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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Need A Good under the cover type book that will make you paraniod?






Hey all sorry for our rather long year!  Let's just say that we weren't the only thing tearing up the slopes!  Any way here are two books that are great but will make you very paranoid! 
 After By Francine Prose tells the story of Central High and the aftermath of a school shootout, that happened 50 miles away at Pleasant Valley.  With this comes new Grief and Crisis Councilors, and that is just what the cause grief!  The students privileges are being taken away, like certain books are taken away, you cannot have anything red, students are searched.  To Tom Bishop school has become his own personal hell.  Then the students and teachers begin to disperse, the students to special camps where they don't come back alive, the teachers just disperse! (Shown above)

Little Brother By Cory Doctorow Seventeen year old Marcus (AKA w1n5t0n and later on m1k3y) when he and his three friends skip school in San Fransisco.  What was thought to be a fun day turns to terror when terrorist blow up the bay bridge!  Marcus and his friends are sen into a secret prison were they are interrogated for three days till they are realised, except for one them, with a warning they will be watching.  Now in a city where everyone is a suspected, with just his wits and skills of being a hacker, he creates a techno rebellion using hacked X-Boxes.  There job is to show the cruelty and grief the DHS (Department of Homeland Security)  Taking the world one hacked gaming console at a time.  (This is not for teens under 14 and for fans of 1984)

 


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah an update!!!! Any way those are two books I will be reading!!!!!! Also what happened when you went on vaca????? I hear an adventure story!!!!! Oh and look me little old metro is back!!!! Lastly say hello to A.C.Eberle for me!!!

Ren @ All By Myshelf said...

I'll have to look into After. My friend read Little Brother and said I wouldn't like it, but I may ignore their advice one day and borrow it from them, just because everyone says it's so good. :)