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11/19/11   Blog #8 Last week I finished my novel Daniel X Demons and Druids. Though if you were to read the first two novels. The two books being Daniel X Dangerous days of Daniel X being the first and Daniel X watch the skies being the second. James Patterson created graphic novels on the first two books so if you want to read the books you can read them with pictures. Then he also came out with a side story graphic novel called Daniel X Alien Hunter which it takes place in Japan. Finally you play as the main character from the book Daniel X in game called Daniel X the ultimate power that can be played on the DS.

11/12/11 Blog #7 Pages 238 to 243 After I left off when Daniel won against beta, with the help of Stonehenge. After wards they swam across the English Channel for a cool down. Which it is supposed to be very cold and 21 miles to France their destination. I would not blame them after fighting Beta which if I need to remind or emphasis that he is entirely made out of flame. Daniel I especially feel bad for because he had to actually touch Beta, and that’s like sticking your hand in a fire literally. Thou I still think swimming 21 miles is a long way to swim, it even the book says it takes seven hours for the best of swimmers.

11/5/11 Blog #6 Pages 215 to 237 After I left off when beta read the battle request the story got kind of weird toward the end. First Beta got there late with his army of flame welders. Then he takes back all the flame from his followers and grows to a giant in size. From there he angered our hero by threatening Dana, so Daniel got defensive and tried to protect her. Next Daniel grew as well to120 feet tall, with beta matching the height. The fighting between then was so far only leading to Daniel getting third degree burns, until the first rays of light showed another sun overhead. Beta then looked up ward, and instantly became hypnotized by it, which attracted him like a magnet. Stonehenge was acting as a lens making light conjugate in to a point, creating a second sun. Finally after Beta being attracted to the second sun he then got sent to the real sun.

10/29/11 Blog #5 Pages 156 to 214 I found out shortly after I left off that the scholar the boy talked about was Merlin. Merlin was described as high as a ten year old with a white beard and a blue bath robe. Then Daniel found out that he is an alien hunter as well from Alpar Nok, but from the past. Then there’s the boy who was actually Arthur from the story. Next when they start looking for beta they find out that he can time travel at a lake close by. At the sword stone contest going on Merlin transformed into the sword and prevented any one else than Arthur from pulling it out of the stone. Awhile latter Daniel goes in the local coal mine and encounters a dragon form of beta. Daniel is then forced to fight him, and weakened him with an underground river. Merlin then stops him by freezing the air and teleports himself as sword and Arthur there. Arthur then kills Beta by stabbing him in the side with the help of Merlin freezing the sword, but Beta escaped with a small flame stile flickering. Then the best thing Daniel learned after this was that Stonehenge was the way to destroy Beta, and then went back to his time. Finally he saved Dana and sent a battle request to Beta to fight at Stonehenge.

10/22/11 Blog #4 Pages 130 to 155 My favorite line in the book so far is from a boy in the past at the very end of my reading. This is “Anyone who thinks an elephant is a dragon is lacking in wisdom, if you ask me. But those chaps were right about one thing. You are a wizard aren’t you?” This was right after our main character went to the past and scared off two muggers in about 600 A.D. England. Where I left off last time was Beta found out that Daniel was at his base of operation. Then Daniel and Dana hid themselves in a car, but Beta stile found them. Right before they were going to be burned alive, Daniel got hurtled back in time to the night of when his parents got killed. After seeing them die again he got hurled back even further in time to about 600 A.D. England. There he encountered two Muggers and taught them a lesion that they will not forget. Then he meets the boy that said my most favorite line in the book. Finally the last thing I read about was the boy taking him to see his teacher which was a scholar.

10/15/11 Blog #3 Pages 86 to 129

Right after fighting and eventually eating Vlad the vampire; Daniel has to train with his father in his painfully realistic dream. The dream was not fun in the least being on a very uninhabitable planet of the alien Phosphorius Beta. They were located on the north poll of the planet the only place where they would not be turned into an alien cabob. There he had to face the planets version of the Venus flytrap, but instead of a plant it’s a rock that attracts fire based life forms like Beta. After finishing his small training lesion and woke up and saw the burn mark which he got from his training he says it kind of looks like a face howling with laughter. After a while he finds one of Beta’s minions who can use fire, which he ends up having to killing him. Then he goes to the welding factory and sees Beta transform the grim faced woman working there in to one of his minions. Finally the last thing I read was him sneaking in to Beta’s secret base, seeing his space ship, and him Beta finding out he is there. That’s what I read about this week.

I think Patterson is changing the feel of this book compared to the first two books. Patterson has an interesting feel that makes this book seam realistic yet fictional at the same time. This book is quite entertaining with all the action going on through the book.


 * 10/8/11 **
 * Blog #1 and 2 **



I am blogging about my novel, __Daniel X Demons and Drugs__ by James Patterson. During these two weeks I have read 85 pages out of this action packed book. I chose this novel because I have read the first two books in the Daniel X series and that is why I chose to read this novel. Ericson Public Library is where I checked out these books.

The book is based on an alien hunter named Daniel, with the power to create stuff with his mind. He was born at the planet Alpar Nok and lives here on planet earth after the number one on the list of most wanted aliens on earth the Prayer killed his parents. His power to create stuff lets him summon a recreation of his dead friends and family, transform, change people’s attitude/memories, and even create objects from his mind. The powers he has increased since the last book when he learned to teleport and now he can turn back time. Number three Phosphorius Beta is his new target found in the United Kingdom, with an entire body made of fire. On his way to London he encounters number 40 and is almost digested by him, until he learns and travels back in time and blows him up with C4. There he starts looking for where number three and his accomplices are hiding, and he suspects three to be working with people that are used to working with fire. After a while he finds himself in trouble in a crazed barbeque guy. Thou I would not call his cooking even food with the description. Then he and his friend Emma find he works for Beta and end up landing on the pavement from the third floor window ouch!!! Latter after going to bed and getting a very rude wakeup call he finds himself in an even bigger problem with a group of vampires, or how they liked to be called dentally challenged. Who aren’t affected by any normal means like sunlight, garlic, and crosses, not to mention they drink cerebral fluids not blood. There leaders name and no joke is Vlad, whose true form is a giant white bat with a six foot wing span with fifteen to twenty three inch fangs. After he escaped from being immobilized he transformed into a giant hawk and ate him whole, talk about serious mouth washage.

With all this happening, I think this is a quite a good and interesting book, but I would say the two earlier books were better. I like the characters, but they really haven't shown that much of new characters beside the originals, thou the parents seem more mysterious than before. In Patterson's books his message would be thinking outside the box can come in handy at times, and especially when a dangerous alien wants to kill you. This book is not that complicated as long as you read the other books first.

I wonder when, were, and how he will defeat Beta in this action packed book. Though I know he will defeat him from Patterson's other books in the end, but I won't tell you it will be easy.