December 23, 2018

Ready Player One - Matt's catching up on this one!

Finally got a great book completed: 
    Back in February it was coming up on my nephew Cannon's birthday and I was still finishing up reading this novel  that I got from Hastings back in August of twenty seventeen  

seen here. That stuff was freaky oddness of fans of a convention turning into zombies of all kinds, it was fun to me since I'm a huge fan of star trek in my own life. Now for the real reason for you being here is because of this book seen here


READY PLAYER ONE, the story of many things but especially about friendship among young people who share a love for classic video games. The narrative of the main character is from his virtual world avatar known as  Parzival for most of the overarching passage of his time in the OASIS that was created by James Halliday.  I started with this book just shortly after going on my vacation of twenty seventeen with my folks Nancy Powers Watson and Charles Ross Watson and his sister and her husband on a cruise to Hawaiian Islands. I had brought with me not only this new novel but also two from the Alien series by Gina Kochi and the original six part comic trade of 1992's INFINITIY WAR along with some pencil a drawing pad for good luck while in my room when we were at sea.                                                                     
         The author of this story put his love of the decades he grew up in as a child. Which was the nineteen seventies /eighties so I geuss in a lot ways Ernest Cline is much like me who was born in the early seventies, he put in several no better than several eighties and seventies memories of entertainment factors that were great joys to remenisice about. He brought up how he loves superheroes by comparing Parzival's real world identity of Wade Watts is Peter Parker, in the beginning of the novel Watts has his own Batcave that in reality is a van near his home which is known as the stacks. As for relating to the seventies Cline brings up video game arcades design, possibly his own birthday? for the OASIS and contest creator James Halliday character, The Muppet show and Sesame Street, and of course with the title being READY PLAYER ONE Cline mentions the home video games systems that he owned the first being a Atari 2600. Which he got in December, 1979.    
                    Building of the relationships such as friendships in this story really take care of growing from Stranger Danger of hiding behind your own created Avatars to understanding the feelings of trusting one's self with the worth of love. At the very same time the emissions of love are through out, so are the striving strength of power and greed are shown by the character Nolan Sorrento and his company Innovative Online Industries. He and his minions called Sixers are doing everything in their accumulations in stopping Mister Watts and his friends from winning ownership of the OASIS. For those who either love Role Playing Games or video games will love this book or if you like the 1980's for whatever reason your right at home as well. I'm giving this book a rating of grade A++, because you can find a particular part of READY PLAYER ONE that is yourself from start or finish!       

March 10, 2018

And now.....here's a cool review of.....

Hey all , 
      You know that it seems like that I have gone into hiding from the world of creativeness or at least related to what it is I have stay about what I believe is important in the way of literature. Earlier today I went to Barnes and Noble out at our mall called Coumbia Center yet before I went looking around for the books seen here
    Kitchen counter, I found a big comfortable chair near the front of the store's enterance I went and finshed  the best offbeat story of mixed up fun that I have been reading since last October. Now before I begin this review remember when I was looking at the month of scares I was wanting to really get my blood to be chilled to the bone but it truly turns out that I was also wanting to find a novel or book that gave me a chance to really and truly experience my own INNER DARKNESS in my way of READING INTO THE UNKNOWN.....Yet I found out that I can't access anything except good ol science fiction of sorts. 
              This book between the incredible hulk beanie and spider-man beanie babies is called
"NIGHT OF THE LIVING TREKKIES" that is both conceived by two Trek fans that also have a fascinating itch of loving horror in the way of Zombies, their names are Sam Stall and Kevin David Anderson. The tease of the book in part is Journey to the final frontier of Sci-Fi zombie horror! Jim Pike (you  can see right where this is going if your a true Star Trek fan/nerd/lover of geek ness.....) was the world's biggest Star Trek fan - until two tours of duty in Afghanistan destroyed his faith in the human race. Now he sleepwalks through life as the assistant manager of a small hotel in downtown Houston.  But when hundreds of Trekkies arrive in his lobby for a science fiction convention, Jim finds  himself surrounded by costumed Klingons, Vulcans, and Ferengi - plus a strange virus that transforms it's carriers into savage, flesh-eating Zombies!
           This story has so much fun with itself you can tell the two writers took everything that they know of Star Trek's many incantations from the original series to Voyager and tossed in zombie movie favorites like "The return of the living dead (1985)", "Zombieland (2009)" and finally I am guessing the most important one that they based this work of literature off is "Night of the living dead  (1968)". It flows in a science grabbing you by the throat action in the reader's face without being completely dark. The one of many neat things they did was they had each chapter relatively related to it being Star Trek known by each one have a spin on a certain episode of the series in someway or other. I really loved the laughs in this novel from the music of William Shatner on the hotel's main intercom in the elevator, Jim's sister Rayna's main way of getting to the convention is priceless and the name of the hotel is named after a certain ship that Enterprise runs into in the episode known as "space seed", putting your thinking caps may be needed here if you are not a Trek fan yet the answer is the hotel's name is Botany Bay which is Khan Noonien Singh's ship from in the year 2267. Now here is a great tease for other science fiction fans to want to read this gem her name is Shelly Dumpkin and who she is in this is, well you're not going to get the answer from me! 
     Overall I have to give this book a rating of Extremely Transporter safety measures MUST BE ON AT ALL TIMES... For if not the fun in this existence will leave you dead with laughter, I give it  an A PLUS!                                                                                  

January 01, 2018

A few words of HOPE



        
Well All I can think of to continue to say and think is.....
    Haven't done a whole lot today, even though it is late into the first evening of twenty eighteen. Known better as January 1st, I can saw that I Matt Byrd have no true idea of what the whole coming year will behold for any creature that has been created to this point in our existence known as the journey of life. I know also that not the whole blue and green colored planet called earth doesn't all celebrate the incoming new year on the exact day of the new year. For example the Chinese New Year for this year of twenty eighteen isn't official until February sixteen. Which is still seven full weeks away, and their animal symbol for next year is that of the DOG.... So I guess all the Benjis, Tigers, Scooby-Doos, Wonder Dogs better be on the lookout regardless if your fictional or not. Extra credit for naming each fictional dog's actual show or series that they are in! 
          In truth beyond anything in this existence of ours known as life, we can only take each twenty four hours for what they are! I'm not being a know it all in any given way, but life is always about the choices we each human make rather we can see that set of results of those selective effective activities end. It is simply the cause and effect cycle of impact on ourselves....   
           Okay here is a very fine example of what I am talking about choosing a choice on a personal level that I have strong feelings and emotions about no matter what. I have been always in the way of living life that I shouldn't be TEMPTED into doing illegal type of Drugs like Cocaine, Acid, Meth, and even Marijuana the drug that former president Barack Obama made legal to make one less drug being not so much a problem for law enforcement agencies to worry about, but it is still up to each state of the united states to determine IF that is protecting that state's citizens. My thought on ILLGEAL DRUGS is this "Drugs hurt us,when we don't have real crucial information of why our empowering temptation is influenced by our knowledge that we feel is right and our decision is by feeling only. Here is what I found what worked BEST for me... I SAW IN MY HEAD THAT MY PEERS HELD Matt Byrd TO THE GROUND FORCING ME TO EAT CIGAETTES! I have kept that as rooted in my heart as the old saying " I LOVE YOU" and I know that I won't be ever easily put against a wall without why I don't DO DRUGS. Another choice in my life that is more questionable in a way that even I find HARD to explain is how I feel about the emtion of LOVE. I know from my experience with life as you all do life isn't full of answers in understanding love other than you need to share that with family most of all. I guess the best to looking at what love is besides  every thing we all understand that my game that I started last year fits very well here, HOPE is what we all need even me the writer of this very blog.
    Now I know that it has been fully  apparent, that for a long while that I haven't been sure of what to use as my desktop images or picture wise for the site so it will take a bit of time but I am going to be putting a effort to being creative besides  word wise this upcoming year.