The Mayflower Project (Remnants (Hardcover))

Rating:
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!

Rating:
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).

Rating:
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.

Rating:
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.

Rating:
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.

Rating:
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.

Rating:
Summary: It's the best in the series . . .
Review: This book is the best YA book I read this summer. Set in the
"near distant future," (a.k.a 2011) a seventy-six (miles in diamiter) asteriod is on a colision course with earth, and eighty
people have been given the chance to survive, to wander around aimlessly in space in a worn out ship called the "Mayflower" it uses "hibernation" technology, which is untested, can kill many people of radiation, or put them to sleep for hundreds of years.
Jobs, who named himself after Steven Jobs, 2Face, a once pretty
girl who had the left side of her face burned in a fire, and Mo'steel, abreveating "Man of Steel" since he has broken so many bones and they have been replaced by steel, Yago, the president's bratty son and seventy-seven others leave behind their homes, their families, as the asteriod hits Earth.
I have this book, my sister has #2 #3 #4 #5 and book six. I read 1, 2, and 3, and this is by far the best, the one that should be made into the movie, so far the rest of the series has
gotten kind of old.
So my adivce, even though I haven't read all of them, buy number 1, borrow the others from the libary. This, is the best by
far.
Hope my reveiw helped! This is a great book.

Rating:
Summary: A Great Start to a New Series
Review: This book was very good. I expected K.A. Applegate would make this series good, but I never expected it would be this good. Some main characters were introduced. Applegate explains how life is in 2011. Anyway, this book was awesome! I'm sure you'll enjoy this book.