Showing posts with label utopian society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label utopian society. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

35 - Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet #1)

Title:Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet #1)
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My Area of Interest:Movie I wanted to watch, but had to read first.
Finished 04/19/14 -Really enjoyed this one, now I want to watch the movie, and read more of the series
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33 - The Death Cure (The Maze Runner #3)

Title: The Death Cure (The Maze Runner #3)
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My Area of Interest: 1st book is an upcoming movie, the series is getting really good.
Finished 04/05/14 - Third book is really good, brings it all together.  Can't wait until the movies come out.

Thursday, April 03, 2014

32 - The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner #2)


Title:The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner #2)
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My Area of Interest: 1st book is an upcoming movie, the series is getting really good.
Finished 03/28/14 - Second book is really good, both are kinda mind trippy because you think the trial is over, yet, they keep messin with your head.

30 - The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner #1)

Title:The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner #1)
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My Area of Interest: Upcoming movie, so I had to read it first.
Finished 03/28/14 - Really good, better than I thought it would be.  I can tell this will end up being more than one movie.  I'm reading the third book now.  Really interesting.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

27 - The Host

Title: The Host
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My Area of Interest:I never really got into the Twilight books, but I did like the movies, just haven't seen the last one yet.  I had heard this was good, and since I wanted to see the movie, I just had to read the book first.  That and she is an LDS author, I always like to give those a shot when I can.

Finished 03/22/14 - A LOT better than I thought it would be.  This book turned out to be really good a humans vs aliens in a new light.  Goodreads.com has it has the first of a series, not really sure if it is going to be a series or not, I could see it going into one, but I also think it ended on the best note.

Saturday, March 15, 2014

23 - Son (The Giver Quartet #4)

Title: Son (The Giver Quartet #4)
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My Area of Interest: Wanted to finish "The Giver" series.Finished 03/15/14 - SPOILER - this one happens at the same time as book one, yet finished up book 3.  Weird way to wrap around for the story, but it works.  This book follows the birth mother of the baby Gabe in the first book.  It's rather nice how everyone is together in the end, weird, but it works.  It makes sense how they can make The Giver into a movie, if they use this last book as well.

Friday, February 28, 2014

21 - Messenger (The Giver Quartet #3)

Title:Messenger (The Giver Quartet #3)
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My Area of Interest: Wanted to finish "The Giver" series.
Finished 02/27/14 - *spoiler* FINALLY find out about the main character in the first series!  This really brings 1 and 2 together, but the end is again a cliff hanger.  Now, I have to jump into 4, and with how this series is going I won't find out about all 3 of the main characters.

20 - Gathering Blue (The Giver Quartet #2)

Title: Gathering Blue (The Giver Quartet #2)
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My Area of Interest: Had no clue it was a series when I read "The Giver", but I wanted to read them all.
Finished 02/24/14 -  *Spoiler* Really pissed off at this book.  I wanted to know what happened at the end of "The Giver", but NOOOOO.  There is no mention of it at all.  It almost could be a stand alone, until you hit book 3.  This utopian society is more of a back to basics type with a Native American culture.  The "gift" theme is there in this book as well. 

19 - The Giver (The Giver Quartet #1)

Title:The Giver (The Giver Quartet #1)
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My Area of Interest: Found out a movie is being made about this book, so I wanted to read it first, didn't know it was a series.
Finished 02/22/14 -It was a bit slow at first, but then again, you do have to set the scene.  It's another of the utopian society books, but it was a good fast read.  *Spoiler* The ending did rather tick me off, I didn't know if it really ended or not.  It leaves you guessing if he makes it or he's dead.  Second book didn't help at all, but the third book does finally let you know.  On a side note, Taylor Swift is the third highest paid in this movie, and if the movie stays close to the book, her scene would only be about 5 mins long.  It is a bit weird that both the main characters are not in the top 3 billed cast.  I'm looking forward to seeing how they do this one.  With the hype over other utopian society books/movies, "Hunger Games", "Divergent", etc it will be interesting to see how this movie plays out, and if they do all 4 books in the series or just this one.