Best Sellers Final. Book review

John Green is the author of The Fault in our Stars and Looking for Alaska, Which both books are currently on the best seller list. The fault in our Stars as 1^st place for 26 weeks, and Looking for Alaska 6^th place for 26 weeks also.  But I had read Looking for Alaska, A very well written book. About Pudge and the Colonel, you guessed it, Looking for Alaska.  There are but two parts in this book. I personally liked the second book better than the first, but once again it’s an opinion. But if you like books narrated by a great very relatable character, yet always understand why they are feeling that way. You’ll love this book.  So as high scholars, most of us like going to sporting events. Like Basketball, football and Soccer. We Pudge and the gang go on a triple and a half date, Which consist of Alaska and Jake, The Colonel and Sara (his girlfriend), Pudge and Lara, and Takumi (part of the gang). They all end up going to the basketball game. This is the most hilarious Part of the book ever. The Colonel somehow always ends up getting kicked out of all sporting events. This time he got Takumi into it by yell at the Beast (opposing team’s best player) “…But Takumi here hooked up with your girlfriend just before the game.” That’s when, Pudge included, they all started running for their life’s. Then out of nowhere a Basketball ends up hitting Pudge across the face. Leaving him “repeating the words “The. Symptoms. Generally. Associated. With. Concussion.”  

            Looking for Alaska’s Plot is in Arizona during the school year at The Creek. A Very Hard to get in privet school. The plot was well set because of it being a smallish school everybody knew everybody. So with the news of Alaska’s death “everybody” said she was a great person and what knots. But in reality they knew nothing about her just that she was smart. With her death and how Green describes the days that pass by for Pudge and the colonel.  It’s really interesting to see how it affects them personally. Green did a good job describing how these days where a bit dreamlike and still they didn’t accept the fact that she had died. Mostly Since they couldn’t and wouldn’t accept her death The Colonel, Takumi, and Pudge want to know why she had left so fast after a phone call. “She was sobbing…” when she came back to the room. They wanted to know so badly.

            The characters are easy to relate to. Alaska had a lot of family problems and secrets. Allowing anybody to relate in how she felt. Alaska’s mother had died another easy way to relate to her through a death of a loved one. The Colonel had a terrible relationship with his girlfriend they were “yelling at each other 94% of the time” also the Colonels dad had left his mother and him before he was born. Takumi was a good kid he was far away from his family since he was Japanese. Now Pudge great kid a bit of a loner at his old school, he liked to know peoples last words. And he was still innocent before he had met the other kids. Where they changed him.   

            I give his book an A- because there were some parts that were irrelevant to the story. And there was a slow beginning Also at Some point in the book I would be confused in Why this happened or what had happened. This book is a great quick read though. I would recommend it to Anyone who likes to relate characters, and doesn’t mind cursing as much. Also in the book there is a lot of sex, Drugs and Cursing.

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Book Talk

For a non-fiction book I would say that it can have a 10% of it being a lie. Mostly because not everyone is going to remember a conversation exactly how it happened. Also someone may be giving parts that they want the reader to know. They may be hiding part of their story that could affect the way they want the reader to feel. Another reason is that, they in their mind may add some unreal details that may have never accrued, but they did in their mind. And Plus nobody is perfect. We all have lied about something personal or given our version of something that may have occurred in our head.

For the Authors that lied in their memoirs I’m ok with it. As long that it’s a good book, and fun to read. Like I said before we aren’t perfect. Yeah sure they did go over board and lied to many people. But before that information was released, did it really matter. I as a reader don’t care that they lied because if the book was amazingly amazing then it’s a great book. Look If Oprah thought it was good than it good. So just get over it to those that dislike the authors that lied to them. Once again we aren’t perfect.

How we label the book, I believe we should be a bit more lenient in who we label the book. Because I agree with Nicholas Sparks that if you label an author to a certain genre they feel obligated to write only in that type of genre. And I think that’s unfair, you never know if that author could be very good writing different types of books that aren’t that genre.   

Post #4 Adapting The Host

One important scene, that I couldn’t bare to see cut out of the movie, would be when the Wonderer and Melanie first get found in the desert by uncle Jeb. When Jeb and the other humans are trying to see whether they should take “it” back to where they live. Another scene they should include was when Jared first sees the Wonderer and Melanie, in how they react when they see each other. One of my Favorite scenes they shouldn’t cut out is when the wonderer is trying the best she can’t to save Kyle, even though he was trying to kill her. One scene I do mind if they cut it out is when they first brought her to the caves and kept her prisoner in the storage cell for the first two weeks. I really see it as a very important scene. I just think it show us very much. For when she was scared of Jared and How various times people came to try to kill her. And how much she suffered to try to fit in the community.

                A scene I don’t care about really is when Jeb and the others finally decide to bring her to the caves. But they have to blind fold her so she wouldn’t try to escape and get the seekers at the caves. And I would think it would be a nice for the audience that is watching the movie to also not know where the exit and entrance are. 

Book 1 Project- Th1rteen R3asons Why

              I’m offering you an opportunity to do your own tapes. When you have a party you could have a scavenger hunt but instead of it ending in one or two hours, make it last at least a week or two. By getting your friends together make your voice guide them to look for the lost thing you were looking for. Or with your own tape recorder you could just allow your friends to find you.  It will be fun. And with tapes you know it could be pretty darn amazing thing to do.  The tape recorder is just a more fun way to communicate with people. But please with these fun video recording tapes and all we are also going to send an informational packet about suicide. Please if you ever see someone who needs a friend be there for them because you don’t know the journey they have had to go through. They them self’s or you even don’t know what to do any more and think that death is the only way out to not be terribly miserable. But you, I, everyone could prevent this from happening.

                This idea was taken throughout the whole book. When Hannah had sent tapes instead of anything modern. All though not in the physical story in the Ask the Author in the back of the book it tells us why. Although he said he used it because “when something is out-of-date but the characters acknowledge it, the book is suddenly up-to-date” he used it for getting his book recognized, but I believe that there’s other significance to it. I believe that Jay Asher had used Tapes instead of anything modern because then it would take the mystery away from the book, of whom had the second set of tapes. Without the tapes Clay would never have stolen the Walkman, and we would have never known it.

                The idea of an informational packet about suicide also came from the book. In one of the tapes Hannah had made she had mentioned that she “Wrote a note to Mrs. Bradley that read: “suicide. It’s something I’ve been thinking about. Not too seriously, but I have been thinking about it.” And that she “wanted someone to figure out who wrote the note and secretly come to my rescue”   so with this it’s better for people to be better informed in this Very serious topic. When they think someone may be going toward the wrong path and thinking about suicide, it’s better to go make them feel that you truly care about them.

                I think people will like this because who doesn’t want to make an awesome game like, a scavenger hunt, last more than just a couple hours. It also gives the person who had read thirteen reasons why to experience the frustration and sadness that Clay had experienced while listening to the tapes. The informational package not many will want but I think many people will truly appreciate that suicide is not just a light topic that is not taken seriously. And with his informational packet many will try the best to “save” the one they are worried about. And it will be there guide to try to help a loved friend or stranger. Another reason that I think people will like the making their own tapes is because it’s always fun to make a secret audio journal or facts about  them self’s, that they can pass around to people without them knowing how had passed the tapes out. Some people like a great mystery. It is also a good way to reveal thing about yourself without anyone knowing so.

What is a Book?

A Book is a Life. Traits that many books have are that they suck you up in its world, making you leave reality. They also have some very specific ways in how you should treat them, with respect like a baby. Books have but a great influence in life in many people. They relax a person, clam them down, make us t to go to sleep, give us something to do when were bored. Sort of like a little kid. With little kids they may relax us, calm us down, and make us go to bed after a long day. And entertain us when were bored. 

I love what Tom Piazza said “They are strictly vehicles; you pick them up to step through them into some consensus reality; you’re wired in.” And I completely agree with that but at the same time I don’t. First books aren’t just strictly vehicles. There more than that. But at the same time they are because you start to read and then you’re hooked. Never want to let go of the book once you start to read.  I also like Nancy Jo Sales way of putting it “that makes it living, breathing companion.” I agree the book is a friend that we have that can never hurt us in the end, they always there when we need them. And like she said “We NEED them too much.”  

I prefer to read the book in paper because then it would and can accompany you anywhere you go. But it may be better having it on electronic devices. But with a real book if you get frustrated with it you can through it at the wall, as with and electronic devise you can’t for obvious reasons.  And with the psychical book I think it’s sort of Magical to have it in real life, holding it in your hands, because you can’t just stop reading at any point, it sort of old fashion but reading under the covers with a flashlight in hand, it’s always fun. And you can’t do that with an electronic device. Sure you could but it isn’t the same.