I Am Number Four
Pittacus Lore
p.1-p.286
1.5 hrs.
Rating: N/A
I am number four is an action/ sci-fi book that was recently released as a movie. The movie good bad reviews, but I've learned to get used to that of movies that are book adaptions. What matters is that the book was good enough to get made into a movie in the first place, which is pretty hard to accomplish. I am number four is about a boy from the planet Lorian who is in hiding on earth from the people who destroyed his planet. He tries to juggle his high school life with his newly developing super powers. The plot is not entirely original, but it's executed really well so you don't moan during the story because of the cliches of the plot.
The author does a really good job of creating a lot of suspension and action in what actually is a moderately exciting event. This leads to less actually happening than it should in a long 440 pages. There is lots of detail and building of tension before events, and this way of writing can get incredibly boring, but this book makes it surprisingly engaging. The narration is crisp and engaging, and there are very few times where the author doesn't have you hooked onto whats going on in the story. So far, the book does have a primitive plot, but it's easy to get past that and focus on the many thing that the author is doing right. This is definite movie material, just the kind of stuff that directors like Michael Bay love to ruin. (gasp! a 12-year-old boy that doesn't like Micheal Bay*!)
* For those of you who don't know, Michael bay is the director of Armageddon, The Transformers series, and Pearl Harbor, who is known for his epic (not) high-speed(so much that you can't tell what's going on), action-packed(well, true if you count intelligible objects/people having a battle where nobody knows who the people that are fighting are) movies with an overdose of special effects and a ton of noise.
Pittacus Lore
p.1-p.286
1.5 hrs.
Rating: N/A
I am number four is an action/ sci-fi book that was recently released as a movie. The movie good bad reviews, but I've learned to get used to that of movies that are book adaptions. What matters is that the book was good enough to get made into a movie in the first place, which is pretty hard to accomplish. I am number four is about a boy from the planet Lorian who is in hiding on earth from the people who destroyed his planet. He tries to juggle his high school life with his newly developing super powers. The plot is not entirely original, but it's executed really well so you don't moan during the story because of the cliches of the plot.
The author does a really good job of creating a lot of suspension and action in what actually is a moderately exciting event. This leads to less actually happening than it should in a long 440 pages. There is lots of detail and building of tension before events, and this way of writing can get incredibly boring, but this book makes it surprisingly engaging. The narration is crisp and engaging, and there are very few times where the author doesn't have you hooked onto whats going on in the story. So far, the book does have a primitive plot, but it's easy to get past that and focus on the many thing that the author is doing right. This is definite movie material, just the kind of stuff that directors like Michael Bay love to ruin. (gasp! a 12-year-old boy that doesn't like Micheal Bay*!)
* For those of you who don't know, Michael bay is the director of Armageddon, The Transformers series, and Pearl Harbor, who is known for his epic (not) high-speed(so much that you can't tell what's going on), action-packed(well, true if you count intelligible objects/people having a battle where nobody knows who the people that are fighting are) movies with an overdose of special effects and a ton of noise.
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