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Post by Blossomshadow on Nov 6, 2016 9:29:21 GMT -5
Hi there. My brother'a birthday is coming up (as well as Xmas) and my mom wants me to get him a book. Now, he is turning 15 and doesn't like to read much. I know that in middle school, he liked Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but has since grown way out of that.
I am hoping to get some pointers on the types of fiction from young male adults, preferably High School aged.
I was just on Barnes&Noble and bought him the book Rush (it's fiction book about gaming and such).
You should know that he is a huge gamer and has an XBox 360 and wants the Xbox One for XMas.
Do you guys have any any other suggestions? I'd give him Hunger Games and The Maze Runner but I'm sure he'd just say that (in his own words) "Too cool to read those".
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Post by Blossomshadow on Nov 6, 2016 9:31:14 GMT -5
Bored.
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Post by Blossomshadow on Nov 6, 2016 9:47:02 GMT -5
Bump
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Post by Blossomshadow on Nov 6, 2016 9:52:05 GMT -5
Help me!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2016 10:18:19 GMT -5
Ah yes. I have two sixteen year old brothers! They both are heavily involved in gaming and hunting. So for Christmas, we bought them hunting knives. My one brother, a super big gamer, got a gaming mouse, keyboard, and headphones. He also likes fishing, so he get a new fishing pole and some lures and such. They also asked for the new Call of Duty game, so we got them that. The other brother also wanted a body pillow, if I recall correctly. CDs might be good if you know what music he likes! Sports gear/memorabilia, potentially. Books on how to teach yourself karate or whatever might hold his interest for a short time if he's into that. Lots of stuff!
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Post by 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘶𝘯 on Nov 6, 2016 10:39:34 GMT -5
The Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown is a great dystopian/sci-fi series, and unless I'm horribly mistaken, it's not as talked about as The Hunger Games or The Maze Runner. My own teenaged brother quite enjoyed them, as did I. If he's into gaming but you want to get him fiction related to that specifically, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is also a possible win, a lot of it is set in a game that's developed for people to escape the awful thing reality has become and includes a lot of gaming references throughout. It's not YA, but I don't recall it being inappropriate for YA audiences.
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Post by Blossomshadow on Nov 6, 2016 11:56:58 GMT -5
Thank you!
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