I lost hope in finishing John dies at the End. I still had like 400 pages and I pretty much only read like maybe 20 pages a week because it's just really hard to focus on something for more than a few minutes at a time. But recently it was christmas, and my sister told me to buy her books by C.S. Lewis because she liked him and needed a book for when she went back to school, and I wanted CD's because I have a spectacular CD collection. So she took me to half price books so we could get each other what we wanted, only I never left the CD section so she actually had to buy her own gift from me to her. But anyways, I was at my place of residence and I was looking for a book to read because it was like 2:00 in the morning and I don't think about what I'm doing at 2:00 in the morning, I just do whatever feels right. On my bookshelf I saw The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis and I was excited because it was by that one author that my sister liked and it looked tremendously shorter than John Dies at the End. So I picked it up and went back up the ladder to my bed, because my bed is a loft bed and has a ladder, which was awesome when I was ten but now I just hit my head a lot. Then I turned on my touch lamp because I am a privileged person who owns a touch lamp, and I went on a journey inside the book.
The book is pretty great, I'm only on page 31, but so far it has lit the light bulb that is my mind. There's these two kids and they're in London, which is already awesome because Britain is awesome and their accents make me giggle, and they meet because the guy is really sad because his life sucks. Then the girl is like "well lets go on some adventures!" and they do, they adventure up in the attic and build a fort and stuff, and then they discover that they can go to other peoples apartment things through the attic, so they try to go to an abandoned apartment but they actually go into the forbidden room in the boy's apartment and then his crazy uncle finds them and tells the girl to take a ring, and she does but then she disappears which is kinda unfortunate. So then the guy yells at his uncle and his uncle rambles about magic and stuff and about how he's above rules because he's a genius, and then the boy touches the rings too so he can disappear and save the girl. And thats pretty much where I am right now.
Also my book is by the guy who wrote the book that was turned into the movie that says "FOR NARNIA!"
and I like SpongeBob a whole lot.
I Love this series its pretty awesome. The Magician is kinda the prologue to the lion the witch and the wardrobe series.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog, man. You wrote some profound and interesting stuff in that thing. One thing I found profound and interesting and stuff was when you said, "Then I turned on my touch lamp because I am a privileged person who owns a touch lamp, and I went on a journey inside the book." That was great man. That quote from your thing was profound and interesting in my opinion because like in the world or maybe even in other planets and dimensions and vortexes and other stuff, people or aliens don't have touch lamps. Like, why do you have one and not them, you know? My dad always says, "Privilege is just a number," but that's a different story. Anyways, if privilege really means who we are, then what is privilege if not a profound and interesting thing? Take a couple minutes to ponder that idea and get back to me ASAP man. By the way, I have read "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and I thought that was solid. It's solidity could never match your wings, though Josh. Never stop flying. America.
ReplyDeleteI love all the humor in your post it makes it a whole lot better to read. This book sounds very interesting and look forward to reading it. I don't know why but I think this review was way better because you did not go in intense detail. This book sounds great, and I am going to think about reading it, thanks for the recommendation.
ReplyDeleteNIce blog Josh! It was really fun reading your blog. Thanks man!
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