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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
Besides Fahrenheit I never read any of Bradbury's other works. Must be because of that awful mini-series "The Martian Chronicles".
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Read the book. Muuuuuuch better. YMMV of course but I remember the miniseries too and thank goodness I read the book beforehand.
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Never read any of Terry Pratchett's works. The only YA type books I read were by RAH. Plus I was never in to Fantasy.
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Most of Pratchett's books are not YA, although they would probably be suitable for younger folks. While they are set in a "fantasy" world of Pratchett's own creation, they have long since departed from his original intent (at least with the Discworld series), which was to write a parody of a bad sword & sorcerer novel... there having been so many of them around at the time due to the sudden mass market popularity of Tolkien's stuff. And I would say that they have, for the most part, long since left behind any of the presumed limitations of the fantasy genre overall. If anything, they've become utterly brilliant satires on the human condition (even if he uses many "non-human" characters in the process).
I would not hesitate to compare him with the likes of Jonathan Swift or Mark Twain. I've said it before and I'll say it again, if Terry Pratchett had accomplished as much as he has done so far, but in some other genre that folks are more inclined to take seriously, he'd have a Nobel prize by now.
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We had to read Dicken's A tale of two cities. I kinda liked the movie better
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OMG Ronald Colman. The thinking woman's Errol Flynn. It was on just the other night. But I loved the book too.
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Funny thinking back about doing a project on a book about an endless war and psychological trauma, because before that project we had our "write anything paper for college prep" project. I chose threats of WMD from third world countries. I turned this paper in on September 10, 2001.  When I got the paper back written in the margin near a section on I think it was missile defense or what not the teach had wrote, "Not if they use our own planes."
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Okay now that is just eerie.