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December 16, 2007
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I support JACOB BLACK!!! [link]
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Or if you want i could make you one too!~ ^^
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dont belive in peterpan frankinstine or superman
" killing boys is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys."
and I LIKE PIE
Awesome stamp
Thanks
GuephRen
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"Express yourself. Become... be...Be·lieve... in yourself.For you are what you think you are...."
there's a link to the sight on amazon... i'm just going to coppy some random review off of there...
"What sets this book aside from following the basic outline of fantasies, is the fact that even within the fantasy realm, with talking wolves and other creatures, the book state what the wolves think of the humans, not just as a one sided arguement, but a multilayered war of the minds and hearts of all beasts. And the book raises the questions of loyalty, love, belief in stories VS what reality shows and what it is that we seek in our hearts. This book is the story of a wolf pack, cursed by the power of The Sight, and the results of a power that is so powerful, it can produce evil and good all at once. With Larka, a young wolf, with the sight, the book goes through a series of soul ripping trials, decisions and realizations of where her loyalty and love belongs. But when love seems to betray her, who does she turn to? Perhaps the greatest and worst ally of all: hate.
This story is an excellent read. On the surface, it's a fantasy, on the inside, it's a story of the trials we face every day. A tragic story of life summed up into a few hundred pages. Awesome!" [review by [link]
You can find it in Paperback for pretty cheap, or look in a library... our library has the book. Fell is fairly recent, so it's in harcover, so its a tad more pricey $$
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I support JACOB BLACK!!! [link]
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This is one of my three favourite books of all time. I could almost not bear to read other reviews people wrote on it because I can't stand people criticizing it. It is so beautifully written and the message is so deep that every time I've read it (three times) I've refused to talk to anyone during the day and cried myself to sleep at night for at least a week. And I am seriously not a person who cries very much. The only other books that have EVER made me cry are The Amber Spyglass and the 5th Harry Potter book. Some people find The Sight confusing and long. I read it when I was ten and I did not find it hard at all. Actually, the hardest part was looking at it after I had finished because I'd start to want to cry again.
Part one of this book is mainly about a pack of wolves. Palla and Huttser, the Drappa and Dragga, or leaders of the pack, are fleeing Palla's half sister Morgra, a wolf who killed a pup in her youth and was forced out of her pack. Palla gets to the place of her birth and gives birth to two pups, Larka and Fell. Larka and Fell's puppyhood is entirely destroyed when the pack finds out that Larka has the sight, a sort of supernatural power that lets you talk with birds, see the future in water and control others. They also hear a legend of the sight and a child and a sacrifice that Morgra is trying to fulfill. At one point Morgra tries to join their pack and they refuse to let her so she curses them and they all begin to die one by one until the only ones left in the pack are Huttser, Palla, Larka, Fell, and Kar, a pup from Palla's brother's pack whose parents were killed by Morgra. Then something terrible happens that splits them all up (I'm not going to say what) Sounds extremely sad and complicated so far, doesn't it? Well it's not. I'm just not very good at summarizing.
The story goes on with more surprises, more terror and more tragedie. It is intrancing. I believe that only when a character you like dies do you really realize how much you really liked them. That's what happened to me numerous times anyway. The other thing is that after finishing this book I felt that I had actually learned something. A mesage. Not many books are like that.
The Flaws: Absolutely NO book is perfect and even my favourites are not exceptions. I think this book may have had a few too many characters and a tad too much death. For instance, though Khaz made the story that much sadder, I don't think he was really developed enough to add anything apart from a bit of texture. Not that it would have been better if he had been developed, the book is certainly long enough already. I also think it was a little gruesome at times-I mean do we really need description of an insane wolf sacrificing pups for reasons we are never explained?
However, the description was beautiful, the meaning was strong, the characters were amazing, even though Larka got a little on the perfect side by the end, and the story was brilliant. I loved the wolf language and even though the legend was sort of similar to the one in Fire Bringer, it was gorgeous poetry and at one point I think I even memorized it. After I first finished this book I just stared at it for a while as the rollar-coaster ride my mind had been going through for the last few weeks slowed down and reached a halt.
Alright, maybe this book isn't for all ten-year-olds. I would recommend Fire Bringer to that age group more because I don't think the average kid would get as much out of it at that age. I certainly had to read it two more times before I finally got through the many layers of meaning. There are probably still more that I would discover if I read it now. I mean, it took me untill the third ime through to realize that it was really the story of Jesus. I'd say you should read this book if you are ready to experiance a ton of emotions you didn't even know you could have. Another quality of this book is that it couldn't possibly be religeously offensive. It's sort of like a deeper version of C.S. Lewis through the wolf's point of view.
Every time I read this book I felt as if I had lost something very dear and I had to start it again. I haven't read it for more than a year now because I have finally recovered from repeating lines from the last chapter and waking up in the middle of the night and having to find the book and read the saddest parts again before being able to sleep again. I'm a little afraid of starting all that again. But I think I probably should. This is a book that I will always treasure as the book that made me believe in love.
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I support JACOB BLACK!!! [link]
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well, thanks! I thought you wouldn't even answer. I'll tell you what I think about it, after I've read it all...
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"Express yourself. Become... be...Be·lieve... in yourself.For you are what you think you are...."
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I support JACOB BLACK!!! [link]
[link] <----
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SilverFlameWanderer~
Isn't faith believing all power can't be seen?
- Josh Groban
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