MAXIMUM RIDE: L'ESPERIMENTO ANGEL

I want you, the reader, to take a moment and scroll down to the lists this novel has been shelved in. “Best Young Adult Books,” “Best Books Ever,” “What To Read After Harry Potter,” “Best Female Lead Characters,” and “Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books”. If you haven’t guessed by the titles, these Leggi tutto

Take a bit of the child-like innocence vs. evil of Harry Potter , some of the artificially-created destiny from Ender's Game , throw in the flying fantasies from Eragon and mix them in with Patterson's trademark flippant characterization, and you've got Maximum Ride. This is the book I'm going to reco Leggi tutto

Nothing massively wrong with it but the writing was just way too young for me.

hear me when i say this: nothing, ever, in my human life on this planet, will hit for me like this book about orphan kids with wings living together in a weird boxcar-children scenario in the aftermath of being experimented on, who are then kidnapped for more experimenting on, hit for me in the fift Leggi tutto

This book was okay, but I just felt like it didn't have a lot of substance. I didn't really take anything away from it, almost like it didn't have a lot of deep meaning. And it wasn't terribly entertaining, either. I just would have liked the characters to be a little deeper, I guess. I doubt I will Leggi tutto

Do Not Finish at page 145. I want to finish this book, but after a while I remember life is too short for reading one crappy book after another. If I read The Angel Experiment when I was 12 years old, I guess I would have been oh-so impressed. But readers who possess the mental maturity of a 13 years o Leggi tutto

All the way back in 2007, I discovered the Alex Rider series by listening to an audiobook version of the first book, Stormbreaker . I'd seen the celluloid adaptation advertised in Nintendo Power , but it flopped, and, as I now know after seeing it, for good reason. Though I was already a Facebook memb Leggi tutto