The Last Book in the Universe

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Summary: Cliff Hanger
Review: I picture this book, The Last Book in the Universe, in my head perfectly, and I think that it would make a great movie. The plot is that Spaz(the main character) has to save his sister, Bean, from dying of a disease while he is practically in hell. He is in a horrible place because in the future the Big Shake happens (a horrible earthquake tragedy when the world becomes a terrible place where almost everyone is evil). This book reminds me of The Giver, by Lois Lowry, because they both take place in the future. I think Rodman Philbrick has high expectations of being a great author. I really hope that he decides to make a sequel to this book. It is very clever of Rodman to use a cliffhanger at the end of this book, so that everyone who reads the first book will probably want to read the second. I liked this book because it was an exciting journey the whole way through. I recommend that Rodman Philbrick write a lot more books than just the sequel.

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Summary: Eden vs. Urb
Review: This book is about an epileptic boy named Spaz who goes on a quest to save his little sister, Bean, from dying of leukemia. The main characters of this book are Spaz, Bean, Billy Bizmo, who is boss of the latch, one of the sections of the Urb in which Spaz lives; Ryter the old "gummy"; Lanaya, the "proov" girl; and her contributors or parents who are named Jinn and Bree. What I like about this book is that Rodman Philbrick really used his imagination when making this book. He made a prediction of what the future might be like. The future in this story is part paradise and part "I don't want to go there". The future is a place where the people don't have a past or future because they use mind probes. Mind probes are needles tat are injected into your brain to make you see virtual reality. It is also a place that is so polluted that you would not even want to look at it. Another thing that I admire about this book is that the author made the language easy to read and understand. This book is full of action and suspense which I relish. In my opinion, this book is among the better books that I have read in my life. Harry Potter has the suspense but does not have the creativity that this book has. In Harry Potter there are wizards that have already been thought of before, but in this story, there are the Urb, Eden, and the Big Shake!!! I give this book a rating of four stars ****. I left the fifth one out because the end was depressing and could have been better. The last part of the book left me hanging. Other than that, the book was spectacular!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: The Last Book in the Universe
Review: This book is extremely good. The auther does a great job in this book, getting the readers attention and holding it. I could hardly put the book down. This book is a mixture of mystery with adventure. I can honestly say this was the best book that I have ever read, the only regret I gave about this book is that there isn't a sequal.
The book is about a boy named Spaz. Spaz is living on Earth after a big quake destroyed most all of it. Spaz was seperated by his latch family ( he was adopted) and is stuck living three latches away from them. Well one day spaz receives word that his sister Bean is very sick and she wants to see him. So Spaz teams up with an old gummie named Ryter and a little boy nicknamed Little Face, and travels across the three latches to get to his sister. On their journey they are attcked my mobs and latch Bosses, and they even manage to rescue a beautiful proov girl. The only way to save Bean is to take her to Eden (the place where proovs, or genetcally enhanced beings, live). The only thing bad thing about this is that no regular human like Bean is permitted to enter Eden. They sneak Bean in and cure her of a disease know as the blood disease. After they cure her Bean, Spaz, and Ryter are kicked out of Eden and return home.
Other books that I recommend if you liked this book are are Max the Mighty and Freak the Mighty.

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Summary: Eden vs.the Urb
Review: To me, this book was exciting because the plot kept me reading. Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick is about a boy
named Spaz. The world he lives in, the depressing Urb, is a land ruled by gangs. Eden is a place where genetically improved
people (proovs) live; it is a beautiful place with grass and blue sky. Spaz receives a letter telling him that his sister will soon die and
that she needs to see him. Spaz, an old man named Ryter, a proov named Lanaya, and a little boy go on an adventure to find
her. Many different things happen on their adventure to see his sister and they run into different characters like Lotti Getts a latch
boss and Billy Bizmo another latch boss. The unique style of writing that Philbrick writes with, such as using "gummy" to mean an
old person, makes the story very interesting to readers of all ages. The book is easy to read and easy to understand. The ending
of the book isn't very good though because it doesn't really close up the story.