other late post- Neverwhere 193-231

So there is this monster that Richard, the main character keeps seeing someone kill in first person in his dreams in the sewer. Apparently, as they (Richard and Door) have been told by Hunter, it is the Monster of the London Underground. From it's description to me it sounds like a giant boar.
"They say it's hide bristles with the swords and spears and knives stuck in him by those who have tried and failed. His tusks are razors, and his hooves are thunderbolts. I will kill him, or I will die in the attempt."
Apparently there are monsters in all of the undergrounds. She Slain the giant Alligator 
king in the sewers of New York,  the bear that "stalked the city beneath Berlin."(Germany), and the black tiger underneath Calcutta.(in India, also spelled Kolkata) It's nice to finally know what he had been dreaming about. I'm not sure if he had pieced together the fact that she was talking about the same thing, but he'll realize it eventually. I really hope Hunter doesn't die, I like her. People need to stop dyeing in the books I read. This is why I don't plan on reading John Green's books anytime soon. I don't want to be sitting in class reading and get to a sad/emotional in general part and start crying. That would probably make Abdiel rather uncomfortable.

I am rather worried as to what the Mr. C and V's employer is planning on doing with Door. Also, who he is is also troublesome. I thought he had been De Carabas (Someone helping Door find out who killed her family and why)  because that would make since, keep your friend close and the girl who's family I am suspecting you ordered two strange guys to murder even closer, right? That was a bust though, so now I feel bad. Like when you expect something bad of someone and your wrong, fictional character version. 

Kolkata

Berlin

New York

Kolk

The Giver- Spoilers- finished

I'm not going to use a prompt because I don't think I need one for this.

So I found out what the deal is with being released, and I am not happy at all with it. I can't say i'm that surprised though, but it does leave you wondering what they do with the bodies? They obviously don't bury them, there would be a cemetery or something, but there is no reason to think they burn or don't burn them either. They clearly don't just dump them in the woods to rot away because Jonas never came across any skeletons when he was riding away. Perhaps it's just a plot hole that Lois Lowry covers up in another one of the books.

I also still wonder why they didn't want people to see colors though, I may have missed it if it was explained but still, I don't really understand why it would be of that much importance. Sure, people could see different things out of different colors, but unless they don't want people to think at all differently (though I wouldn't put it past them) I think it's just silly. Unless it's because some colors can evoke emotions, and they obviously don't want people to feeling those. Tough you'd think the pills would deal with that mostly though, so they wouldn't need to make people colorblind. The pills obviously stop sexual attraction mostly, to keep the population under control, but I think they might also stop them from loving each other. Perhaps this is why Jonas stopped taking them, because he felt that they where just wrong.

The other thing I didn't like was that the ending isn't definite. It isn't as "WHAT?! HOW DARE IT END THERE! WHAT HAPPENED??!" the way "The Lady and The Tiger" or The Mark of Athena, it just sort of a "....wait what? What happened....? Are you kidding me?!" sort of reaction. I have a bad feeling they end up dead from cold and starvation but perhaps there really was a house with lights at the bottom of the hill. Perhaps some people do live outside of the communities, other people who have escaped and made families and little villages. That would be nice.

Late blog 10/28- Neverwhere- 150-193

• List three questions you have about what you read.

Will Jessica, (the main character's former fiancee, since she doesn't remember him anymore because he fell through the cracks of London when he rescued Door, causing no one in upper London to know who he is or really notice him,) be used as a bargaining chip? That would make things complicated, because if so, what would Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar (the antagonists) want if they were to do so? Also, would Richard comply with them, or wouldn't he? As of now I think he would but that could easily change later as more stuff goes on.

Is Anesthesia dead? I've done a blog about what happened to her before, but she was taken on the night bridge and it was never clarified whether she was or was not, which annoys me because she could show up later or not and it just bothers me.

Why can't Door's bodyguard Hunter go into upper(normal) London? Is she scared? Is there something or someone that has it out for her up there that she can't risk meeting? Perhaps she has a deal with someone there to stay in lower London or something. 

I have a feeling that this will all be resolved sooner or later, after all, what is the point of having vague things about a character if your never going to reveal what is actually going on?

This is a door, because I can't find any good character art of Door the actual character. There are lots of doors she has to open in the story though so I feel it is relevant. 

Neverwhere 135-150

• Is what you are reading believable? Why or why not?

Well.... To most people I don't really think it would be, but to me it could easily be reality. Probably just because I'm still trying to cling to ideas making the world not be as boring as it seems and something interesting is happening that most people just don't know about. Or, that every story made creates another universe where it happens in, and books are just the links to them. This could be the center of a bunch of branching cluster universes. For example, if this was where the Rick Riordan series' happened (since it's cannon that their just in different parts of New York,) there wouldn't be the books about them there, there would be something like The Mysterious Benedict Society, but in the world of TMBS, the RRS's would be the books, not  TMBS. 

So pretty much the only reason it's believable to me is because I'm desperate and overly imaginative.

Neverwhere 11-8-13

• If you were the author, what would you change? Why?

I wouldn't have had Anaesthesia die on the night bridge, mostly just because I feel bad for her. Though it does set the tone a bit and let the reader know that where they are is a dangerous place, it's rather upsetting that she just disappears like that, and there really isn't a very good explanation of what happened to her at all.
'"Is there anything, really, to be scared of?"
"Only the night on the bridge."
"The kind in armor?"
"The kind that comes when day is over."
Anaesthesia's hand sought Richard's. He held it tightly, her tiny hand in his."
"The woman looked at him, almost pityingly; ad Richard realized that thee was nobody holding his hand.
"Anaesthesia?"
From the darkness at the crown of the bridge came a gentle noise, like a rustle, or a sigh. A handful of irregular quartz beads pattered down the curve of the bridge towards them. Richard picked one up. It was from the rat-girl's necklace. His mouth opened, but no sound came out. Then he found his voice.
"We'd better. We have to go back. She's...."
The woman raised her flashlight, shone it across the bridge. Richard could see all the way across the bridge. It was deserted. 
"Where is she?" he asked.
"Gone." the woman said flatly. "The darkness took her."
I was rather upset when this bit rolled around. I liked Anaesthesia, she was cool, and she even had a little backstory and everything was nice! Perhaps she'll come back later or something. The darkness defiantly couldn't have taken Hunter who is the woman, because she is of more importance later, and is not as indispensable as I admit Anaesthesia was. Perhaps Hunter could have been traveling with someone, and they took her, then Richard and Anaesthesia part their ways, her having taken him where he needed to go, and then showed up again later or something. 

I am over all enjoying this book so far, it strange, the plot is interesting, and the characters are rather strange. Basically the kind of book I enjoy reading.