Thursday, October 22, 2009
I HATE reading, but there is one book that hooked me in like no other. "Do You Know The Monkey Man"? was most the best book i have ever read. This is a mysterious book, that really makes you think and want to know what's going to happen next. How would you feel if someone said to you..."My sister drowned when she was young, but i tonight i got a phone call from her". These were the words that attracted my eyes to this book. Just place yourslef in that girl's position. I never read, and i dont even understand what attracted my eyes to the cover of this book. Maybe it was the title. Looking at the title i said to myself, "who is the monkey man"?. My first inpression of the book was that it sounded stupid and silly but then i read the preview and i knew it was going to suck me in. This book, is what inspired me to be an author when i am older. I want to be able to get the teenagers that dont like to read, attached to a book, because once you find one book that hooks you in, you tend to give more books a chance. Take this book out of the library you won't regret it.
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It sort of sounds like, "Do you Know the Muffin man." Which leads me to Shrek. I love that movie. Other then this, yay for good books!
ReplyDeletethe monkey man is my neighbor...of course i know him.
ReplyDeleteThe way you wrote this makes me want to read it. I'm considering checking it out of the library. I don't think the title would have really interested me, because it does sound silly, but that quote about getting a phone call from a dead sister really makes me wonder. It reminds me of the Pretty Little Liars series, where a group of old friends begin to get text messages from their friend Aly who disappeared when they were young. Then her dead body is found so they know it's not her. Those are really good books.
ReplyDeleteWhat caught my eye to your blog was our shared hate for reading. I don't like to read either. Well, actually, I love to read, but I don't have the patients to sit down and read a book. The way you described your book hooked me to want to read it just like it hooked you. I might have to go get that and figure out for myself just who is the monkey man.
ReplyDeleteI hate reading too! Also, the title of that book is very strange. When I first say it I was thinking of the song " Do You Know the Muffin Man".:p Although I most likely won't read this book in my free time for fun, I may end up using it for a book report some day.
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