Reading Post #2

The more that I read this book, the more I think about the possibility of either another life form outside earth or that what the book suggests as humans who left their technology because of the lack of people to maintain it. Because the amount of people needed to sustain that technology was so great, the "humans" of hundreds of thousands of years ago could not maintain. The thing that really gets to me is the idea that some of these things have actually happened but the government is keeping all of it a secret. 

.As the story progresses that main character stays in the same kind of development the whole book. He stays the straight lined "Im gonna save the girl and the technology so that it isnt used for evil!" . There is very little twists and turns as well as good character development in the book. Even though the book is quite interesting and I keep reading, it feels as if I am only reading it based on its plot and not the symbolism, or lack there of. As I am almost done with the book. I think that I will choose a book that I can divulge into a little more and a little easier than this book was.

     

Reading Post #1

I am reading a book called Saucer by Stephen Coonts. It is basically about a group of archaeologists finding an alien saucer in the middle of the Sahara Desert. The thing thats most important is the fact that it is 140,000 years old. In order keep the saucer from being stolen by a bunch of Australian Commandos, Rip, the main character, must fly it out of the desert with the help of a female test pilot from the Air Force. Let alone faced with the dilema of trying to fly hundred thousand year old saucer out of the desert, they have to get out with the Commandos firing on them. The juxtapose of the saucer 140,000 years ago and the saucer today makes you realize how much trust Rip had in the saucer becuase if he was wrong he would have died. He creates the "trusting" hero part of the story so that you have someone to believe in. But by doing all of those things he puts himself in a very bad situation that causes him to get chased all around Africa.

Based on what has happened so far, Rip will porbably have to not only try and get away from the people chasing him, but find a way to tell the truth about the saucer to the people of the world. The thing that causes me the most trouble is that it seems like it will be virtually impossible for them to be able to get away safely without causing too much trouble anywhere in the world.