Legion

Today I'm going review the Novella "Legion" by Brandon Sanderson. My only beef with this book is that it was too short. Of course it is going to be since it's a Novella. At the end of it I was craving more and more. According to Peter Ahlstrom who is Brandon Sanderson's personal editorial assistant there is nothing officially stated about sequels, but if Sanderson decided to write them they would be around 30 thousand words. Also Lions gate has shown interest about making Legion into a TV series. This would be a super cool show after reading it. This was all stated on Sanderson's Facebook page.

Stephen Leeds AKA "Legion" takes the spot light in this novella. He is called Legion by others because Leeds has his own personal set of hallucinations that he talks with openly around others, so everyone naturally thinks he's a little loopy. Interesting thing about these people he sees and speaks with, they all have their own personal set of skills and talents that Leeds draws upon when he needs help with off end jobs he takes from people, he is kind of a private eye detective but not in the official sense. Some of his hallucinations a historian, ex-navy seal, therapist, linguist, master forger are just a few of the many talent "Aspects" that follow him around Aspects is what Leeds likes to call them.

(Spoiler Alert Highlight text if you want to read it)

In the story Leeds is approached by a company wanting him to find a stolen camera that can take pictures of the past. For instance they showed Leeds a picture of George Washington shaving, which is crazy because cameras hadn't been invented yet. The camera was stolen by the inventor. You latter find out that the inventor, a scientist who is a devout Catholic and has received so much grief and persecution for being both at the same time wanted to take a picture of the resurrected Jesus Christ to prove once and for all that it is all real. So Leeds with his Aspects hunt down the inventor to find out he has been taken by an extremist group that wants the camera for their own plans. Since it is a novella everything gets tired up pretty quick. They find the inventor who ends up dying and the camera gets destroyed, but the film was preserved enough to print one picture. It was of Jesus Christ, but at the wrong time, it was before he died. The cool thing was that Jesus was looking straight at the camera, like he knew it was there 2000 years later. Leeds returns home and a new aspect shows up who is a scientist to help him rebuild the camera. Maybe.

So I really hope more books are written because this could simple become an awesome book series.

 

My first Flyer

I've begun my journey into the Communication world and now I would like to share it with you. My fellow students and I have been asked to start a blog to present our work, ideas, and thoughts. So I hope my ideas and thoughts can be entertaining for you all to see and read.

So here is my final project for the very first flyer I have ever made. We were ask to only use the InDesign program and nothing else for this project. We were given all the text and pictures, so  I didn't write this just designed it.

Any Comments are most welcome. Thank you for looking at my blog.

 

Ender's Game Book Review

I've be told I should write about something I love.

I love to read.

Fantasy and Sci Fi are my favorite works to read.

The latest book I finished was Ender's Games by Orson Scott Card, an oldie but goodie.

I once read this book in Jr. High because it was required reading and at that time I didn't enjoy reading at all.

With the Movie adapted from the book coming out soon I decided I wanted to give this book a second chance.

I loved it! It was a great read, and easy to get through.

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins came to my mind as I read this book. In the Hunger Games they mess with the children in a more physical aspect. (Obviously) However in Ender's Game it's psychological, they would mess with Ender's head. It was sad and sometimes a little disturbing what would go through his head at times. I'm thought to myself "No little kid should be thinking those thoughts."

Having a young child as the protagonist wasn't a big issue for me, I mean come on, almost every big literary Hero now days is either a teen or pre-teen. What I did enjoy however was Ender actually grew up through the book instead of staying the same age, so it seemed a little more realistic because he gain experience and knowledge, unlike our other heroes thrown into the fray and happen to survive everything.

Children were many of the main antagonists in Ender’s path through the story.

So at times you were thinking to yourself, wow these kids are messed up. Bonzo was to self-involved in his Honor, which ended in his premature death. Sorry spoiler for those who haven't read it.

I won't ruin the end for those who haven't read it.

I know that there are several more books in this series, but you can read this book and be satisfied with the ending with no driving feeling of continuing on and finishing the series of books. It ends and leaves your minds open to a future, but one you can think up yourself if you didn't want to read the other books.

Ender's Game receives four out of five stars.

A pleasure to read, something the whole family could enjoy.