Next

"Welcome to our genitic world. Fast. Furious and out of control. This is not the world of the future. It's the world of the now."

"Next" is a fantastic book to end the Michaels reign of the pen and a great way to hang up his writing gloves. I will surely miss his writing style as well as his directing style. He has written such masterpieces as Jurrasic Park and The Lost World, which were made into movies.

"Next,"  is the last book he wrote, with such an appropriate title was about the genetic world, and what is happening, and also he discusses what will happen if we are not careful and cautious.

In almost all of his books, they were in some way having to do with science which is probably because he was a medical student in his youth.

Most of his books begins with some quotation. The quote that started this book so masterfully is: "The more the universe seems comprehensible the more it also seems pointless."

To me this means, the more we pay attention to the details, the interest that the larger picture dwindled. This describes life in all ways. The more you figit with the little things, the more the pointlessness of reality takes hold. For instance, in a puzzle, when you work on a particular section you can't really see the whole picture, until you have finished with the whole layout. However sometimes you cannot figure out the whole picture if you haven't done of the details to the best of your knowledge.

The story begins with the discovery of a novelty gene, D4DR, which is in charge of thrill seeking behaviour. It also makes reference to some of the Chimpanzees man experiments that were conducted under both Stalin and Hitler. Then the story continues to a conference called "Make it happen now."

It then is back to the interactionof a Chimpanzees boy at school and how he gets terrorized at school. The chimp boy was home school because of this. When he went to school one day, he ended up biting a boy, or being accused of this, because of this his serogate mother was called and he was removed.

When the introduction of a species to another must be handled very delicately. Meaning you cannot force similar relations. In essence they have to occur spontaneously. If and when they occur properly they have a greater possibility of success. After all, aren't familiar relations  a spontaneous response to begin with? How can you constructs and organize a spontaneous response.

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

This novel is by Seth Green. He wrote Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It had 396 pages. Within those pages are three parts: when he was a boy, when he was mainly a.vampire hunter, and when he was the President of the United States. He had two major loves Anne and Mary-Todd.

BOY

Lincoln killed his first vampire at 7. He then went without food for the next two weeks as his family ate the kill.  Abe had a brother who died a month after birth. His mother taught him to read despite his fathers objection. He and his father, Thomas, were both good storytellers. Thomas was considered the best carpenter so work was easy to find. He made a tiny one room schoolhouse, which Abe attended. He only attended school for a year total, though.

His mother died when he was nine. Thomas got married a year later. His new wife encouraged Abe to read as well even though she was illiterate.On Abe's 11th birthday Sarah got him a journal.
Abe's father watched his dad die before his 21st.birthday, by a vampire and his mother also. This caused Abe to want to kill every vampire in America. Sarah liked how Abe read. She adored him. Abe burnt the family bible out of anger for God to create vampires. Abe was now obsessed with the killing of vampires. Abe had a son Robert.

Abe stayed up entire night on his search for vampires. Abe found a woman vampire with a child. The woman almost killed Abe, he was saved by a rope boat that dragged her away, he was unconscious after that. He awoke with Henry Stuffed, who had rescued him, and asked immediately about the boy, who was safe now.
His belonging which Abe lost were rescued.

Abe asked why he didn't kill him. Henry responded with "are vampires not individuals." He was obsessed with searching for the source.Only those Vampires possessing the strongest will, survive past the fourth century not bored. Henry taught Abe how to hunt vampires.

By the nineteenth year of his life, Abe had filled his journal. He then meets Edger Allen Poe who he mistakes for  for a vampire because of his black dressings. Poe met his first vampire when he was writing.

PART II
Vampire Hunter

He was introduced to Graham Offutt, who was a schoolteacher and shared Abe's love for books.
Graham proofread and corrected Abe's writing.
Abe vampire hunting stopped for the time being until he was stopped by a vampire. Jack wanted to know all that Abe know about killing vampires.
Abe lost his job due to a store opening closer to the river. He continues to train Jack.

Abe was elected to serve captain of his platoon against the Indians. He led a person who played an important role in his political career, John Todd Stuart, the cousin of his to be wife. 23 votes separated him from a seat in Congress. He set out to run a profitable store in New Salem. His store closed with a $200 dollar dept. He was elected to Illinois State Legislators on August 4, 1834. He fell madly in love with Ann Mayest Rutledge, that year as well, Abe was talking about love so much.

Jack killed a vampire, he really beat him, pretending it was Abe. They were parted by his Legislative responsibilities, though, after that he rushed back to her. John MacNamer posed the only real threat to their happiness, because he asked for her hand already. Ann died, when John came and visited her.Just like Abe's mother, she died by a vampire.

Abe wrote Henry and asked him to kill John. For the next few days Abe was stripped of all his weapons for fear of him killing himself. He almost killed himself with a rifle his friends forgot but at the last moment did not. Henry offered Abe to bring her back, he refused because it would not be the same.

Henry then captured John, the person who killed Ann, and offered Abe to take his vampirous life.
Henry killed Ann. It took Abe a while to get over her death. He won't help others because there was no profit in it. Abe now was a legislature, so his vampire huntings were left when he traveled from town to town with his fellow judges. Lincoln was fighting Elizabeth Schildhaus.

He killed her by use of fire. He used to set vampire houses on fire in mid day and they would either burn by flame or light.He thought less of Anne Rutledge for his legislature duties in the day and his hunting of vampires at night. Stuart introduced his sister Mary Todd, to Lincoln. They both lost their mothers early in their life. She and Abe were engaged in 1820. Mary Todds father had slaves for his mansion. He got her fathers permission.

He broke off the engagement with Mary. He went to Lexington and saw tons of slaves. In the house in Lexington his nightmares were no more. The sight of slaves make him sick. Speed didn't mourn his fathers death because of what he did for slave and vampires. A vampire was fighting with Speed

Abe saved him. Abe got married to Mary Todd.They had a son, Robert. In 1843 he hung up his hunting of vampires and won state legislature. A vampire, Armstrong, was teaching anatomy. Abe was told of a Dr Joseph McDowells laboratory with humans waiting to be harvested on shelves.
Jack ruined the lab with a gun shot through the tombs.

On August 3, 1846, Abe was elected to the House.He arrived in DC in December of the following year. Had a son Edward Baker in March.of 1846.Washington DC wasn't completed when he took office or in his lifetime. He didn't like the abundance of slaves in DC. Abe introduced a bill to end slavery that never past. There was so much talk of vampires within DC.

Abe had a dream of his house being robed and vampires killing his son. Vampires seemed freedom in Europe so they came to America.America let the vampire consentration out of Europe. Abe didn't run for congress after his term

Both his boys were killed. Mary-Todd didn't know about vampires or that her husband killed them. Abe had another son, William. In 1857, Abe survived his first assination attempt. Abe dreamt he was at a play of Macbeth, and the friends he went with and his wife died.  His voyage to the White House began February 11, 1861.

Just a month after election South Dakota suceeded. Three days Abe left, the south made a Constitution. On March 4, 1861 he was sworn in.
The first shot of the war was on April 11, 1861. Vampires were fighting with the South. Lincolns son, Willie, got sick because he was bitten, his father saw that he was cared for by the best doctors, he died. Lincoln wanted to strike God down because he took his son.

Mary mourned her son for a very long time. After Gettysburg, Lemon resigned his position as Abe's vampire bodyguard. When Abe began his second term the war was almost over. April 9, 1865 the war officially ended. Vampires moved to South America, Europe and the Orient. John Wilkes Booth was a vampire. John was a very emotional actor, he had outburst. His first shot didn't kill Abe. He died two days later

Memory Thief

By Rachel Keener

Memory often slips away with age or certain injuries. Sometimes it is so well covered up, that it seems to be lost, until something, anything small happens to remind you of the event that is hidden from the light. This book is about a troubled adopted baby and her life to the finding of her mom. Within its three parts and its three hundred sixty five pages, it really shows you how many problems a child has, let alone just being adopted. From a lousy home life to looking forward to school simply because of the free lunches, this really makes you think about what being human really entails.

PART 1
Hannahs family was religious. Hannah had an adopted sister named Bethlehem Rose. Everyone called Bethlehem Bethie for short. Hannah was six months older than Bethie, and she was a genius in school. Bethie, on the other hand, didn't talk until she was six. She went to speech classes because of this. She also learned sign language.

Hannah wanted a job in a kitchen. Her mother told her she would have to go to church because of this. Her job was in the kitchen doing odds and ends. She took Bethie with her. At church she saw Cora, a girl she worked with at the Steampot, and she and Bethie ran out.

When both sisters arrived home, their mother made a picnic and they went to the beach. Her mother than told her she wanted her to marry and have children. Her father promised her she would go to college. Her mother greatly objected. Hannah received books from her father encouraging her to think while Bethie only got knitting kits from her mother.

Hannah's father told her about her about Aunt Leah, who was outcasted from the family because she had gotten divorced two times by the time she was 30. She always made a scene when she was with the family. Hannahs mother feared she would end up like her.

Hannah liked Sam, the Steampots delivery boy. She went on his boat after work; and went to an old house.

PART 2
The Swarm's owned a farm. They would help Janie's family by letting them stay at Black Snake Trailer for free. Janie would sometimes go to school unshowered, because they were that poor.

They were so down that their dinner usually comprised of table scraps from the Swarms. They forgot how to eat real food. Janie had an adopted sister, Angel. She was adopted at six months by the family. Janie taught Angel to drink, dance sexy, steal and prostitute herself.

Mr. Swarm, the person who owned the farm where they were living died. Their father left. Their mom remarried and left. Angel burnt the camper and their was nothing left of their previous life. Angel got a job at Biscuits and Things, a local restaurant. She was barely living off chips an coke. She looked like a ghost.

PART 3
Hannah went to the house where she and Sam where supposed to docs up and move in to. She saw a spirit of a mother combing her daughters hair and then the girl having her period.

Then Hannahs  father ambushed her and brought her home. Mother found her lying on the bed where her father put her. She was pregnant. Mother blamed it on father because he introduced her to new thoughts in those books. She wanted to leave the church and have the child.

She took a bath and almost drowned in the water. Her sister, Bethie, saved her. They gave the baby away.

Mother opened up the house which was a perfect distraction for the family.  Her father got her a green bike just like she had when she worked. However, she wouldn't ride it because of the memories attached.

Hannah was was taking a pottery class and was good.Her father built a work room for her. She was using the pottery as an outlet for losing her baby. She started selling her peices. She met Daniel who was not only interested in her peices but in her as well. Daniel visited the hotel where Hannah lived, and  watched her create another plate to complete her mothers set.

Sam had boyish good looks
Daniel was more manly. Daniel asked for Hannahs hand in marriage. Hannah made the dishes for her wedding. Her mom made her dress.

Bethie started talking and worked at a hospital. Hannah and Daniel got a house and were trying to get pregnant. Hannah saw a doctor and found she couldn't conceive
Daniel hired Hannah as a secartary to distract her from this. Her art was suffering.

A person with a child called them for an adoption. But the family wound up keeping the baby. Daniel asked Hannah's mom if she knew who called about the baby

PART 4
Angel was found freezing in the woods and almost died.
She was brought to a hospital as a missing person. Someone came into her room and offered her room and board for work. She was brought to a mansion overlooking her fields.  She wasn't used to this rich living. She got a mysterious letter after talking with the owners wife. Angels mom tried to give her to the preachers wife, but she was having her own baby. Angel was born with twisted legs, early and very thin. The woman who owned the house was Angels grandma.

She was.going to leave with $25,000. Angel remembered her father shooting her sisters, Janes dog, because she took some of his secret candy. Jane hit her daddy because of this so hard he fell over. This caused her to never go back to school in fear of what her father would do. Angel never left the hotel. Angel never left the hotel and was in solitary confinement with food delivered.

Bethie still remembered Hannah. Bethie was pregnant and Hannah threw up and went crazy when she told.
Hannah was locked up in an insane asylum. Bethie had a son and named him Corbin.Bethie got pregnant again.

She missed her sister. Bethie went to the hospital visiting her sister. Hannah's mental state may have been  worsened when her parents forced her to give up the baby.
She had a major breakthrough when a chair was placed in her room. Hannah calls the doctors "Legion" from the Bible meaning many. Hannah never looked at Bethie while she was in the hospital, because she believed the doctors told her not to.

Angel woke up in a hospital bound to a bed. The old woman turns out to be Angels grandma. She is trying to reunite the family. Angles real name is Lily Adams. Angel turns out to be Hannahs daughter.

It took Angel a month to make a story about her childhood to tell Hannah. Bethie screamed "she's your miracle." Hannah found that Daniel knew about the baby she gave up.

Daniel and Bethie rescued Angel from the hospital. Daniel told Angel a story
Hannah grew roses, every day picked some and put them out in the house, one day there was a bad storm, but this didn't stop Hannah from picking the rose stems the storm left, when Daniel inquired why, she responded they were still roses even without their petals. The old women came to their house in morning.

Moby Dick

Aka White Whale
By Herman Melville

The sea is a majestic entity. That which the Greeks gave a separate God to is unique and awe-inspiring. Some see it as life eternal and others a mere entity, however no one has a greater respect for it than the people who sail on the great waves. No passenger has enjoyed it as much as Ishmael, or so it is said. He always goes to sea as a sailor. Sailors always get paid, the amount is dependant on what they do, of course. However the hardest job is of being a captain, for the mere fact of keeping track of the finances.

The monstereosous whale peaked his curiosity because his power was unmatched by any other living thing. He was more powerful than Alexander the Great who was one of the mightiest emperor's in known history. He owned the sea as Alexander owned Persian Empire.

Captain Peleg who preceded Captain Ahab was obsessed with the boat. As it was being repaired from a recent whaling expedition he hadn't left it, to make sure it all was going well.

Whaling vessels are more likely of accidents then any other ship. It has extras of all exept the captain or the crew.

Ahab had a sister. Her name was Charity. She was extremely charitable with the crew. She brought them all they needed and desired.

Ahab is known as "Old Thunder." He's the captain of the Pequad. His first mention is of him being sick. He is first mentioned losing a leg on a whaling expedition. He got injured off the Cape of Good Horn, which is off Africa. He is known to be a good whale hunter as well as captain.

Starbuck was Ahabs first officer. He was a very tough man. His skin was very tough, both physically as well as emotionally. His skin was baked from the sun, even though he grew up in the cold parts. He was not afraid to go whaling and did not fear the legend of Moby Dick. Courage was as much a way of life for him, as a useful essence to be used.

Whalemen have royal blood within their veins. For the whale is said to be a royal fish. The dignity in whaling is great. Men have devoted their entire life to this. There is said to be a man who took 350 whales in his life.

Ahab was a superstitious man from his intellect of the sea. Starbuck would not have a man, especially a captain, who wasn't afraid of a whale; for the best courage is not the absence of fear but the knowledge that something's greater than your fear. This courage was in rare supply, and not to be wasted foolishly. Starbuck thought this was a great staple of not only fishery, but life itself.

Starbuck had lost his brother and father. These events gave him even more courage. His bravery was truly intrepid. These aspects help him in his fishery because his strength gave him drive as well as risk taking ability which surpassed others by far.

Stubbs was the second mate. He was happy taking life as it unfolded. He thought their is no telling when death will come, so live life as you were going to. His pipe also helped him cope. At night when the moon was up he was known to smoke them all in succession. When he got dressed in the morning, he first put a pipe in his mouth.</p>
<p>The third mate was Flask. He had an honourable personality. He saw no danger until encountering it. He thought the whale to be a great mouse or of equal size. The only trouble the whale was to him was in boiling it when it was caught. He was a fun loving sailor and hunter.Starbuck, Stubbs, and Flask were some of the greatest men. Ahab used them as such. Next there was Tashtego. He was of Indian decent. Dagoo was third. He was of Indian decent. Dagoo was third, coal black in appearance, barbac virtues to match.

Within society whaling was seen as a joke. It was thought that this was equal to butchering. These folks are butchers, but butchers of the most gruesome sorts. The pay wasn't great, but they adored it. Whaling has lasted throughout all history. The ships contribute $7,000,000 to society.

Whaleships brought enlightenment throughout the world, much like Yale and Harvard University. They also saved many regions from starvation, by supplying whale meat to them. The whale is known as the "Royal fish" by some, which further implies that their captures are of royal decent.

Uugo was an huge African man. He had two gold earrings. The other sailors joked about hanging the sails from them.

Moby Dick was a sperm whale, they are the most hunted because of it not being to big. It was known by a variety of name's. Some of which were the Tramps whale, the Physeter whale, the Anvil Headed whale and the Whale bone whale. Moby Dick was thought to be the largest creature, whereas the Blue Whale now is known as the largest creature. This whale was discovered in 1692, by Sibbald.

The sperm whale is the largest toothed whale. This whale has the largest brain. It is approximately 67 feet long, a third of which is its head. It is known as the deepest diving whale. It produces the loudest sound as well.

Ahab was obsessed with Moby Dick from the beginning of the trip. He was so obsessed some called him a raving lunatic. His shipmates were forced to put a straight jacket on him, as they voyages home. However, peculiar as it may be his senses returned to normal after a certain distance. When they returned to Nantucket to have some time to relax, it was questioned if Ahab should return to sea with them. But being that he was most fit to command a whaling ship, he did return.

Ahab didn't want to board another whaling vessal, because he believed that could effect his whaling. He was superstitious like this, as of other things as well. This meeting was referred to as GAM. It was said that such a meeting of captains could actually jinx the voyage and the whaling of both vassals.