Thursday, April 30, 2009

Comments on WeRead

The main attractiveness of this book is the reviews. People who wants to buy the book need not go down to the bookshop to browse through it. Instead, he or she could just view the reviews from WeRead. This would be more convenient to him or her and save the person time and energy. He can also order the books online through Amazon for convienience. The book also would be delivered right to the doorstep too!(Although he would have to pay for a higher price and he would have to wait a long time for it. )
WeRead also allows other viewers to see which books are popular and can choose to borrow it from the library. This allows the viewers to view the books they think they would want to borrow and can just go to the library straight away. They can just pick the book and borrow it. Quick and easy!
Thus, WeRead is good for it allows people to save time and effort to go and do things which could be done easily at WeRead.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Inerview of parent---favourite book


My father's favourite book is none other than Timeline, written by Michael Crichton. The book is about a group of science undergraduates time travelling back in time to medieval Europe. Armed with theirhistory knowledge, they managed to change some of the historicals events, but not the final outcome. This perhaps shows that history cannot be altered even with time travel. Time travel opens up many paradoxes for example if you go back in time and kill your parents, how would you exist?

This is probably why my father liked that book, for it was also a science fiction book. Well, actually, I also wanted to read that book, for it sounded like an enticing read. It maysound like a fantasy, but the book uses existing knowledges to support the possibility of time travel to the past. It is every's persons inner wish to travel back in time, armed with knowledge of the pasts, hence giving him a advantage to live his life as compared to the rest.

Besides this, Micheal Crichton had also written other science fiction books which my father also loved to read like Prey, Next, Sphere, The Running Man, Jurassic Park etc. Many of his books were made into popular movies. Thus, Michael Crichton could have said to be one of the best authors.