Semester 2:Blog Post #1 - What I am reading right now

Hey everyone, this week we start up posting reading blogs again. Its been a while since the last blog post I did so I might make some mistakes, bear with me please. Anyway, with the start of the new year and school coming back from winter break I didn't really know what I was going to read. Well I managed to decide on a book called Battleship. If anyone has seen the movie Battleship the book is based off of that. I recently just finished it and i have to say I kinda liked it. I liked the movie when it first came out and so when I saw this book sitting on a shelf at Half Price Books I'm like,"Why not try reading it." I am going to say Spoiler warning now because I am going to go through some things that I liked in the book and compare that to the movie and so if anyone reading this hasn't read the book or seen the movie you have been warned.

So lets start off. One major aspect of the book that I like is that it gives you the perspective of the aliens invading the planet and what their thoughts are. The movie doesn't really do that as you cant really see what someone is thinking. For example," The humans seek to help the others, plucking the survivors out of the water. Let them gather themselves together so they are a single target. That will allow the most efficient means of utilizing resources. The objective is not to overwhelm them. The objective is to prolong this engagement in order to fully determine what they are capable of doing when presented various opportunities. Dead, they are of no use. Alive, the make interesting ...experiments." After reading that part I was a bit surprised. Most stories only show one side, they never really show what the "enemy" is thinking and why they committed those actions. Plus, this is kind of what people would expect in a alien invasion. It doesn't leave some parts of the story open to interpretation which for me at least is annoying. Its fine if they put it at the ending of a story so that the author can draw them into the sequel, but not when it leaves you like, "Why did they do that?".

Tying into what I said in the last paragraph, I liked the ending of the book compared to the movie. The book adds an aura of mystery and also opens up the possibility of a second book, whereas in the movie the ending is set, Hooray we won, lets forget about this every happening and move on. The ending of the book states,"Hopper nodded even though Shane couldn't see him. 'When one of their...'people'... fall... if they're still alive, then they'll come back for him.' 'They'll come back.'" This ending unlike the one in the move really gives a chance for another book without leaving me the reader hating it because of a huge cliff hanger. Anyway, thanks everyone for reading my blogpost. I will, by next week, have started a new book so that will be interesting. I will see you all in my next blog post. Bye :)