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Summary: The earth is no more....
Review: An asteroid is on collision course towards earth and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. When it hits earth, the impact will be like shooting a bullet through a soft-boiled egg.
There's only one chance for the survival of humans. An old spaceship is fitted with hibernation booths for eighty people. It will be sent out into space toward a star they think might have a planet that can support life. Only there is no promise that the eighty will ever wake up.
This is the book that hooked me into the Remnants series. I love the way K.A.Applegate writes the different chapters from the different characters points of view.
In this book you're introduced to Jobs, the techie. His bestest buddy MO'Steel, the adrenaline junkie. 2Face, a girl with half her face burned off in an accident. Billy Wier, a strange kid who has visions in his dreams. D-Caf, a hiper kid who doesn't have an invitation on board the ship. Tamara, a pregnant marine sergeant with an attitude. And Yago, the President's spoiled kid with big issues.
If you read this book, you'll have to read the next one. I loved it so much that I've read it about 10 times. Enjoy!
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Summary: A breathtaking start to a great new series
Review: Before reading Remnants #1, I didn't think I would like it much, or that it would be as good as Animorphs. But if the rest of the books continue to be as good as this, Remnants will be a brilliant series. Its a much darker series then Animorphs from the very start, and the scenes near the end are very powerful. The idea behind the series is that eighty people- The Eighty- escape a doomed Earth to try to keep some part of the human race alive. Several characters are introduced as the countdown begins to the destruction of Earth. The book may seem to have a simple plot, but its actually full of surprises, and some parts like Cordelia's death, are very moving- up until then, I was still hoping she'd be able to get on the Mayflower shuttle some day. And the end of the book, with the sample chapter for Remnants #2, left me wanting to read more. Definitely a great book, whether you're a fan of Animorphs or not.
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Summary: Beginning of the end...
Review: From Kathrine Applegate, author of the Everworld and Animorphs series, comes an awesome new sci-fi series. I own the first 6 books in this series, and every one was well worth buying. I admit, I'm a fan of applegate and read every book in the two aforementioned series, but even for her, this is amazing.
In The Mayflower Project, the year is 2011. A 14-year old boy named Jobs and several other characters find out that a gaint asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Eighty people are chosen to be put into hibernation and escape the asteriod on an ancient space shuttle with dangerously new and experimental technology including the hibernation chambers and solar sails. Of course, everything that can go wrong does, as a pair of "terrorists" sneak aboard the shuttle and kill the copilot. The real terrorists, trying to either get a ride on the shuttle or trap the Eighty with them, damage the solar sails, which go unnoticed until the shuttle is already in orbit. Jobs and his adrinaline-junkie friend Mo'Steel have to get outside the ship to deploy the sails manually with only minutes to escape before the asteroid hits earth and the explosing destroys the shuttle. A great book, and while the story may sound a bit cliched, the series is full of total originality. My only complaint about this series is that the books are only about 150 pages on average, but that's not much when they're only $5 and a new one's released every 1 or 2 months. If you are at all a fan of Applegate or sci-fi, you should buy the six books that are already out and then buy every book in the series as it is published. I know I will.
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Summary: Remnants:The Mayflower Project (A Great Book)
Review: I loved the book Remnants:The Mayflower Project By Katherine A. Applegate. It is great for people that are into futuristic books.
My favorite parts were when the 80 people who were chosen to board a ship to leave earth to get away from the Rock (huge asteroid), and there is a gun battle. Another part is when Jobs and Mo'Steel,the 2 main characters, have to open the solar sail in space manually, and Jobs sees the Rock hit the earth.
I would recommend this book to people who like futuristic and action books because that's what the book is about. Remnamts is an interesting book to read because it happens not to far in the future and people that are alive then will see if it comes true or not. The year it happens is 2011 so that's 8 years from now (2003).
Remnants is about a boy named Jobs and his best friend Mo'Steel who loves adrenilen rushes. Jobs is in love with a girl from his school, she dies when a chunk of the Rock hits the earth and send a spike flying at her and hits her in the heart. 80 people are chosen to leave earth and save the human race.
If you read this book and like it there are more out there. I have heard there are about 11 books in the sequal so far. I want to but haven't read them all yet.
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Summary: Three words: W, O, W!
Review: KA Applegate hase got to be one of the best Authers since Homer. Excellent, Excellent book. The world is ending and 80 people are chosen to board the Mayflower, an aging ship fitted with new technoligy, to embark on the stupidly desperate and utterly impossible mission of finding a new planet for the human race to rebuild it's civilization. Cliche? Not on your life. Even though the concept of of an asteroid wiping out the human race has been used over, and over again, Applegate has created a truely unique sseries that will go down in the hall of fame. The charactors are brilliant and different. Jobs is a computer nerd who has the great ability to work with machines, but often fails at interacting with humans. His best friend, Mo'Steel is a slightly crazy thrill seaker who is always looking for the next stupid risk. He earned his nickname by the metal used to replace several bones in his body that were destroyed in varius stunts. 2face was once a beautiful girl, nut massive burns dissfigured her face, creating a very interesting charater. Unlick Animorphs this series is very dark. Even though it is in the childeran's section and is very easy to read I would not recomend this series to anyone who get's nightmares easy (especially the second book, where things get VERY disturbing).
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Summary: Remnants, Mayflower Project
Review: No matter what I might say about lack of character development, how depressing this story about the end of the world, this book just fascinated me. I couldn't put it down, and read the next two books the same night.Seven billion people die, the world is blown into three pieces, this book is sad and depressing in turns. But it's one of those things where you're like: "Who's going to live? Is Billy seeing the future?" Just read it, is all I'm saying. It may be dark, but it pulls you in.
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Summary: AWESOME!!!!!
Review: Remnants just didn't cut it for me. Applegate not only let me down with the disappointing ending of Animorphs and the quick wrap up of Everworld but with this series as well.
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Summary: Remnants, Mayflower Project
Review: Remnants, Mayflower Project is about saving the human race before an asteroid hits the earth. Jobs, the main character, had been selected to go on the Mayflower Project along with eighty other people to try to save the human race. This book had great detail about the near future of 2011 and what things are used to keep the eighty passengers on the ship alive. The Author describes the characters that are going to be keys later on in the journey such as Jobs, a computer tech who steps up to be the hero when nobody else does, Mo'Steel, a daredevil/idiot-savant who has had more steel bone replacements than anybody, 2face, a girl who had her face torn up by a fire and was scheduled to get it fixed, but the rock came, Yago, the President's son who is greedy for leadership, D-Caf, a stowaway on the Mayflower Project and is scared about what is going to happen to them. K.A. Applegate used great words while describing the impact of the asteroid and Earth. This made me think what would I do if I was stuck on a ship heading for nowhere, or what would I do if I was stuck on Earth waiting for the rock to hit? The author gave good examples from both sides such as the rioting of the people on Earth and the frightened people on the people on the ship. I liked this book because it made me imagine what it would be like knowing that the world was going to end. It is depressing at times, thinking about all of those people who are going to die, but then you start wondering about the chance of saving the human race you just have to do it. That would be a tough thing to do. The thing I didn't like about the book was, well now that I think about it I liked it all.
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Summary: The Mayflower Project
Review: The end of a world is a cliché subject that has been worn out countless times. But K.A. Applegate manages to make it fresh and new again in this spectacular book, which also happens to be the first book of the Remnants series. This book is sort of a prelude, because unlike the rest of the books, it takes place on Earth. It's about a shuttle called the Mayflower which will fly through space and put eighty humans into hibernation for centuries, so at least a small fragment of the human race survives when the Rock (the asteroid) hits. There's a bizarre variety of characters, and unlike K.A.'s other series, some major characters are adults. There's a 14-year-old techie who has an automated car, and a rollerblading fanatic who changed his name to Mo'Steel because he has more artificial bone/titanium bone replacements than anyone else in his class. There's also a girl with half of her face disfigured by a fire, the first black female President's arrogant son, and a clairvoyant kid from Chechnya whose first description can creep you out big time. The author also depicts an interesting view of the world in 2011: "links" that you wear on your ear like a hearing aid keep you connected to the world at all times, plastic surgeons can insert cat DNA in your eyes to make them glow in the dark, and hibernation technology has been invented. The emotions and conversations are very realistic, and the end of the book keeps you on the edge of your seat until the next installment. Overall, The Mayflower Project is a book that K.A. Applegate's fans definitely will not want to miss.
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Summary: The Mayflower Project
Review: The end of a world is a cliché subject that has been worn out countless times. But K.A. Applegate manages to make it fresh and new again in this spectacular book, which also happens to be the first book of the Remnants series. This book is sort of a prelude, because unlike the rest of the books, it takes place on Earth. It's about a shuttle called the Mayflower which will fly through space and put eighty humans into hibernation for centuries, so at least a small fragment of the human race survives when the Rock (the asteroid) hits. There's a bizarre variety of characters, and unlike K.A.'s other series, some major characters are adults. There's a 14-year-old techie who has an automated car, and a rollerblading fanatic who changed his name to Mo'Steel because he has more artificial bone/titanium bone replacements than anyone else in his class. There's also a girl with half of her face disfigured by a fire, the first black female President's arrogant son, and a clairvoyant kid from Chechnya whose first description can creep you out big time. The author also depicts an interesting view of the world in 2011: "links" that you wear on your ear like a hearing aid keep you connected to the world at all times, plastic surgeons can insert cat DNA in your eyes to make them glow in the dark, and hibernation technology has been invented. The emotions and conversations are very realistic, and the end of the book keeps you on the edge of your seat until the next installment. Overall, The Mayflower Project is a book that K.A. Applegate's fans definitely will not want to miss.
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