Final Book 1 Project

We’re releasing the next best first-person video game out there, The Price of Dawn. This first-person shooter will include many of the adventures in the book The Fault in Our Stars. Max Mayhem will save children from a school and go through caves with his sidekick. This $19.99 game rated T for teens will have you obsessed from the start and bring you closer to the book and its characters. So get the game while it sill lasts. (Xbox One, PS4, and PC)

The idea of this video game comes from the main characters, Hazel, Augustus, and Isaac whom play the game throughout the story. One such adventure is saving children from a hostage situation, “[While playing The Price of Dawn] Together, they ran down the alleyway, firing and hiding at the right moments, until they reached this one-story schoolhouse.” You too can save the school children from the terrorists. You can feel that you are in Augustus’ basement with Hazel, Gus, and Isaac.  This brilliant video game idea is coming from the fact that Gus, Hazel, and Isaac could play this game and hangout. This book was not as important as say An Imperial Affliction which causes the characters to take an adventure but this book unifies the three none the less.  This video game will have never before seen graphics that make Call of Duty look like playing a Nintendo 64. I can assure you that this 6 hour long campaign will steal the words out of your mouth and you will read The Fault in Our Stars again and again. This game will be primarily focused on the nostalgic campaign that brings you closer to your favorite characters but will also feature a multiplayer game with lots of game modes. The main multiplayer modes will be Team Deathmatch, Search and Rescue, and Juggernaut. This game is action packed just like the book and video game this was based on, “Staff Sargent Max Mayhem, was vaguely likable despite killing, by my count, no fewer than 118 individuals in 284 pages.” This quote coming from a girl who enjoys America’s Next Top Model and is not into violence that much. When girls like a man who kills a lot the character obviously has depth in his personality. This video game can be bought for multiple reasons for all genders and ages a like. No matter if you want to contribute to the raising of funds for children with cancer or actually want to try the emotional and action-packed game, the giddiness is always the same. This action packed-game will allow you to pull the same stunts that Gus did in the book like committing suicide to save school children, “’You can’t kill Max Mayhem!’ and with a final flurry of button combinations, he dove onto the grenade, which detonated beneath him. His dismembered body exploded like a geyser and the screen went red.” Finally this game offers you a unique game type of Augustus mode which forces you to sacrifice yourself to save others in the pursuit of justice, one last way we connect you to the book.

This video game will broaden boys and men alike who enjoy action video games to try out a book that most would consider a little more feminine based. People who aren't aware of this books existence will see that this video game comes from a book that is popular and try to sell more books. This video game will also freely advertise the book in commercials and online to anybody who plays or wants to play. What if you aren't new to this book? If new to this book then you get to stay connected by tapping into the free time thing that Gus used. The feeling of nostalgia will wash through your body and make you want to read this book over and over.

The Fault in Our Stars

                The Fault in Our Stars is not up to my expectations because it wasn’t nearly as good as it should have been for all the praise it is receiving. The book also wasn’t what I expected it to be about although I didn’t really know what I thought it would be about. Not to be mean but the book didn’t interest me a lot but I think it did mention some life lessons and morals worth reading.  I feel like the ending gets the book all the publicity. I am more of a reader who likes some action and a book not completely devoted to relationships like this book was. The book talks about these cancer perks and I felt like the book was receiving some of its own because the plot wasn’t bad but everything was boring and didn’t really seem to be life like. I would give it 3.5 stars out of 5 because it wasn’t just awful. The problem with this book is that it felt like homework which it was but it was more of a pain than joyous.

                Some of the author’s choices also weren’t what I would have done and caused the book to have some things I didn’t like. The book also turned for the worse in the end which I didn’t like. I like to keep my books cheerful and happy but this book was sad and almost made me cry. Tough for a guy like me to admit but it was pretty tragic and kept adding the tragedy as the book continued. The characters did not develop too much except the main character a little bit but everyone was content and normal in the beginning. That wasn’t fun because I didn’t feel like I had grown reading the book or changed much. Overall the book wasn’t awful but I think it shouldn’t be as praised as it should be.

What is a Book?

To me a book is life. I think a book is a person in a castle far away that is timid and shy. Then once you get to noticing it and become friends with him and he turns out to be nice a person. This is like my friend Andrew. There however is nothing special to me about a book for me. It’s like going to a restaurant that is old and eating and then going to a restaurant that is new. Just because they’re different doesn’t mean that I hate or like another one for a special reason. A book to me is like the old-fashioned restaurant, its fine and settles want I want; same with the newer restaurant and an IPod. However the only thing I can’t read on is an IPad because it is too big and bulky.

 

I do feel like many of the authors that books won’t die within the next century but if we develop a technology that is better than a book and can feel like a book without being one then maybe. I don’t agree with some of the authors with having to physically carry a book to read because why do I need to turn pages? There are inconveniences on both sides like a book you have to lug around and not be able to place in a pocket. The book is also bigger and can tear easier. The problems with the electronic are they do have battery lives and can have some technological problems. With that being said I only really agree with the first one because I don’t prefer either. I like how he states that the book is not the thing you fall in love with but what is says. I don’t care how it comes but as long as I can read it. I don’t like how people can say stuff like writing in the margins because some devices like IPhones can mark words and write comments like notes. So that point is mute now. Other comments people say is that books just “feel” right and I don’t know how to respond to that because I guess you can’t feel that with an IPod so I guess that is the only reason not to prefer technology.

 

One of the things I learned early was not to judge a book by its cover, and I feel like IPods and Kindles are receiving a lot of that. It doesn’t matter what it looks or feels like as long as you read the journey that it contains and the life you get to live. I wouldn’t stop playing soccer because I didn’t like the “feel” of the ball or because it looks weird. People should read books no matter the form and I don’t agree with how people are only reading with tech. or books because it’s pointless. Do you discriminate against books or technology?

My First Book - Best Sellers

    

                I chose The Fault in Our Stars to be my first book because everyone was reading it and I wanted to see what it was all about. I have constantly heard good reviews about it and so far the book is not what I expected. Now surprisingly I have never heard a review so when I read the first chapter the book took me for a turn. I read about a girl who survived cancer going to cancer groups to improve her depression, so far all she does is be bored and found a hot guy to hit on named Augustus. I got this book through my sister who has a huge library of books and lent it to me.

                John Green has written many books Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns which have been very popular books. He has a huge following including 1.2 million on Twitter and a couple million on his YouTube channels.  His work has made him become a superstar to many readers and nerds alike. According to New York Times the book is’ “finely wrought language, beautifully drawn characters and a distinctive voice…” I think that the book to me is not that interesting. I prefer more action in my books and a little less romance. I can tell this is going to be a book that is a relationship between two characters who want to be together forever and not really a dragon-slaying, Greek God type of book. I will still read the book although I’m not that interested. I think it could be worse and hope that eventually I will grow accustomed to the love story and enjoy it.

                I think this book is doing so well because it is relatable because so many people have cancer and almost everyone knows someone who is fighting it. Readers feel sympathy towards the characters and are entranced right from the beginning. The book is also about a relationship of two teens like the wildly popular play Romeo and Juliet. This book combines romance and disease and two people who don’t care about looks so much that even though they aren’t your most conventional teens they do still find love in each other.

                This book is not one I typically read as I said before but I will try to find ways to understand the reader and hopefully find enjoyment.  

 

Why I Read

I chose to read because I want to enjoy something I can't. This could be reading about wars from soldiers or teens that are demigods and have to fight for their lives. I can only read a book that I like because otherwise I get bored and stop reading. This creates problems when I read textbooks that I don't feel are interesting. If I find a book I like I finish that book in about a day if it is 500 less pages; it becomes my life.

That being said the toughest part for me is finding a book that I enjoy a lot. But when I do read I read for enjoyment which I think is the best way to read. To read for education for reading for the fact that you have to, it just gets boring. You don't get to connect to the characters if they have them. If you read a book for class you are reading for a goal and that’s what you focus on instead of the characters and plots. I feel to enjoy a book the most and get the most out of a book is to rad for enjoyment so you don’t get distracted and stressed about figurative language and symbolism.

 

Reading for Fun is best Because......

This website talks about how people who read more frequently for pleasure have higher tests scores due to the exposure of better vocabulary which expands. The more you read you also understand feelings and comprehension in the test questions asked so you obviously will score higher. This proves that students should also read for enjoyment so they can expand vocabulary and comprehension which will assist in not only tests but in life with other people. So ultimately reading for enjoyment is the best way because it is a win, win; you get to read for happiness and get smarter at the same time.