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Meesh
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 Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 3:53 pm Post subject: Good Books? |
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Do y'all have any good book recommendations? Especially ones that an Aladdin fan would enjoy? 
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| Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 4:25 pm Post subject: Re: Good Books? |
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| Meesh wrote: |
| Do y'all have any good book recommendations? Especially ones that an Aladdin fan would enjoy? |
*looks at Bartimaeus triology* I honestly only started to read that because the title character is a genie. 
It's set in a rather modern time England where wizards have powers thanks to these spirits that they can summon and command. Storyline follows a young wizard called Nathaniel who summons Bartimaeus to steal an amulet from a powerful wizard. Rest would be spoiler, but it has quite a well-built world with interesting characters and interesting storyline.
Warning though, it's not a happy story. It gets rather dark just from the first book, having quite a pessimistic outlook on the world and its history that only Bartimaeus' sassy jokes light it up from time to time.
There was also a 4th book set 2k years before the events, but you can skip that with no issue. Doesn't add anything to the triology, even if it wasn't a bad book.
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Meesh
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I just went to the Amazon page for the first book, and all of the reviews are for Eric Carle's The Hungry Caterpillar (?)*shrug*(?)
Anyways, sounds great - thanks for the rec!!
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| Meesh wrote: |
I just went to the Amazon page for the first book, and all of the reviews are for Eric Carle's The Hungry Caterpillar (?)*shrug*(?)
Anyways, sounds great - thanks for the rec!! |
Amazon is funny I see.
Don't mention it. Hope you will enjoy the book!
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Meesh
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i highly recommended The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
https://www.amazon.com/Golem-Jinni-Novel-P-S/dp/0062110845
In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York.
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life to by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899.
Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free
Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale
It jumps between historic NYC during the immigration boom and ancient Middle East, following ~a dozen characters, and ties it all together wondrously.
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I also read The Fire Wish, the first book of the Jinni Wars series. It was fun but kinda read like a fanfiction. I felt a little old for it or something.
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Latter doesn't seem that interesting (very fanfiction-y), but that other book sounds quite interesting. Probably gonna go and see if I can get it here either in English or Hungarian.
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| Meesh wrote: |
i highly recommended The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
https://www.amazon.com/Golem-Jinni-Novel-P-S/dp/0062110845
In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York.
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life to by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899.
Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free
Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale
It jumps between historic NYC during the immigration boom and ancient Middle East, following ~a dozen characters, and ties it all together wondrously. |
Thanks, this sounds quite great! Now comes the true challenge: finding a place that has it in English (or French) but ships to Russia, as I work there now... This is going to be fun. I hope there's a version for e-readers... |
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