Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

I've decided to blog on my required book for this post. Mainly because some think it is just a stupid book about people who like to burn books and a guy named Guy (hehe) who doesn't like to anymore. It is much more than that. It is about how someone should always strive to be out of conformity, to think your own thoughts, make your own decisions, and make your own views and opinions. To embrace difference and creativity. It also is about how books can affect any person in endless amount of ways. How they give you knowledge, they give you creativity, they give you power.

Neil Gaiman one of my favorite authors explained that it is basically a love letter to books in the introduction. As it is a love letter to books showing how lucky we are now and the freedoms and how amazing our world is. It is also a warning to the world to watch where our world travels. This book was written sixty years ago and he talks about short attentions spans of people. The lack of people like Clarisse in the world, the use of books dropped and measly game apps and TV. He reminds us and warns us to never forget what books do. If you do not understand this book, if you hate books, if you can't understand why people even read books in the first dang place, if you haven't the attention span to even read this whole post which I am sure some people do. Then i fear we head towards a dark and daunting future like in that of the book Fahrenheit 451. We have been warned.

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

So i just finished Insurgent by Veronica Roth and i thought it was a fantastic book. It continued my liking of the series as it was just as good as the first. While it didn't go into the psychology of the characters like the first it had much more action and focused a lot more on the war. It did get into the relationship between Tobias and Tris more which made me lose a lot of interest and want to go and puke, but hey if your a chick you probably love it.

Although this book was definitely middle story line. There is a big "war" which is just one battle that is severely dragged out and you finally figure out what happened to civilization and whats outside the wall. I was expecting a virus or some psychological thing that causes insanity like the Maze Runner, zombie thing, heck even mutated nuclear monster thingy. But alas it is not although it is psychological which falls into the books usual focus, you will have to read it to know.It leads to a whole new concept and the "war" is really diminished compared to this in importance, almost like the whole meat of the book was kind of meaningless and some characters were needless but you got too add new things i guess. Although, to me at points it feels as though the book is comprised of filler like an anime series it still is great and would be a great series for you as it is well rounded in many areas and anyone could enjoy it. The movie did just come out as well and it was very well done, but you should of course read the book first.