Rule of Three - FICTION
A person can last 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food. A community begins to die in just seconds. One shocking afternoon, computers around the globe shut down in a viral catastrophe. At sixteen-year-old Adam Daley’s high school, the problems at first seems to be a typical electrical outage, until the students discover the cell phones are down, municipal utilities are failing, and the only vehicles that function are a few ancient computer-free cars like Adam’s. Driving home, Adam encounters a storm tide of anger and gear as the region becomes paralyzed. Soon – as resources dwindle, crises mount, and chaos descends – he will see his suburban neighborhood band together for protection. And Adam will understand that having a police captain for a mother and a retired government spy living next door are not just the facts of his life but the keys to survival.
Sequoia Kim 8A
ReplyDeleteI picked this book up thinking I would love it, and rip through it, and just totally get sucked...as this is my preferred genre...yet I found it a little laggy and didn't really pick up until about the last 20 pages. ( Which was an epic battle that didn't last very long) I felt like I was reading the same thing over and over again. For that, I give this book a 6 or 7/10
Rating: 6 or 7/10
From the cover, I felt like it would be action packed and also, somewhat follow the rule of three.
-3 minutes without air
-3 days without water
-3 weeks without food
I thought that maybe there was contaminated air and you could only limit your time to 3 minutes outside, or something futuristic somewhere length lines of that. Yet there was frankly 1 reference to that rule, so I didn't think that the title really suited it. ( Again, false hopes) Adam is a pilot, flying an Ultralight that his dad and him built, which turned out to the be the key to keeping his neighbourhood alive. Herb, a mysterious government worker is clever as a fox and keeps looking ahead for potential dangers in human nature and the gravity of the situation that they are trapped in. (Which was when a mysterious electrical breakdown shut down all the computers around the globe, and wasn't fixed within the typical timeframe.)
On a more positive note;
I absolutely loved the actual idea of the book, interesting to think how things would actually unfold if this were to be a real situation. (which is totally possible given the circumstances of out world) I think it was interesting to see as humanity went down the drain when people realized it wasn't just a local electrical outage. Neighbourhoods banded, guns and guards and bombs were drew, and allies formed. But so were enemies. In the end, it was a terrific battle between ruthless military and criminals that all went rogue against a normal community that weeded out strengths as well as useful things from the people's basements....the community won in the end, but I won't go into any detail because that would just be
bo-ring.
Great plot, awesome characters, but needed some more push to it.
Thanks!
Sequoia Kim 8A
ReplyDeleteI picked this book up thinking I would love it, and rip through it, and just totally get sucked...as this is my preferred genre...yet I found it a little laggy and didn't really pick up until about the last 20 pages. ( Which was an epic battle that didn't last very long) I felt like I was reading the same thing over and over again. For that, I give this book a 6 or 7/10
Rating: 6 or 7/10
From the cover, I felt like it would be action packed and also, somewhat follow the rule of three.
-3 minutes without air
-3 days without water
-3 weeks without food
I thought that maybe there was contaminated air and you could only limit your time to 3 minutes outside, or something futuristic somewhere length lines of that. Yet there was frankly 1 reference to that rule, so I didn't think that the title really suited it. ( Again, false hopes) Adam is a pilot, flying an Ultralight that his dad and him built, which turned out to the be the key to keeping his neighbourhood alive. Herb, a mysterious government worker is clever as a fox and keeps looking ahead for potential dangers in human nature and the gravity of the situation that they are trapped in. (Which was when a mysterious electrical breakdown shut down all the computers around the globe, and wasn't fixed within the typical timeframe.)
On a more positive note;
I absolutely loved the actual idea of the book, interesting to think how things would actually unfold if this were to be a real situation. (which is totally possible given the circumstances of out world) I think it was interesting to see as humanity went down the drain when people realized it wasn't just a local electrical outage. Neighbourhoods banded, guns and guards and bombs were drew, and allies formed. But so were enemies. In the end, it was a terrific battle between ruthless military and criminals that all went rogue against a normal community that weeded out strengths as well as useful things from the people's basements....the community won in the end, but I won't go into any detail because that would just be
bo-ring.
Great plot, awesome characters, but needed some more push to it.
Thanks!
Ruth 7B
ReplyDeleteI rate this book a 9.5/10 because I thought that this book was almost the best book I have ever read. I could never put this book down. I really like that it was about a community coming together when they really need to. I also thought that it was really neat that the author, Eric Walters choose a subject that could easily happen now, when we are so connected to computer programing and electronic things. This book had me thinking, what would I do if all the computers shut down? How much do I rely on technology and computers? Would my community be able to support ourselves the way Adam’s community was able to? I thought that this book really brings out the fact that you may know next to nothing about your neighbors even though you have lived next to them your entire life. The only thing about this book that I did not really like was the fact that it ends up being really easy to temporarily take down the other neighborhood. I also did not really like the fact that one of the neighborhoods gets attacked and destroyed and that Eric Walters described seeing all the dead people. He also did that when he described turning over a body in a ditch near the farm. This was a great action packed, exciting, entertaining and well illustrated book.
Crystal 8F
ReplyDeleteI'd rate this book an 8/10
This was a great book. The writing was good and the storyline was really easy to follow. I really like the concept of the book, because it's very realistic and left a lasting impact on me. This could very well happen to our North American society, but they had Herb and they were somewhat prepared. If this happened to us, I think our society would fall apart. It was good that it wasn't overly positive, or overly dark. I think it had a good balance of both. Also, Todd, Lori and Adam had some funny moment that piqued my interest. I liked how they formed allies with olde Burnham, but I find it scary that people can be so hostile. The only problems I had with this book is that, it was so realistic, it scared me. After finishing it, I believed that this could really happen, so we'd better prepare for worse. I believe this'll be inevitable one day, but it might not be caused by a computer virus. In reality, I think we might have to start rationing because of global warming. I could relate to Adam and his sense of justice, but it was hard to relate to him, because I'm a thirteen year old girl and he's a sixteen year old guy. Also, I would've enjoyed an epilogue. I wanted to see them grow as a society, but the book kind of ends suddenly. I still had a few questions unanswered, but I general the book was great! This really does teach us that we take our technology for granted...
Liam 7B
ReplyDeleteI'd give this book a 9/10. I thought that this was a well written book and filled with characters and situations I could relate to. I love flying and want to get my pilot license so I could really relate to Adam. I can also relate to the feeling that other people don't get what's going on. Like Adam feels when the council woman says that two months of food is "way more than we need". I thought that the story was sad and very interesting. Now for some things that I didn't like. I didn't like all the death in the story, it got way too violent at the end with the big battle. I also disliked that the whole world got mugged by a single computer virus. It would be next to impossible to create and more keyley to TRANSMIT a computer virus to every computer in the world. I really hope Eric Walters makes a sequel, I would love to see how Adams community shapes up in the future.
ReplyDeleteLucas 7A
This was one of the more interesting books that I have read. It was very detailed and except for the world wide computer virus it was pretty realistic. I think the author did a great job of writing about what could happen if something like a total power failure occurred, and it just reminded me of how much we rely on computers and electricity every day. It was interesting to read about how the main character Adam became a major role in the book. Because his skills with the ultralight became almost a necessity, Adam’s role kept growing and growing until he was flying over the enemy base, dropping grenades and. There were some parts that were very exciting like when Adam and Herb are up in the ultralight and they were attacked by the cessna and they have to maneuver around to survive. There was a lot of violence but if something like this did happen, it probably would create panic and eventually violence. I would rate this book a 9/10 because it kept me interested for the most part and it was very well written.