Phillip Reeve: Successful or Unoriginal?

Despite the fact I still haven't finished reading "Facing Up" I have begun to read Fever Crumb, a book written by author Phillip Reeve and is the prequel to the successful "Mortal Engines series".

To start with, I have only read the first few chapters of the book, although it has impressed so far. Set in a post apocalyptic and steampunk world. London and other cities seem to be moving, how this is I have yet to comprehend. These cities are lorded over by a group of warlords known as the Scriven. 

The book follows the story of Fever Crumb, an engineering apprentice, with a name that sounds like they should be from Jamaica and have a haircut like Skrillex.

There are multiple books in the series, as well as there being another series set in the same world. There are two reasons for this, either the series have become extremely successful and people refuse to get bored. Or, the most likely option, Phillip Reeve is REALLY unoriginal.

But anyway, the book is good so far and I shall blog again once I have read more.

Bear Grylls and "Anti-Fanfictionism"

I have been reading a long time, I haven’t read as much as I normally do because I have more productive things to do with my time. I only seem to read seasonally, during winter and autumn. I have more of an interest in film than i do in literature. Although you can read books during power cuts. I believe recently, paper books have been murdered, sliced into multiple pieces and scattered across the globe by the kindle.

Recently I have been reading Bear Grylls' autobiography “Facing Up” entailing his journey to the top of Everest, therefore becoming the youngest person, at the time, to climb the world’s tallest mountain. Although I’m not normally a fan of biographical novels, so far this has been a good read. I have also begun to read a book entitled “Fever Crumb”.

As far as I’m concerned, people who don’t read books, don’t because they read at a pace of 1 word every couple of seconds, listening to them is like trying to disarm a bear trap with my face. But, reading has a dark side, the hordes of illiterate, uninspired fools, who clutter the interwebs with FanFiction *shudder*.  Unfortunately, there is FanFiction for anything including; my little pony, twilight and worst of all *Whispering* One direction...