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.

blog 8

The way I view these articals is that Jodi Picoulct is that she had a right to be mad at the fact that how Franzen said that female writers just write love books. Now i think that that's ok for them to do but their are a lot of other female writers that also write other books. And with people getting criticized on reading young adult books like if your 40 years old, I think that you can read what you want and read what ever makes you happy.

Blog 6

So the movie for The Hunt For Red October I thought was actually a very good movie. The way that they portrayed the book on to the big screen was very good. I thought that they left out a lot of the minor parts from the book that really didn't matter to the main plot of the book and they left those out of the movie which really helped it out. With them leaving out the smaller parts it really made it easier to follow along with the movie. With the book and those smaller details that I think are unimportant, it really makes it hard to follow along with the main plot because you knd of forget the main plot with Jack Ryan.

Blog 5 book movie trailer

So for The Hunt for Red October the movie trailer look some what like the book and how the trailer had followed the book from the two minutes that I saw. For me I think that this movie would have to be close to 3 hours long because of how long the book is. For example look at Lord of The Rings all very long movies with close to the same amount of pages. I just looked up the time and it says it is 2 hours and 15 minutes which is shorter than I thought but that is still a longer movie. With is being Much shorter than what I thought they must have cut out some of the less important scenes from the book and there are a lot in my mind.
 As for the actors I think that Alec Baldwin was a good choice for Jack Ryan as he is a good actor for the situation and his voice is what I had in my mind, kind of like a deep but scratchy voice which I think is a good choice for him. As for Sean Connery playing Commander Marko Ramuis, I think they could have gotten somebody who is a little bit more Russian looking and less Scottish looking. I just didn't picture that in my mind and they could have gotten somebody who has a better Russian accent. The fact that they didn't do that is kind of disappointing.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWo0UnXyVkI


 

Blog 4 Book Adapations

So for most books that are made into movies, I would say most of them are pretty good in my mind but a lot of the authors that wrote the books think that the directors just murdered the adaptation. For The Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy I don't think that it should have been made into a movie because there isn't a lot of dialogue and its more literature than anything so I would think that it would just be a long and boring 3 hours movie.

After reading some reviews of the movie a lot of people seemed to have thought that the movie was pretty good. I'm not sure how closely the book follows the book because I'm not very far. I haven't been able to find out what the author Tom Clancy thought about it so I'm not really going to guess.

For a lot of books made into movies like Lone Survivor I thought that the book which is a biography was good and I also thought that the movie was really good. I thought the cast for Marcus Latrell which was played by Mark Walhberg was very well casted.

Blog 3 Book Review

The Revenant by: Michael Punke

Publication Information: Picador  Pages: 252

Genre: Fiction

The book is a bout a fur trapper after he is attacked by a bear in the woods in the 1820's. After he is attacked he is left to die by 2 of his comrades. 

Hugh Glass is a frontiersmen and he is on a fur trapping expedition with his company. After a very short time in the woods he is out scouting when he is attacked by a grizzly bear. With Glass being unable to move and most likely die his friends left him to die and took his belongings. After being unconscious for a couple of days he woke up and went on a 3000 mile journey for revenge. With Indian attacks on the way. He was looking for revenge from the people that left him and robbed him of his items.  

Why do I read?

Why Do I Read?

I read because it is important. I think that it is important because it helps us gain knowledge and helps us understand the English language better.  I read because I think it is fun. It’s fun because if you can find a good book that you like it can take you to a different world, to a place that you could only imagine of. I would compare reading a book to being addicted to a drug because you just can't put it down. Like I just can't stop it just goes page by page and I can't stop. If I find a book that I just love I will read it so many time that I lose track of the times that I have read it. I think that everyone should read, not just school books because most people don’t like school books except for a few (The Catcher and the Rye) if you find a book that you really enjoy they you just can’t put it down, it truly is like being addicted to a drug. Most people who say that don’t like to read have just never found a book that they have never enjoyed reading before. If you have any doubt you should always read the book or at least start it and try to read it. That’s why I read and why I think you should read.