Reflection 8

Top 5 Book from Childhood

 The book Pendragon was a memorable book from my childhood. Well, it was more of a series of 10 books each one following a pattern of plot and story line in similar ways. The book follows a boy named Bobby Pendragon and he unknowingly has amazing powers and abilities to travel to other worlds known as "Territories", trying to stop a evil man named Saint Dane. (in retrospect) journey where he finds out who he is by going through experiences and growing as a person, mentally and physically. He meets these new people that even though they are different looking and have different culture than him, they are similar in a lot of ways too. I liked the book because when you are a kid at least, and really anyone else who is a day dreamer, following Bobby along his journey let you go to places that aren't real and experience things that wouldn't be possible otherwise. I started reading these books when I first started reading so I would recommend these books to someone just starting out. Its easy to follow along and the story is not awful even if you are older.

  The second book in my top 5 childhood books is Rebecca. I remember my brother having to read it for a English class and he explained it to me while he was reading it so I thought that I mind as well just read it for myself and it became one of my favorite books. Again, perhaps its just from nostalgia that I think so fondly of the book and maybe if I read it now I wouldn't think the same but, I'll keep it the way it is in my head. Rebecca is about a girl that is trying to fill the shoes of a dead wife and her struggles through it with all the twists and turns. The book is basically telling you a story about what happened before everything, if that make sense. I probably would recommend this book to someone that actually wants a good thought provoking book and can follow along with everything that comes with it. Song about the book here.

The third book in my top 5 childhood books is Cirque Du Freak, a series of vampire books. Basically, in a series of unfortunate events, a young boy is force into becoming a vampire because of his friend's ambitions, which in turn, makes his friend his rival. The entire series follows his journey of learning to cope with being a vampire living on the road with a Circus filled with creatures or "freaks". I think the interesting thing is that a lot of the things in the book are explained in a way that make sense in real life but with a twist of fantasy. I'm pretty sure that they made this into a movie and it was awful. They didn't do they book justice in any way shape or form because to me it was an adventure that I can still remember going on. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes vampires but not in a twilight way. There is death and gore and all of those lovely things that make it more realistic. Review of the movie here.

The fourth book in my top 5 childhood books is The Demonata series also written by Darren Shan. In this book there are three different main characters and narrators for each book. In this book, the narrator and main character is called Grubbs Grady. The book starts off with Lord Loss killing his entire family, mutilating them in a horrible fashion. Grubbs is so shaken by this that he is sent to an asylum, considering his family was killed by a demon. His uncle comes to take him out of the asylum and teach him about demons and magic. So the book is pretty much the same stuff as Pendragon as far as the whole cliche, him finding himself and growing through experience but, the reason I liked this book as well as the Cirque Du Freak series is because of the graphicness. You don't usually get that gruesome with books and its almost refreshing for someone to do it that way. I would recommend this series to anyone who would enjoy that graphicness I mentioned.

Last but not least, my 5th book for my top 5 childhood books is The Outsiders. There was is so many things I love about this book and the movie adaptation I'm not sure if I can list all of them. I like how everything in the book is relatable to my life even though it is in a different time period, which I love. It would be awesome to be one of the greasers and have the one of those cafe fight breakouts. Get those greasers! But really though, they are kids with problems and they all deal with them in a way that isn't really the same as it is nowadays. The book is in the perspective of Ponyboy who is part of a "gang" who runs track and has two older brothers. Really, the whole book is almost like the breakfast club but with more problems but seeing how Mr.Coates is the only one that read this far. You know what I'm talking about. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to enjoy and know what a classic is.