Vote for the maximum ride 4 cover!

jamespatterson.com, click on the yellow box!
my fave's the second one ^-^

THANK THE LORD! and thank Star22/Jocelyn!!!

she told me about this FAWESOME thing!
remeber how i absolutly and totaly HATE the MR4 cover??? well that's not going to be it! we can VOTE on the cover of MR4!!! just like maximum ride 3 last year! whooo!!! so VOTEVOTEVOTE!!!
http://www.jamespatterson.com/
you have to click on that link in the yellow box that says that Jame's publishers want our opinion, etc, etc, etc. i would have given u the direct link, but it doesn't let you vote more than once!!! grrr.

Maximum ride 4: The Final Warning, Chapter 6, preview... SPOILER WARNING, if you haven't read all of the other books!!!

At first i was like, who's "Mom"?! then i remembered... oh, yeah! Dr. Martinez! :D
am i the only one who thinks that capitol should be spelled capital?
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I hate the cover of The Final Warning. i really really hope that that's not the real one or something! i mean, where's the MR logo at!? the M and R with wings?!

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http://www.parade.com/features/james-patterson-excerpt.html

Maximum Ride: The Final Warning
Chapter 6
You’ve all seen the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, like on postcards, right? It’s the big white one with the dome on top that isn’t the White House. Anyway, it’s gigundo. We drove up in our black limousine, feeling like celebrities. Inside we were led through a series of hallways and stairs until we were in a large conference room with a great view of some gardens.
In the conference room, about twenty people sat around a big wooden table. Some of the people were in military uniforms. Everyone sat up and turned to stare at us when we came in, surrounded by Secret Service guards. I didn’t even know I wanted to hold someone’s hand until Mom laced her fingers in mine and gave a squeeze. Suddenly it all seemed better.
“Welcome. Thank you for coming.” A tall man in an olive-green uniform came forward and solemnly shook Jeb’s hand, then Mom’s, then all of us kids. “Please sit down. Would you care for something to drink? We have coffee, tea, soda, ice water . . . oh, and I see you brought your dog. A cute little Scotty.” He smiled uncertainly, as if wondering why someone had let an animal into the building. I bit my lip, wondering if Total was going to mouth off. But he didn’t, just seethed quietly and hopped up onto his own chair by Angel.
The next hour was like, “This is your life, mutant birdkids!” They didn’t have any pictures or film of us when we were little and still living in dog crates at the School. But the last six months were decently documented. They had films of us flying, way overhead, and footage of various fights with people, Erasers, and the latest heinous incarnation of enemies, the Flyboys. There was some footage of us just chilling, at Anne Walker’s house in Northern Virginia. It made me tense up and get mad all over again.
Last, there were about three minutes of choppy, grainy film that had been shot inside of Itex’s picturesque German headquarters. It showed me squaring off against Omega, poster boy for pathetic losers. It showed the riot that some of the clones started, and the angry crowds of kids outside, breaking through the castle wall.
It showed Ari dying.
The film stopped and the dimmed lights rose. Shades lifted automatically, revealing the large picture windows again.
Now I was in a totally rotten mood. It was bad enough that I was all dressed up like some fashion geek, but I’d managed to not think about Ari for about five minutes, and then I had to watch him die all over again. I snuck a glance at Jeb, who was white-faced, his hands clenched tightly around a pencil as he stared at the table.
“You six are most impressive.” A woman in a tailored gray skirt-suit stood up and poured herself a glass of water. She smiled at us all, but it was the kind of smile that didn’t reach her eyes.
“We’ve asked you to come here today because we’re very interested in your future,” said an older man. “We—the American government, that is--didn’t know of your existence until quite recently. Now that we know, we want to protect you and also explore whether we can useful to each other.”
They were certainly putting their cards on the table. Usually there’s a lot of mumbo jumbo about how special and unique we are, etc., but what they’re always really getting at is: can we make you do what we want you to?
So far the answer had always been, “Nope!”
The man paused, looking at us one by one, as if waiting for a response. He got none.
“One way we could be useful to you would be for us to create a school, a place where you could live safely.” A younger blond woman turned to us but aimed her words at Jeb and my mom. Like they made decisions for us or something. “You’re very gifted at survival, but there are significant gaps in your education. We could fill in those gaps, help you realize your full potentials.”
Again there was a pause, while the government people waited for us to jump up and down with excitement over the idea of going to school. School, was, of course, an unfortunate word choice on their part.
“To what end?” My voice was clear, no wavering.“Excuse me?” The young woman looked at me.“What would you guys get out of it?” I asked. “Besides the sheer joy of helping us fulfill our potentials.”
“We would get to study you, frankly,” said a tall, lean man who, I kid you not, looked just like Bill Nye, the Science Guy. “You’re like nothing we’ve ever seen before. The idea that human children can actually fly is mind-blowing. While you’re at the school, we could study you, understand the physical changes that enable you to fly.”
“To what end?” I asked again. “So that you can make more of us?”
The man looked genuinely surprised. “No,” he said. “Just to—understand.”
I decided I liked him. Too bad he was one of Them.“Okay, say you get to study us,” I said agreeably. “Somehow you get us to agree that it wouldn’t be a complete nightmare for us to be hooked up to sensors while we run on treadmills, or hold our own in wind tunnels while you film us flying. Then what?”
Silence.

Ahhh, mah Iggy... lol

Iggy and Ella's bio on Wikipedia. ^_^

Iggy
"Soon Iggy, tall and pale, slouched into the kitchen. Eyes closed, he fell on our beat-up couch with perfect aim. The only time he has trouble being blind is when one of us forgets and moves furniture or something. 'Hey Ig, rise and shine,' I said. 'Bite me,' he mumbled sleepily." Max & Iggy (Maximum Ride: The Angel Experimemt page10)
Iggy is fourteen and the third oldest member of the flock; his blindness, caused by a failed attempt to surgically enhance his night vision when he was younger, is one of his defining traits. He is very talented at building and using bombs, which he makes in cooperation with his best friend, the Gasman. He is also skilled at picking locks as Max mentions in the first book. Since he became blind, his other senses have been greatly heightened (e.g.. identifying members of the flock by the feel of their skin or feathers, a quasi-echolocation, telling when someone is coming through vibrations in the floor, and discovering a man's credit card password through the musical tones created by the keypad), and he uses them to compensate for his inability to see. Although he is blind, Iggy is the only one in the flock who can cook well.
Iggy's real name is James Griffiths. He is the first member of the flock who has located his biological parents, but he left their custody to rejoin the Flock when they attempted to sell his life story to eight different magazines, much to his disappointment in his mother and father. His name in the flock "Iggy" could be derived from the Latin "Ignis" meaning "Fire" which would suit the pyromaniac nicely.
Iggy is also very tall (in fact the tallest member of the flock) at around 6' 3", hence naturally attracting attention in public, whether good or bad. He became friends with a girl named Tess when the flock enrolls in private school, although briefly, because soon after they find that their high school is actually run by The School, and obviously have to leave. Iggy has strawberry blond hair and (sightless) blue eyes.


[edit] Ella
Ella is the daughter of Dr. Martinez and the half sister of Max. She is a 12 year old, and "secretly" in love with a boy from her class by the name of Shaw Akers. Max first meets her when Ella was about to be mugged. Max stopped this from happening and is then shot by the mugger. Max asks for help and spends two days recupperating at Ella house. Ella appears twice in the third book, once when Max asks for Dr. Martinez and the second time at the end of the book. Throughout the series, Ella wishes that Max is her sister and is thrilled at the end of the third book to find out that this is the case. She seems somewhat in awe of the rest of the Flock and thinks that Iggy's ability to eat perfectly even though he is blind is "amazing". It is implied that Ella and Iggy have some sort of attraction to each other.

so Ella IS 12... huh. well that's not much of an age diff. my parents r 2 years apart.
So Iggy means "fire"? well that makes sense! lol. "Bombs are good. remember the one from last fall? i almost caused an avalanch!" -Iggy

Iggy and Fang

kawaii! mah Iggy! <3

i was going to draw the outline of wings like I did for Fang, like a series thing, but i couldn't get them right... i'll probaly do them lay-tah.

Fang! his head's a bit small, but i think that's kinda kawaii!!!

Quote of the Day

Max: Yes, you're a blind mutant freak, but you're my blind mutant freak, and you're coming with me, now, you're coming with us right now, or I swear I will kick your skinny white ass from here to the middle of next week.
Iggy, I need you. I love you. I need all of you, all five of you, to feel whole myself. Now, get up, before I kill you.
Iggy: Well, when you put it that way...

-Max and Iggy, MR2, pg. 109.

i luv that part... Max has an... interesting way of persuasion... lol.

Oh, yeah...

there's also Iggy saying "yeah, bring me something, too! like, a french girl!"
yeah and that's about all the Iggy... [see previous post]

Major Rant Time...

ARGH!!! that audiobook is annoying the crap out of me! barely ANY Iggy!!! i need more Iggy to survive!!!
they had Fang telling Iggy about the cheerleaders at the football game...
and this part, and that's basicly it:
"Oh, man, this smells so good!" Iggy moaned.
Ella watched him as he started eating, not spilling a drop.
"It's so amazing how you can do that." Iggy seemed taken aback.
"I've had a lot of practice."
"Well, i think you're amazing." said Ella, and Iggy blushed.

ooh, does she like him? sound like it. ^_^ but what about Shawn Ackers? *gasp* guess Shawn's just an ordianry boy, not a blind avain-human hybrid who flys and makes bombs and cooks better than Max (lol).

anyways... so barely any Iggy in the audiobook!!! *sigh*
grrrr! i sooo wanted to hear that chapter @ the beach! it's so funny! i love it!
although it's a bit scary, getting a little peek into a teenage boy's mind... lol.

this was in MR2, right? "I feel like pudding... pudding with nerve endings... pudding in great pain." -Iggy <3

NOOOOO!!!!!!

I bought the Maximum ride 3 audiobook on Ebay... and ya know chapter 65? at the beach? "Unerringly, Iggy's hand shot out and grabbed a fistful of Fang's shirt. He pulled Fang's face close to his own. 'Describe. The. People.'" lol yeah, that chapter. well, THE AUDIOBOOK DOESN'T HAVE IT!!! NOOOOO!!! i LOVE that chapter! its kida gross, but also really funny! they took out Fang's POV completly! ONCE they had a post from his blog, but that was it! NOOOOOO!!!

MR3

YAY!!! MAXIMUM RIDE: SAVING THE WORLD AND OTHER EXTREME SPORTS is RELEASED in ONE day! TOMORROW! techincaly, TWELVE hours!!! i'm so happy i'm so happy!!! i pre-ordered it! last nite i had a dream about it being released. i went to Barnes & Noble but the hadn't put it out on the shelves yet! i think they were teasing us!!!

Mmmmm, i just made Pigs in a Blanket! or, as i like to refer to them, Kitties in a Blanket.

Max Ride

Well, on http://www.maximumride.com they're still down to the two girls, Amy and Nicole. Who should play Max in the commercial? I totaly think Amy. If you go there no wyou can watch the audition tapes. Amy does much more of a better job. Nicole does the "I have to save the world," part so cheesily. Ugh. Go Amy!!!Oh, and here's an awesome FAKE trailor I found on YouTube. I just LOVE how they use REAL video clips, not just pictures like most people do.


Courtney-wa

Sayings from TV shows and books

"A sadistic vampire, intent on torturing her. Sure, no problem. She goes off to meet him. But an IV on the other hand..."
-Edward, Twilight

"Even if my molocules were spread out from here to whatever galaxy my home planet is in, that wouldn't stop me. All my molocules would be like little homeing pigeons.They'd all zoom to you, and then I'd re-form."
-Max Evans, Roswell High: The Stowaway

"You know what, Voice? My friends ARE my world."
-Max Ride, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

Lucy: We're revoulting!
Ricky: No more than usual.
-Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, I Love Lucy

"Don't call me names, Cheesehead!"
-Michelle, Full House

"You know, Davis is a nice guy, but why do I get the feeling that we're gonna come in here one morning and all the corpses are gonna be dressed up for an imaginary tea party?"
-Jack Harper, Tru Calling

"Yeah, I went hunting once. Shot the deer in the leg. Had to kill it with a shovel, took about an hour. Why do you ask? "
Michael Scott, The Office

"That girl's so stupid she can get tangled in a cordless phone!"
-Benita B., In Living Color

Doug: You know, I just love those mortotcylcle commercials. They make me want to do somthing crazy, like go out and get a tattoo of Micky Mouse giving the finger.
Spence: Micky Mouse can't give the finger. He only has four fingers!
Doug: No, I think you're thinking of the Hamburger Helper hand.
Spence: I think I would know. I was part of the Micky Mouse fan club once!
Doug: And the last piece of the 'why I'm still single' puzzle, *click* in place.
-Doug and Spence, The King of Queens

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
-Nobody Else Has To Know

A Sneak Preveiw...

NOTICE: THESE CAME FROM http://maximumride.blogspot.com/

From: MAXIMUM RIDE III: SAVING THE WORLD AND OTHER EXTREME SPORTS

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You can vote for Maximum Ride 3's cover! I though the final cover was this:

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