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The Maze Runner by James Dashner
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Unfortunately I didn't find this book to be all that good. I found it to be very long and it took too long to get to the point. Even though there were some very dramatic scenes that were good, it took awhile for them to happen and the book just seemed to be dragging me along slowly as a read it and it was hard to get into. I decided to read this book because I wanted to read it before the movie came out and I have to say for once I found the movie to be better than the book. The story line of The Maze Runner is, the main character Thomas finds himself which is descending into the Glade. He remembers nothing about himself except for his name. During his time in the glade he makes a friend Chuck which he becomes very lose too. Over the course of his time in the glade there are many attacks from the grievers which are these monsters that come out at night in the maze. The maze surrounds the glade. They try to find a way that they can get out of the maze and they finally do. Along the way they loose many people but in the end they are able to escape and leave the maze. When they escape they find out that they had all been apart of an experiment in order to help find a cure to the flare which is a disease that developed after solar flares hit the earth. They are luckily rescues though by people who don't bee live in testing kids for a way to fix the disease. That is where this book ends and the story is continued through the next couple of books in the series. Even though at points the book was exciting and thrilling most of it was just kind of boring. It took me so long to read because ti never seem to get to the good parts which made me want to stop reading it. I guess if you really love science fiction then this would be a good book for you but I just couldn't get myself to get into it. It was an easy read though and easy to understand which was beneficial. Overall though I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone and honestly just tell them to watch the movie because it was far more fascinating than the book.
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December 20, 2015 – Started Reading
March 6, 2016 – Finished Reading
April 6, 2016 – Shelved

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