Book Review: The Hunger Games

Title: The Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collins
Type: Fiction
Year: 2008
Pages: 374
Series Name: The Hunger Games Trilogy
Number In Series: 1

Summary:
In the ruins of North America there now lies the nation of Panem.  Even though the Capitol is beautiful it is harsh and cruel by demanding that each of the twelve districts that surround it send one boy and one girl between twelve and eighteen years old to compete in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.  Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she volunteers to take her younger sister's place in the Games.  However, survival is second nature to her so she soon becomes a contender, but before she can win she will have to start making choices that weight survival against humanity and life against love.

Personal Feelings:
I really enjoyed this book.  The movie is coming out so I thought that I would read the book to see what it was all about.  I didn't think that I would like it that much but I found myself staying up late to read it.

Bonsai Tree

The other day I bought me a bonsai tree.  I'm so happy. I keep thinking about what Hazuki and Haiji said in an episode of Moon Phase.  And I quote, "Bonsai, bonsai, bonsai".  Or something similar to that.  I think that what they were saying translates along the line of hooray, hooray, hooray.

Book Review: The False Mirror

Title: The False Mirror
Author: Alan Dean Foster
Type: Sci-Fi
Year: 1992
Pages: 314
Series Name: The Damned Trilogy
Number In Series: 2


Summary:
A hundred years have pasted since humans joined the Weave, but they have changed the tide of the war.  However, an elite unit of soilders, controlled by the Amplitur, has risen up and perfectly matched the humans.  It looks like they might help defeat the Weave until they are discovered to be human.  With Weave help, one of the elite sets out to rescue his bretheren from the clutches of the Amplitur.  When they are cured a sudden change that nobody expected takes place.  If this change was revealed it would turn the entire galaxy against them.

Movie Review: 12 Monkeys

Title: 12 Monkeys
Starring: Bruce Willis
               Madeleine Stowe
               Brad Pitt
               Christopher Plummer
Time: 2 hrs. 10 min.
Rated: R
Year: 1995

Summary:
The year is 2035, the place is underground.  Convict James Cole (Bruce Willis) reluctantly volunteers to time travel back to 1996 to discover the origin of a deadly virus that nearly killed the earths entire population.  However, he is sent back to 1990 instead and winds up in a mental hospital where he meets a psychiatrist (Madeleine Stowe) and the son (Brad Pitt) of a famous virus expert (Christoher Plummer).

Anime Review: Burst Angel

Name: Burst Angel
Number of Episodes: 24

Summary:
Criminal activity is on the rise.  Due to this, citizens of Japan can now legally possess firearms to protect themselves.  A new police force has been established as well.  The Recently Armed Police of Tokyo (RAPT) methods are to exterminate the criminals rather than arrest them.   In all of this there is an organization named Bailan that sends out its mercenary team to investigate various problems.  These problems range from glowing, green brains to mutated humans to mysterious cybots (giant robots that are controlled by a pilot). 

Anime Review: Fooly Cooly

Name: Fooly Cooly
Number of Episodes: 6

Summary:
Naota Nandaba is just minding his own business when he is suddenly hit by a vespa, given mouth to mouth resuscitation, then hit over the head with an electric guitar.  The culprit is Haruko Haruhara.  She is an extraterrestrial investigator for the Galatic Space Police Brotherhood.  By hitting Naota over the head with her guitar she opens a portal through which various robots and objects come through.  All out of his head.  The resulting mayhem is fast paced.  By the end of the first episode I was confused because everything happened like snap, snap, snap.  You should probably be in at least your mid-teens before you watch this series because of some of its sexual related content.  Which isn't surprising because fooly cooly is a Japanese slang term for groping a woman.