Seven Seconds Or Less

The book i am reading right now is called 7 Seconds Or Less. It is about a Sports Illustrated writer named Jack Mccallum who is gets permission to spend one whole season with the Phoenix Suns, just like John Feinstein got to do with Indiana's basketball team. The Suns are having a avery successful year, despite losing superstar power forward A'mare Stoudemaire for the whole year. But MVP winner Steve Nash and quiet superstar Shawn Marion have tremendous seasons, and carry the Suns to the playoffs. But there are lots of critics. People don't think the Suns can survive in the playoffs with their amazingly quick offense, whose goal is to score in 7 seconds or less. In the first round the 2 seed Suns are sqaured  up against the 7 seed Lakers and Kobe Bryant. The Suns find themselves in a huge 3-1 hole, but somehow some back to win the series. I like this book a lot because they are a very exciting team, and they do have their fair share of interesting characters with Eddie House, Shawn Marion, Raja Bell, Boris Diaw, and Alvin Gentry. I would recommend this book for NBA fans.

The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy

When I first started to read this book I thought that it was supposed to be a stupid funny book, because my dad told me it was written by a guy from Monty Python. Well, it wasn't, and I almost abandoned the book. There are some small parts that are laugh out loud funny, but not much. But I did keep reading it because everyone said that it was good. I am about halfway through, and I don't want to stop reading. It is very good and you get pulled into it. Now I think that the point of this book is just to be quirky and bizarre. Which it mist definitely is. The book started when Arthur was laying in front of a bulldozer so his house wouldn't get run over, when Ford, a longtime friend (who is secretly from a small planet elsewhere in the universe.) convinced him to come get a beer and to get the workers to lay in front of the house. When Arthur asked why, Ford simply said "The Earth is about to explode." So Ford and Arthur went out elsewhere in the universe, were they went through tons of weird experiences including: Being a second a way from dying, woke up in a weird spaceship, Ford reunited with his long lost cousin who is the president of the galaxy and stole the greatest spaceship ever, were part of a high speed chase, and found the greatest and most talked about planet ever. What a two days!
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