Lets talk books.
I finished reading Damnation Alley yesterday night. Truth be told it wasn't a very good story. I'm not saying it was bad or anything, it's just that it could have been much, much more. And the ending made everything seem so incomplete.
To wash away that bland taste I've picked up Darkness, Be My Friend and have primed myself for the mental and spiritual torture. I have much respect for John Marsden and his books. Reading the series you can't help but become Ellie, reading her thoughts, feeling her fear, her anger, and her shame. What would it really feel like to be a murderer at fourteen years old? And to even be praised for it?
War can kill a person in two ways. Instantly through a bullet, a sudden death, or slowly, destroying your heart and mind. I'm constantly on the edge of my seat trying to figure out what Ellie's fate will be. I almost felt physical pain during the shocking ending of the third book, will this one be similar? And the war has only just begun...
And after this there's still three more books to go. I hope Fi will survive the war. Her character is so interesting, despite sounding like a bloody clone of Yuna she is slowly changing.
It only took me half an hour to read through that 'How to' book on writing thrillers. There was nothing special in it, so I probably shouldn't have bothered.
I saw a music clip from the ninties that I just can't get out of my head. It was about a space alien that went back in time to the 1880s and gave an irish farmer a magic potato. The potato mind controlled him and took him to his leader. Then the leader ate him, and went mad.
I think. That's my interpretation, anyway.
Hey, you know what? I should post a recommended reading list somewhere. Then I could whore my favorite books out to everyone.
To wash away that bland taste I've picked up Darkness, Be My Friend and have primed myself for the mental and spiritual torture. I have much respect for John Marsden and his books. Reading the series you can't help but become Ellie, reading her thoughts, feeling her fear, her anger, and her shame. What would it really feel like to be a murderer at fourteen years old? And to even be praised for it?
War can kill a person in two ways. Instantly through a bullet, a sudden death, or slowly, destroying your heart and mind. I'm constantly on the edge of my seat trying to figure out what Ellie's fate will be. I almost felt physical pain during the shocking ending of the third book, will this one be similar? And the war has only just begun...
And after this there's still three more books to go. I hope Fi will survive the war. Her character is so interesting, despite sounding like a bloody clone of Yuna she is slowly changing.
It only took me half an hour to read through that 'How to' book on writing thrillers. There was nothing special in it, so I probably shouldn't have bothered.
I saw a music clip from the ninties that I just can't get out of my head. It was about a space alien that went back in time to the 1880s and gave an irish farmer a magic potato. The potato mind controlled him and took him to his leader. Then the leader ate him, and went mad.
I think. That's my interpretation, anyway.
Hey, you know what? I should post a recommended reading list somewhere. Then I could whore my favorite books out to everyone.