Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Week 2 of reading Pendragon: book 10.


I decided that I was at a good spot in the book to write about. again, note that a bunch of the words in this entry will not be recognizable, I will try to explain as much as possible. After leaving Solara, Bobby and Patrick, the traveler from third earth, go to third earth. Third earth is earth in about a thousand years. When they return it is not the third earth that Patrick had left. The two realize that they are at the zoo (or more like where the Bronx zoo was) because there were random animals walking around; and a polar bear that nearly kills them. They start to walk to where the old subway station/flume was in second earth. when they get somewhat close, they realize that the Ravinians (Saint Dane's group of "elite" people) had made a gigantic fortress. the wall surrounding the Ravinians fortress was about a thousand feet up. The two look for many ways to get on the other side of the wall and fail. Patrick is the first to admit that the two would have to transform into gians birds to be able to fly over the wall. Bobby willingly agrees that it is the onlt way across, even though this will somewhat deplete Solara of some of it's energy. Well, that is all for now, because as of right now that is where i am in the book. I can't wait to read some more of it!

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Pendragon, 80 pages in.


Because this is the last book of the series i knew they would give the answers to all the big questions that we have had since the first books; I never thought that we would learn the answers so soon. Right when the book started Bobby and the other travelers were in a place that they had never seen before. they soon got reunited with the people in their lives that had either died or disappeared. it was then that the travelers were brought to Solara. a planet made up by the spirit of Halla. It was here where the Travelers learned the reality of their existants and all about saint dane. they learned that they were created from certain spirits in Solara, ones that showed certain atributes like dedication, willpower, and mental strength. I'm very happy that all these answers were given away so quickly because I really didn't want to wait until the end of the book to find out the answers.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Overview of the Pendragon series before i start reading the final book.


I just wanted to write this entry to sort of give you a preview of the Pendragon series before i start to read, and make entries about, the final book in the ten book series. Pendragon is about a boy named Bobby Pendragon, who's Uncle one day surprises him as he is about to go to his basketball game. The uncle tells him that some friends need help. Bobby willingly agrees to help without knowing what he was about to get into. Uncle Press, thats his name, drives Bobby to the city and pulls up at an abandoned subway station. the two go down into the station and Press walks onto the tracks. Bobby is scared, but goes down as well. the walk for about ten minuets and arrive at a door with a star branded into it. they walk threw the door and Press yells a word Bobby has never heard before. all of a sudden the big room that they were standing in comes to life and the two get carried on air to another world.
That was the first fifty pages of the first book in the series. Pendragon is a "traveler" who has to go from world to world and stop these worlds from going into total chaos. I love the series, which is why I'm about to start the tenth and final book. Just remember that if you see a word that you don't understand that it is probably because it is not a normal word that we use on this planet.

Books i read over the summer: the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.


Over the summer I read the book The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, By Stieg Larsson. The book is about Mikael Blomkvist, a publisher ho was recently on the losing side of a libel case. Because of the bad press brought on by his trial, he decides to leave the magazine, Millennium, that he owns one third of. He soon gets an offer from Mr. Vanger, an extremely wealthy and old man; the offer is that Vanger wants Blomkvist to do some detective work and find out who killed his beloved niece Harriet 36 years earlier. Blomkvist can't refuse this offer because Vanger is offering him 200m,000 Kroner a month for a year, and if Blomkvist solves the case than Vanger will give him five million kroner. I liked the book because i was able to get really into it, like i really wanted to know who killed Harriet. I recommend this book to anybody who Likes mystery.

Books i read over the summer: Monster


Over the summer I read the book Monster by Walter Dean Myers. It is about a boy named Steve Harman who was arrested for assist in murder. Most of the book takes place during Steve's trial. the issue is whether or not Steve was part of he gang that killed the man or if he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I really liked the story, but i also enjoyed it because the book is written as a script. For example, there will be parts where it will say randomly "WA [wide angle] shot of the prosecutor." the book was cool because you get to hear how these gang members are trying to prove that Steve was a member of the gang just to get him thrown in jail. I loved the book mostly because i'm very interested by crimes, trials, and court scenes all together. I would recommend this book to people that are interested in things like court trials, otherwise you will think this book is slow.