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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Lament


The book lament was not one of my favorite books; in fact it was one of the worst books I read this year. I can say that because I’ve been reading very good books this year like the very intriguing series, the hunger games and other books like the Invention of Hugo Carbet and other really awesome graphic novels. I know that this book is really boring and that you should only read this his book if you can’t go to sleep at night. This book was just not for me, it was slow paced and there wasn’t enough action, instead there was a lot of dialogue. The characters would say stuff, not do. I know the author tried to put some humor into the book but that’s where I think she messed up. Well, I’ll stop criticizing this book because there were still some good parts like when Dillon was in danger; I only think that, that part was good was because there was some action. I can’t lie; there was a good amount of action but still not enough. If they tried to put in more action like the Percy Jackson series or like the Hunger Games series, the book could have been close to the top of my good books list, if I had one.   

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Romeo and Juliet


I decided to read Romeo and Juliet manga edition and i got to tell you, I don't want to spoil it because the pictures were actually pretty well drawn; I give whoever was the artist a lot of credit. He or she, whoever drew the pictures knew when to make it look serious and when to make it look cartoony, like if the characters were joking. Like a very humorous character was Mercutio, he was always joking around, he was laughing at his friend Romeo because Romeo was almost always in a terrible situation. That's definitely not a true friend. Well any ways, I’ll just summarize the book for you, if you don’t know what happens in this book than read this. Romeo and Juliet fell in love, the want to marry each other, they make out, and get caught hide run and stuff like that. So my main point is that you should read this book, well I liked the illustrations much better than the words because it gets confusing when you try really hard to understand what William Shakespeare is saying.
  
  

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Review on Prophet of Yonwwod and Hamlet



I finished the book Hamlet by Shakespeare and I gave the book the Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne Duprau another chance but still I got bored of it. The only reason I gave the book another chance was because I read some reviews about the book and people said that this book is a good science fiction book. I always liked science fiction books like After the Apocalypse by Maureen F. McHugh so that is why I tried to read it. I also liek apocalyptic books and this book was like an apocalyptic book but i felt that the book wasx very poorly written. I don't want to talk about Hamlet because it was hust like Maximum ride and all the other picture books. It was good and i do recommend it. But the Prophet of the Yonwood on the other hand, I don't recommend it too any one who likes action packed books. If you like slow paced books then this book would be fine for you.




Sunday, January 6, 2013

Reading Response Hamlet


I stopped reading the book The Prophet of Yonwood just because the book was way too slow and I started getting bored. I probably didn’t even get half way through the book where the climax usually is. The climax probably wouldn’t have been too action packed anyways so I probably made a good choice in not finishing reading the book. So this blog won’t just be about me not reading a book so I’ll talk about the book I just started. I got the book Hamlet the Manga Edition by William Shakespeare and it is so far interesting because of the way they speak. It’s sometimes confusing the way they speak and it’s hard for me to understand. Like the say tis instead of this and thou instead of you. I didn’t understand some other ones but I tried to make sense out of it. I liked the illustrations and it didn’t look like the people who drew it spent too much time on drawing it. There weren’t too many details in the drawings and some the drawings look very cartoony. My favorite part was the sword fight scene and that fight scene was like the only one but that one was still a little too bloody, even for me.