"Hunting the Hunter" By:Stanley Suter

 Prompt: Did you like what your reading? Why or why not?

        This week I have been reading "Hunting the Hunter" By: Gordon Korman, and so far I really like it. It is the 6th book in its series as well as the final. The basic story line is that two kids (Meg and Aidan) and their parents are falsely accused of helping terrorists, and where set up by their "uncle" (not really) Frank, the bald assassin. He tries to kill them several times, and each time the escape by the skin of their teeth. This time they are hiding at a farm as working hands, and their plan is to trap Frank and report him to the police, freeing both themselves and their parents.

        A few things I liked about the book. First, the many action parts of the story and standoffs. The unbelievable way that they get caught and then think of some obscure way to make it out of the situation without being arrested and killed. The way that all animals hate Aiden, like the 300 pound pig at the farm, and the cows... Most of all I liked the ideas that the writer uses and how he introduced them early in the story, only to come into use later.

        A couple of things about the book I didn't like. First, details that I think where stretched out for way to long, and ended up just making that part of the book feel boring. Next, the dangerous things that the siblings would do, that would be totally unbelievable. Like Meg throwing a turnip in the air to stop a bullet from hitting her brother in the back of the head. The chances of the bullet even being stopped by a turnip are so low that it would have been just as likely of making him miss by yelling that his mother was an ape.

"The Other Wes Moore" By:Stanley Suter

Prompt-Did you enjoy reading what you read?

        This week I have been reading "The other Wes Moore" again, by Wes Moore. I do not like it as much as I did the week before this one. At the end of the book, it just explains a scholarship that Wes won because he learned about the way people lived in Africa, and the way it was healing from a dictatorship through a semester in Africa. Then it ended abruptly, just concluding that good Wes got to go to Harvard while bad Wes spent his time in jail. A way the book could have been better was if he had gone into "present" time and gone through the rest of the interview that stretched through the book.

        A couple of things I did enjoy about the book. I really liked the fine details mixed into the perspective of the narrator. It explained the use and selling of drugs as a game, one that once you got in, you couldn't get out. Another is the way that the book "compacted" time, making it so you could see how things changed in the two boys lives. Such as the point in the book when good Wes went to military school, and the other dropped out of high school. The book showed it as the good Wes finally catching a break in his education, and the bad Wes going down the wrong path.

        A few thing I disliked about the book. Bad Wes's mother's un-care for her sons well being. Like the easy, and even sometimes non-punishment for things that I think most people see as over the top bad behavior. Of course, the abrupt and annoying quick ending of the book that made it seem as though he was either running out of pages or time. The random small details that would be stretched on for two to three pages.

The Other Wes Moore By:Stanley Suter Pages:0-163

       Prompt:Who is your favorite character and why? Who is your least favorite character?


        This week I have been reading "The Other Wes Moore" By:Wes Moore, and so far, I really like it. It is about two kids, about the same, both black, both grew up around drugs and crime, but had totally different futures due to certain influences and changes in their lives. The one who wrote the book was the one who turned out for the better. He has gone through military school, and received one of the highest academic achievements in the world, that allowed him to move on to Oxford college with a full scholarship, while the other is serving a life sentience in prison.

        My favorite character in the entire book would be the good Wes's father. He kept a very fair house hold and was really nice to Wes's half sister, Nikki, even though he wasn't her birth father. He protected Wes, and his mother, until he died early in the book. He had a case of two different diseases with symptoms that confused the doctors, and so wasn't treatable.

        My least favorite person in the book had to be the evil Wes's mother. I didn't like her because of her lack of care for her children's well being. When she found over 4,000 dollars in drugs underneath Wes's bed, the only thing she did for his situation was flush them down the toilet. When she found out that his girlfriend was pregnant, she acted normally, not even yelling or talking to him about the situation (well, maybe she wasn't surprised after Wes's older brother's girlfriend also got pregnant and had a kid two years earlier).