Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Book Project: Fan Expirence



Paper Towns by John Green

Quick Summary:

 

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life–dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge–he follows.

After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues–and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he knew. -- www.johngreenbooks.com

Helping Paper Towns reach a new a promotional status, creating a online game based on the book will help open to a wider audence and excite the readers.
The online game allows the readers to become Quentin Jacobsen and go on a quest of clues and problem solving expedition to find his one true love, Margo Roth Spiegelman. Based on the journey of the book the player has to travel far and wide based on clues that Margo has left, that will get them thinking. The jouney through empty subdivisions of central florida to non-existing paper towns in the great state of New York to track down where the mystery of Margo Roth Spiegelman may lie. So, can you find Margo?


Can you find Margo?



Contents:
Part 1. The Adventure. Try to complete the task to help Margo get revenge on her
enemies and maybe strike a few of your own without getting caught.
Then attempt to break into Sea World successfully without gettting caught by security.

Part 2. After passing the adventure Margo and Quentin the nigth before, the detective and Margo's parents
show up the next day concerend about Margo's lack of presence and comminication. Claiming that you
never saw her the detetive and her parents leave, however you spend the next day on your toes
waiting for Margo to show up for school, but she never does.
Worried that she may have run off again you being to discover unruly clues she left behind.
To find Margo if she is alive or dead you have to follow the clues left behind for you to discover.

Part 3. When you have discovered the existance of the paper town of Aloge, New York, gear up to skip your high school  graduation and drive from Orlando to find the mystery girl of your dreams,
with the help of some friends of course.





                                            






Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Post 2: What is a book?


What is a book?

 A book is a realm into another universe, a new dementia to explore and conquer. The physicality of the book arouses our senses, excited our psyche about another experience we are about to immerse ourselves into. With a book, pages become time machines into new places we haven’t yet discovered. Places of hardships or creatures of fantasy and nothing can quite beat the unique smell of new freshly printed pages.  

Today’s technological world threatens the traditional use of physical books. Human have used books since the dawn of time from hieroglyphics that told stories to handwritten or printed copies of them. Our twenty—first century technologies threaten this tradition human practice of kindles and online readers.  Most authors and older habitual readers would tend to fight for the physical book while younger generations will become more adaptable to the megapixels of words on a elcetronic device. But are these ways of reading really different? Are books just the old horse and buggy way of doing things now?

Tom Piazza Said, “The computer is neutral in that it gives you access to limitless amounts of information… The information has no smell, no weight, no texture. Nothing that seriously impinges on your reality. People think it represents some kind of democratizing of information  because everything is the same size… If everything is the same size, there’s no perspective… Everything becomes two-dimensional, flat.”
So the important question is, what will life be without physical books? Will the electricity we are so dependent on now last for the generations to come? If we are sent back into the dark ages, will there be books for children and adults to read? Will the names of important authors and stories be lost forever? Will physical books become scarce and more expensive and valued? Would a black market for books arise?


Will the book survive? I guess that is up for you own interpretation. However I believe as long as there are intellectuals and individuals alike who enjoy a good story telling read about the triumph of the human journey or informational pages of the depths of our universe there will be books.