I've started reading this new book by John Green and it is simply amazing until now! This book's first chapters are about this 16 year-old guy that is going to a new overnight school. His name is Miles, but the nickname he got when we went in his dorm was Pudge. His room mate was Chip, but everyone called him the Colonel. There is also this pretty awesome girl called Alaska and Pudge likes her. On the first night he got there, he got thrown into the lake, but not as the usual ritual, instead they duct-taped him from shoulders to feet and threw him in the lake. It was really hard for him to swim all the way to the shore, but he made it, he remembered that before they threw him in the water, the guys told him to stay away from the Colonel or he could regret it. When he came out he went in the building where his room was but first he went to Alaska's since they were already friends, but she kicked him out immediately. He was really sad and he told the Colonel everything that had happened. He got really angry and decided to start searching who were the ones that did that. During class time, they would draw the desks and make a checkmark on the one that someone suspicious was sitting. The Colonel had a girlfriend called Sara, they had a really troubled relationship, they both fought a lot and treated each other horribly. Sara called the Colonel and told him that he was a rat because he uncovered the secret of Paul and Marya, who were kicked out of school for violating some codes.
" A minute later, three words made their way to our room through the thick, still air of Alabama at almost-night. "Screw you too!""
I was a little impressed on how a person could tell her/his boyfriend/girlfriend that terrible thing and still be together. I personally think that talking things out is the best way to amend things in a relationship, but not by fighting all the time.
"With my arms flat against my sides like a soldier at attention, they mumified me from my shoulder to my wrist...taped my legs together from ankles to thighs...then they picked me up and hurled me into the water."
I think that it is pretty amazing that no one does anything about somebody duct-taping a person and then throwing him/her into the water, he/she could drown and it is really dangerous. How come do the teachers or the principle don't know about this!
Even though I haven't read much of the book until now, it is awesome. That is something that I love about John Green's books, they start awesome and end amazing. His books are not like others that start borring and keep being borring until the problem comes.
Guliana I liked your blog and I liked the way that you started, it makes the reader want to keep reading about it because it seems that the book is amazing. I liked the words that you used because it was easy to understand for all audience. Some of the enhancements could have been improved because they dont explain a lot about the book. I think that you could have change the first quote because for me it was not really that much interesting, so you could have use something more impacting. I liked how you explain the quotes giving your opinions about what you think. As the audience I liked reading your blog and it was fun and I would have continue reading them but I want to read the book.
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