PostSingular #2 Last Blog!

I really was happy with the ending of this book. It was one of those books where a sad ending would just make the book crappy. I am so happy that the Nants did not take over earth and they were able to live in a better world. Also I really found the second half of the book to be very catchy, and quite funny. I think after you know the characters and you start seeing the world they live in and who they are and what they are doing you get attached. I think that the author did a great job at getting the reader attached from the beginning by pulling at the heart strings when Jeffs best friend died. Then he gets us emotional with Chu when he gets sucked into the virtual earth. Then we learn about the four “bum” kids who are going from place to place, known as rebels, yet they are smart enough to save the world. I found the book brought in some really interesting ideas, and what I thought was hilarious was how much the author seemed to hate dogs. It kept making dogs seem to be these evil, dirty animals. I love dogs so I caught on to this very fast and laughed to myself thinking Rudy Rucker must be a cat person. But besides that I found the transportation from world to world to be very interesting. I thought I was great that Thuy was able to figure so much out and was brave and went and saved that harp. I think that it was very relatable to girls when she got sucked into the Nubees world because she got her pigtails eaten and her favorite shoes. That made me laugh as well that the author felt it important to take away a girls hair and shoes. I still saw the world as a place where I would never want to live or have that happen to us though because they had no privacy what so ever. I mean I would hate to think that there are people that could watch my every move, and my secret life. I mean I thought Chu made a good point when he was saying, why can’t we say everything we are thinking since we can read each others minds. I thought along with him, what is the point of clothes if you can see what is beneath them? There are no secrets. One thing I did find odd was the way the author described Christians/Right wing conservatives in the book. First of all they assumed that everyone that was a Right Wing believed in Christianity. Secondly they assumed that the right wings were all for the Nants taking over the world because they were ready to go to heaven, but I thought that they weren’t really dying when they were being transformed into virtual world? I wasn’t quite sure I understood that. So wouldn’t the Right Wing conservatives be against it? Wouldn’t they want to be on an earth where they can die so they can go to heaven? I just thought that Rudy Rucker may have had the facts wrong on that part. Just thought I should give my voice on that part since I mentioned that I liked that Rudy Rucker mentioned something else about God earlier in the book. I wasn’t quite sure I could grasp Rudy Rucker and his stance on Christianity. It seemed to be used in other places, where I am not sure if others would pick up on it, but it was subtle and hinted towards Biblical relations. The second to last paragraph of the book is an example, talking about how they got a new start, like settling down from a flood and starting over. I thought that this really tied in with Noah’s Ark story. Maybe I am wrong and the author didn’t mean for me to see that. Also what I liked about the book was it was kind of a love story…in a different form. I mean you could tell that JayJay really liked Thuy and she really liked him. There were other love affairs going on in the book but that one was the big one and how they knew that life with anyone else would not be as great as life with each other. That made me happy that they were able to be together happily ever after. I don’t remember hearing if Sonic ended up living or not. I do feel like they should have said that he was alive, because he was helpful in getting rid of Jeff Luty, or did he die when he jumped through the transporter? I guess maybe I missed something there? All in all I really liked this book.