Book Reviews!

I was searching for my next book to read and started to read book reviews.  Not a very good idea because it just made things worse. I kind of want someone to be like here I know you Giovanni and you would like this book! And then I can be like wow that book was awesome! So I am going to do book reviews on my top 5 favorite books. I will try to keep the spoilers to a minimum. So get on the bus! 

5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho: This book is short awesome and is packed with symbolism.  It is about a young boy who leaves life to become a shepherd and soon finds himself traveling to Egypt in search of treasure.

4. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card: This book has the world’s smartest children training in space to fight aliens. Need I say more? I can’t tell you who many times I put this book down and was like wow this kid is only 6 or whatever age they were.

3. Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card: Okay I know same author, same saga, but give me a chance. This book takes place during the same time period as Ender’s Game but is the story seen in the eyes of a character named Bean. I mean you know the book is good when I rank it above the original and you basically know how the book is going to end.  

2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: This could be number one but it has been a long time and my memory might be making it better than it was. Any way it is the story from before the Civil War about slavery and made with cry with lines like: “On the lower part of a small, mean boat, on the Red River, Tom sat, - chains on his wrists, chains on his feet, and a weight heavier than chains lay on his heart.”

1. The Great Divorce by C.K. Louis: Get on the bus and take a trip to the afterlife. This story about death gives great insight on how one can live a better life.

Book suggestions and reviews are welcome in the comments. Maybe I will even write more reviews. Let me know what you think about these books after you have read them.