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Book, College...That's It.

So I finished Misspent Youth , by Peter F. Hamilton a couple days ago. I thought it would be better. The ending was predictable, and the story was interesting, but boring at the same time. How do writers do that? How can they write something interesting yet boring? It was boring because of all the unnecessary scenes in the book, but it was interesting because the book was set in the future, and there was some interesting sounding technology. Other than that, the book was boring. Now, I've reading Fallen Dragon , also by Peter F. Hamilton (I started on...um... Tuesday?), and I'm on page 78 of 818. I've made so much progress in that book. HAHA. It's got the stories of three characters so far, and it's alright, but it's one of those books that puts me to sleep. I doubt I'll be able to finish this book by Wednesday, which is when college will finally start. If not, I can read it on BART... if I'm that desperate for entertainment (it's actually pretty in

My Normal Bookly Reviews

So, I've read two more books. I suppose I'll be going on this thing whenever I've finished reading two books, not three, since reading three books takes too long. Anyway, I just finished my second book (after the last entry) today, and that too, was a let-down-ending. As I said last time, the book I had just started reading at the time was  The Almost Moon , by Alice Sebold. That one was alright, I suppose; nothing really exciting about it in my opinion. It was just a "Crazy" daughter getting away with the murder of her "crazy" mother, and what it was like for her. Man, she was going through her memories left and right-- then again, I suppose everyone goes through their memories like that...especially after they've killed someone. Not that I would know. The worst I've ever thought of someone was hoping an anvil would fall on them and crack their head open... or getting roasted by a flamethrower... but yeah, never going to do that... The Almost M