babeling-17

I truly enjoyed babel-17 it was an amazing read, all great characters everyone of them. I did not mind being thrown in the middle of the story like I was the story was not complex so it was really easy to figure out. What was trouble sum for me was the writing language the book is in. sometimes I just could not for the life of me figure out what the hell is going on. There would just be certain parts in the book just randomly where I felt the book was talking gibberish or maybe just babel-17. But I did really enjoy the complexity of babel-17 I felt the book really kept you on your toes. The book also pushed a lot of bounds at the time of the books release it was uncustom to have such an out going female lead role at the time it was unheard of but the author had done it. I also love the world the author has set up like the whole prosthetic surgery thing being not only accepted but also encouraged not that anyone is condemned for not doing it. It was just interesting to hear all the scenes or individual characters with oh how you say enhancements. Like the pilot who resembles a lion or the ships cook who has the ears horns and tail of the devil. Its just an entirely normal thing which kind of resembles todays kids with all the body modifications. I wonder how long before something like the book will be completely realistic. This book was the first book I have ever read that just dropped me into it like it was part or a series and I just happened to read the second first by mistake so this book is definitely unique. But despite all of that this book was amazing.

equal rights

Equal rights started off incredibly slow and in fact took a few day to get into but none the less I eventually fell right into it. What grabbed my attention. Was the rambunctious little girl Eskarina, you could not help but fall in love with her character. She really just had a wit about her. You never knew what she would do next but you knew it would be really entertaining. You really felt for the other characters in the story such as granny weatherwax who took it upon herself to train little esk. Even she never knew what to expect from the little trouble maker. The adventures esk has are phenomenal at nine years old she can completely take care of herself well sort of. Well she can at least handle herself. She has a really difficult personality and I connect with her on that level which is really nice. I liked the idea behind the book but I dont think it was executed very well. If another author other than terry pratchett had written the book. It would have been much stronger. But the book stayed true to its name. It was really about the struggle for equal rights in society. And that is a heavy topic especially in todays society. The whole idea of wizards only being men and witches only being women is incredibly unfair and then to have a female wizard /witch really messes with things. But thats what we want, we want to see things change we want to see difference. I have taken a look at terry pratchett's other work and I have found it to be less enjoyable I have not read a lot of it but I have peeked into it. And I have to say not for me. But the whole Idea was a really neat concept, the world being carried on the back of a great turtle on the backs of four elephants and how the world is shaped like a disk.

anansi boys

Anansi boys was a good read but not very filling. It was the equivalent of eating chinese food, I was hungry all over again 30 min. later. But this did not stop me from enjoying the book. The book had a lot of depth to it. Along with a whole lot of layers. The book starts off really funny explaining how fat charlie had his life ruined by his fathers death. It was not far into the book that you realize fat charlie is a push over, child like and has more than enough dad issues along with twice the amount of issues he has with his self esteem. The introduction of spiders character has an interesting, well spider himself is interesting. He turns out to be fat Charlie's other half of himself. This was a good surprise I thought It was also interesting to watch the two boys switch women and become the better of it. Like the universe was righting a few wrongs. Fat charlie definitely learns a hell of a whole lot not only about him self but also his family history and all of this really helps charlie figure out who the hell he is and where he fits into the world and that is something he really struggled with his entire life. Fat Charles brother really turns his life to pieces when he shows up and seems to be convinced he can do what ever he wants for example when he takes fat Charlie's fiance for himself and thinks nothing of it. When spider first shows up he is admired by fat charlie because he is the exact opposite of him along with everything he wants to be and more. I love at the end how everything falls apart for each of the characters all at the same time only to have it at the very end all tie back together except only different and this time proper.

interview with a a vampire

This is a very original vampire tale. Most vampire tales we are given talk about the main character being viscous or now very whinny. But in interview with a vampire. The story is about learning how the road of immortality is a very lonely one and how it is meant to be traveled alone. And all the while Lest-at is explaining it to the kid who just so in love with the idea of being immortal that he cannot hear the message. The story is a really powerful one to have the focus being about alone is a difficult one. As human beings we are whole heartedly afraid of being alone and even more to die alone. And this fantastical idea of immortality and how you would never be plagued by those things. But then to have stripped away by the fact that it would only be worse, is truly frightening. The story was a great read I was interested the entire time, and I wanted more, never being satisfied just like a vampire. The really focuses around immortality, it is the main subject in this book. And this is the first time we are lead to believe it's not what it's cracked out to be. We hve this illusion that if your immortal nothing matters if somone died there would be someone else to take their place. And that you can also be bad you know. Everyone who is not immortal is just a tool to feed you. But thats not the case. After a while you begin to envy mortals because they can die, and that even though they dont have very long they did enjoy life very much. And it ws a sad lesson for Lest-at to learn. He has spent hundreds of years traveling around with one person or another and he always loses them in the end and there is disagreement and at the end he has to face the bitter truth that he will always be alone.