Interesting-Book-Related-Thing Saturday
This is for your few copies of Twilight, Dracula, and all the of the DVD’s too. Unfortunately, you need to have a certain type of house to hold this type of bookcase.
This is for your few copies of Twilight, Dracula, and all the of the DVD’s too. Unfortunately, you need to have a certain type of house to hold this type of bookcase.
You can travel the world in the a book, and some other ways which we have not thought of.
20 pages. That was all that I read. This was because of what was in the book. You can read the review here. But since I did not read the book I do not know much about the story but I am going to tell you this from what I read. There is a lot of cursing in this book. You pretty much have every word in the cursing dictionary. Everything from hell to the -eff word. CommonSenseMedia.org rates if ok for 15 year olds but I would have to disagree. On their website I would advise younger readers not to look at the description of this book because all of the words are spelled out and no young readers should know about 3/4 of the words on the page. There is also a lot of sex talk.
I put this book down because it was vulgar. I did not want to read anymore so I just gave it up. If you would like to read it be my guest and tell me how you found it. But personally, I do not want my head filled with all of these disgusting images so if you are that type of person who likes keeping their head clean, stay away from the book.
Hacking Timbuktu by Stephen Davies
MLCWO Rating: 4/5
Opinion: A fast paced witty book about teens and their impressive hacking ability.
Summary
“Danny is a freelance IT specialistthat is, a hacker. He and his pal Omar are both skilled at parkour, or freerunning, a discipline designed to enable practitioners to travel between any two points regardless of obstacles. This is fortunate, because they’re off on an adventure that’s filled with obstacles, from locked doors to gangs of hostile pursuers. Together they follow a cryptic clue, find a missing map, figure out how to get to Timbuktu without buying a plane ticket, and join the life-and-death treasure hunt, exchanging wisecracks and solving the puzzle one step at a time.An exotic setting and gripping suspense, as well as an absorbing introduction to parkour, make this thriller a genuine page-turner.”
-From Amazon.com
Review
This was quite a good book and was not confusing as you might think it would be because it is about hacking. It can always be a little 50/50 with these books – them being too technical or not technical enough and silly. But this one fit in the middle perfectly! This book kept you turning pages because you wanted to know what happened and I just couldn’t put it down. I mean, I read this book in under 6 hours because it was that exciting. It was full of stuff constantly happening, and it just made you want to read more.
My one complaint was that the characters in the book were not really described well because you never got a physical description of them. I don’t always mind that because I can make up my own image in my head but having a basic idea of who they are and what they’re like can be nice. It had a lot of humor in it as the two hackers were teenagers (16 and the other one was in the later teens) and they were going on at each other but it was usually funny. So this was a really great books and I strongly suggest that you check this book out. It is worth reading and I really think that a movie should be made of this. It would be a box office hit.
What is Parkour?
I am sure that there are quite a few people who do not know what parkour is (myself included) so I will tell you what it is. It is to use skills like jumping, running, climbing, swinging, vaulting, and wall scaling to get around different obstacles. In this book the boys could get off a 2 story building by using parkour becuase they used ledges around them and trees to drop the the ground. Here is a video of about parkour. This is part one of five of a Discovery Channel Documentary and part of it is in French but just watch because that is all you need to see to understand parkour.
Book Information:
Hardcover: 264 pages
ISBN-10: 0547390165
ISBN-13: 978-0547390161
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As I have a week off school I have a lot of reading time. So I went to the library the other day and got myself a nice stack of books to make my way through. Some of the reviews that you can be expecting are….
Hacking Timbuktu by Stephen Davis
A Crack in the Sky by Mark Peter Hughes
The Shadow Project by Herbie Brennan
Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
&
Where the Streets had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah
The first one will be Hacking Timbuktu as I finished that in under 6 hours.
So I must go off and writing a stunning review as it was a stunning book.