The Most Dangerous Game v. The Child Tiger

   Out of the two stories we have read for class so far, my favorite was “The Most Dangerous Game”. I first read it freshmen year and I didn’t really like it, but after reading it a second time my opinion on it has really changed. Compared to “The Child Tiger”, I thought it was really interesting the entire time. In my opinion, it had a really good balance of dialogue and other details. I really like dialogue in a story, so that was one reason why I didn’t like “The Child Tiger” as much. I liked the second half of “The Child Tiger” much more than I did the first half. I thought the first half was paced a bit slower and I could predict something bad was going to happen, but in the second half the pacing sped up and it really drew me in. Another reason why I liked “The Most Dangerous Game” more was because of the main character. I liked Rainsford a lot more than I liked the main character in “The Child Tiger”. I was constantly rooting for him, but I didn’t feel that connection in the other story. Overall, I thought both stories were good, but I preferred “The Most Dangerous Game” because of its pacing and characters.

Summer Reading

   One book I read this for summer reading was Special Topics in Calamity Physics. Overall, I thought it was an okay book. There were things that I liked, but there were many things that I did not like. One thing that I liked was the main character, Blue. I thought she was very interesting and I always found myself rooting for her. One thing I didn’t like were the other characters; Blue was the only one I actually liked. The bluebloods were all very unlikable. After Hannah’s death they all turned against Blue for no reason at all. I especially didn’t like Jade. She told Blue that she didn’t like Hannah and the other bluebloods. After Hannah’s death, she told Blue the exact opposite; she loved Hannah and didn’t like Blue. Another character I disliked was Blue’s father, Gareth. Throughout the entire book, he gave me a bad impression. Then, at the end I hated what he did to Blue. Another thing I didn’t like about the book was how it was written. I didn’t like the author’s use of parenthesis. I felt that it was overdone and much of the information was useless to the plot. If she wrote another book, I’m not sure if I would read it due to how she wrote this one. Overall, the book wasn’t bad. It had a good plot and a character that I really liked, but it also had a few things that I wasn’t a fan of.