Reading Week #30: Children of Men

    It is the year 2027.
    The last days of the human race.
    No child has been born in 18 years.
    He must protect our only hope.

    This is a book that I read after I saw the film which came out in 2006 and is one of my favorite movies ever. I was immediately hooked by the realism and humanity exhibited in the movie, and I really wanted to read the book that it was based on. I am very happy to say that the book is every bit as striking as the film adaptation, and it is a book that everyone should read one time or another.

    However, this may not be a book that everyone should read. It is incredibly dark (to maintain all the realism of our world falling apart), and there is also a fair amount of adult content in here. I wouldn't recommend this book to everyone in our class right now, but everyone should read it at one time or another.

Reading Week #29: The Martian Again!

 Book: The Martian
        Author: Andy Weir
        Genre: Science Fiction/Realistic

        I really enjoyed this book, because there were so many unique elements to it, and the entire experience was really a refreshing look at science fiction. It follows the story of Mark Watney, an astronaut who was part of one the first manned missions to Mars in the near future, who was studying the surface with others. An unexpected storm comes, and during the fast evacuation, he found himself rolling down a dune impaled with an antenna, and the ship filled with his colleagues ascending in the other direction. He was left behind on the red planet be himself with very limited resources, and faced with the hard yet simple task of surviving.
     
        As I said this book is very different from most science fiction we have become accustom to, because it points out and explains the details of all the technology and science Mark comes into sight with. This makes the story much more believable, because it seems as though the reader is reading a story from real life and nothing is made-up or fantastical. The writing style is good (not beautiful... much like the book) and the entire story is very well told. I had a great time reading this, and despite the scientific basis that the book has, I believe everyone could enjoy reading this.

        This is answering the blog question: My favorite character is Mark, because for the most part he is the lone character in the book