Hartwig,+Mason

The Wave is a strange book that is a very addictive book. even though I had little time to read and post blogs because of swim practices I still liked reading the book even though i forgot about parts of the story so i was a little confused at the end of how the thing happened.
 * "FINAL BLOG"**

The main character in this book was Errol, a man who does not know what to do with his life and is still grieving over the deaths of his parents. Errol is a man that would not believe if a man jumped off of a cliff 200 feet high even if he saw him do it himself. he always has to question the truth.

The author of the book, Walter Mosley has a strange way of getting the readers attention in boring parts of the book. to understand why what was going on in the story was difficult in this novel though which would make a lot of people drop it and get a new one. I am a slow reader so it surprised me that I actually went through the whole book without just returning it to the library because I was fed up with the rereading of it.

I would give this book 7.5 stars in the rating scale if they even use stars which I don't think they do.I decided to choose to give this book 7.5 stars because of how the author chose to get the reader out of a boring part of the novel with a drastic change.

This novel was a really great novel that changes in the amount of attention grabbing details. I hope that someone reading this journal decides to read it and actually understand it because my entries about it did not explain the story that well.

This week I read a couple of chapters. I read pages 64-75 which was chapters 13-14. At the beginning of my reading Errol found out that his girlfriend was cheating on him with another man named Tommy. Later that night when Errol fell asleep he dreamt of them together in extreme detail which I don't want to explain in detail. The next morning Gt told Errol in a note that he was on a mission and that he left for a while but said that he would come back. that was a good ending to my reading because i thought it would make me want to read a lot the next time. For these next four blogs i will be writing what i had in my notebook because wikispaces would not let me sign in..... turns out that it was me forgetting the last letter of my password failure on my part.Now i am going to tell you what i wrote. This week i read a lot of pages. I read pages 20- 63 which is chapters 5-12 during these chapters Errol decides to go back to the cemetery and tries to sneak into it. when he was sneaking around he got attacked by a smelly naked man and he thought that he was going to die**.** he then found out that it was the man that was calling him on the phone. he brought the man to his house and then the man mentioned the wave while being introduced to the house. Errol then started asking the man question about who he was and why he was in the cemetery. The man only responded with single words though and Errol was getting very strange feelings about the man.they then went to bed and the next morning nella came to the house to see the man. when she talked to him he told here that he came from hell and that he was a memory of all of the people that knew him in his life. The man, now named GT started to act like a normal person other than his hyperness. GT's hyperness then led to them getting pulled over by the cops because he had half of his body out the window of a car. After the pull over they started bringing Gt everywhere to find out who he really is. This week I read a lot because I was kind of bored and I also had no plans during the week. this story is starting to gain more of my interest because of the strangeness of the things that happened the last time that I read. This week I did not read my book that much. I read 1 chapter and that chapter did not have that much going on. During chapter 4 Errol Went to the cemetery that the mysterious man told him to go to. When he got there he saw a man in grey coveralls. the man was an old man and he asked if Errol had lost somebody lately. Errol and him then got into a conversation about how The old man hopes his children will show the same love as Errol shows for his dad when he dies. My favorite line in the book so far is also the first line. it is weird but the line is "...naked, naked...I dont have any clothes... so cold..." that line is the catcher sentence for the whole book and it also is very important in the book so that is why i chose it. This week I read chapters two and three, pages six through fourteen. in chapter one Errol Porter gets another phone call from the strange caller, but this time the man tells him that he is his papa. The man then called Errol, Airy which was his nickname that only family members knew about. After Errol heard him say that he slammed the phone down because he thought it was someone pretending to be his father. After he slammed the phone down he started to cry as if it was just then that his father had died. The next day, Errol went on a date with his girlfriend Nella. They went to a movie called //The Night Man// and then Errol drove Nella home afterwards. When they got to her house they started making out and then after that, she went inside. That night, Errol got another call. This time the man told Errol to meet him in the Cemetery where he " his father" is buried. During chapter two i found out that Errol was divorcing his wife because she was cheating on him, and that he had a girlfriend. This week I also found out about Errol's romantic side as well as his angry side. This book does a great job of unraveling Errol's life story as you read further on which i really like, it is kind of Like Master chief in the Halo universe. This story giving you information like Halo games do makes it so that i like it because the halo series of games is my favorite.
 * Entry 6 12/12/11**
 * Entry 5 11/28/11**
 * Entry 4 10/22/11**
 * Entry 3 10/15/11**

I am thinking that this book is going to be very strange because the first sentence that i read in the book was "...naked, naked... I dont have any clothes. What I just typed was said by a strange caller that called the main character in the story 4 nights in a row. Creepy huh? Well this story just keeps on getting stranger as it goes on. The main character in the novel is Errol porter which you can tell by the first chapter. Errol Porter is just an ordinary kid but his father died of cancer a couple of years back. In the beginning of the novel Errol is still grieving his fathers death and has dreams that he is still alive. I think that in these next few chapters, Errol's dreams will start to get worse and he will get called more times. I already think that this book is a good book even though nothing much has happened yet. I guess it is the way that the author wrote it "the weird starting sentence". Chapt 1 p. 1-5
 * Entry 2 10/8/11**

Hey, this is Mason Hartwig and i just started reading the novel; __The Wave__. I got this book from the B.H.S library and it looks like it is going to be a very good book. I read the first page of books that I think will be good, and this book had a good first page that really caught my attention. I predict that in this story the man that the main character meets is his dad and that he is with some strange secret organization. I think that this book is going to be a very good book.
 * Entry 1 10/8/11**