Quake!

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Summary: Tries too hard.
Review: I am a 14 year old male. I needed to read an easy short book in one week for school, so I picked up this piece of [junk]. This book revolves around a "normal, average, every-day" girl (like we need another one of THEM). She and her friend experience an earthquake. Big deal. This was pure torture trying to get through this garbage. As if us teenagers don't get stereotyped enough, this author describes a "cool" teenager as the head-phone-wearing, couch-potato, MTV-loving punk. I laughed out loud. Joe Cottonwood, the [person] that wrote this, is horrible at dialogue. He describes teenagers talking: "Like Totally for sure whatever!" Does he even have kids!? I don't mean to be a little wise-[butt], but I think I could write better sub-plots. I'm a writer, and this book actually inspired me more. If there are novels out there that are this bad.. I could write an Epic! Compare this to someone like Harper Lee.. it's kind of funny. But in the more younger category, this one ranks way below Lois Sachar. This guy tries to be descriptive, like he knows he's good. Sometimes it's okay. But mostly it just makes you want to slap some sense into him. He needs to learn how to build better characters. Too plain, and too original. This is coming out of a 14 year old too.. so does this tell the author something?

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Summary: A good, but short read...
Review: Quake: A novel is a good book. It is set in the late eighties, in California. I really enjoyed it and it shows how much things have changed just since then. I'm a teen and I would say that when I first started reading this book I thought that some of the characters were kind of shallow, but by the end of the book I didn't think that anymore. I really recomend this book!!

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Summary: CHECK THIS OUT!!!!!!!!!
Review: This book is about two former friends who see each other for the first time in a long time. Their parents are going to the world series together. While they are visiting there is a massive earthquake. What will happen?

I liked this book because of the intense description. Another reason is because of the plot of the story. My favorite character was Sydney because he acts just like a little boy should. He likes bllod, guts, and war movies. The best part of the book was when the earthquake hit. The reason is because the author made it very real. It made you feel like it happened to you. The ending is disappointing because I wanted something else to happened.