Ender's Game

Asa Butterfield is my new Freddie Highmore. 

He's been cast as Ender in the upcoming Ender's Game movie. 

My motivation to read this book skyrocketed. 

I absolutely love this book - so much that it's my (current) favorite book of all time, dimensions, and ages. I love the development of the characters, especially Ender. I LOVE the ending. I love the buggers. Well, all right, maybe I don't completely love the buggers. But I feel compassion for them, because Ender feels compassion for them. 

Ender to me is such a believable character. If someone stuck this kid in a YA novel with these characters in a high school, I never would have believed them. But from the first sentence, I knew that Ender was a real kid, and he was reacting in the most logical way to his circumstances. 

I loved his friends. I loved that they had flaws. I loved how Ender had flaws, and how he had to hide them. I loved that I could believe that he was 6, then 7, then 8, then 9, etc. Normally with younger characters they think and act like older characters, and I can't believe the age the author says they are. Not the case with Ender. 

I just love his name. Ender. Isn't that the coolest name?

Was there any part I didn't like? Well, quite frankly, there's lots of little boys running around naked. I get how it's essential to create a realistic atmosphere, and they're not running around naked just for the heck of it, and nothing specific is ever mentioned, but it's still there. And there was a lot of tactical talk, simply because that's the kind of book it is. If you try to read it all in one sitting, it blows your head. 

Overall rating: 5 out of 5 stars. 

Can't wait to see the movie!

Inheritance (pt. 1)

As Inheritance (by Christopher Paolini) is roughly over 900 pages long, there will probably be about nine parts to this series. I'll try to post every 100 pages.

First 100 pages:

NOTHING IS HAPPENING.

No, really. There was a skirmish. A woman gave birth. Of course, it took way too many chapters with even more bad metaphors mixed in there. Hopefully the action picks up and the ever-praiseworthy depictions of the immortal and epic Eragon die down.

Hopefully.

An Introduction to Obsession

Welcome!

If you're reading this blog looking for what's happening in my life, you've come to the wrong blog.

If you've come to here what I think about literature, modern or classic, then you've found it! If you want to read some of my writing, I may have some of that, too.

What else are you going to find here? That...well, that's a good question. You may get my rants on the epicosity of the English language as I take my History of the English Language course. Is it amazing? Yes. Am I a complete nerd about it? Absolutely.