Sunday, June 9, 2013

Enders Game part 2

As Ender was flown up to the battle school on the asteroid belt surrounding Earth, Ender faces more trouble. Ender has already been singeled out as a third but Graff, I believe, wants to isolate Ender even more. He does this by singling out Ender. Saying that Ender will be the only successful at the battle school and that the other students were to be frank, useless idiots who would be bugger fodder. This although a cruel tactic by Graff, trying to make all of the other students turn on Ender, was effective the students started bullying Ender right then and there, but that all ceased. As Enders deadly instinct to kill came into play and broke a child's arm. This obviously made Ender look like a threat in the eyes of the other students and was shunned as soon as they all landed aboard the battle school.

Ender had to have been feeling horrible, after breaking that child's arm and that he had been made an enemy of the other students by his own teachers mysterious intentions.  When they landed Ender asked Graff why he had singled Ender out, Graff simply replied to Ender's question by stating that students would be even angrier at him if they saw Ender talking to him now. While effective this tactive was showing a darker side to colonel Graff than even before. From reading between the text and even just from the text you can see that Graff cares about nothing but the I.F.'s success.

These chapters are mysterious an interesting about Graff's true intentions for Ender. It also shows just how heartless powerful forces can be so that they just use children as tools. This also demonstrates the social commentary displayed in the book as children get sent off into the military in many places around the world and are treated even worse than the example in Ender's game.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Ender's game part 1.

This week I thought I'd go back and see which books I thought were best. As I traced back through the timeline of every book I've finished all my thoughts lead back to this one: Ender's Game what more can be said, you already know just by looking at the title that this book is going to be a fascinating read. Orson Scott Card must have known that he had written a masterpiece so gave it a title that suited it. When you start to read the book though that's when the magic happens.

Ender's Game like all sci-fi starts off in the future. At first Earth seems no different from Earth to day except new technology. An example of this is a monitor, a monitor is a device that is wired to your mind so that the military know what you're thinking,feeling,seeing,and doing. All this so that they can choose the best young minds (5-6 year olds) to bring to battle school. Andrew Ender Wiggin  is different from other kids. Most children get their monitors removed at four or five years of age but Ender still has it, and he's six. This is peculiar and means that the military are interested with him, another thing that sets him apart is that Ender is a third, having a third child at this point in the future is illegal because I presume America is over populated. Which means that the government had to allow it.

Do to his differences Ender gets bullied by the other children in his class and by his brother back home. His sister though loves him tenderly as he loves her (in a family way) this is a reason why can even stand life at home.That all changes though when Ender gets drafted to go to battle school. The man who comes to draft him is colonel Graff the man in charge of battle school, who then proceeds to lie to get Endeer to accept his proposal..  What I wonder about though is whether Graff lying to Ender was the best way to get him to come without making  the society Ender believes turn into a dystopia.

I will continue Next week or sooner.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

I am The Messenger

I am starting to read an interesting book by the name of I am the Messanger by Markus Zusak (the author of the book thief). As I have only just started to read it I will give a brief background on the book and state my inferences. I will also say how much I am enjoying the book at the end of each entry.

The way the book starts is simple, the main character, Ed, and his friend are being help up in a bank robbery. His friends proceed to talk trash to the robber who gets very angry. The robber after getting the money tries to steal Ed's friend's car, but Ed uses the robbers own gun to stop him. Ed then receives a playing card with addresses on it.

I left lots of details that make the book more impressive but still I don't wish to ruin it for you. Any way I believe that he is going to go to the addresses on the card and then get caught up in something bigger than himself. Probably leading into some misadventures that put himself and his friends in peril. For right no though all I can do is keep reading. So far I enjoy the book stay tuned for next weeks update.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Hurricane Song by Paul Volponi


Hurricane Song by Paul Volponi is a touching book. It takes place in New Orleans when hurricane Katrina hits the city. The main character, Miles, his father, and his uncle got stuck in the city when their truck broke down, and they had to go to the Super Dome. They went through many adventures and finally learned the true meaning of family. This book talks about how a father and a son don't really understand each other or love each other, but as the story continues they find love while enduring pain.

At the beginning of the story, the two don't understand each other. Miles' father is a jazz musician and that is the one and only thing he cares about in the world, while Miles only cared about football and his dreams about being a pro athlete. These two drives clashed, as exemplified in one chapter of the story when, for Miles' birthday, instead of receiving a football from his father, he received an African drum. Also, his father acted distant around his son, always thinking about his trumpet first and Miles later. "Pops," as Miles calls him, even pushed Miles to get a job at "Pharaohs," the jazz club where Pops played.

When they are in the Super Dome, they start to understand each other a little better and start to be a little more selfless. One of these moments is when Dunam and Caine, two gangsters, come and threaten to burn down the row that Miles and his family live in unless they pay them. Miles stood up and talked to them and soon after his father was protecting his son. When a few others were getting ready to fight, Miles payed Dunam and Caine and made them leave, so that his father and everyone else wouldn't get hurt.

They started to finally love each other and understand each other when they escaped the Super Dome as they were trying to find Pharaohs. They saw two men stealing a piano and a suit of armor from a different jazz club. As they went to fight them, Miles beat up the first one, but the second one was very strong and almost killed Miles. His father used his prized trumpet to hit the man over the head and save Miles. Afterwards, Miles’ father told Miles that he couldn't lose his son no matter what. Miles then took the piano back to the jazz club so that his father could rest easy about it being safe.

In conclusion, Hurricane Song teaches us that while we have fights with our parents sometimes, and we tell ourselves we hate them, we eventually find that we love them and they love us. Miles and Pops disagreed about lifestyles, one believing that sports were what mattered most and the other valuing music above all else.   Through their experience in the hurricane, Miles and Pops realize that family is the most valued thing in their lives.

Sunday, May 5, 2013

The Perks of Being a Wall Flower

The Perks of being a WallFlower by Stephen Chbosky is a beautiful book. It has social commentary that shows us how numb we have become to what we say, it has beautiful descriptions of friendships and amazing story lines. Chbosky wrote a masterpiece and  I believe that this is possibly one of the best books in  the world at the moment.

When Chbosky wrote this book he knew exactly how to write a masterpiece that added realism to fear this causes us to realize what people who are different have to deal with. As an example from the book Patrick a gay teen gets called horrible things and at one point in the book gets into a fight with 5 people on the football team because of the fact he wasn't like anyone else. Chbosky also talks about drug abuse as the main character, Charlie, goes through issues with hash brownies, marijuana, and L.S.D. which he started because of personal stress.

Chbosky also created a group of friends that make all of the issues that they go through all right as they share they're memories together. As Charlie befriends this group and becomes more comfortable with them Chbosky brings up the issue of influence, as Charlie's friends introduce him to acid and other drug entioned in the last paragraph. But no matter what they always help him out of his other issues.

This bonds together for a great story and an amazing deal of stress fear and relief. Chbosky is an amazing author and as it was his first book that he had ever wrote it is incredibly amazing that it's this good. I recommend it for any sentient being including dogs and eagles so on so forth. As a numeral score I give it 97.7/10.0.

Sunday, April 28, 2013

The Perks of being a Wallflower

 The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is a beautiful book. As I have only started it recently I can not write a true review about it so here are my first impressions. I believe that this book is very emotional and very worrying, not that the book is bad but that it shows truths that we take to lightly. It talks about many social issues in schools and teaches many lessons.

In the book there is one character who the narrator calls Patrick. Patrick is a very kind, accepting person to the narrator, Charlie, but Charlie finds at a party that Patrick is gay and has been having a relationship with the school quarterback, Brad, and as Patrick tells the story of their love and explains it to Charlie you start to understand that gay people can be just like everyone and that people are unjustly bias against them because, they're different.  It also goes under the topic of depression when Charlie tells the reader about his friend who offed himself due to depression.

As I have only just started this book I find that it is amazing and yet to some readers it will be controversial as it talks about many social issues such as being gay in a community that doesn't like gay people, rape , and depression. THis book has changed the views of many readers and it doesn't cease to amaze. Read more next time on The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Reservation Blues

In Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexi  a story of how dreams that become real don't always end well. In this story Thomas builds-the-fire meets a man who had become famous for his blues and gets his guitar. This leads to emotional and detailed writing,settings, and story. This book is addictive to read.

Sherman Alexi's style of writing is magical realism. When i say magical realism I mean things that are hilarious and yet outrageous happen at the flick of a dime for example a certain keyword making lighting strike a building. This is the type of magical and detailed writing that sucks me back into the book.  Also he has great ways to trigger these moments and places them perfectly.

The Story is also very beautiful. IT's about a young man who manages to get people who picked on him to join his band. One became a good drummer while the other became a good guitarist.As they played they met two women who also joined their band and as they traveled together they made bonds with each other and they formed issues. As the guitarist and drummer were active drinkers they were always getting themselves into trouble. This put character development into a new level as all of the characters had their serets and their flaws.

In conclusion  this book has great details and great stories. It includes funny sad and emotional changes in the characters and they  always have you on the edge of your seat. This book in my opinion is one of the best books on the market and should be bought by any person who knows the alphabet.

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Wind in The WiIlows

The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grant is a very special book because it is written by a very special author.  This book is magical because of the amount of detail put into its characters and the setting. As I have only just started to read this book it is amazing that it has already sucked me inside of it. I truly love this book and this is why.

In the wind in the willows, Grant has many sensible and calming fun characters to read about such as Mole, and the Water Rat and of course the Badger, but as he includes those characters who make sense and are straight forward he also includes well... Mr. Toad. Toad is a special character because he always has one addiction that never brings any good for him. Such as when he becomes addicted to cars and drives and hijacks other peoples cars and then finally crashes them. Toad always has a zany, joyful, and of course silly attitude just making him most peculiar and entertaining to read about. Grant used many of these characteristics in his book as well as many literary devices.

Grants Settings are astoundingly detailed and beautiful. Grant goes on about every last detail like the texture and color of the snow falling to the ground. The coloration and the luster of the water splashing onto the sand  which was sharp and yet soothing to the skin. Grant wrote his details in that fashion and manages to develop the story using those details. As Grant has mastered this craft I feel as I myself am standing within these beautiful settings.

So far the marvelous book has kept me enticed thus far and I'm excited to continue reading this book as I know it will only get more spectacular. Its detailed and beautiful settings and relate able and yet  diverse characters. The literature written by Kenneth Grant is brilliant so all that leaves is is it a good book? I think it is.


Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Dracula

As a fan of the classic I truly love the books that started crazes. Although I personally hate the crazes they start such as to say twilight but still I like the books or legends that start them. In this craze starting book they fit the right language every where and amazing detail. Also much mystery is abound.

In Dracula by Bram Stoker is amazing because of three major things. Because it takes place in olden time Transylvania this book has a very dark and mysterious atmosphere. As I am at the beginning it is impressive how dark it already seems to be. In the beginning as the protagonist goes to Dracula's castle Stoker raises the tension by making the people say strange things that make you go to the edge of your seat. As the language goes the English still use their "thys" and "thous"  and in the correct places too. Another thing that is exciting is that this fascinating book is written in the diary format so it is a first person view and has every little detail from the protagonist talking about his coach being an hour late to how he gets nervous when the people are saying strange things in other languages.

In Conclusion this review isn't very acurate a I haven't finished the book or even gotten to the middle but it looks promising. IN its story and its attention to detail Dracula has the right of being a classic and this is a great looking book as well. i recommend this book for those people who think that if you glitter you're a vampire.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

The Road not Taken

I The Road Not  Taken  By Robert Frost  is a poem about the choices we make. I believe that this is about because many of the stanza point to this such as "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" and "sorry I could not travel both". I also think it is about what comes from these choices as exemplified in the final group of stanzas when he says "I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

 I think that the stanza "Two Roads diverged in a yellow road." means that the protagonist could make a choice. He could either go down one path of life or another but he couldn't go down both. This is shown in the stanza  "sorry I could not travel both". So I see this as being that he had to make a decesion but couldn't go down both paths of life.

When Robert  Frost says  "I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference."  It means     
that he doesn't want to tell the truth so he would look wiser because stated in the poem both paths had never been taken. So maybe this is because he made a bad choice and it didn't turn out the way he wanted to .

In Conclusion I believe that Robert Frosts poem is about the choices we make and what the consequences are. This is proved by when he says "Two roads diverge in a yellow wood" , "Sorry I could not travel both" and when he states  "I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference." I really liked this poem and leave in the comments if you want me to review more.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

The real scoop on the Geomancer's Compass

Two weeks ago I talked about a book named Geomancer's Compass by Melissa Hardy. In the Geomancers compass The main characters go on an adventure to destroy the feng-shi of there great grand uncle and move his bones to a better burial site. On this quest Hardy has designed great characters and a great not so futuristic world. To top it off Hardy made the story line very interesting.

In the Geomancer's Compass almost all of the characters are deep and have something interesting to do with them. Like Brian and Miranda, both of them have traits that help define their personality. Brian has A.D.H.D. and dyslexia, according to the book this makes him "look at problems in more creative ways" and it made him a leader and it made it humble and kind. Miranda on the other hand is germaphobic and according to the book this makes here "well... clean". The grandmother in the beginning is heavily experienced and religious. These are only a few examples of characters and you can already see how Hardy helped make the traits for the characters.

Also in the book the main characters go through many historical monuments of Chinese Vancouver, such as old opium stores that had been vacated for decades. They also visit places like an old Capone hideout. Later in the book they even go to a golf course. While being sometimes random the places they go to are beautifully described, Hardy even goes into what texture the grass was or the smoothness of a rock and the sounds of a spirit. These settings and there detail just suck you in.

The story though is the best part. A brief summary of it is simple, when Chinese immigrants came to Canada they settled down and were abused and attacked. They were hardly thought of as human, so when a Chinese man and an Canadian woman were lovers the Canadians killed him off and buried him and walked away. Over the years his body was moved and then his spirit was so mad it became a daemon and brought wreckage to the Lui family. I really found this interesting and had to keep reading.

Over all I really liked this book. It had great characters that had there traits defined by their past or a disability. The settings in the book were both interesting and detailed. The story was just an amazing sample of what could happen in the world today(other than the ghost part which is obsurd.) I think it was well written. So it is an 8.5/10.

Sunday, March 3, 2013

A little Essay on the Soda size ban


I support the soda ban because it makes people think about the amount of sugar they take in. By making people more aware of what they drink, diabetes rates, obesity rates, and obesity-related illness rates in New York will drop. The soda ban made by Mayor Bloomberg isn’t actually about banning any sodas. The soda ban is about banning sugary drinks that are over the size of sixteen ounces. The soda size ban doesn’t affect any store that isn’t city regulated; meaning that some stores can still serve drinks over sixteen ounces. Any drink that is fifty percent or more milk doesn’t apply to the rules. The same thing happens if the company doesn’t add the sugar and you do. For example, you can still get a twenty-one ounce coffee at Starbucks and then add the sugar.
New York’s population is staggeringly fat. According to wiki.answers.com, “About twenty-three percent of the population is obese and fifteen percent of the children’s population is obese.” According to “The Real Bears” by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, “When you are obese you have a chance of getting diabetes, which may result in amputation, or even death.” The soda ban will lower obesity rates because it will make people more aware of how much sugar they are consuming.

According to the slate.com article “Fuzzy and Fizzy” by Daniel Engber, “People regulate their caloric intake without thinking. If we eat more at one meal, we'll go lighter on the next. But for some reason (the mechanism is still unknown), drinks throw this compensatory mechanism out of whack.” In other words people don’t notice the calories in a large sugary drink. In “Goodbye, Big Soda: New York Becomes First City to Ban Large-Sized Soft Drinks,” by Alice Park, it states that “sugary drinks make up 43% of the added sugar in the average American diet.” Combine these two facts together and you understand why the obesity rates are rising. The ban will help this issue because it makes it less convenient to drink a large soda.

A lot of people in New York oppose the Soda ban because they think that this is a limit of their freedom and that should be free to choose what size soda they can drink. What they are misunderstanding is that they can still drink as much soda as they want. According to “Soda Ban Explained” by Casey Neisat, “preventing people from drinking what they want isn’t the goal of the ban.” So people can still buy more than one soda, and there are plenty of ways you can get a drink larger than 16 oz. The point of the ban is to make people think about how much sugar they take in.

In conclusion, the soda size ban will help people realize how much sugar they are drinking. As studies show, people will unwarily drink a larger soda as if was a smaller one; this makes them consume a larger amount of sugar without arealizing it. The ban doesn’t prohibit you from buying a soda; it will only limit the size in which a soda can be sold. The soda size ban will also make people think before they buy. The Soda ban will help our obesity rates drop because it help people change their soda drinking habits.

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Geomancers Compass.

The Geomancer's Compass by Melissa Hardy  is about a girl named Miranda Liu. You follow her through the first person view as she encounters the daemon ghost of her relative who was murdered by Canadians because he was in a relation ship with her. Miranda and her cousin with A.D.H.D. and Dyslexia have to go and dig up his bones with the help of their great,great grandfather or The Grandfather. They can only meet The Grandfather while wearing I-Spex.  This is probably the only book that in which you absolutely despise the main character. Hardy just made Miranda heartless and inconsiderate.

As you probably didn't guess this takes place in the future, I enjoy that but as you read the book it seems as though it's just like real life today, so I really don't count it as Sci-fi in fact it's pretty much only fantasy. This makes it seem even worse for her character. A great example of this is when Miranda just denies that any of her own culture can be even somewhat true in front of her dying mothers face. Her text and thoughts prove this.

Another thing that makes her completely heartless is that constantly talking about all of the way her cousin is bad. She constantly rambles on and on about how Brian can't read or pay attention. She also continues to talk on and on about how Brian talks to dirty, dirty homeless people and why he keeps bringing up conversations with them. It just makes you so angry, so very angry!!

Near the end she starts to get better understanding her cousin. It doesn't mean she gets any better though, Her text is still SO annoying. She happens to be continually getting dumber and dumber as the book goes on and this makes me happy seeing my favorite character getting the spotlight, that being Brian, this makes me happy.

In conclusion I actually didn't write about the book but about the main character, meaning that I have to write about it Sunday, or some other day. Any way Miranda couldn't be more of a _____ even if she was hilarious (which she isn't) and she is heartless and inconsiderate,  which makes me happy because the ending is worth going through Miranda.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

The two Characters of my liking.

Great characters are the characters that you understand, that you feel for. Characters that you as a reader can relate to. Arnold, the main character from True Diary by Sherman Alexi is a perfect example of that. He's relate able, he shows his feelings well, and you really get to know him like he was your friend. On the other hand we also love characters who aren't relate able what so ever but we are envious of because of there amazing traits and their characteristics. No character demonstrates that better then Tom Sawyer, the main character of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain go figure.

The reason why Arnold displays so much emotion and so many thoughts to us is because he is written in the first person view. Not only this but his character is relate able and has the traits of a normal human being. He isn't special (Other then the fact that he has a brain disorder.) and that makes us feel more for this amazing character as he grows and matures through out the book.

Unlike Arnold, Tom Sawyer is written in the third person view, and that's a good thing because of his traits and characteristics. Tom is a very special almost inhuman due to his brilliant traits, such as slyness, cunning, smart, adventurousness, and of course bravery. If this story was told in the first-person view I doubt it would be as iconic as it is. Watching Tom grow and fool everyone in his community is so much fun as it is in the third-person.

A good example of the time it's better to have a third person view is when in Tom Sawyer, Tom tricks all of his friends into painting a fence and better yet making them give him  something so that they could paint it for him. This Wouldn't be fun in the third-person because what would Tom be thinking other then, "hahaha what a bunch of suckers!", this might be decent, but not  for a page. A good example of when It's good to have a first-person view is when Arnold is getting booed and attacked verbally by the Spokane indians. This chapter is full of emotion because he is Spokane and this is full of emotion so you want to see his point of view.

In conclusion any character can be great but each character has to fit its writing style. If you have a character that fits the wrong writing style it won't be as good as if it fit the right writing style. These characters just happen to fit their writing styles perfectly and I enjoy that about these characters. This is what I like to see about characters and I hope that more authors learn about it.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

A Absolutely true Diary of a part time Indian. Gosh that's a long title.

In  The Absolutely True Diary of a part time Indian by Sherman Alexie, is an amazing book and is the first book (other than Ender's Game) that I actually loved so much that I read  it twice. It has an amazing, emotional, funny story. It is also full of the cast of some of the funniest characters in the world. It also has one of the most dark twists.

In the book Arnold, the main character, is troubled with a brain disease that doesn't hinder him but makes the other Indians on the rez pick on him and beat him up. He has only one true friend, Rowdy, who's dad  beats him, this causes allot of issues in Arnold's life. When his teacher Mr. P tells him not to give up and to leave the Rez in order to continue to fight on, that's exactly what Arnold does. Arnold then decides that he has to go to a specific school, a school full of another race of raciest white people. In my opinion this is actually a really good plot line and knowing that he has to leave his own tribe and them turning there backs on him is just amazingly beautiful.

The cast of Characters is also hilarious. When Arnold gets to Reardan, his new school, he makes frieds with a nerd, Gordy, who believes that books should give you a metaphorical boner, (Arnold doesn't understand that it's metaphorical at first.) Meets his future girlfriend, Penelope, who just happens to be bulimic, and Roger, the gigantic at-first bully then friend guy, who becomes Arnold's friend because Arnold punches him in the face. This might not seem funny at first but the way Alexie writes it is just comic to the soul.

In the book though, does have many a serious moment. When family troubles occur ,like a death for example, Alexie just changes Arnold's voice. He makes Arnold serious and emotional. He makes the book seem like how it would be if this issue happened to you. He some how keeps the mood lightened up just enough to keep you from sobbing and stop reading the book.

In conclusion this book is the best book of today and it has all of the elements that a great book needs. The characters are serious and yet funny, the story is depressing and yet light and comic at most times, the ending is beautiful and the book itself is a master piece. This book I would struggle to put out of ten because it deserves much more than ten. So I will end this review by putting this book at the 999/10 mark. 

Sunday, February 3, 2013

The books of today vs the books of the past prt 2

Leaving off from my last blog I was talking about the books of today and the books of the past. Today I'm going to explain how the books of the past are better than the books of today. First off they had amazingly emotional characters. They had Deep stories and the most realistic settings or most fantastical. These are those stories that have been passed down for generations. When I mean books of the past I mean 1980's or earlier.

In The Once and Future King by T.H. White The story begins with Arthur being a young child in his foster fathers castle. In the beginning when Arthur is just a child Merlin takes him on wonderful journeys and the book is funny and uplifting. The story only gets darker and darker though. By the end of the book half of the cast of characters is dead and Arthur himself is about to die. This builds suspense and a tension in the story so that you never want to put the book down because you want to know what happens next.

In the greatest book in the world by fact and popular opinion, or in other terms the best book I've ever read and will probably ever will read, meaning Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Ender is a very amazing, special character, he goes through so much and develops from being to one being picked on  to a star captain who can pick on you and get legally away with it. Did I mention he's about ten? This is something books will try to take up today but Card made his book so dark and so unique that no one could ever repeat it.

Finally in the masterpiece known as Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a great book that has amazing settings or backgrounds as you may call it. The main characters in this book go to and live on an island, have an encounter with a few criminals and get into a ton of trouble. Twain puts so much detail into the town they live in and what the island looks like that you feel like your there.

In Conclusion the books of the past are much, much better than the books of today. They had better stories settings and characters. They felt more emotional and even more relate-able than the books of today. Yes there are many good books of today but there are none I would call Great.


Sunday, January 27, 2013

the books of the past vs the books of today prt 1

Frankenstein we all know is a classic. A wonderful book and a icon for those authors today. This book has layed out the very meaning for for good character development. But with writing evolving and taking new forms. Is Frankenstein still one of the est books in the world? I believe that writing has only gone backwards the past two thousand years with some exceptions. I mean in most books you have a very simple plot, character,and world while in the old books they had insanely  detailed everything books don't have now.

In books such as lets say "The End of Infinity" Jack escapes prison, goes on a space journey "home" to Earth. He then saves the world and his friends. Then a good ending happens and every one is happy. In this story line  does he change? No. Does he Become over powered? Yes.

In "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" Despite it being a good book, it uses a simple string of  settings, being home then school then home then school then hospital and the loop repeats. This is a very repetitive cycle but    
remember this is a very good book.

In "The End of Infinity" again Jack starts off being heroic, then he stays heroic and doesn't change. He is brave, and he stays the same, Jack is a "good guy" and yet his dialogue cancels that out. Catch my drift, in newer books there are less and less characters who develop.

So in conclusion the books of today are very, very simplistic.  They show lack of character development and they show lack of interesting detail in the story. But not all books are like that, specifically, the older ones.

Monday, January 21, 2013

Frankenstein or The Original Zombie Story!! Other than maybe one of those voodoo stories...

Frankenstein, the creator, the "god", the overly obsessed with necromacy and death, and galvanist. Don't look at me like you don't know what I'm saying, and if you don't know what I'm saying go, just leave. This maniac has been delivering an entertaining experience since 1818. Being one most beloved books of all time and being already one of my favorite books this review isn't "So maybe it is a good book", it's flat out an amazing book. It has very difficult language but has an amazing story, romance and amazing feeling depth, and characters never to be forgotten.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly Has one of the best plot lines I have ever witnessed, starting at the end and flashing back to the beginning to tell the story it was the first of it's kind. Amazingly enough it also travels the entire world. Starting in Geneva, Germany Victor Frankenstein  grows up with royalty. Unlike other baron sons though Victor has the dark habit of experimenting with live subjects pushing his father further and further away from him. This obsession only grows and soon takes his destiny. This always keeps you on the edge of your seat wondering what is going to happen next.

The emotions shown by any character demonstrate how they feel to their core. The language of the book just makes you realize how important everything is to them. Shelly shows that characters don't have to explain their feelings in by talking but they can do it just by moving.

The characters descriptions are some of the most beautiful I have ever read. It reaches down into their very souls and shows you what their purpose is. No matter how big or small every character has the tips of the story at their disposal, and every decision one makes could make for certain doom.

This book has no out of ten rating. Reading it means that you are going to spend a lot of time thinking "OMG what's going to happen next what, oh my goodness  he actually did it,  this is so exciting!" for a long time. 20/10 easy. So read it and see you next week.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

The end of eternity was better than I thought it'd be.

So I recently finished the book I reviewed last week and am here to write about how I was horribly wrong. It seems as though Matt fooled me into believing what happened with the parent stuff.  Any way it got better and the ending summed things up. Although the protagonist does ruin other peoples property i'll let that slide.

The first reason this book made up for it's flaws is that you find out who his real father is. One of the biggest upsets I had was this very reason for finding out his fake father very early. That really just pissed me off and made the book a lot worse.

His attitude got a lot less squidwardy and more "heroy" Jack I mean. It seems as though by becoming a robo alien thingy he some how got his attitude straightened out  and reconfigured himself to be kind and not so loving.

In the end it stayed a bit like starwars but it differed because now he brought in Transformers to the mix although I don't like Transformers I did like the fact that it was something new for a change. I also enjoyed the intense violence.

Although I though it was a negative 10,000 out of 10 before I think I was a little bit harsh. I mean the book made up for it self and apologized for it's misbehavior.   That doesn't mean it's getting a 7/10 though. It's still getting something low as a punishment of sStawars, Spongebob, and Transformers copying. 3/10.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

The end of Infinity? But that's impossible because infinity is unending... dang.

Currently I've almost completely finished a book called The End of Infinity by Matt Myklushch. This is one of the most "Story? What's that?" book's  I've ever read. This book just has no story! It's unbelievable how an author can just write a book where 80% of all the pages are based on some robot creature getting shot stabbed or just plain out blown up. I'm not going to lie, the first to books were great but this book has three major flaws to it.

First off Jack Blank the main character has become a braggart. with lines like "You should see me when I'm at full power" and body movements lie smirking when in trouble is nothing like he was in the first two books. Character change is a very good thing but not when out of the blue for no reason what so ever the protagonist becomes Squidward Tentacles and starts talking about how good they are.

Secondly the book has been written like it was a movie. This popping out of that, the main characters flying in space ships fighting what are pretty much tie fighters to blow up star destroyers. If you didn't see how this book relates to many different movies, and shows just wait. It's as though MM ripped of every super hero movie to because Jonas Smart, one of the various antagonists, is of course a super genius.

I guess MM just thought out of the blue "hey I wonder what other issue we can put into this boom to make it seem really cool?", my face when I saw what he did -_-. He made it so that randomly out of the blue they tell which person is Jack's father. once again my face -_-. Really MM you don't think you had foremost enough issues in this book and secondly this had been a main issue through the entire series so why did you tell us this was who it was randomly with no suspense leading up to it?

I've  decided that no out of ten rating could show you how I felt about this book so I'm going to leave you with a picture. I realize that he wanted to end it with a bang, he being MM but this is no bang. The battles are exciting and yet it's still a bad book.