Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Minders - Book Talk

Minders, is a bad book. It starts with an extremely interesting concept scifi concept and ruins it. The concept is that a group of people are selected to go inside the minds of others in future Detroit. These people called Minders are to report on their subjects behavior are thoughts. This book has a very interesting start, but quickly changes into more of a romance novel. I would recommend this to anyone who wants a quick easy, but not great read.

Monday, May 19, 2014

Book Talk-High and Dry

Charlie Booker is miserable at the Palm Valley High School. Things take a turn for the worse when he is blamed for a girls overdose on LSD at a party, and he finds about a mysterious flash drive, which the all the students to suppress, then he is approached by a friend asking him to throw his next soccer match. Charlie is stuck in the middle of all these situations and more, as he tries to solve everything.

This book is dark, I mean it, it has sex, drugs, violence, and drinking. Even with all those things it still has a very interesting story with lots of moral grey areas and bad decisions. I would recommend this book to anyone who thinks they can handle it.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Book Talk!- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

John Christopher Francis Boone is extremely smart. He knows every prime number up to the 3000's. He has a single father after his mother passed. Christopher's world changes when he finds his neighbors dog impaled with a garden fork and is blamed for the crime. This book offers a interesting perspective as Christopher does not understand emotion and this book has some incredibly emotional moments. This book is a quick read and I would recommend it to anyone. Christopher also lives in England.

Monday, April 21, 2014

Laika!-Book Talk

Laika is the story of the first (and Russian) dog to orbit the earth. Much of this book is fictionalized as we don't exactly know Laika's origins, but this book places Laika as a captured stray, who is placed into the soviet space program. This book is a graphic novel, and some of the illustrations can be quite odd. Laika is a sad story and anyone who has issues with animals dying (not graphically) might want to be a little careful.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Book Talk- Will to Live

Will to Live
Les Stroud

Will to Live is a collection of survival stories, which are narrated and judged by Les Stroud, host of the TV show Survivorman. The stories range from being lost in the jungle, to being stuck at sea, although some more stories would have been nice. quite a few of the stories are rather graphic, so I would recommend this, as long as you can withstand a little bit of gross-ness.

Monday, April 7, 2014

Book Talk! - "Confessions of a Murder Suspect

Confessions of a Murder Suspect is bad. it is straight-up bad. All the dialogue is robotic, the story and event boring and unfulfilling. However, there is a way to make this book good, if not great. This involves replacing the main character, a teenage girl with the wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Savage). This make the book so much better and so hilarious. Now onto the actual book's plot. Tandy Angel is a smart teenage girl of the incredibly rich Angel family, consisting of the parents, Malcolm and Maud, Tandy's twin brother Harry, her younger brother Hugo, and her older brother Matthew. Everything is normal until one night their parents are murder, and the Angel family is the biggest suspect. I really would not recommend this book, unless you want to laugh at how bad it is.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

31/31 March Thing! - Bad Days

Everyone has bad days, but I fell I have been having quite a few of the recently. They are mainly caused by me being super tired and procrastination on work. I feel like I cause my own bad days and then that makes me feel worse for wondering why I do this to myself. I guess I just need to get my stuff together, but so much has been going on lately, like the play, my dad moving, and more personal stuff.

I think everyone has bad days, but I'm not sure, so let me know, if anyone reads this. I bet no one will so... Anyway I feel like I shouldn't be doing so bad, but I do it anyway. reading everyone else's slices makes me feel like crap because they are well written or quite a bit longer than mine. Sorry for such a schizophrenic post, I just can't make my brain have any sense.