The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1)
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recommended to Marco by:
josh insley
recommends it for: everyone!
recommends it for: everyone!
Surprised at all the negative reviews, but then again its all just opinion, so here is mine: James Patterson isn't Ernest Hemingway! Hehe! Only joking!
Maximum ride is a fast read. It's a fast read because it is fun, imaginative, and adventurous. It centers on a group of various children who all have certain genetic enhancements. One of these enhancements is the ability to fly. The children are from a place called "The Institute" and soon they leave this place only to find themselve...more
Maximum ride is a fast read. It's a fast read because it is fun, imaginative, and adventurous. It centers on a group of various children who all have certain genetic enhancements. One of these enhancements is the ability to fly. The children are from a place called "The Institute" and soon they leave this place only to find themselve...more
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Read in January, 2008
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General response/reaction: This book was great, it held my interest and I think that it would make any child that read it empowered to do anything that they believe in.
Subjects, Themes, and Big Ideas: Friends, Family, science experiment controversy, bullying, leadership
Characters: Max, Gasman, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Angel, Ari, Jeb, Erasers
Plot summary: The book begins as a dream. The main character Max is dreaming that the enemy (the Erasers) are after her and she is running through ...more
Subjects, Themes, and Big Ideas: Friends, Family, science experiment controversy, bullying, leadership
Characters: Max, Gasman, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Angel, Ari, Jeb, Erasers
Plot summary: The book begins as a dream. The main character Max is dreaming that the enemy (the Erasers) are after her and she is running through ...more
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Read in April, 2007
recommends it for:
kids who ask for a book where "stuff happens"
True confessions: I avoided this book. James Patterson writing for teens? Doesn't he have enough of a chokehold on fiction publishing? But then I started hearing about it from kids. Middle schoolers who were obsessed. There had to be a reason. I caved and read it.
On Mr. JP's website, I read that he wrote the series for reluctant readers. I can appreciate that, because whoa, the book is nothing but plot, set out in 130-some 2-to-4 page chapters that each end with a mini cliffhanger. It is ind...more
On Mr. JP's website, I read that he wrote the series for reluctant readers. I can appreciate that, because whoa, the book is nothing but plot, set out in 130-some 2-to-4 page chapters that each end with a mini cliffhanger. It is ind...more
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Read in June, 2008
I'm a little confused, because the kids in this series are the same kids from When the Wind Blows, and The Lake House, but they are different. And the back story has completely changed. If Patterson wanted to continue using this universe, but with a new story, he should have chosen new characters. Why take the characters from 2 previous books, and then say that nothing that happened in those 2 books happened to these kids.
I know Maximum Ride is aimed at the YA market, but I don't think that ...more
I know Maximum Ride is aimed at the YA market, but I don't think that ...more
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Read in December, 2007
I have to say I was dissapointed in this book. After reading When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, I thought this was a series continuing the adventures of "the flock" and then it turns out to be a totally different story using the same plot all over again but worse with different happenings... it was strange, after i got over that issue i thought okay this still can be good... it was rather juvenile.... yes it is a ya book but it was lame. i have read plenty of YA books that ar...more
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Read in March, 2008
recommends it for:
Someone in need of a method of lighting a fire.
I do not like James Patterson. I have discovered this after reading several of his novels. He is boring, and he lacks artistry.
This book is supposed to be gripping and exciting, but I found the characters banal and contrived, the setting lacking in coherence and logic, and the writing a lackluster survey of the deathly world of basic declarative sentences. The fact that it is written in the first person, and that first person is supposed to be a teenage girl who has lived her entire life up ...more
This book is supposed to be gripping and exciting, but I found the characters banal and contrived, the setting lacking in coherence and logic, and the writing a lackluster survey of the deathly world of basic declarative sentences. The fact that it is written in the first person, and that first person is supposed to be a teenage girl who has lived her entire life up ...more
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my friend saphiradragonheart(emily) and malin mertenzelli
recommends it for: most people
recommends it for: most people
these books are good adventure books and i like them a lot. they are a lot of fun to read and very interesting. once i got into them, i had a hard time putting them down. they are where i got the name "the flock" for my group of friends because that is what the kids in the book called themselves. the main really bad thing i found in the books was all of the cussing. i go to a public school, so none of this is abnormal to me, but i hate it when a good book is hurt by the ammount of...more
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Read in November, 2005
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anybody
Max and her family (aka the flock) are on the run from mutant half dog half humans called Erasers. Here's the catch, Max and the flock are 98% human and 2% BIRD. They grew up in a lab called the School and have been free for about 4 years. Now, completely out of nowhere, the Erasers show up and kidnap 6 year old Angel and take her back to the School for a fate worse than death. When Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, and the Gasman rescue Angel, they fly out to NYC to find another lab like the School calle...more
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I have a strange fondness for books that combine science fiction and shapeshifting, especially anything with wings. So I was quite excited to pick this one up through Paperspine. Unfortunately, this just didn't work for me. It's an interesting idea - a group of children who have been experimented on and turned into a human/bird hybrid. They escaped from their captors and have been living out in the wilderness somewhere in a peaceful, if totally unbelievable, existence. Then one day, the 'Erasers...more
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This book was like a graphic novel without the graphics. Good thing my fantastical mind provided the graphics within my mind's eye. It really read like a comic... mutants, super powers, teenagers, saving the world, etc.
Jimmy Pat is really focusing in the young adults with this one.
I think J-Pitty definitely uses some ghost writers. I don't know how he can do so much research for his other books to add realism, then just make up random crap for the sake of adding pages... I'm not talkin...more
Jimmy Pat is really focusing in the young adults with this one.
I think J-Pitty definitely uses some ghost writers. I don't know how he can do so much research for his other books to add realism, then just make up random crap for the sake of adding pages... I'm not talkin...more
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Read in November, 2007
This is my first James Patterson, so I'm not entirely sure about his writing style, but I guess the way he's written this book was as if it was the protagonist. Patterson writes in the voice of the girl hero Maximum Ride, and ends mostly with small cliffhangers, which compels the readers to continue reading. (I couldn't really put it down; I kept wanting to find out what happened to the characters.)
Patterson didn't only place small cliffhangers at the end of the chapters, he added a huge one f...more
Patterson didn't only place small cliffhangers at the end of the chapters, he added a huge one f...more
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"Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the "Flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time--like when Angel, the youngest member of the "Flock," is kidnapped and taken back to the "School" where she and the oth...more
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This is one of the best books ever! I got my grandma into it! If you don't believe me, then just spare me a moment to read this:
"The funny thing about imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective. Take right now for instance.
Run! Come on run! You know you can do it.
I gulped deep lungfuls of air. My brain was on hyperdrive; I was racing for my life. My one goal was to escape. Nothing else mattered.
My arms being scratched to ribbons by a briar I'd ...more
"The funny thing about imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective. Take right now for instance.
Run! Come on run! You know you can do it.
I gulped deep lungfuls of air. My brain was on hyperdrive; I was racing for my life. My one goal was to escape. Nothing else mattered.
My arms being scratched to ribbons by a briar I'd ...more
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Read in February, 2008
This is the first book in the Maximum Ride series. Max, Fang, Izzy, Angel, the Gasman, and Nudge are kids who have wings because some crazy scientists(Whitecoats) put bird DNA into theirs. They are the only successful recombaintant DNA-life forms besides the Erasers, canine-human experiments.
The flock(As Max calls the six of them) escape the School, the Whitecoats' lab, with help from Jeb. The live peacefully in Jeb's house with no sign of Whitcoats or Erasers. When one day they are attacked...more
The flock(As Max calls the six of them) escape the School, the Whitecoats' lab, with help from Jeb. The live peacefully in Jeb's house with no sign of Whitcoats or Erasers. When one day they are attacked...more
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Read in August, 2007
I've never read a book by James Patterson, so I'm not sure if his style in his adult books is as quick to read as this book. The chapters were short, which made for a fast, exciting read. I'm living in fear that I accidentally read book 2 in this series first (is there a book just called "Maximum Ride"?) Also, my mother, who is a fan of James Patterson, read the book description and thought she might have read this one. According to the author's note, this story grew out of characte...more
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Read in July, 2007
Take a bit of the child-like innocence vs. evil of Harry Potter, some of the artificially-created destiny from Ender's Game, throw in the flying fantasies from Eragon and mix them in with Patterson's trademark flippant characterization, and you've got Maximum Ride.
This is the book I'm going to recommend when everyone's recovering from the end of Harry Potter later this month. Really. It's that good. And the best part is there are two more books after this one...more
This is the book I'm going to recommend when everyone's recovering from the end of Harry Potter later this month. Really. It's that good. And the best part is there are two more books after this one...more
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Read in July, 2007
recommends it for:
family, friends
Loved it! I was also given this book to read by Tera C. (she's my book pimp!) It was actually given to Jordan by her and I took it from Jordan and read it too! The book is so cool, about a group of kids that have been orphaned by thier captors who genetically modified them for some unknown global reason...they have wings and other "powers" and are on the run from the geneticists and vicious Erasers other genetically modified creatures.
The chapters are short and the language is an e...more
The chapters are short and the language is an e...more
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Read in April, 2008
This was an awful book. I can't believe I even finished it. But I'm trying to read books outside my reading comfort zone. It's got tons of action, and the chapters are all between 3-5 pages long. It might be great for a reluctant reader. It's actually got a lot the elements of books I do like - sci-fi young adult books - the execution just lacks any depth. The basic plot is that a group of kids have been grafted with avian DNA so they have wings and can fly. Their counterparts have been turned i...more
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recommended to Summerland by:
myself
recommends it for: all readers exept the extremely young
recommends it for: all readers exept the extremely young
I LOVE this book! It has action, mystery, adventure, realistic characters and my weakness:flying. Basically, there are six kids, Maximum Ride(14, female), Fang(14, male),Iggy(14,male,blind), Nudge(11,female,black), Gasman(8,male)and Angel(6,female,telepathic,breathes water). They live together, in secret, in a remote Colorado location. They(hereby known as 'the flock')were brought up in dog crates, in a top-secret illegal lab in the middle of Death Valley. The flock are illegal recombinant DNA e...more
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