Young Writers Society

hm.
well, in my opinion, they're better then WTWB.

I read 'When The Wind Blows' and wasn't too impressed by it, and i only bought that because i didn't read the blurb and thought it was an Alex Cross novel
Never bothered with the Maximum Ride series

I picked up on an inconsistency in the second one today.

It's in the part where they're putting together a mismatched car. Angel starts talking about how to fix up one of the cars using parts from the others. Patterson mentions Angel's eye colour, only he says brown instead of blue.

EDIT: I reread the section and found out I was thinking it was the wrong character. It was really Nudge. xD

I've only just began to read em. They're good very intresting and honestly took me a while to realize Max was a girl.

well I dont know about that. John Marsden manages quite well. And Bryce Courtany.

Yeah. I have noticed though that when writing in first person, a lot of times, girls can write effectively as guys, but guys can't write effectively as girls. Just a quirk, I suppose. It's not like I mind.

snap wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that James Patterson can't write effectively as a girl? I spent the first book thinking Max was a guy.

I just got the third, but haven't read it yet. I just went to the bookstore and came home with armloads of books. I'll get to it, though. Believe you me.

Has anyone else noticed that James Patterson can't write effectively as a girl? I spent the first book thinking Max was a guy.

love these books! Still wating to read the 3rd though!

eeep!!! me too. it was full of hilarium.
although i definitely liked the first two better. the third one was somewhat...abrupt...or something.

It's 12:16 a.m. and I just spent three hours reading the third book without stopping.

I freaking loved it.

And I'm probably going to read it again tomorrow. Today. Whatever.

yeah, i agree. i would have love WTWB and TLH so much more if there weren't all the "rude" scenes. eleven year olds doing it just kinda freaks me out a little.

and yes, that part cracked me up too.
or Fang's little random comments. like when Max is freaking out and worried and not sure what to do and he's just like "Peanut?"
hehehehe.

Oh yeah I absolutely LOVE those books!!!! They're so cool, and a lot better than "The Lake House" and "Where The Wind Blows" which is what they're based on. Patterson's books are all really great, but they've ALL got rude *detailed* rude scenes in, so I don't read them, which is such a shame.

So these books are great, and the way is written is funny as well. Personally, as I don't live in America, it doesn't bother me whether the countryside is accurate or not. I read most of the first book in ASDA where it was on the shelf, and I kept on giggling when I was reading it, so all the other shoppers must have thought I was really weird! (it was that bit when they've taken that car, and Max is driving it really badly)

And the next book is out NOW!! Yippee!!

Yeah, I remember that. I was like, "didn't the cop person take the bear?"

BUT based upon the excerpt from book 3 in the back of book 2 I suppose we'll find something to do with that out soon!

I thought they had gotten it back somehow.... I don't remember, quite honestly.

lol. well, the dream i can let slide. cuz, you know, its a DREAM. but the thing in AZ, that's different. shame on JP. i thought he was incapable of mistakes until now.

oh, wait, did you catch the part in the 1st book when Angel was holding onto her bear, Celeste, AFTER Celeste had already been taken by the Erasers?

snap wrote:I never noticed that. And I used to live in Arizona!! Shame on me. That's really going to irritate me now...

I never noticed that. And I used to live in Arizona!! Shame on me. That's really going to irritate me now...

Well, he also does it in the opening part of book 1, when Max is escaping from the School in her dream. The School is in Death Valley, which is even more not foresty (I just made that up ) than Arizona. And yet she's crashing through another forest and finds a clearing with a cliff. Doesn't happen. Death Valley is a valley, which is what cliffs drop into.

hm, good point. i don't live in AZ, so i didn't catch that.
i hope they make a movie! a good movie. there are all sorts of fake trailers on YouTube. i can't see them though b/c my comp is retarded.

I love those books, and I'll be first in line for the third one.

The only problem is that it doesn't seem like Patterson does proper research. Like, in the first book Max lands in Arizona to help Ella. She lands in an area of desert scrub, which is quite common here. Then, as she's running away from the boys, she's suddenly crashing through a forest rich in underbrush. And that kind of forest does not exist anywhere in Arizona, not even the northern parts. So yeah. That kinda bugged me. =/

But yeah, they're awesome. 5 million clicks for the movie!

I love these books, and I'm very stoked about the next one. Normally when there are two books, I enjoy one for the than the other, and I could tell you which one I enjoyed more, but for this series, I coud not tell you which one I enjoyed more. If I wasn't a broke teen, I could go out and by the books, becuase each one is increditble in it's own way.