murder is Announced and the Moving Finger. 

5 This author might have the longest reading list I have. No that doesn’t mean I read more of her books then anyone. But it means the running time that I read her books because most people don’t always read their childhood authors until there older instead you stop and read more mature writer. But for Margaret Haddix I started reading her books in the sixth grade and many years until today I am in a middle of one her ongoing series. The books that I have read from her are: The Shadow Children Series(7/7), The Girl with 500 middle names, Because of Anya, Escape from Memory, The Missing (5/7), Double Identity, Palace of Mirror and Running out of Time. The series that I am currently on is the Missing Series and I am on the sixth book but there are 7 at the moment and I don’t think she has finished the series yet. 

4 This author was one of my all-time favorites when I was much younger and perhaps this one I read the most books from. Ann. M Martin is the author of my beloved The Baby-Sitter's Club. This series I have read more from any other series that I'm not sure how many I have but all I know is that I was no where close to have read all of them. Not only have I read this series but I have also have read A Dog's Life: The autobiography of a stray and the Doll People Series (3/4). But The Babysitter's Club will always be the best series that I have ever read and I really miss that series but I have other books that I need to finish. 

My Top 10 Favorite Authors

Already then. I have done a three part for my Top 10 favorite characters and I have also done my Top 5 favorite villains . This may be my last countdown list of favorites. And this time I am doing a top ten list of my favorite authors of all time. Most of them are from my earlier years because I am more familiar with their style of writing hence there wont really be any recent authors on this list. But anyway time for the countdown. 

10 The first one  this list is Peg Kehret and the books I have read from her are Abduction, The stranger next door, Spy cat, Nightmare Mountain, The Volcano Disaster, The Hideout, The Blizzard disaster, and Trapped. The first Peg Kehret book I read was The Hideout and it was assigned book for a book group. We had chapters that we were assigned to read each night. But instead of reading the assigned chapters I went ahead and finished the book very early and I had to watch myself so I wouldn't actually blurt out a spoiler and alert my teacher that I went ahead. The next Peg Kehret book I read was Nightmare Mountain and like the Hideout I read ahead of the group. That’s when  I decided to find more books by this Author and she became one of my childhood favorites. 

9 The next one is Dan Brown. The first time I have ever heard about this author was on VH1 when they were talking about the DaVinci Code and they were talking about how weird it would be to pass Jesus offspring. That was when I was like "What Jesus has a kid"{ until I realize they were talking about a book. So I decided to read the book. Instead I read Angels and Demons because it was the first one of the series and then I read the DaVinci Code I also read the third book the Lost Symbols which was also great and they should do another movie based on this book.  

8 This person has recently made it on my favorites list because of the recent series that I read from them had me both disgusted and terrified.Rick Yancey is my number eight and the writer of these books that I have read from him: The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp trilogy and The Monstrumologist series. First off all if you have read my earlier post of the Monstrumologist series you would know my feelings. Also The Extraordinary adventures of Alfred Kropp was the first books I read from this author and I ended up really liking Alfred Kropp because he was really the most unlikeliest hero that I have ever Known. 

My top 5 favorite villians (part 2)

3 On number we have a villain who is known by many names such as You-know-who, He-who-must-not-be-named or the Dark Lord by those who are is followers. But is mostly known in the Harry Potter Series that is by J.K Rowling as Lord Voldemort (but his actual name is Tom Marvolo Riddle but he dropped it due that he didn’t want to be known by his dirty muggle father's name). This dark wizard is regarded in Britain as the greatest wizard of all times and he could have been if it wasn’t for a certain green-eyed boy with a lightning scar. Anyway when Voldemort was young he was known as Tom Riddle an orphan boy who was incredibly skilled in magic at a young age and who had a angelic appearance but was a complete monster inside. But that is to be expected considering he is a complete psychopath. But now as an adult his darkness is showed in his appearance like his gray skin, skull-like face, red eyes that are snake-like. Not exactly the handsomest villain alive but one of the most heartless of all. 

2 Now this villain didn’t seem like a villain until the end because his appearance was when he was called upon by the heroes to solve a monster-problem only to discover that he isn't any better than the monsters. Jack Kearns (if that is his real name) is the antagonist of the series Monstrumologist by Rick Yancy. He is incredibly charming and witty and quite well-versed in traveling and so very handsome. He typically rants off time to time talking about morality and is well known for his profession as a monster hunter. In fact in the beginning he was called in to exterminate a herd of cannibalistic anthropophagi. It turns out that he was very similar to these monsters he hunt for which he has no laws or ethical policy and might as well be mad. In later of the book we discover that when he doesn’t hunt for monsters for fun he goes hunting for humans and the heroes learn that he was actually Jack the Ripper. 

1 My number one is someone that wasn’t really explained in the book. In fact most of the time he was the good guy until our hero discovered that he was actually tricking them and was the bad guy. O'Brian from the novel 1984 by George Orwell. The reason why I chose him was because I had absolutely know idea he was actually evil and the fact that he wasn’t defeated like all the others on this list. He won in the end but at the same time didn’t for he too at the beginning was very much like our hero until caught and tortured into passivity and acceptance of the party. So in a way he isn't just a villain but also a victim and that is probably why I don’t really hate him so much like I would normally do for many antagonist that I read but instead I sympathies with him. 

 

My Top 5 favorite Villians (part 1)

So since I did a blog about my top ten favorite characters it made me realize that maybe I should a list for my favorite villains. But instead of top ten villains list I will be doing a top 5 villains list because I have yet to encounter an evil antagonist or ones that are intriguing because my reading list is not that broad enough to include goon villains. So instead I will list those that stood out to me the most. But there might even more eviler antagonist but I didn’t put them down because they might have been to extreme for me describe. This list are only those villains that I like but not necessary the most evil ones that I have read so far. 

 

5 The first on this list is the White Witch from the chronicles of Narnia by C.S Lewis. This villain first appeared in the lion, witch and the wardrobe appearing at first a beautiful women in white who seemed kind and was in need of urgent help. But later we find out what a wicked witch she is. She is described to be dispassionate and cruel. She was also known as the one who killed Christmas in Narnia and banished happiness and hope from the lands and plummeted it into eternal winter. Not only that she often turns her enemies into stone. It’s no wonder she is the self-proclaimed queen of  ice for her heart is certainly made of it. 

4  This one is the primary antagonist of the Last Apprentice Series by Joseph Delaney. He is also one of the many portrayal of the devil but in this series they usually refer him to the Fiend. This version of the devil isn't my favorite for I'm more into the devil who is Lucifer and shows a more complex personality and showing either remorse or ingenuity. But this one is a sadistic trickster who delights in twisting peoples words and who longs to be free and takeover the world and throwing it into eternal conflict. But what stands out to me the most is the form he likes manifesting in is the description of what the people from the witch hunt days would have imagined. A humanoid figure with rams horns and goats feet and has thick fur that smells like wet cat. This difference him from the modern world of a handsome men who wears suits or a red skinned men with a pitchfork. 

Top 10 favorite literary characters (part 3)

3 This heroine actually doesn’t have any of the redeeming qualities of what a hero would have. Instead Georgia Nicolson of the series Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louis Rennison is pretty much your average British teenage girl. I mean the entire series is an autobiography of her life. It’s pretty much her journal that is full of fun things she does with her friends and boy troubles. Although she is an average teen girl she is very crazy and the way she talks is utterly ridiculous and I love it. She uses the words "boy entrancers" false eyelashes, "Froggie" short for French and “How’s your father" which means a boy's penis and I'm not sure how that is translated that way. But what I like most about her is the way she talks and melodramatic personality. Because

2 Almost there but anyway my number two is Mary "Jacky" Faber of the Bloody Jack series by L.A Meyer. I really liked this character because she is such a tomboy even though the series is set in the 1800’s and she supposed to be a dignified lady. In the first book of the series the character, Jackie dresses as a boy when she was twelve and pretended to be a ship’s boy. While she is a ships boy she killed a man and was covered with his blood which make her such a fierce and strong character. But she can be at times a regular girl whenever she’s thinking about her darling Jamie and their promise of marriage when they were younger. She is a good blend of toughness and feminity and a bit of a reckless maniac but that is also part of her charm.

1 Here it is my number one most favorite character. Artemis Fowl of the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. Artemis was a young evil and rich genius. He is also what you would you call and antihero but later in the series his morals change a bit so he became more of hero than villain. But when he was twelve years old he kidnapped a Fairy named Holly and demanded a large gold sum as ransom. He has one of the largest I.Q in Europe and has read more psychology books than many other psychiatrist. Which would irrigate any psychiatrists he has ever had. Also his only friend is his butler/bodyguard so his antisocial mostly (but he makes friends with Holly and other fae folks later in the series). But whether or not he is a changed men or an evil genius I love this character a lot. He is so much more amusing than your average goody-two shoes hero and would doesn’t love a hero who isn’t just black and white. It makes the story a lot more entertaining.

Top 10 favorie literary characters (part 2)

7 At number seven is Grimalkin from The Last Apprentice series (or Wardstone Chronicles) by Joseph Delaney. The word grimalkin is an archaic word that means old or evil-looking female cat which is a perfect name for this malevolent witch assassin. In the book she was actually sent in to kill the main character until she allied with him to kill the Fiend  (the Devil). So now she is one of the "good guys" which is awesome because she is such a badass. She carries around a large pair of Scissors to cut off her enemies thumb bones, which is awesome. But she has never done that in the series instead she uses throwing knives and a long blade. But still that is just awesome still because I admire her for being such a strong female character because we don’t have many of those around that are like her. 

6 This one was one of my favorites during my middle school to early high school years, Alex Rider is a teenage British spy of the series Alex Rider by Anthony Horowitz. His spy career started when his uncle was assassinated by Russian spy Yassen Gregorovich and the M16 promoted him ever since. Ok what is cooler than a teenage spy I bet many of you fantasize about that at some point in your lives. Alex Rider is the best teenage spy ever, his pretty much the teenage James Bond. its pretty obvious why his one my top 10 list because what he is and does is awesome. 

5 Next is someone of the Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling and I'm very sure you know this one. But do you know who I like best off all in the series and it's not Harry Potter. Instead I actually like Professor Dumbledore. Although I did have a doubts about him during the 5th book because he was so standoffish to Harry then. But the reason why I like him is that he is incredibly brilliant but at the same time idiotic.  Because eve though he was such a powerful wizard in the later books who realize that he still makes mistakes and is flawed like the rest of us. Also I was so fascinated by his childhood and really want to know more in detail of how it was. Because he is such an interesting character and there should be more about him we should know. 

4  This character is a recurring character that almost never narrates his story or maybe that is the same for any brilliant detective character so we it would have a more dramatic effect when they uncover the criminal. The character I am talking about is Hercule Poirot (now how many of you thought it would be Sherlock Holmes). This character was created by Agatha Christie and is my favorite character from her creation. The reasons are unclear why but I like the fact he is so clever and knows that he is smart and never bows down to anybody and admit failure. He is also unconventional and you would never know what he is going to next in the story. All this is are the reasons why he is my favorite adult literary detective.