Francis' Reading Blog

Me and my book club chose the book Ready Player One, and I was the one to decide the book for the group. We chose the book because it was a fairly modern book that showed what the future of mankind would be like. And also that we enjoyed the movie and wanted to see what the book was like. I think a factor that played a role in us choosing the book was because of the movie, it was one of those situations where we wondered what the book was like compared to the movie and many said that the Ready Player One book is much better than the movie. I thought the book was very good, but it provided a lot of cliches that seemed to make the book too predictable. I'm not saying that made it bad, it just seemed like the book was more or less predictable by the middle of the story. My group members thought the same as well, the book in itself is one big cliche, but we enjoyed it overall and it was a very good read. I believed this book had a pretty strong message on humanity and how we all rely...

The book that I read for my free pick was called Neptune's Inferno. I found the book looking for books on the topic of World War 2. From the title, I was interested in reading it since I had a very high interest in reading historical non-fiction or even fiction, but I mostly read non-fiction books. For me, the book was an intense ride on one of the important naval battles of World War 2. It was one of the deciding factors in the Pacific theater apart from Midway that helped the United States gain an offensive advantage on Japan. I think the book was very well done, written by James D. Hornfischer, he provides excellent detailing of the book, there's lots of parts in the book that show the heavy toll of death during the war which is important to show what war was like at the time. For example during the battle of Guadalcanal, it is shown that a lot of men had lost their lives after being sunk by an enemy torpedo, the U.S had lost over hundreds of men during the battle. The boo...

Books of my Life My favorite book to movie - The Shawshank Redemption              One of the best books I've ever read was this one. I had first watched the movie before I even read the book, but the movie itself was an amazing watch. And then I read the book, and saw such a good semblance of the characters in the movie with the book. Each character was portrayed perfectly by the cast and even the main character Andy Dufresne played by Tim Robbins was amazing. There were some scenes in the book that weren't in the movie but it was overall very good.  Historical Book - The Communist Manifesto Although the Communist Manifesto has some interesting messages, that are geared towards the political standards of society. It's a very good book to read for people who are interested in political theories and such. The book has a lot of messages about communism, it details how it works and what society could be with it. It also ...