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Taking a break from my normal book reviews, here are some instances where a movie accurately encapsulates (or improves) the novel it is based upon. Normally, when someone is confronted with the idea that there was a movie adaptation of their favorite book, they automatically think that the movie remake will always be worse. However, Forrest Gump would prove them wrong. If you haven't watched the movie yet, Forrest Gump is a movie about a man with an IQ of 75 with good intentions. We are taken through the life story of Gump, through his ups and downs, but he always stays optimistic about anything happening to him. However, the book was very disappointing and only remotely enjoyable if you had already watched the movie. The actors, including Tom Hanks, Elvis Presley, etc, and the director, Robert Zemeckis, brought this subpar novel to the screen in an amazing fashion. The second novel I'll be talking about in this blog post is Jaws. Again, this book was rather unremarkable, thril...

     12 years ago back in 2009, manga artist Hajime Isayama created the manga Shingeki no Kyojin also better known as Attack on Titan. As a 3-year-old, I made the worst mistake of my life. I didn’t start reading Attack on Titan until 2019. With the decade-long series having finished just a few weeks ago, I have bestowed it the title of the greatest story of all time (in my opinion..). For those of you who do not know, Attack on Titan is mainly known for its incredible success in the anime adaptation which started in 2013 and has been going strong with 4 seasons with the last one ending next year. Despite its greatness, it has yet to finish catching up with the source material, so I am here to talk about the original manga which finished on April, 9th and is better than the anime fight me, but that’s a topic for another day.      As someone who was heavily invested in it, I found it to be a hell of a journey following Eren Jaeger and his friends trying to ...

                                        We are okay book review We are okay is a book by Nina Lacour. In this book, something tragic happens to the main character, Marin, and not being ready to forgive, she tries to forget. She leaves for college, planning to never look back. Calls and voicemails sent to her phone never got an answer and the friend she leaves behind never heard a good bye. However, now in the midst of her winter break, her friend Mabel is coming to visit her college for three days and upon arrival, Mabel tells her upfront that she wants her to come home. With no longer any known immediate family left of Marin’s, Mabel tells Marin that her parents are willing to take her in. However, Marin says no. Although she wants to say yes, she can not face going back you California. Mabel, rather intent on her mission continues to stay for the next thr...

       I read Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy. The book was a story about the birth of modern-day computers and the transition to modern-day PCs. It was a very interesting read that really humbled my previous understanding of computers. One thing that was very interesting to me about the book was a thing called the Hacker Ethic. It was a term born in Tech Square in MIT, and it describes the working ethic that the computer hackers that lived there had while they worked with these huge computers. The moment they entered the room, they would forget about everything else. They would forget about doing well in school, sleeping, eating and all they did was just give 100% all the time to hacking a computer. It was very interesting. They would set up strange sleeping systems where they would stay awake and build programs on a computer for 3 days straight, then sleep like a baby for another few days straight. This kind of unconditional dedication ...

                                                                                       Dewey Decimal System I vaguely remember learning about the Dewey Decimal System in second grade. I thought it was pretty boring and useless because most of the time I would directly ask one of the librarians to find my request without even trying in the first place. However, I never knew how the books were organized within the Dewey Decimal System and how it allowed librarians to easily spot specific books and requests.  The Dewey Decimal System is a library classification system that organizes contents of a library in 10 main groups; General Knowledge, Philosophy and Psychology, Religion, Social Sciences, Languages, Science and Math, Techno...