Brain Spill Book Reviews #4

The Looking Glass Wars

By Frank Beddor

The Looking Glass Wars is a book that starts off in the magical kingdom of Wonderland, where a select few people are able to make things happen simply by using their imaginations. Princess Alyss Heart is celebrating her birthday party, when her evil Aunt Red crashes the party, brings news of how she killed Alyss's father, proceeds to kill Alyss's mother, then takes over the kingdom. Alyss is forced to leave the palace by her bodygaurd, Hatter Madigan, but the two of them accidentally fall into a portal to Earth. Alyss comes out in England, while Hatter comes out in France. Hatter searches for ten years to find Alyss. When he finally does and they go back to Wonderland, they find that Red has completely messed up Wonderland, and they must fight Red to retake the kingdom. The book is a cool new take on Alice in Wonderland, though not as whimsical as the original. The book, though, was thoroughly interesting and thus deserves 8 stars out of 10! Yay! Congratulations! You earn 5 imaginary Golden Duckets!

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Brain Spill Book Reviews #3

Flatland

A Romance of Many Dimensions

By Edwin A. Abbott

Flatland is a book written by an English schoolteacher and theologian named Edwin A. Abbott. Flatland is basically a a book written from the point of view of a square who lives in a large two-dimensional world. The book was actually published under the pseudonym, A. Square (Get it?). The book is divided into two parts. The first part simply explains how a 2D world is able to work. This section, though cleverly thought out, is long and somewhat boring. The second part gets to the plot of the whole story. In the story, the square has a dream that he saw Lineland, a land in the 1st dimension. He tries to explain the second dimension to the King of Lineland, but the King does not listen and eventually tries to kill the square. The next day, the square is visited by a perfect circle, claiming to be a sphere. The sphere explains the whole 3rd Dimension to the square, but the square tries to kill the s0-called sphere, refusing to listen. The square is taken by the sphere and is shown the 3rd Dimension (Spaceland) and the land with no dimension (Pointland). The story is interesting, yet somewhat boring at the beginning. 6.5 stars out of 10! Yay for books!

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