Kaitlyn's Blog

         To be honest, I was a little nervous to read Deathnote at first. Reading isn't my favorite thing to do in the first place, and comic books and anime are a completely new genre for me as well. It didn't seem like anything I'd be interested in. Now 128 pages in, this genre isn't necessarily my favorite but I really like the story line and I think it's a cool and unique way of reading.          I think the story really started to take off at chapter 2 when this new L character that nobody knows is introduced. When L set up Light and pretended he was Linden L. Taylor to see if Kira would kill him, I thought that was pretty clever. L is also doing a good job so far at making connections and figuring out who this Kira person actually is. When I was reading it, I actually compared L to Wade from Ready Player One for a second because they're both anonymous people and no one actually knows their real identity, and they're both really sm...

After finishing up the last couple of chapters of Ready Player One, so much went through my mind. I really enjoyed reading this book, but I also can't get over how intelligent Cline makes Wade's character. The part that stuck out to me the most was on page 356 when Wade said, "Over the past six years, I'd watched Holy Grail exactly 157 times." Like how does someone just remember that off the top of their head? There were more little things like that throughout the book that made me have thoughts like this as well, but this was the one instance in this chapter. I also thought the ending of this book was very predictable. The main character reaches his goal and becomes incredibly wealthy, gets the girl in the process, and defeats the enemy. I'm glad Wade ended up finding the egg over the sixer's though. Maybe it's just me, but I still think it would've been cool if Parzival, Art3mis, and Aech all ended up winning together instead of Art3mis, Aech, ...

Things within the OASIS have definitely intensified since the first ninety-nine pages of the book. Not even with just the hunt for the egg, but with relationships among gunters as well. I wasn't surprised at all when Parzival was the first to find the Copper Key. After all, it said back on page 9, "After five long years, the Copper Kay had finally been found, by an eighteen-year-old kid living in a trailer park on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. That kid was me." I also wasn't really surprised that Art3mis found the Jade Key first, and Aech found it second. I sort of predicted that. What did surprise me a little is that the Sixers found the second gate AND the Crystal Key before either Art3mis, Aech, or Parzival, even though he was slacking. During these set of pages, I actually gained a lot of respect for him and I also feel bad for him. He was willing to give up these past years of his life searching for the billion dollar reward just so he could be with Art3mis...

After reading the first 99 pages of Ready Player One by Ernist Cline, I still can't tell if being in a world like an OASIS would be really cool or not. I think the idea of living life online could be really convenient but it could also be really boring. It would be helpful because the main character, Wade, attends school online. I think that's a neat concept because if something happens where you're not feeling well or you just can't make it to school one day you could still attend school in the OASIS. Plus having the OASIS would be a nice way to escape the real world for a while if you needed to. I think fully living life in the OASIS would be boring though because although I need my personal space, I don't want to physically be alone all the time like Wade is. I think that if this book were real life and the OASIS and Halliday's egg really did exist, then this would be a reflection on how the lower class lived their life. Wade isn't from a wealthy family...