Let other students know what you liked, what you hated, and and what was just so-so. Post a comment describing what you appreciated and what you didn’t appreciate about an SSR book you chose! (Extra Credit is possible depending on the depth of your response.)
Curently I am reading 3 books:
In the Company of Others
Dark Forces Rising
I am Curently Reading 3 books:
In the Company of Others
Dark Forces Rising
Lieutentant
All three are very good books, but I’ve just started them so I cant really tell you much about them. Two, Dark Forces Rising and Lieutentant, are sequils.
In the books before Dark Forces Rising, Luke Skywalker (oh, yes. it’s Star Wars) is called to by a new Sith Lord named Joruus C’aboth. Joruus is working for the Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn, the last remaning Grand Admiral and the highest rank in the Impiral remenance forces. Thrawn is thwarded when attacks a shipyard full of Mon Calamri Battlecurisers because of the efforts of Han Solo and Lando Calrisian. Meanwhile, Luke is captured by a gang and must free himself. In the gamg is the Emperor’s personal assisian, a Force-sensitive girl named Jade. Luke manages to escape and return home.
It was a verry good book, well writen and not slow, but not to fast. I dont really have anything bad to say about it.
In the Dirigent Merc. Corps series (Lieutentant) the first book is Officer Cadet.
Lon Nolan wanted to be a soldier all his life. When he was told that all of the men from his graduating class would be put into police work, he ran off… to the Dirigent Mercinary Corps (DMC). On his first Conract, to defend a government agenst another rebel attack, things started off bad. The capital city was under siedge, and the defenders were out of food and ammo. Lon’s company was sent inside the city walls to help defend and cordinate. Soon the Rebels were on the run. DMC troops pushed them back into a final bloody battle ontop of several ridges in dence vinery. There were more than 4 times the number of rebels expected. Over 4 Regiments of rebels were killed over the corse of three months of brutal fighting, and the Rebels fought to the last man. After returning home to Dirigent, Lon was awarded to the rank of Lieutentant. He was to replace his late Company Comander, Lt. Tatiers, who was killed in the fighting along with so many others.
This was an amazing book. One of the first scifi novels ever writen. It was full of action, yet still well balanced with calm, waiting, intensity, plotbuilding, and antisipation. The one down side to this book was the ammount of swear words, not particularly bad ones but so many…
I’ll look into it. Thanks
The Sorceress
Continuation on the Nicholas Flamel series, read the Alchemyst first. Quite as good as the others, which means quite good.
Can anyone remember what happened to Scatty at the end of the last one? I forgot.
I’m reading John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” which is about the bomb that was invented in Los Alamos, being dropped on Hiroshima and about several specific people’s struggle to help out the city and find out what happened, because they didn’t know it was coming. It was the first atomic bomb to be dropped on a city, and all of a sudden residents were walking around dazed, burned, stunned, not knowing what had hit them. One guy the account tracks is a doctor who helped thousands of people by trying to give them pain medicine and bandaging their wounds, until supplies ran out at the Red Cross hospital there. Eventually he went outside with his coworkers to sleep and an hour later people crowded around him begging him to help again. Another lady was burried in books at a tin factory and had to be dug out. Throughout the town people had “skin falling off in glove like pieces,”(Hersey, 45) This book makes me feel like the bomb was a mistake and that we never should have made it and that the world would be so much a better place if we hadn’t made it.
The book I’m reading in class at the moment is The Giver, by Lois Lowry. Most the 9th grade students are probably familiar with this book, but it’s about what the world would be like if we were all made the same. I compare it to as if Hitler had won the war, and we were all forced to look the same, believe the same stuff, and act the same. It’s a really thought provoking book, and I would recomend it =]
Awesome book. It really gets you thinking about just how much knowledge can be lost.
Well I finished Lieutenant… It was good. I’ll have to buy the third one. Looking into several other books too:
The Forever War
Warhorse
Elephant Run
Stardeath
Got them all at my next-door neighbor’s garage sale a cupple weeks ago.
I’m reading Desperation by Stephen King. It’s 547 pages long. I started it in the summer and only have a few chapters left. The movie was on TV this week and I understood it so much more this time after reading the book. I will give a review when I finished.
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
A quick read, but will send you reeling. Seriously. You will rethink everything about high school.
Lots of quotable lines (“Sometimes a dead tree is just a dead tree.”)
Actually, it was “Dying tree.”
Melindsea, Lee reminded me of you (read it)
Also, read Lies my Teacher Told Me by James Loewen. It’s nonfiction, but has stories as AWESOME as any fiction. Plus, it will give you lots of ammo to annoy your American History teacher next year.
P.S. Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie also has LOL moments (“Since there was no teacher listed for lunch, I grabbed a pen and wrote Mr. E. Meat” [say it out loud] *<:0) Wait, did I write that it's LOL hilarious already? Oh, well. It's awesome enough to warrant repetition.
No one is saying anything. WHY?! D:
Cross-X by Joe Miller
It’s nonfiction, but has a rags-to-riches plot. It should be required reading for anybody in debate. It also is a book about racism, about how a black debate team in an inner city school was able to overcome racism and incompetence to compete in a national championship. One thing, though: it’s pretty long D:
Due to parent recommendation, I’m reading Anne McCaffery’s Dragonriders of Pern series. I’m glad I did. I’m on the second book, and it’s already awesome.