Why do I often get sneeze
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Hello, I'm Rogan and welcome.
If you read the title and saw the intro,
you know what this is about.
My Sbooktactular Reading Adventure!
I made it! I finished my whole
TBR and with time to spare!
I will be going in the order that I read the books.
I normally will read 1,2,3,4 [shrugs] books at the
same time but for this week, I decided that I'd read
and finish one at a time. So that makes
it a little bit easier for me to go through.
The first book was actually a graphic novel.
[Black Panther Book One]
It was, yeah, okay. I'm not really into comics, so...
It was actually a little nice because it has more
information about the Black Panther if you don't really
know his world. But also, you kind of have to
already know a little bit of his background,
and not just go into it knowing nothing about it.
That's the original appearance of Black Panther
in the comics from way back, years ago.
That was cool to see, the original look.
Funny thing, a lot of the books that I got had
extra introductions, or history of the book,
or bits from the original (like Black Panther).
And the next one: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
This also has an original comic.
This is really interesting because it's basically
teenage witch Sabrina, but with a dark twist.
A good example. [shows a page]
So this is just the story of Sabrina
but has a very dark twist.
I probably should say which books I read
for which challenge. Back up a little bit.
I read Sabrina for the graphic novel challenge.
Black Panther, I read for the read in a day challenge.
I actually read both of these in one day, the same day.
And this... [We] I finished in under 24 hours.
This one, I read for black cover.
[text: No, I didn't lol]
When I read the introduction of this one, it said that this
is the forefather to pretty much every dystopian novel
ever, including Orwell's 1984
and Huxley's Brave New World.
After reading this... Yep. YEP. It's very clear
that 1984 takes a lot of inspiration from this.
It's basically about a world in the future that no one
has a name, just numbers. Letters and numbers.
They live in a perfect, clean world.
This novel focuses on one guy who starts to question
his world, his place in life, and if this is really everything.
It's pretty good.
It's good for an old book. The writing style is a little
hard to understand sometimes, but I enjoyed it. I liked it.
This book I read for the set in the future challenge.
[Fahrenheit 451]
In my TBR video, I said that I wanted to re-read this
because I wanted to see if I still like it now or what.
Yes, I do still like it.
Another thing I like about this copy is that it's the
60th anniversary edition, so they added a foreword,
added this much of "History, Context, and Criticism."
If you don't know what this book
is about, where have you been?
It's set in a future where books are illegal.
And firemen don't put out fires, they start them.
If anyone is caught with a book, they get the person
out of the house then burn the whole house.
People aren't allowed to think, pretty much.
The book focuses on one guy,
Guy Montag. He's a fireman.
And it's about him trying to figure out what books are,
and realizing that this is not he wants, that this is wrong.
It's really good.
I can't really tell you too much about the book
without ruining it, so I'm going to shut up now.
Next book! [2001 - A Space Odyssey]
When I picked this up, I realized that I was wrong.
I picked We for dystopian novel,
and 2001 for black cover.
If the name is not familiar to you at all... Who are you?
This book was written in 1968, right when the Space
Race was taking off, people were all gaga about space.
This predicts what it will look like in 2001...
Clearly that future didn't happen.
But there are a lot of things that happened in the
book that were kind of predicted that would happen.
Even now, this still feels like it's
set in the future. Which is odd.
That also makes you realize that, wow,
we really don't know what is coming.
1968 seemed like it would explode, and we'd be
traveling in space, been to Jupiter, Saturn, by 2001.
But now, it's 2017. We're not
even close to touching Mars.
If you don't know even the basic story, it's about a
crew who were selected to go on a journey to Saturn.
It was originally to Jupiter, but was
changed to Saturn for unknown reasons.
And that ship is run by a computer, HAL9000.
And then--most people know this--the computer freaks
out and tries to take over, kill the crew, and whatever.
If you haven't read or even seen the movie, do it.
Next book. [The Lovely Bones]
A dead narrator (challenge).
I actually really enjoyed myself reading this, even
though it's really sad. I enjoyed myself reading this.
It was different than what I'm used to.
It's a really interesting perspective on death and life.
The dead watching the living, the living trying to go
through without the dead. It's really good, really good.
And that's really impressive for a first-time author.
If you haven't already read this, read it.
Okay! The story is about a girl who's 14 years
old who was murdered by her neighbor.
That is told right off the bat. Then the rest of the story
is her narrating, telling about her watching her family,
her family trying to deal with that absence, how the
whole dynamics change, how they deal with that.
I'm afraid that if I keep going, I will give away
some major details so I'm going to stop now.
Last but not least. [Horrorstör]
For the read any book (challenge).
Oh... I'm so happy I saved this for last.
I started reading this, this morning at like 10:30.
I finished it in three hours. I was just sucked in.
Oh...so good!
The store in this is called Orsk.
The floor plan.
Basically--the book says this--Orsk
is an American rip-off of IKEA.
So it's all the same concept. IKEA furniture that you have
to build yourself with IKEA's special tools, all of that.
The same idea, but it's an American company.
It's a horror story set in Orsk. Now...
I want to emphasize this.
If you have NEVER been to IKEA, I really recommend you
go to IKEA, experience IKEA first before you read this.
If you have experienced IKEA, at least once,
you will understand this book much better.
You will understand the experience in this book much
better, you will enjoy the book better that way anyway.
The other thing that I love about this is that
each chapter starts with a piece of furniture.
It even makes up all the names of furniture and stuff.
It's hilarious, it's fantastic, I love it.
Another thing I want to show you!
This is the front. And this is the back.
I love that.
The story is that they're puzzled that Orsk keeps
having things broken when the first shift comes in.
Three employees stay the night.
They "volunteered" for a night shift.
Staying inside, keeping an eye out, patrolling,
with the lights dimmed and whatever.
That's when the horror starts. Obviously.
But oh, it's so good. I-- I don't want to say
any more because you really need to read this.
But remember! IKEA first, go to
IKEA first and then read this.
That's it for my Sbooktactular Reading Adventure!
I am ready to get back to my other books,
especially this one, The Card Catalog.
Yes!
I read through half of this the night before this challenge
started. So...I probably will finish this pretty quick.
Maybe even today?
Anyway. If you've read any of these books, let me know
what you thought of them in the comments below.
And if you want to read any of
these. Any recommendations.
(Not that I need any more, but I'm
always open to more recommendations.)
And I guess that's it.
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