My last blogging, and I have to write about a BOOK. Great.
Just kidding!
I had been thinking for about three days straight, trying to think of what could possibly be a book that changed my life. I have read so many books in my life, but I cannot say that many of them have changed me a whole lot.
Then I remembered Jurassic Park.
I think that sounded a little more epic than it actually is. However, Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park was a life-changer for me. We read it in 8th grade science class, and I thought it was just the coolest thing ever. Extracting dinosaur DNA from insects petrified in amber and creating real, live, present-day dinosaurs, who then run amok in an island theme park...
The reason I consider this novel a life-changer for me was that it pulled me into a new genre—out of the many fantasy/magic books I had been reading into something more scientific—real science fiction. After reading Jurassic Park, I began reading many of Crichton's other various science fiction novels, all of which I have loved (the top being Prey and Sphere), and I began reading more and more science fiction, which I have come to love and very much enjoy. That's really the only reason it is a life-changing novel for me.
And with that, I come to the closing of my last blog post.
Farewell to four years of high school, four years of teachers, four years of friends...
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