So, here I am in the McD's parking lot. It admittedly has been a few days, though in my defense there hasn't been much time that I've just been at home. Running out here is killer and waking up early is killer when you don't eat dinner and get home after 12. Second shift isn't very fun. However, in my undefense, 'Relm of the Mad God' has been sucking out my brain and leaving me with very little time. But I'm almost to my level 20 max with the wizard! Still it's a beast to try and kill any of the big bosses, sometimes the lag tosses you into a fray of like 50 kill-you-in-5-hit enemies all blasting away at you with a 5 pellet shotgun round. Fun game. Google Chrome Apps if you are interested.
So, on to the book review.
"The Hunger Games" This book was a supremely great book. I saw it on the couch on Sunday, read it all day and into Monday to finish it. I couldn't stop thinking about it. It was really really good. It is written in first person, about a post-apocalypse kind of world, where there are 12 cities ruled by the Capitol. In the 12 districts the people live in poverty and have very little, whereas in the capitol they have advanced technology and anything that they want. Each year they have the annual hunger games, where they take a boy and girl between 12 and 18 years old to participate in a battle to the death with the other districts. The book wraps you in with the first person view, you really easilly come to care for the characters and the emotional enviornment is set up very nicely. The about the author pointed out that the author wrote this book and others dealing with the impact of war, especially on children. I think I like the book because it seemed to do that with me. Rather than war seeming to be impersonal, as it usually is on TV or in games, this book brings the ideas to life and really sickens you by them. All the while the story wraps you in and does a great job of interesting you. 5 out of five for sure.
The last book is "Brave New World." This book is a type of intellectual fiction, where there is a story line but a psychologist philosopher wrote it. Along the same lines of 1984, this book has some interesting ideas and models for a horrible future that could come to pass, however, it seems also that there has to be a great fascination with sex, as though it is the answer to all problems. Which it is not. Kinda hard for me to believe that the system in the book could happen, and it didn't raise my opinion of Huxley much by reading it. There is a bit of redemption for him in 'Revisited,' which is not a story but simply an analization of the predictions in the book and the current time (It being 1931 for the first book, 1957 for the second.) 2 out of five.
Well, that's the basics of my book reading. I'm in the car waiting for the drive through line to die down so I can go and get a rolo shake. Then probably get some alcacelcer at the rite aid. We aren't in Utah any more! Or possibly get a job, that would be nice. I'm soaking wet with sweat now, which is lovely...
Trying to fill in some of the story for XCOM, but once I'm there I should be on to the battles in no time! Yay! Assuming Mad God doesn't ruin me.
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