Blog 13

Don't Get Caught By Kurt Dinan

I would give this book a 9.5 out of 10. The only reason I would give it that is because at some parts it did seem a bit kid-ish but it would be a book that I would have read in middle school and enjoyed. Now I did enjoy reading this book but I also read it to pass your class.

The idea of the book with them trying to get back at the club for getting them in trouble is very well thought out with one of the biggest plot twist at the end that I have seen in my 16 years of living. I did not see that coming. I still enjoyed this book very much and i would read it again.

It was a really well thought out book and the level of description was also very well in my mind. The way that you added in the steps to the perfect hiest was awesome and a nice touch that i really dont see a lot in books. And also at the bottem of the page there were cows that were movine was a nice touch.

Blog 12

Some of my favorite boom covers are just plain and simple like Dont Get Caught because it is just red with a couple pictures of cows. But i also like covers that have a good picture that really has to go with the book. I really do judge a book by its coer, I know your not supposed to but we all do it. Its just that an interesting cover will get me to read the book and if the cover is not interesting then the book just loose interest to me.

Blog 10

My book 3 was Misery by Stephen King. I just thought that it was an over all good book. So it is about an author who crashes his car in the middle of Colorado in the winter and he is found by his #1 fan. After trying to nurse him back to health, he tries to escape but she catches him in the act and then amputees one of his feet. Later on in the book a couple of police officers and then she shoots one and then runs over the other one with a lawn mower. The book is very gruesome and violent which is why I like it. There really weren't a lot of parts that i disliked because it got right to the action with the car crash then with him being kidnapped. This is one of my favorite books I have read in a while.  

Blog 9

So my first top 5 book is
1. Sunrise Over Fallujah By Walter Dean Myers
This book is about a young man that joins the army after 9/11 and it goes into details about the horrors about was and all the hardships they face. As the story goes on and the main character gets letters from his uncle who was in Vietnam and he try's to help him through the war.  I enjoy this book because I really like to read books about war weather or not if its fiction or non-fiction. I would recommend to anyone who likes war books.

2.  The Westing Game By Ellen Raskin
This book is very confusing which is why I really enjoy it. With twist and turns on every page and your not sure who has what clue or who the author is even describing at the moment just makes me to want to keep reading.
 3. The Outsiders By S.E Hinton
The Outsiders is a very classic book telling you what life was like for a teenager in the 1960's. Most people have no idea what it was like to be a greaser, meaning that they had a bad home life and they were just different. I really enjoy this book because its just different because it tells a different side of life that really wasn't told about.  

4. Night By Elie Wiesel
Coming from a Jewish family, this book really hits home with me because I've herd story's of my grandmother getting out right before the Nazi's took over. After reading this book it really makes me re-think my life and wonder how hard it really is. I think everyone should read this because it puts light on-to something not really talked about.


5.  Don't Get Caught By Kurt Dinan
This is one of my favorite books because its just funny and it reads really fast and it serves no purpose to be educational.

Blog 7

Horror books in my mind are the best books because they just get your blood flowing and heart pumping. Some of the main characteristics of horror is that first the problem is introduced then they describe how it happens and then how the problem is solved. There are a couple of big types of horror: survival, or life- threating. My favorite type is survival meaning that there is usually one or two people that are faced with an impossible task of surviving situation that should kill them like Misery by Stephen King. I just like how it is just one person that is trying to survive so he can go home.

            With horror movies and books it lets people experience something that people wouldn’t normally get to do something like that. People like to be scared, having their blood rushing.  People may not like being scared at the moment of the actual event but after wards you feel good about it. I mean who doesn’t like that feeling. With horror books you have to embrace the fact that you’re going to get scared, you can’t read it and not expect to do that, if you do then you’re not going to enjoy the book. I really do think that horror is the best genre because you’re reading a book and you’re experiencing something that you will most likely never get to experience in your life.     

http://www.findmeanauthor.com/definition_horror_fiction_genre.htm

http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/exploring-thrill-seeking-personalities?page=3

http://www.fictorians.com/2013/03/06/what-makes-good-horror/

Blog 2

So my authors name is Michael Punke. Michael Punke currently works as the Deputy United States Trade Representative and U.S Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. When The Revenant came out in theaters Punke was over 10,000 miles away working on a trade deal.
Punke started to write this book after reading a couple of lines from a history text book.  

 With his job Punke can't talk about his book because it could be "self-enriching". This book came out in 2002 and didn't have much success at first so when he sold the movie rights it's when he really first got noticed.

Blog 11

 
The book that I chose for my forth book is Don't Get Caught by Kurt Dinan. I chose this as my book because be for break Mr. Dinan read us the first chapter of the book and it seemed very funny and very good. After that my mom also ordered it and I decided to read it. My expectations for the book is that it has a lot of funny moments and a lot of twits in the plot. The way Mr. Dinan described the book to us in class it just seemed very interesting and I just had to read it. My thought on the cover are that it is very plain and simple. I like plain and simple. Not very often now do we see solid colored covers like this one, which I very much enjoy the red. I think that it fits the book perfectly. And the cows on the cover is just weird but I like it. As I was reading the book I noticed that there were cows on the bottom of the page as you turned it and the would move when the page got flipped. I haven't seen that in any books that I have read this year and I thought that, that was very interesting. What I know about the book is that Mr. Dinan had us all go vote for the book on Goodreads to get it in the #1 spot for most categories. I'm kidding but from all the reviews i have read it's supposed to be a very good book and from what I have read so far (which is all of it) it is a very good book.