I really enjoyed this book. it had a lot of situations that made you think. It was a murder mystery with comedy, you don't find books like that too often. I enjoyed it.... 4 stars!
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Later the detective finds out that the teakettle is home to an evil Genie that only came out to grant a wish when a 'Toon said the magic words "May all your dreams come true." This phrase was in Roger's favorite song and he sang it while playing his piano in his living room. The genie killed everyone that tried to make a wish, but seeing as his teakettle wasn't so mobile and he couldn't get to the living room where Roger was when he said the words, he had to grant his wishes (and Roger would have chose more carefully but he didn't know his wishes were being granted, the genie just granted the wishes he said when the words "i wish that...." came out of his mouth) but he would be sure to sabatoge every one. Roger;s first wish was to marry Jessica, but the Genie made that last for only a year. His second wish was for a contract with the DeGreasy brothers but the genie made sure that he was never the star only an extra to another 'Toon. The last encounter roger had with the genie he wished for Rocco DeGreasy to be dead becaus ehe stole Jessica away from him, then he walked past the kitchen and the geanie not only killed Rocco but also killed Roger.
yet again more Roger Rabbit...
Detective Eddie Valient and Roger's clone decide to go back to Roger's house to see if the detective missed anything the first run through. They discover a missing teakettle. Roger says that he took it as a souvenier from an Alice in Wonderland cartoon strip he was once in, that it was just a normal teaketle that anyone could but at the local store. The detective brushes it off and goes to talk to the other DeGreasy brother (who isn't too bright) and finds out that almost everyone he had talked to in his investigation was lying to him or had something to cover up. The brother also asks him if he came across a teakettle at Roger's house, because its his grandmother's and Roger took it from his office. Roger gets proof to show Detective Eddie that the teakettle at his home was used in the set by bringing him a picture of it. Later the detective interviews Jessica Rabbit and she too asks about the same teakettle and offers a rather large reward for it because she claims its solid gold. So Roger and the detective have a lot more work ahead of them, and a lot more questions to ask about the popular suspicious teakettle....
Monday, May 18, 2009
More Roger Rabbit!
I am really liking this book, it reads like a more serious mystery even though its a completely fictional novel. It makes reading it go by very easily and nicely. I get really into the book when I read it. The 'toons in the book can create clones of themselves to make their jobs easier, so that they can go out on more comic strip jobs to earn more money. The detective goes back to his office to work on the case of Roger's death and finds that the place has been broken into, the locked broken off, the windows broken. He goes in and finds what appears to be Roger Rabbit in his chair, h soon realizes that (lucky for him) Roger created a clone of himself before he was killed.
The detective asks the Rabbit clone a few questions and the answers that Roger gives all point to his ex wife, Jessica Rabbit, but Roger is convinced that it wasn't her. There was a gun that was found in his night stand and police later find out that the gun found was the same that killed one of the DeGreasy brothers but Roger claims he has never own a gun. Roger has always wanted to be a detective, and Detective Eddie feels bad about almost calling Roger's case off that he is suckered into agreeing to let Roger's clone be his "sidekick detective" for the next 48 hours he will remain, and the two of them set off to do more investigating......
The detective asks the Rabbit clone a few questions and the answers that Roger gives all point to his ex wife, Jessica Rabbit, but Roger is convinced that it wasn't her. There was a gun that was found in his night stand and police later find out that the gun found was the same that killed one of the DeGreasy brothers but Roger claims he has never own a gun. Roger has always wanted to be a detective, and Detective Eddie feels bad about almost calling Roger's case off that he is suckered into agreeing to let Roger's clone be his "sidekick detective" for the next 48 hours he will remain, and the two of them set off to do more investigating......
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Roger Rabbit (part 2)
The detective spends his time interviewing everyone that Roger is involved with. This includes his managers, his psychiatrist, the photographer for the cartoons, and his ex wife. Everyone has something to say about Roger Rabbit, which is good in the sense that it gives the detective something to work with, but bad in the sense that everyone holds a different opinion about him and therefore says completely different things and shares completely different stories. Roger calls the detective over to his house telling him that someone tried to kill him, hearing this he immediately rushes over to Roger's burrow. Roger tells him the story of how he was leaving the photographers house and someone came out of nowhere and pied him, they shoved a custard cream pie in his face attempting to smother him. The detective talks to Roger's psychiatrist about this and the doctor tells him that Roger has has nightmares about this exact event and that it wouldn't surprise him if it was Roger making the whole thing up. After hearing this the detective has decided that he has had enough, that he doesn't want to be on this wild goose chase anymore, so he goes over to Roger's house to tell him he wants out of the case. When he arrives at Roger's house he finds Roger on the stairs, dead.....
Friday, April 17, 2009
Roger Rabbit!
As I was going through the movies that were made from books on the website we got from Becky, I found so many that books that I would love to read, and just might, on my own time. I narrowed my list down and decided that I couldn't pass up the ever classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I started reading it, an it reads nicely, its very intense. So far the book has introduced the type of world that the book takes place in, how it works and the characters. The world is the exact same as the one we live in today except for the small detail that it's humans living with cartoons! The book so far has explained how the cartoons differ from the people, when they talk they speak in talk bubbles and think in think bubbles that fit their character, for example the baby's talk bubble has writing with backwards letters, as a 4 year old would write, when the toons whisper the bubbles are stretched and small and secretive. Roger Rabbit signed a contract to do a cartoon strip and was promised his own strip, but has only been in the shadows of another toon and he hires a detective to find out why the agency has it out for him.... TO BE CONTINUED.....
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Anticipation Blues
It always seems to me that just knowing that winter break, or any break for that matter, always makes that days go a lot slower. I feel as if I am in school for days when in reality it's only a few short hours. Also I do agree that the stress builds up, I feel as if I have to get all of my late work in and get everything organized so that everything will be good by the time I get back. So i scramble around and get myself all worked up, but I guess it's not too bad because I will soon have a nice relaxing break to calm down and relax myself and my nerves. I do agree, I think that too much stress makes me sick too, I always seem to get sick around the holidays and when I have a lot going on. It's probably the stress and anxiety build up that gets me. I love and hate time off of school. I love it because its a good chance to relax and get away from everything, but I hate it bacause I feel like I forget everything, and I feel so weird and out of place when I come back.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
In the clouds....
This year has been....eventful, to say the least. There have been so many ups and so many downs. It seems that my head just hasn't been in the right place this entire year. I have been doing so many things that I shouldn't. well not so much lately, I should have said I did so many things that I shouldn't have been doing. Making bad decisions on many things, such as friends, the ones I keep close and the ones I push away or let fall away. I seem to always be blogging about friends, but they are a big part of my life, especially over this past year. There are a few people that I don't talk to anymore, and am not friends with anymore, that for some reason or another either I decided not to be or they did, but some I regret and miss, thinking back, they were excellent friends. I also didn't spend my free time very wisely. This year especially, it seemed that I would go out and party every weekend, and be hanging out with friends until 11 or so on week nights instead of spending my time doing homework, studying, looking for a job and trying to graduate and figuring out what I'm doing after I do. Like I said, my head hasn't been in the right place at all this year....
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