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Maximum Ride: The Final Warning (Maximum Ride: The Protectors) By James Patterson ( Little, Brown Young Readers )
Release Date: 2008-09-01
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Hold on tight for the wildest ride yet as Max and the flock take on global warming--Earth's biggest threat--in this #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Maximum Ride and the other members of the flock are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It seems like a dream come true...until they're hunted by the world's nastiest villains.
Max returns in a chilling adventure unlike any other. Safe havens for the six highly-sought-after winged kids have become increasingly hard to find, so the flock takes refuge in Antarctica with a team of environmentalists studying the effects of global warming. In this remote wilderness--whether pursued by corrupt governments, bioengineered bad-guys, or the harsh forces of nature--survival of the fittest takes a new twist!
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 Okay. So I agree that this wasn't as good as the rest. ( jed6jezzy )
However, what bothers me about some of the reviews, is the global warming thing. From the very first Max book, her mission was to save the world. As each book progressed, the global warming issue also progressed. We should have expected that as an avenue for Patterson to take. Personally, I think he did a pretty good job of incorporating it. What I didn't care for, though, was the powers that these kids were suddenly given, or made aware of. I loved Total to pieces and he made me giggle frequently throughout the book. Again, not my favorite Max book, but not poor enough to give it less than 3 or 4 stars.
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Maximum Ride
I enjoyed this series of James Patterson books. This one was not as good as the first three.
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 Maximum Ride A Final Warning NOT to read
After reading the original two novels that the Maximum Ride series came to be based on, I had high expectations. Those expectations were met in the previous books. This one however, was a major let down. The first clue was the extra large size of the paperback and fewer pages. My intuition said, "This book will be dumbed down and watered down for adolescents. James Patterson did a disservice to a generation of young people who poured through "Harry Potter" with no problem. I found that with this book if I put it down I didn't really want to pick it back up. I forced myself to finish it. It's as though he was under contract to pump out one more and he did it half-heartedley with awful results. Patterson reduced Max and the gang to Captain Planet like caricatures diminishing the trials and tribulations that they endured in the previous books. Reducing the "voice" in Max's head to nothing more than a guilty concious over a yet unproven THEORY called global warming. (Silly premise since Max and the gang has only been on their own for two years and were too busy to be formally educated much less indoctrinated about "global warming".) Mr. Patterson took the easy way out.
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Okay, stop. Now.
This is exactly what I was afraid would happen--the author doesn't know when to stop. I liked the first three books. This fourth was a mistake.
First of all, the whole "suspense" thing has completely worn itself down. The fights have become almost mechanical (no pun intended)--baddies come, Max fights, lots of sarcastic jibes, baddies go. Despite the bird kids' situations, it is simply impossible for the reader to believe that they are in any real danger. We all know the routine now--and of course, nothing terribly original happens in this fourth book to break it.
And then there's the whole Global Warming tripe. I honestly believe that this book was written solely to preach it. Of course, not a single mention of how manmade global warming itself is still a THEORY. That's right, people. And what's more, it's still a poorly-formed theory with NO REAL PROOF. Whatsoever. Yes, the general public has come to accept it, falsely, as undisputed fact--but to add to the unrealisticness of this book, even the environmental scientists in this story believe it. Really. If these "scientists" were actually studying glacier patterns in Antarctica, as we're told, then they would already know that global warming is the result of the earth's natural cycle, not human interference. There are actually, in truth, very few scientists now who still believe the manmade Warming theory. The entire message was completely factless, unsupported, and wishy-washy. I also don't appreciate having ideas shoved down my throat, thank you.
And then there's the whole powers thing. Conveniently, everyone is getting these new powers. As if I needed more assurance that the flock is invincible. Even Total gets a new "ability"--which is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read of, not to mention impossible. Of course, there's also a new "Uber-Director" to provide a new cardboard villain, who really seems shoved into the story as an afterthought and to add a "sense of danger." Because, of course, there HAS to be a villain.
It's become a comic book, that's what it's become. Every part of this story was cheesy and frivolous. Don't waste your time.
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Worst of the series ( sir_john )
First of all, having two different sets of bird kids in an author's repertoire makes little sense to me. The original stories (When the Wind Blows, The Lake House) were excellent.
Then, all of a sudden, there is a new flock, with a leader named Max, but totally unrelated to the other flock's leader named Max.
This was the weakest of ALL of Patterson's bird kid novels, and the weakest of the Maximum Ride series. He should have quit a book or two ago, but noooooo. He had to jump on the pulpit to draft his flock into the Al Gore regiment of the Army Against Global Warming, with Max as the colonel of the regiment.
The whole book was laced with stilted, forced dialog, and the flock bounced from place to place as if Patterson were just trying to fill out enough pages to make his environmental tirade publishable.
I started to read the last chapter, but even after investing several hours in the book, I couldn't force myself to finish it.
Ironically, the epilogue is titled "How Bad Can it Be? If you really want to find out, read the book. Hint: It can't get much worse.
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