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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Fault in Our Stars is one of my favorite books of all time and in my opinion (probably not of others) deserves a five-star rating (or a 4.9999999999999-star rating, because the book isn't perfect). I read it a long time ago, but an event that happened recently - Technoblade's death - urges me to write about the similarities. (A very rough) SUMMARY (and if I get something wrong forgive me) Augustus and Hazel were two friends who both had cancer and fell in (sort of) love. Both liked the book "An Imperial Affliction" and decided that they take the "offer" of the author to travel there, meet him, and potentially get an exclusive sequel. However, it turns out that the "offer" was not an actual offer but merely a friendly reply; Van Houten (the author) did not want to see the kids at all. However, the trip turned out fatal for Augustus who then died. It probably doesn't take a genius to realize that Technoblade seems like Augustus, in character (but not in the plot; he definitely didn't travel and risk his life and stuff). For the first thing, both had cancer, and both seemed to get better, and then they both died. Additionally, Augustus, even when he knew he had cancer, helped Hazel. You can scarcely tell by his lines or actions (except for his door accident) that he had cancer up. Technoblade was in not-so-good condition, but he still managed to joke about and even make videos (5, after the "where i've been" video, not counting the "I Almost Became an Amputee" video and the "so long nerds" video). Rest In Peace, Technoblade. TECHNOBLADE NEVER DIES. View all my reviews on goodreads.com Seriously, read this alone and have a bag of tissues beside you lol. This book makes you CRY.
(And actually, don't read this book if you're likely to have an eye infection like me.) SHORT SUMMARY Coyote Sunrise has to convince her dad to drive to Washington against his will. LONG SUMMARY When Coyote Sunrise gets a phone call from Grandma telling them the park in her neighborhood was going to be torn down, she has to get back to retrieve the buried memories and fulfill her promise... when her father clearly doesn't want her to go to the past. She and her father get visitors and passengers along the way, conflict after conflict, she finally reaches her goal. This is a good and suspenseful book that deserves a rating of 5 stars. "Hello everyone, Technoblade here. If you are hearing this, I'm dead."
I sometimes go probe in the mystery of Minecraft Youtubers and the best place to search is Wikipedia, of course. Technoblade ------------- Alexander (June 1, 1999 – June 2022[a]),[9][10][11] known online by the alias Technoblade, was an American YouTuber and internet personality known for his Minecraft videos and livestreams on his YouTube channel, as well as his involvement in the Dream SMP.[12][13] As of July 2022, Technoblade's YouTube channel has more than 12 million subscribers.[14][15][16][2] Technoblade died in June 2022 of metastasized sarcoma.[15][17] And obviously I was astonished. Time for a quick Google search, I guess. This leads me down to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPMluEVUqS0. Technoblade died bravely by Stage IV cancer on about June 30th (for future reference, 2022). I have occasionally watched his videos and I appreciate how he still makes content after his surgery. Rest In Peace, Technoblade. Wikipedia Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technoblade The following text might slightly be a spoiler. All the facts should become clear in about 10 pages, but if you want everything to be a surprise don't read on.Otherwise, read on: This book is THE BOOK FOR ME. For one thing, I like mathematics, and thus even the presence of a mathematician pleases me. In the book Foundation, it even talks about transformations. (To be honest, these days I kept thinking about how psychohistory can actually be real, but thanks to Quantum Mechanics it might never be... until maybe we can find a new law?) I was actually infuriated by the fact that there were not many mathematicians and such. The next part are total spoilers. Do not advance unless you have already read the book or want to willingly spoil the story.First of all, the entire story was very science-fiction-al. It was very scientific due to all the history and mathematics that were thrown into it, and most of all the robot part caught me by surprise. And yet it was also quite fictional (at least, according to current standards): For one thing, it's impossible to have such many planets in the same galaxy, as they must fit into the Goldilocks Zone. For another, it's impossible to tell the future absolutely, due to first the Butterfly Phenomenon and also the unmeasurability of Quantum Mechanics. Finally, even if you can calculate the possibilities, it would look like this: 0.1% you'll end up here, 0.1% you'll end up there, et cetera. Second, the story was very dramatic. I never expected Chetter Hummin to be Eto Demerzel and Robot Daneel Olivaw at the same time. The former was seemingly contradictory and the second was... stupid to me, maybe because I was stupid, but mainly because I haven't read the Robot series. The whole Robot thing was... messy and I think the author should include some excerpts from the Robotic series. Overall, this is a very good novel that deserves a rating of 5 stars. I would give this book a rating of 5 stars.
SUMMARY We learn about a boy named Christopher Johnson McCandless who traveled to the wilderness. He took a new name, Alex Supertramp, and survived for more than a hundred days. Then he died out of hunger and was discovered nineteen days later. Given the circumstances, Jon Krakauer was allowed to write a newspaper article about the facts surrounding Chris. Struck "by the unsettling parallels", Krakauer "refused to let [Chris McCandless's story] go", and learned more about Chris and his family. Chris's father and mother tried to persuade Chris into telling them about his plans after a dangerous journey. However, Chris refused to listen and was "even less inclined to share his plans". Then, he learned about his father's second family and was very angry. He graduated, but then instantly went on his trip to Alaska. He was sent to Alaska by many people and friends, including Gallien and Ronald Franz. When he arrived, he was doing great until he ate some poisonous plant and died. The reason was debated for a long time but it was finally proven that it was because of a toxic amino acid, "L-canavanine", inside the potato seed, "H. alpinum". Krakauer has experienced something similar to McCandless. He had an alcoholic father and had attempted to climb the Devil's Thumb. " I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. " The two are not the same; Krakauer did not, for instance, possess the wealth at that time comparable to McCandless's. However, Krakauer and McCandless are very similar. " [...] I survived my Alaska adventure and McCandless did not survive his[. It] was largely a matter of chance[.] " THEME There are a lot of themes in this story: "the grip wilderness has on the American imagination, the allure high-risk activities hold for young men of a certain mind, the complicated, highly charged bond that exists between fathers and sons", et cetera. WHAT I THINK IS NOT SO GOOD First, I'm 13, so this book seems mildly inappropriate in quotes "Holy shit!" "What the hell is that?" et cetera. Other than that I think the timelines are a bit jumbled and perhaps a literal timeline beside the story would be better. (I was going to say that the Afterword was way too scientific but some science nerds might like that, and it is being truthful. (The only changes I did was of formatting issues because those dashes didn't seem good in this font. )
Hello! Thanks for your patience - I got Covid last week and have been recovering from that, so I’ve been especially slow to respond to emails. - I don’t personally use a grammar checker. I re-read what I write over and over to look for mistakes. Or in some cases, I have an editor or a friend read what I wrote and try to find mistakes. - My first drafts also have a lot of words! One thing I do sometimes after my first draft is summarize what I’m trying say in a list of bullet points. Then I try to cut out the unnecessary bits in my second draft. - I’m not currently working on a sequel to See You in the Cosmos, but I’m always happy to hear from readers like you that you’re interested in one. Maybe I’ll work on it in the future. I’m actually about to finish a different book, that’s more based on my experience growing up Chinese-American in Metro Detroit. That book should come out next year. - There’s an interesting story behind the “brother” on the train: I was trying to figure out how to get Alex on the train without an adult. But it didn’t seem like he was the type of kid who would try to sneak on board. At the time I was writing that part, the author photo I was planning to use in the back of the book showed me wearing a blue bandana. So I wrote in that detail for the older kid, as a way of saying that I, the author, have to help Alex on his journey. It was a little bit of a cheat. Otherwise it doesn’t have that much significance to the story itself - but I’m glad you noticed it! How to ruin your computer or VM with one easy command usable for all systems: sudo rm -rf /*20/6/2022 READ THIS FIRST before you go stupid and run this on your computer.If you run this command, it will DELETE ALL FILES ON YOUR COMPUTER, SYSTEM FILES AND WORD DOCUMENTS ALIKE. If you are using a Virtual Machine (VM) though, you don't have to worry. It will simply crash your VM, doing no harm otherwise to the computer itself. First, let's run this. Create a folder somewhere, named testcrash, and add some files and folders into it. Next, open the terminal.
You should see something like this: Now we can execute our killer command: sudo rm -rf . There is a space at the end. Do not add the /* at the end, it will RUIN YOUR COMPUTER. Then type the location of your folder or drag the folder to the terminal shell. For me, it is: cd /Users/luchang/Desktop/testcrash. Then, press Enter. It will ask you for your password. Let's look back at our testcrash folder. Where is it? Well, it's missing. We deleted it.
So what happened? Let's tear it up one by one. sudo means you are giving your computer administrating power. You can find out by executing sudo --help. It tells you: sudo - execute a command as another user. What about rm? It removes the folder. -rf tells the rm to forcedly remove the folder and all of it's contents. The final argument is the directory. If you execute sudo rm -rf /*, it looks into /*, which is your computer, and deletes all your computer files. Next time, we will look at recovering your password. IMPORTANT. If you have not read this book and want to recommend this to a child, don't.This book contains swear words. For the most part swear words are truncated or replaced (for instance, shit to sh-- or bleep), but it is made clear that whatever is substituted is a swear word. I myself am light on swear words, and so is my school. (For your information I am precisely 13 so I am not underage.) This also includes French-Kissing and periods (as in menstruation). This is probably because the book is originally made for adults. (Though I don't think this is an excuse. This is published as a children's book, after all.) The older brother Ronnie doesn't pay attention and wrongly gives Alex permission to travel by himself with two strangers. But in my perspective, unlike what a parent might think, this book is awesome. I finished rereading this book for the fifth time today. Personally, I like this novel. I have seen comments that this book was plagiarized, but I have not read the other book. Thus, I can not, and will not, make the decision if it was plagiarised. If this book is indeed plagiarised, this book would score 0. I think this novel deserves a rating of 5/5 as an adult's book, if (and only if) it was not plagiarised. SUMMARYThe main character Alex is a boy whose dad died when he was three. He is a rocket enthusiast, and his hero is Carl Sagan, the author of the book Pale Blue Dot, and the scientist who sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 into Outer Space. Inspired by his hero's Golden Record, Alex makes a Golden iPod. He records his story, and this is how the novel is formatted. We learn that Alex wants to go to the "Southwest High-Altitude Rocket Festival", known as SHARF on Rocketforum.org. Alex has made a rocket, Voyager 3, and tested it on his rocket simulator. He wishes to send his golden iPod into space using this rocket. We learn about his dog. He takes him and his dog, along with essential material on his wagon, onto the train that will take him to SHARF. But when he attempts to board the train, the manager told him that he needs to be accompanied by an adult. Thus, he finds some stranger nearby and takes him as his brother. I think this needs a disclaimer that says DON'T DO THIS. But alas, it works, and Alex successfully snuck onto the train. On the train, he meets an insignificant boy called... let me check... Lacey. He plays Battlemorphs with Lacey. Suddenly the train stops and we see Alex's "brother" go to the hospital. (I wonder what significance this has. Foreshadowing? Red herring? Suspense? Pun? None of these are particularly outstanding but all of them could have happened.) Then he met the "Martial Arts Master" Zed, who has a vow of silence and is going to SHARF as well. They arrive 2.5 hours later than they expected and meet Steve, Zed's roommate and teammate, who gives them the ride. Alex's rocket didn't work, because the simulator didn't work and he glued the rocket poorly. He promises to double his efforts next time and build Voyager 4. However, the recent notification from Ancestry.com was bothering him. It had found a match of his deceased dad, with the same name and birthday. He doesn't think this is a coincidence, and neither does Zed. They finally persuade Steve to drive him, after Ronnie gave permission to Alex. However, Ronnie wasn't paying attention at the time. Alex, Zed, and Ronnie went to Las Vegas to supposedly find Alex's "maybe dad", and lose Carl Sagan on their way. When they arrived at the house of Alex's father, they find that Alex has a half-sister Terra and that his dad managed to marry Donna, Terra's mother. Alex's dad did indeed die eight years ago. When Terra's mom explained to Terra, Terra refuses to accept how Donna and Howard, her step-father, had hidden this away from her. Then, during a stay at Steve's girlfriend's house, Steve thought that Terra likes his roommate Nathan, and wants to get revenge by telling Alex his dreams will fail. Terra and Alex leave and returns to Alex's house, only to find that Alex's mom is missing. Shortly afterward, Alex fell down a ladder and had surgery. When he recovered, they found that Alex's mom has schizophrenia. The five people, Zed, Ronnie, Steve, Alex, and Terra, had to pay for all the bills, and thus posted the story onto Rocketforum.org. It was a success, and the bills got paid out. Although it attracted a social worker to investigate, the social worker did not break apart the family. Ronnie sacrifices and stays at Alex's house, and Lander Civet invites Alex to come to see the rocket launch. I had actually thought Alex would succeed in bringing his iPod into space; I was thinking maybe his iPod gets put on the rocket until I read the last page. It wasn't disappointing, though. THEMESA lot of them. Being brave, overcoming obstacles, and friendship, just to list a few. COMMON COMPLAINTSSome people had thought of this formatting as strange and unusual. Indeed, there are a few excerpts that go: I told him blablablablabla and he said blablablablabla and I said blablablablabla and he said blablablablabla. But in my opinion, this is a way of representing the mood of the story. I don't think that this complicates reading the book, either. For instance, take this excerpt: I calmed down finally to just scattered showers, and I told him I'm supposed to go to SHARF to launch my Golden iPod into space and all my friends from Rocketforum.org are going to be there, and I spent a fortune on the train ticket and I made food for my mom and put the GladWare in the refrigerator and now there's no way I can go because I'm not thirteen even though I'm at least thirteen in responsibility years. (Page 22/23) A yucky four-line sentence! But for a reason. The main character Alex is scared. He is hurricane-ing. Thus, it feels normal that such a character will speak this way. Another thing is that Carl Sagan is missing for most of the story and that the cover is false advertising. However, even when Carl Sagan is missing for most of the story, he is not absent for most parts of the plot. Such a say, I believe, is wrong. What do you want to hear about next?
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