WOW! Crazy month here in the Bookworm home. I won't go into all the details, but lets just say skydiving, the elderly, and 7 - count 'em, 7 - cakes were involved.
So I'm getting lots of people asking my why I've only done good book reviews so far, so I've decided to add in a bad one, just for fun. However, there is a disclaimer - I'm not taking polls or surveys or studies about people who have read these books, I'm just giving you my own personal opinion. Once in a while I'll say that most people I know liked it or hated it, but nothing official. Just remember that while I may not like it, you might love it. Never judge a book based on the word of a...young adult. We'll keep it at that. Not gonna just shout out my age on the internet.
Anyway, here we go. My bad book for today would have to be Specials by Scott Westerfield. And just for fun I'll give you another bad book: Extras by Scott Westerfield.
Look, I'm not saying Scott's a horrible author or anything. Actually, Specials and Extras are part of a four-part series, the first two being called Uglies and Pretties, which you've probably heard of because they're actually good. Uglies was awesome, Pretties was almost as amazing. I would be satisfied if he'd wrapped it up and ended the series there. But noo... he just had to keep going, leading him to write Specials and Extras, which I...didn't love.
Maybe I hated them because they were so confusing. Uglies and Pretties were pretty simple plot lines - dystopian future, crumbling society, all that stuff that's popular these days. What I believe is that after the first two, Scott feared he was losing is audience, so he came up with all these complex plots and holes in the story he never finished, trying to make the audience confused so that they wouldn't remember how stupid the actual story was. I don't know. But what I do know is that if I ever was forced to start the series again, I would willingly stop after Pretties (the second one).
If anyone out there is thinking of reading that series, I'm going to be helpful and give you the order: it's Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and Extras. I would recommend just the first two, but considering most of the people reading this are in other cities (I checked) I can't really force you to do that.
Now that we're done with all that book stuff, you wanna hear a joke? Okay okay, here goes:
How many South Americans does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A Brazillian!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
I'll stop now.
Well, looks like we're all out of time for today - in other words, I'm hungry. Hopefully It won't take a month (like last time) for me to get back to you, but if it does...
Keep reading.
-The Little Bookworm Girl
So I'm getting lots of people asking my why I've only done good book reviews so far, so I've decided to add in a bad one, just for fun. However, there is a disclaimer - I'm not taking polls or surveys or studies about people who have read these books, I'm just giving you my own personal opinion. Once in a while I'll say that most people I know liked it or hated it, but nothing official. Just remember that while I may not like it, you might love it. Never judge a book based on the word of a...young adult. We'll keep it at that. Not gonna just shout out my age on the internet.
Anyway, here we go. My bad book for today would have to be Specials by Scott Westerfield. And just for fun I'll give you another bad book: Extras by Scott Westerfield.
Look, I'm not saying Scott's a horrible author or anything. Actually, Specials and Extras are part of a four-part series, the first two being called Uglies and Pretties, which you've probably heard of because they're actually good. Uglies was awesome, Pretties was almost as amazing. I would be satisfied if he'd wrapped it up and ended the series there. But noo... he just had to keep going, leading him to write Specials and Extras, which I...didn't love.
Maybe I hated them because they were so confusing. Uglies and Pretties were pretty simple plot lines - dystopian future, crumbling society, all that stuff that's popular these days. What I believe is that after the first two, Scott feared he was losing is audience, so he came up with all these complex plots and holes in the story he never finished, trying to make the audience confused so that they wouldn't remember how stupid the actual story was. I don't know. But what I do know is that if I ever was forced to start the series again, I would willingly stop after Pretties (the second one).
If anyone out there is thinking of reading that series, I'm going to be helpful and give you the order: it's Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and Extras. I would recommend just the first two, but considering most of the people reading this are in other cities (I checked) I can't really force you to do that.
Now that we're done with all that book stuff, you wanna hear a joke? Okay okay, here goes:
How many South Americans does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A Brazillian!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
I'll stop now.
Well, looks like we're all out of time for today - in other words, I'm hungry. Hopefully It won't take a month (like last time) for me to get back to you, but if it does...
Keep reading.
-The Little Bookworm Girl