Thursday, March 29, 2012

Snow Crash

Snow crash was a really fun read to be honest before reading the story I really didn't have any idea what the cyber punk genre was all about. I liked how this story dealt a lot with avatars and how they were like the best hackers ever created. I also found it interesting how they had a different kind of Avatar for each different kind of human. The messed up part about this whole thing is that the only people that benefits  from the Avatars are the wealthy and thats it. In this time frame the only people that gets a good Avatar are the rich or the people that are just great at hacking but if your not one of the two your pretty much just left out the loop.  It really places you into the future to see how not everything is organic anymore, and also it makes you think about the world we live in today and how things are slowly but for sure going in that direction.

Hunger Games



I feel the hunger game was really interesting read. The Hunger Game took place in Panem it is what we now call North America. There was a large nuclear war which really changed things a lot there. From this Nuclear war came along Panem which was a district. Its 12 districts in all there used to be a 13 but 13 went against the Hunger Games and was done in a rebellion against the Capitol. The capital is in the rocky mountains which is where the government is located. I really felt it placed me into a world of poverty and filth I feel as if there was just no structure everything was just a complete mess but every one still comes together because there pretty much all they have. The hunger games then comes along pulling families apart just so the have young teens battle to the death. This really remind me of a lot of the old battle scenes when royalty has the poor fight against each other all for just silly entertainment. Very sad story I really pray this isn’t something to happen in the future. The hunger games can be compared the show "Survivor". Only because a group of hand chosen competitors are put on an island to compete against each other for $1,000,000 but in The hunger game there isn’t any money being rewarded. They are all put to the test of strength, mental power and the abilities they have to survive on their own. Even though on the TV show they work together in groups for a short period of time, they soon learn that they are not able to trust anyone but themselves and in the end they are all thinking and planning how to win the game on their own. They are all being watched by hundreds of thousands of people to see who will last and who will be voted out. In the hunger games you are eliminated by death but in the TV show, you are eliminated by majority vote or if you choose to leave.

Fantasy

I never ben a big fan of the Fantasy genre but i actually did enjoy Kiki's Delivery service. and even though it was fantasy based it had a lot of strong points that could be brought into reality. I actually find it cool that she was a female mentor and basiclly telling the story from Kiki's perspective. I feel it deals a lot with just growing up in life. I also found it interesting how Kiki wanted to really just leave home and start a new life start something new go down a new path but her mother really didn't agree with that idea at all.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Harry Potter

I feel the book Harry Potter is a very interesting read. I find it very funny thats when these movies were first coming out there was so much controversy with the fact of people saying that its a horrible story line and there just teaching young children evil witch craft, when in all honesty i never took the story in that way at all if anything I took it as a very interesting adventure full of magic and fun. I really enjoyed that the story places you into totally different world that actually helps open your imagination up to a whole different level. I enjoyed the story line totally. I feel it was well thought out for sure.