| The whole concept of this book seems like you came up with the idea sophomore year of highschool, then later wrote about it while in college. I read part of the excerpt it lets you read, and while I can't complain about how it's written, I couldn't find myself interested unless I was one of the classic fake, egotistical b..ches you meet in highschool. I don't believe that each day people get up and act one way "because of my friend John." I believe that the majority of people are themselves, and will always be themselves, but who's to say there is no such thing as influence? If my friend has some funny word he says or he acts some way to be funny, would I be not myself if I played along, and sometimes did it as well, because people got a kick out of it and/or the two friends simply thought it was funny? I'm still me, and just because people have influenced the way I act, doesn't mean I'm putting on a facade. Granted, there's thousands of people out there, who aren't themselves each day, due to what they've gotten themselves into. Kids getting into gangs, and popular kids in highschool, are a couple I could see falling into the changing faces group.
The second part I found almost humorous. First of all, like Zeague said, "I wonder who that could be," and second of all, because of the idea behind it. You make it sound like you're the Giver, and you're gonna unlock Storms' mind and change his life forever, then he changes the world as your apprentice lol.
I'm sure this will get flamed and/or deleted, and thinking of it now, the whole "changing faces" theme is all too prevalent here on H3F. I'm gonna guess that about half of the people that reviewed it and said "sounds great I'm buying," will get it, try to read the first page, and stop. Not because they don't like it, but because they got suckered into buying a book they don't like or even understand, because it was on H3F.
Sorry man, just doesn't look like a read for me. |