Awesome Books You Know You Would Want To Be In

What a snazzy title. You know when you pick out a book, and you start reading it and then it gets so awesome and your mind goes berserk and screams, "I WANT TO BE THERE!"....This has happened many times, my friends...many times. Here are some books that made me just want to...you know. Yelp for joy, I suppose.

WAAA-BAMM!

Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
-This book was incredible, if you mind me saying so. If you have your own opinion, just say so in a comment, but to me, this book was AWESOME. I can't wait to read the other books. My friend loaned me this book and said, "It's soooooooo good. Just do it!". So I did. And it was dang amazing. Okay, enough about me yapping on about this. About the story: (contains SPOILERS) At first, I thought, "Oh. Camp Half-Blood. We'll see about this." (referring to J.K. Rowling's 'half-blood' witches and wizards). I'll admit, I was kind of worried that the author was daring to quote another, but then I realized that it was a completely different subject. My bad. But you know it got you thinking about that too, huh? So, there I was reading, and I bet my facial expressions were pretty epic. Especially when I realized that holycrappercyisafreakingsonofposeidon (heh heh. it says 'holy crapper' if you got that). I haven't seen the movie yet, but I've heard many great and wonderful things about it. I should probably go see it soon....

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
-As you all know by now, I happen to be a crazed Harry Potter fan. The sad thing is, I don't even have an HP shirt... *shoves away depressing memory*. So anyway, I have to say that the fifth and seventh are my all-time favorite in the epic adventure.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: This book was so freaking amazing. It blew my mind, mostly because of the rebellion of students at Hogwarts, which reminded me of 'Truancy' (later on that). The book and the movie were so classy. It was a really fantastic idea to shoot the movie with a dark ambience, because of its newfound dangers. If you've read this book, you know exactly what I'm talking about, but you might have a different view.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Ahh. The end. This book was sooo....I can't even think of a word. Imagine that it's the best day of your life and that you just won 700 billion dollars, you're eating the best ice cream in the world, you found your lost puppy (a rare occurrence, which only happens in movies), the person you voted for president won (another rare occurrence), and a giant bolt of lightning struck your least favorite teacher. Just imagine all those happy thoughts rolled into A BOOK. Then it's handed to you, as you stuff your spare change in your pocket, spilling some spare pennies on the linoleum floor. All you can look at is this book, and you are completely unaware of the people around you scrambling to get the change you dropped, in order to pay for their own mind-blowing book. Wellll....this didn't exactly happen to me when I got it. But I felt the same thing when I got it the package a DAY EARLIER than everyone else (thanks Lindsay). I lapped it up in one night, feeling about 2019 emotions at once. If you haven't read this, snap to it.

Truancy by Isamu Fukui
-Totally awesome. Just...freaking sweet. I think I was at the library one day and I saw this. My first opinion was, "What the heck is with the title?". No offense to anyone, I just thought it was a information book on tardies at school. But then I read it...My life will never be the same. The whole book is about the students rebelling against the education system. It is set in the future, where they have very harsh conditions at school (ex. penalty of death). A Truancy is built up (a huge army of kids who were expelled or dropped out of school) in an attempt to destroy the system. In my opinion, don't read it if you get queasy, or if you're like, 40. To read this, you have to have the mindset of a teenager, or at least close to one. The main point of the book is kids against adults, basically. It just wouldn't go well if you were older. There are other books to the sequence, such as Truancy Origins and Truancy City (T.C. comes out this year). All in all, a really enthralling book.

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
-Heh heh. Had you going there, didn't I?

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
-This has got to be the best fairytale book I've ever read. So good. So good. You don't even know. Just read it and you will understand. I know it sounds kind of corny, but here it goes. A father and a daughter live together in their comfy little house, and then some things happen and ohmygoshmocanreadstuffoutofbooks. It's quite awesome, I know. And theeeen later in the series... ohmygoshmeggiecanreadstuffoutofbookstoo! This book was really fun to read. But I do caution you: it is a heavy and fat book. Read it in the summer.

Okay, now it's just books that make you think (and slightly creepy/intense):

Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
-To begin, this book is rather difficult to read. It is full of run on sentences (like this blog when I get excited), cussing, and whatnot. Oh yeah, the best part is that it has no quotation marks so you don't know if someone's talking or narrating! Ha ha! Yeah! This can get on your nerves, but I promise, it is so worth it in the end. Once your reading and you're involved in the story, you get why the author writes this way. The story is set in this crappy place in New York, I believe (sorry, I forgot already). The whole book is about drugs, first of all. If you're not comfortable even hearing about this kind of thing, don't read it. The main characters in the book are trying to snag drugs so they can sell them and be rich. But the plan goes awry, and soon enough, they can't get anymore to sell. Pretty soon, the only thing they ever want/need are the drugs, and they do anything in their power to get some. I'm warning you: intense book. There's hallucinations, thoughts, feelings, etc. Once you get into it, it feels like you're the one on drugs. Once again, do not read if you are not comfortable with this. If you don't want you kid to do drugs, just have them read this book. I will never, ever forget this, and the meaning it has behind it. Definitely a book that makes you wonder.

13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
-This is a book about suicide. You may be wondering, "What the heck, Justine?? Why are you reading all these weird books about bad things?" I read them because I like to know the meaning of why these books have to be written. This is a really serious subject, and I know you will cry or at least feel some remorse as you read this book. To start off, this girl dies. Obviously. You know, the suicide I was talking about. So anways, this girl makes tapes before her death and on them, she records why she committed suicide. All the while, the tapes are passed around to the people she felt were responsible. Sorry if this explanation is confusing. It may sound quite scary at first, but once you read it, you'll understand everything.

Unwind by Neal Shusterman
-I can't even explain this book. It's creepy, unsettling, but good. Sick and twisted, but a pretty good idea for a futuristic book. So in the future, instead of having abortions or putting kids up for adoption, parents can have the choice of freaking 'unwinding' their kid. Yeah, scariest thing ever. Ahhhh I won't even explain it. Gahh. It's weird. And kind of gross. Fight for survival book.


Sorry that this post wasn't funny. Or enjoyable. It was basically just me reviewing books.....
Well, I'll make a post tomorrow or something to make up for it. LAST DAY OF SCHOOL TOMORROW! So I'll definitely have time soon.