Diary of the Lost
??/??/???? We have the kid, Akin I think he’s called, and I have to say he creeps me out. It’s unnatural, the way he acts, the way he… talks. He’s not human, no matter how he may look now. This whole...
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I am finding it very difficult to pick a single sentence, being as there are so many good ones to choose from. I haven’t even finished the novel yet; I can’t imagine what the next 80 pages contains....
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“There was something like sympathy in the vampire’s voice, the practiced affectation of an accomplished mimic. There was something else, too, an all-but-imperceptible hunger, a subtle edge of...
View ArticleAll About the Observations
“I should have been able to tell. She should have been clear,” (p. 274). Ok so it’s two sentences but they’re little ones. I’m not entirely sure why this line stood out so heavily for me. I think it...
View ArticleBlindsight scene rewrite
“Focus Camera 3 just behind those benches” said Sarasti calmly, yet intensely focused. “What for? It’s just those kids pickin’ on that polly again.” Responded the camera operator. “Just do it.” Who...
View ArticleBlindsight, from a new POV
“Looks good,” I said. “I’m going in.” It’s my job to go first. It’s my job to lead the troops when no one else will. Or when no one else can. I followed the grunts down the corridors of Rorschach for...
View ArticleOversight Committee
The room was dark, the only source of light the soft glow of a row of computer monitors around the semi-circular table. A dozen men in dark suits sat around the table silently watching the displays....
View ArticleHouse of the Scorpion
While The House of the Scorpion is not quite as hardcore as the scifi we’ve been thrust into this semester, the novel does deal with some of the common themes we have been discussing this semester....
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As I’m reading through this book, I can’t help but to make allusions to just about every social issue in the world. Animal rights, human cloning, organized crime, political corruption, stem cell...
View ArticleHuman vs Human?
House of the Scorpion, like a number of the other books we have read, questions the nature of humanity and what it is to be human. The revulsion Matteo is given when the Big House staff realize he’s a...
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