Nerds 2: M is for Mama’s Boy is an enjoyable book to read, especially after finishing the two heavy books I just read. The emotional books I just read were the nonfiction biographies Long Run and Luckiest Man. Nerds 2 is a fiction book that is a sequel to Nerds, also by Michael Buckley. The first Nerds book ends with Heathcliff “Choppers” Hodges becoming a villain. I think Michael Buckley planned on making Choppers a bad guy so that he could have a sequel to Nerds. So far Nerds 2 is just as enjoyable as Nerds.
Nerds 2 begins after Choppers has become a villain and the Nerds think he is dead, the reader knows that Choppers is alive and this set up the conflict between good and evil. In Nerds 2, Choppers joins forces with a bunch of squirrels to rob banks. The NERDS, fulfilling their role as the National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society, investigate and soon find out that Choppers is responsible for the bank robberies. This good versus evil conflict is very popular in books. I suspect that in this book the heroes will prevail because in most books the hero prevails.
Each of the members of the NERDS has a code name, which helps reveal something about their personality and their superpower. For example, Duncan Dewey’s code name is “gluestick” because he loves to eat glue and his superpower is that he sticks to walls. Michael Buckley gives the characters codenames like people give other people nicknames. A nickname often develops because of things people do. Michael Buckley also takes something else from our everyday lives, having objects that have more than I purpose; cell phones are not just for making calls anymore. I hope I enjoy the rest of the book as much as I enjoyed the beginning of the book.
Louis, this post is all right, you give a great feel of the book, but honestly you do not respond to the book or elaborate in anyway. You've got to think about an issue in the book and respond to that
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ReplyDeleteI like the way you gave background info about this book and what it lead to from its "pre-quel". The problem is that it you need to explain your topic more and you kind of retold the story.