Friday, March 25, 2011

Readers Response + Vocab

Vocab:
1.Eschew-to shun or avoid
2. Fugacious-lasting a short time
3. Prescience- knowledge of events before they take place

The Maze Runner
James Dashner
Rating: 9.25/10
p.1-p.374
2hrs.
    
     The Maze Runner is a book that takes everything good about the sci-fi and action genre and combines into an amazing book. The Maze Runner is about a boy named Thomas who wakes up with no memory in a place which turns out to be a maze. In the night the walls to the maze close and monsters roam the maze. The other boys have been trying to navigate the maze for a long time using supplies that come in a box, sent by the"creators" of the maze. Soon after Thomas arrives, another girl arrives with a note from the creators saying that she is the last one. The walls no longer close at night making life much more deadly. Thomas and the rest of his friends try to solve the maze...
     One thing that makes this book so appealing is it's fresh and original plot. The idea is something amazing that hasn't been heard before, and there's never a point where you can guess what's going to happen next. The book moves at a very fast pace, and the pages are thoroughly detailed so you can get a precise view when the author narrates the action that is unfolding. The language and names in this book are also very creative and funny, and although this book is written mostly English, there characters do use words that aren't part of the language, and the names (newt, alby, thomas) are funny, and you later find that the people in the maze are named after famous people( Newton, Albert Einstein, and Thomas Edison. Overall this book was a thrilling and great read.   






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