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Yes this series is Middle Grade and sort of ridiculous but it is awesome. It is like Sanderson’s way to blow off steam, try things that he can’t put into one of his Adult Fantasy’s and stretch that uber creative mind of his.

For Instance:

• All the Smedry’s are named before/after prisons. Hence names like Alcatraz, Lebanon, Attica, Sing and Australia (think about it).

• Every superpower seems totally awful until you learn what you can actually do with them. I mean who wants the talent of breaking things, arriving late, getting lost (I do that quite well on my own), or waking up really ugly in the morning? They seem like silly things that wouldn’t be good for anything until they are proven to be masterfully useful and I wouldn’t mind having a talent or two.

• Then there is Sanderson making fun of himself a little or writers in general.

*** “Writers—particularly storytellers like myself—write about people. That is ironic, since we actually know nothing about them. Think about it. Why does someone become a writer? Is it because they like people? Of course not. Why else would we seek out a job where we get to spend all day, every day, cooped up in our basement with no company besides paper, a pencil, and our imaginary friends? Writers hate people. If you’ve ever met a writer, you know that they’re generally awkward, slovenly individuals who live beneath stairwells, hiss at those who pass, and forget to bathe for weeklong periods. And those are the socially competent ones.” ***

• There is also that special last chapter that I’m pretty sure a lot of writers have at one point in time thought about doing to their readers…Well at least the readers who skip to the last chapter to see if there beloved character made it to the end.

• Sanderson also gets to make fun of the genre a little bit. I mean seriously in most MG and YA books the Adults are either evil or crazily absent.

*** “Adults are not idiots
often in books such as this one, the opposite impression is given. Adults in those stories will either (a) get captured, (b) disappear conspicuously when there is trouble, or (c) refuse to help. ( im not sure what authors have against adults, but everyone seems to hate them to an extent usually reserved for dogs and mothers. Why else make them out to make such idiots? "Ah look, the dark lord of evil has come to attack the castle! Annnd. ther's my lunch break. Have fun saving the word on your own kids")
In the real world adults tend to get involved in everything whether you want them to or not. They won't disappear when the dark lord appears, though they may try to sue them.
This discrepancy is yet another proof that most books are fantasies while this book is utterly true and invaluable. ***

• There is also a construction project in one of the chapters just for giggles and some silly talk about a bunny with a bazooka…probably just because he could.

Sometime while reading this I wondered if this was a like a writing scavenger hunt game to see how many weird and different things you could put in your book. Like Garth Nix gave Sanderson a list of weird things to see how many he could fit in a book just for fun.

The Gist

The lost Library of Alexandria isn’t really lost but instead is just hidden from the Hushlanders (that’s us). But it isn’t really a safe place either since if you take a book to read you have to give the zombie like librarians there your soul for all eternity….wuwahahahwah.

Seems like a horrible place to go except that is where Alcatraz’s father is most likely and also were Grandpa Smedry has decided to run off to. In order to help them Alcatraz also needs to go to the library and try to rescue his father before he ends up an undead librarian too.

Overall

Yes it is middle grade but like a Rick Riordan book it is so much fun and there is something for everyone that it is a great read even for adults…who are not idiots.


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Alcatraz #2 Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener Bones Brandon Sanderson 9780439925532 Books Reviews

Reader thoughts So funny. Sanderson definitely tries a few new styles in the Alcatraz books, from non-sequential and non-integer chapter numbering, to inserting some dire pages at the end of the books to ruin the experience of anyone who tries to cheat and read the last pages first.

Alcatraz is very sarcastic. Almost too much, although I found his character more refreshing than annoying overall. He's not rude like Sage in The False Prince or like Max in The Angel Experiment. He's more like Percy Jackson, all wit and cleverness.

In this book, Alcatraz learns how important information is. Over the entire series he keeps coming across the idea that bigger guns and bigger bombs don't win a war. The side with more information (from truth to secrets to research) is more powerful. He wants blasting glasses, but he gets ones that tell him the relative age of objects instead. What 13-year-old wouldn't be disappointed? He turns it to his advantage, though.

One of my favorite moments of this book is when Alcatraz kicks Bastille to save her life.

Writer thoughts Sanderson does what few MG/YA fantasy authors dare, he gives his main character parents! That's right, in this book, we find out both of Alcatraz's parents are alive (or were very recently). Many fantasy books are more intent on making the young protagonists into orphans so they have to fend for themselves. Alcatraz goes from a foster kid to having a grandpa and cousins (in the first book), to having an evil mom, to having a rather neglectful dad by the end of the second. With Alcatraz surrounded by family members, how is he ever going to be in danger for a book's climactic moment?

Here are some of Sanderson's strategies.
1, throw some of these family members in prison.
2, trap the family members in an underground labyrinth.
3, have them turn evil.
4, make them fall into a coma.
5, use transporter's glass to kidnap them.

See? Parents and cousins are quite useful. Authors can build tension by endangering unimportant, er, dearly loved family members.
Yes this series is Middle Grade and sort of ridiculous but it is awesome. It is like Sanderson’s way to blow off steam, try things that he can’t put into one of his Adult Fantasy’s and stretch that uber creative mind of his.

For Instance

• All the Smedry’s are named before/after prisons. Hence names like Alcatraz, Lebanon, Attica, Sing and Australia (think about it).

• Every superpower seems totally awful until you learn what you can actually do with them. I mean who wants the talent of breaking things, arriving late, getting lost (I do that quite well on my own), or waking up really ugly in the morning? They seem like silly things that wouldn’t be good for anything until they are proven to be masterfully useful and I wouldn’t mind having a talent or two.

• Then there is Sanderson making fun of himself a little or writers in general.

*** “Writers—particularly storytellers like myself—write about people. That is ironic, since we actually know nothing about them. Think about it. Why does someone become a writer? Is it because they like people? Of course not. Why else would we seek out a job where we get to spend all day, every day, cooped up in our basement with no company besides paper, a pencil, and our imaginary friends? Writers hate people. If you’ve ever met a writer, you know that they’re generally awkward, slovenly individuals who live beneath stairwells, hiss at those who pass, and forget to bathe for weeklong periods. And those are the socially competent ones.” ***

• There is also that special last chapter that I’m pretty sure a lot of writers have at one point in time thought about doing to their readers…Well at least the readers who skip to the last chapter to see if there beloved character made it to the end.

• Sanderson also gets to make fun of the genre a little bit. I mean seriously in most MG and YA books the Adults are either evil or crazily absent.

*** “Adults are not idiots
often in books such as this one, the opposite impression is given. Adults in those stories will either (a) get captured, (b) disappear conspicuously when there is trouble, or (c) refuse to help. ( im not sure what authors have against adults, but everyone seems to hate them to an extent usually reserved for dogs and mothers. Why else make them out to make such idiots? "Ah look, the dark lord of evil has come to attack the castle! Annnd. ther's my lunch break. Have fun saving the word on your own kids")
In the real world adults tend to get involved in everything whether you want them to or not. They won't disappear when the dark lord appears, though they may try to sue them.
This discrepancy is yet another proof that most books are fantasies while this book is utterly true and invaluable. ***

• There is also a construction project in one of the chapters just for giggles and some silly talk about a bunny with a bazooka…probably just because he could.

Sometime while reading this I wondered if this was a like a writing scavenger hunt game to see how many weird and different things you could put in your book. Like Garth Nix gave Sanderson a list of weird things to see how many he could fit in a book just for fun.

The Gist

The lost Library of Alexandria isn’t really lost but instead is just hidden from the Hushlanders (that’s us). But it isn’t really a safe place either since if you take a book to read you have to give the zombie like librarians there your soul for all eternity….wuwahahahwah.

Seems like a horrible place to go except that is where Alcatraz’s father is most likely and also were Grandpa Smedry has decided to run off to. In order to help them Alcatraz also needs to go to the library and try to rescue his father before he ends up an undead librarian too.

Overall

Yes it is middle grade but like a Rick Riordan book it is so much fun and there is something for everyone that it is a great read even for adults…who are not idiots.