"I am Legend"

Instead of doing Interview with a Vampire I jumped at the chance to go back and reread "I am Legend". Not that Interview with a Vampire isn't a good book I really like the book because in someways i can relate to the environment having been from the area around New Orleans. But I digress on to I am Legend". this is one of my favorite graphic novels and has an amazing audio book counter part to the book. Robert Neveal what i think of when I think of Robert neveal what is a man like at the end of his rope but is forced to live on, that's what I think of when I think of this man. This book seems to be to me a bit more on the more intellectual side only because of the wordage he uses and how Robert acts and when they describe things in the story. Like the fact that he spends a lot of time in the library researching in books on blood.

Monster Island

I didn't get to read the entirety of the monster island book. what I liked most about the book is in the first few chapters. it seemed to have a bit of confusion because it jumped around a bit or at least in my opinion it did. the one part of the book that i liked the most was the part of the man that turned into a zombie i think, but the description of the event was so detailed it made me crindge a little. over all it was a good read. this is got to be my favorite exert from the book. Just the way the zombie is discribed is amazing "A trifle cyanotic, maybe. Blueness in his jaw, at his temples. Very pale. His eyes were shot with read where capillaries had burst open… perhaps that would heal, in time. If he could heal anymore. A vein under his left cheek lay dead and swollen so blue it was almost black. Peering, prodding, stretching the skin of his face with his fingers he found other clots and occlusions, web-like traceries of dead veins."

Frankenstein

One thing that i never knew is that the frankenstein's monster didn't actually have a name. I think in part it is his detachedness of the human work, is why he has no name.  another point could be that part of frankenstein's regetion of his creation and that could be part of the reason he did not give his creation a name. In the book i think around chapter ten when he addresses the creature as a "vile insect", abhorred monster", " a fiend" and an abhorred devil". In the book the writer referred to the creature as "Adam" this is just a referance to that of the first man in the book of the bible that was created by God in the garden of eden. she wrote in her epigraph:

Did I request thee, Maker from my clay
To mould Me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?
John Milton, Paradise Lost

American Gods

I started reading anansi boys and in the mist of the book i looked up more about it online and found that its a spin-off of Neil Gaiman book American Gods. I found the plot for American gods to be a lot more interesting it had that kind of comic book or graphic novel sound to it.  As the story unfolds its fun to discover that all the character are related in some ways big or small there are reasons for meeting and there are also hidden agendas. One of my favorite thing about the book is his way of writing in fantasy of Norse mythology and the mystery of the story. the book also has a kind of commentary of the way that the new gods are a reflection of the way America and people act. I haven't finished the book at this point but am still reading and can't wait to finish with the book

The Golden Compass

For this book I read a majority of the way threw its to my understanding of have just been told that the book takes a stand point quite opposite to that of the Lion the witch and the wardrobe books in that its has the underline plot of putting organized religion specifically christian one, representing it as the Magnesium a ruthless dictating organization. That's just one view of the book but its still a good adventurers journey of personal growth and exploration. This was fun to read but at times I wondered what the proper age group this book is intended for. There are a few parts that don't seem suitable for younger audiences

The Hobbit

My favorite thing about the hobbit is the attention to detail. Its one of my favorite parts of the book is its descriptive capability to the details, such as the description of clothing. You can almost picture what some of the characters could actually look like. The story of the hobbit is very appealing to me because its a story of an unlikely hero, Bilbo Baggins. This is a character that would not be found in the situation of this book. hobbits are easy going creatures they don't like confrontation and they like the plan and the normal nothing out of the ordinary and they defiantly don't like adventures. This makes Bilbo to be the a character that some can relate to, he is small and can appear to some to be weak. And thur out the book he has to come over many obstacles and grows as a person and finds himself to be more that he could ever expect him to be.

Why are Zombies Popular

I think one of the main reasons zombies are so popular is because of the fact that zombies are a satire of human civilization. One point that zombie movies always make is that people try to ignore the zombies and try to go about there live ignoring the problem. But in the end there is always a domino effect of events that leads to the zombies breaking into the human stronghold. Also in later years today zombies have become popular threw pop culture such as video games and big budget moives.