Maximum Ride?

Anybody read 'em? It's a five-book series (so far) about these recombinant, genetically modified birdkids. They're 98% human, 2% bird. There's six kids- Max, Fang, and Iggy (<3) are fourteen, Nudge is eleven, Gazzy is eight, and Angel is six- and they're constantly fighting for their lives.


It's a series meant for "ages ten to one hundred and ten" and it's one of my favorite young adult series. Like, ever.


(For those of you who have already read the books: I am a Fax fan. And I'm borderline obsessed with Iggy. I have a thing for pyros. )

Never heard of it, Never saw it. But I would Like to read it!

It's by James Patterson; it's his first young adult novel.

I've heard before he was good. I think my mom has a book of his.

Maximum Ride has been like... My faaavouurite book since Year Five.
I absolutely ADORE FAXNESS~
Iggy is AWESOMESAUCE~
Gazzy makes me laugh~
Angel scares the living daylights out of me~
Nudge just annoys me. XD

I looooove the series~ *hugs book*

There is a LOT of Fax in the fifth book. *squeals fangirlishly* And Iggy continues to be awesome, Nudge continues to be annoying, Gasser continues to be...well, Gasser, and Angel continues to be freaky. And rebellious.

"i'm currently reading twilight book four, maybe i'll read this series next, i can't wait to read about bella's baby!"

Ehh, I'm not a big Twilight fan. >.>; But you should DEFINITELY read the MR books. They're supercalifragilisticexpealiditious.

BOOKS IN ORDER:

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
Maximum Ride: School's Out-- Forever
Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
Maximum Ride: The Final Warning
MAX (JUST RELEASED IN USA; I HAVE NO IDEA WHEN THEY'LL BE RELEASED IN OTHER COUNTRIES. *cries for the poor MR-less kids, like Reddiekins*)

Aww I wished that I lived in USA! But singapore is one of the sgood countries!

"HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE TWILIGHT! )

gothica800 wrote:

"HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE TWILIGHT! )

... Because It's scary?

"it is not, i watched the movie, and i don't like heads getting chopped off, but i didn't see it, scary is no excuse it isn't scary!"

...there's a lot of reasons I don't like Twilight... >.>;

"Wanna name some?"

... I don't know if you want to hear them. I'm pretty passionate with my strong disliking of the series. >.>;

"i got nothing better to do."

:::DISCLAIMER:::
Don't flame me, please. This is just my opinion, and I was reluctant to share it in the first place.



Well, it's like Stephanie Meyer attacked a word processing program with her handy-dandy thesaurus. The writing is juevenile, at best, and her repeated use of the SAME adjectives (In Midnight Sun, she uses the word "chagrined" about thirteen times) drives me completely insane.

For another thing, she completely took the term "vampire" and twisted it. Vampires aren't supposed to sparkle. They're supposed to be, you know, discreet. Sparkling doesn't do that. And even though that only happens "in the sunlight" or whatever, the luminiscent lights at the school would definitely be shining off of them.

Speaking of school, the Cullens wouldn't even be able to attend high school. It's called a permanent record.

All the female characters are weak. Bella depends on Edward for EVERYTHING and everybody else is so shallow and vague that nobody cares about them. Even Mike and Tyler, Bella's friends, are developed with a little more personality than the females at her school, who are deemed as unimportant. Esme is essentially useless, other than to be Carlisle's mate. Rosalie is-of course- the damsel in distress, who is now bitter. Yay. Leah, the book's ONLY HOPE for a real strong female character, when turned into a werewolf, she was determined to be "menopausal and annoying." Another thing about Leah- she had her heart broken, and nobody cared, but when Jacob- HEAVEN FORBID- gets rejected, the entire pack practically coddles him. I guess you could say that Alice is a strong female character, and she is, in comparison to the others in the book. But when compared to someone like, say, Buffy, she's pretty weak.

Reneesme's existence is virtually impossible. Edward is a CORPSE, essentially. There is no way he could have fathered children after so long. If SMeyer wanted to wave away this discrepancy with "it's just fantasy," that would have been acceptable. But she tried to explain it with science. One of my acquinatances took the time to very accurately explain why her science and logic fails.

The characters are very poorly developed, other than the fact that they're OMG GORGEOUS!!!!1!one! SMeyer describes Bella as "smart" because she reads books like Wuthering Heights, but Bella never makes any reference to ANYTHING intelligent, or even anything other than Edward or herself. The rest of the characters are so appalingly inadequate that it frankly frightens me.

The only reason the books are popular is because girls like to picture themselves in the arms of an absolutely gorgeous guy for eternity. But the sad thing is that all the fangirls think that the books are a gift to literature. Which, they are not.


And yes, I have read all the books in hopes that I would like them better, or that an actual PLOT-other than turning into a vampire and OMGGORGEOUS!!!!one!1!!!!- would develop.

"alice is not weak!"

Not in comparison to the other characters in the book, like I said. But compared to nearly every other female character in any other series, she's not exactly strong. O.o

"true."

I think everything could have been developed better. Stephanie Meyer said that it only took her about six months to write, edit, and send her book off to the publishers. Most other authors need at least twice that long. She was completely riding on her fanbase for the success of the books, because, without that, they wouldn't be so hyped up.

"yeah, i don't really like her other books, just twilight."

Yes! I found this topic. I knew there was one about this )8<


*cough* anyways >.>

I started this series on saturday, and i got sucked into it. So right now im in the middle on book #2


Angel is creepy o_O she can controll people with her mind o_o.
I literally jump when something bad happens in this book. I also convinced my friends to read it ^^
My favorite character is fang for some reason o_o



Hey i just realized, this topic is over a year old now xD

Angel...
*shudder shudder*

The only thing I'm saying about her is, "It only gets worse."

Fang is awesome. Iggy is ten times better. :3 *nod nod*

Me and Steph have been talking about this in this thread as well. ^^ I just finished the sixth book a couple of weeks ago.

oh yeah, I totally forgot to mention that I finsihed it! Oh, and I cried at the epiloug believe it or not! Yeah, Angel is creeeeepy and yeah, it gets waaay worse from there.

Your reading it Genna?! Thats awesome!!!! I got so addicted to that series I read the whole thing in less than a month (not counting the newest one 'cause I had to wait for that to come out...)

Fang is better than Iggyyyy *cough* But Iggy is still super cute!