Killer Instinct. Kill Me If You Can. Kingdom of the Wicked James Patterson Presents. Kiss the Girls Alex Cross Series. The Lake House. The Last Days of John Lennon. Laugh Out Loud. Liar Liar. Lights Out Daniel X Series. London Bridges Alex Cross Series. Mary, Mary Alex Cross Series. Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment. Max Einstein: Rebels With a Cause. Max Einstein: Saves the Future. Max Einstein: World Champions. Max Maximum Ride Series.
Med Head. Merry Christmas, Alex Cross. Middle School: Big Fat Liar. Middle School: Born to Rock. Middle School: Dog's Best Friend. Middle School: Escape to Australia. Middle School: Field Trip Fiasco. Middle School: From Hero to Zero. Middle School: It's a Zoo in Here. Middle School: Master of Disaster. Middle School: Save Rafe! Middle School: Ultimate Showdown. The Midnight Club. The Midwife Murders. Miracle at Augusta. Miracle at St. Miracle on the 17th Green. Missing: A Private Novel.
Murder Beyond the Grave. The Murder House. Murder, Interrupted. Murder of Innocence. The Murder of King Tut. Murder Thy Neighbor. Never Never Harriet Blue Series. Nevermore Maximum Ride Series. The Noise. Not So Normal Norbert. Now You See Her. The Palm Beach Murders. Penguins of America. The People vs. Alex Cross Alex Cross Series.
The Postcard Killers. Pottymouth and Stoopid. The President Is Missing. The President's Daughter. Private Private Series. Private: 1 Suspect Private Series. Private Berlin. Private Down Under. Private Games. Private India: City on Fire. Private L. Private Series. Private London. Private Paris Private Series. Private Princess Private Series. Private Vegas Private Series. The Quickie. The Radcliffes.
The Red Book. The River Murders. Robot Revolution House of Robots Series. Robots Go Wild! House of Robots Series. Run, Rose, Run. The Runaway's Diary.
The Russian Michael Bennett Series. Sam's Letters to Jennifer. Scaredy Cat. Sci-Fi Junior High. Season of the Machete. Second Honeymoon. See How They Run. The Shadow. Sophia, Princess Among Beasts. Step on a Crack Michael Bennett Series. The Store. The Summer House. Sundays at Tiffany's. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas.
Sweet Child o' Mine. Swipe Right for Murder. Sword in the Stars. Target: Alex Cross. Texas Outlaw. Texas Ranger. There was an Old Woman who Lived in a Book. The Thomas Berryman Number. Three Women Disappear. Okay, that would not be what I would be doing in his situation. At all. Problems with this ridiculous scenario: Sugar and water. How about, um, coffee, peanut butter, an energy drink, chocolate or something that can actually make you feel well? This guy is supposed to be Einstein-smart. Okay, I would NOT be calm in this situation.
The book says that he has to be extremely calm in order to do shit. Never see that happening. Because Daniel has no plan, we just need to forget that the pesky List said anything about that because it would be too inconvenient. Hey, did you know JP cranks out, on average, cranks out 14 books… I give up.
And you shouldn't either, in my opinion. Aug 21, Breanne rated it it was ok Shelves: sci-fi. Here is my nice review for our library's blog: Daniel was born with the power to create. His abilities include being able to manipulate objects and animals with his mind and to re-create himself in any shape he chooses. His mission: he is an Alien Hunter. From the day that his parents were murdered before him, he has used his unique gifts to hunt down villainous aliens on earth until he can close in on their killer.
This book combines the humorous quips of Spiderman with the repellant bad-guy alie Here is my nice review for our library's blog: Daniel was born with the power to create. This book combines the humorous quips of Spiderman with the repellant bad-guy aliens of Men In Black. It will probably appeal most to young adult guys, and the short chapters each one was pages make it a quick read. Here is the truth: The 2 page chapters gave me imaginary ulcers. It was such a disconnecting, disjointed way to put a book together.
Is he trying to cater to today's short attention span? Aren't books supposed to be combating short attention spans? He would cut off the action right in the middle of a scene and start again in a new chapter.
I tried to think of some reasons: It's supposed to be a Young Adult book. It caters directly to boys who supposedly read less? Ok, I can see how you're trying for that.
But is this really what we have to do to get our children to read? I am depressed about our future. As a librarian, really, I should be okay with any efforts to get people to read. Anything we can do to draw people in to read is a good thing, right? So should I be ok with this on principle? Steve Jobs, who you hope would be knowledgeable of general public interests, recently said in an interview about Amazon's Kindle, "It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don't read anymore.
People still read. To think otherwise, as the heated response to Jobs' comment has shown, is erroneous. Do we really need to chop down every chapter in a young adult book just to draw someone in, to make it easier for their fragile attention spans to handle? I don't think so. As my own personal response, I hated it. There were 92 chapters in this page book I will save you getting out your calculator: it's an average of 2.
Aside from that, there were some other obnoxious elements. His quips weren't charming, and got old very quickly. The aliens were grotesque for the sake of being grotesque. Cliche developments "kidnapped children! And the reader sees things coming dozens of chapters before Daniel did. The good stuff: his powers were pretty cool. And the opening scene was pretty cool.
And some character development toward the end of the book was interesting. And that's about it. So sorry, James Patterson. I promise to read more of your books so that I don't form an opinion of your work based on this one.
View 1 comment. Apr 26, Gracie ; rated it really liked it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. At first this book was kinda dull, kinda interesting for me. I have to admit that i started out with no expectations at all because my book buddy Maggie said that it was disappointing, and usually our book reviews are alike.
It was confusing at first, but slowly got clearer. I didn't like how it seemed so Men in Black But the part that made me really start liking it is when they went to Dan At first this book was kinda dull, kinda interesting for me. But the part that made me really start liking it is when they went to Daniel's home planet. I thought that was awesome, and it reminded me a bit of Ender's Game because it was science fictiony. The aliens were gross, but i liked the book better and better towards the end.
I was going to actually rate it a 5, but decided it wasn't that good and gave it a four. One of the reasons i think that i gave it such a high rating is because when somebody starts outw ith no expectations, it can only go uphill from there.
Apr 01, Shae Petersen rated it liked it. This book started off really strong, particularly as the audio version is very animated with sound effects etc. But the plot twist and ending kind of went down hill.
It did not feel like a young adult book, more of a middle grade. I do admit it was fun, and I will continue with book 2 to see if it improves. I liked the whole super powers that Daniel had and the way he was able to create things. I was also shocked when we found out he was an alien. The concept was enjoyable, but I think when Dani This book started off really strong, particularly as the audio version is very animated with sound effects etc. Sep 01, Brielle rated it it was amazing Shelves: favs.
Just wow. I am still in awe of this incredible blast off into the series. I know I usually continuously rant about anything and everything, but who am I to rant about a legend like James Patterson?
The only thing that I really have to say is that this book is perfect in every way. Definitely adding him to the book character boyfriend list!!! James has done it again!!! Every so often a book makes me angry because it is so poorly written.
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X is one of these books. I read this book to screen it for my classroom library. In particular, one of my fourth grade boys we'll call him Tom refuses to read anything but action books. At the beginning of the school year, Tom unabashedly exclaimed that he hated to read.
I made it my personal quest to change him and asked him what kinds of video games he likes. He said, "I like violent games! So, I started him with Alex Rider, a recommendation from my son, which is basically James Bond for kids. Tom quickly took on to Alex Rider and tore through the whole series. After that, I was stuck--he wanted action, but he didn't want anything with magic or fantasy involved.
Sadly, that left out a whole sub-genre of some great young-adult fiction. But then I figured, maybe he should try The Hunger Games. Right now, he is gobbling up the second of the trilogy. But now, with summer drawing near, I've been frantically looking for a book that has all the action this kid craves with none of the magic. What popped up most often? The Daniel X series. I reluctantly cracked open the bookI have found James Patterson to be the most overrated writer currently around.
His books actually irritate me because they are so poorly written But Daniel X ended up on a lot of librarians' lists, so I decided to give it a try. Here's the hook in a nutshell: Daniel X is an alien hunter. End of story. I won't waste any time on the plot--I'm sure you can read summaries elsewhere.
It's basically a Men-in-Black knock-off for teens. I just want to ask--who put these books on the same list as Percy Jackson? It's shameful. There is no coherent world view--apparently Daniel X has any power that will conveniently solve his problems. Unless the writers need to put him into a life-or-death situation, in which case they conveniently fail to mention his alien superpowers.
The descriptions are completely void of any detail. Oh--let me quote an example: "The inside of Seth's cochlea was even grosser than his earwax situation.
It was filled with this fluid that was I WANT to hear about the fluid. This book has two things going for it: 1 aliens are, in general, fun to read about, and 2 it's a very fast read. I wavered between giving it one and two stars--but this book is so horribly disappointing that I'm punishing it for letting me down.
Sonext time I am tempted to read another James Patterson book, would somebody please stop me? View all 5 comments. Sep 28, Julie rated it it was ok Recommends it for: Patterson fans. BIG Patterson fans. Shelves: young-adult , science-fiction , , action-suspense , signed-out.
I understand what James Patterson is trying to do here - duplicate the success he's had to Maximum Ride by creating another fantastical, out-there series that can be marketed to a YA audience.
It's even part of his "Pageturner" category, where "special care has been taken with the language and content" so that it is appropriate for all ages. I would like to say, that despite this "care," it featured a seriously nasty fight scene gross enough that I had to skip part of it. The formula j I understand what James Patterson is trying to do here - duplicate the success he's had to Maximum Ride by creating another fantastical, out-there series that can be marketed to a YA audience.
The formula just isn't working in this case. I think part of it is because all of the tiny things that I didn't like about Maximum Ride and I love that series are multiplied many times in this book. First of all, I wish Daniel wouldn't spend the first section of the book telling us how awesome his powers are. Don't tell us, SHOW us. And stop telling us how important things are - we're not stupid. If it's that important to the plot, we'll notice. I didn't dislike Daniel as a character, but he wasn't nearly as engaging as Max and the flock.
Also, the number of pop culture references, presumably thrown in to make the book seem cool, has even increased from those in Maximum Ride. Once in a while they can be amusing, but they feel sooooo contrived, and they're going to make the book feel dated in just a few years. Fair enough. I would like to point out, though, that Stephenie Meyer purposely did not say that Bella was listening to Linkin Park - although she will tell you so in interviews - purposely to prevent this problem in Twilight.
As usual it was a lightning-fast read. I read it basically in one sitting. Another side note: Why are there previews into two different "further adventures" in the back? Why not just a preview chapter or four for the next book? Nov 05, Dondee Gocongg rated it really liked it. He is still fight for his wish. Oct 02, Micahel Hand rated it it was amazing. Apr 02, Cinthia rated it really liked it. I have read some of the reviews on this book and it seems like not a lot of people enjoyed it I picked this up on audiobook and I enjoyed it, especially the whole sound effects, I liked Daniel X, I liked that he let us know from the beginning that he is an Alien and that he is hunting Seth, Seth is another alien that has been sequestering children and when they get of age he sells them to the highest bidder, I felt bad from Daniel at times, he was so lonely and his parents had been killed, I I have read some of the reviews on this book and it seems like not a lot of people enjoyed it I picked this up on audiobook and I enjoyed it, especially the whole sound effects, I liked Daniel X, I liked that he let us know from the beginning that he is an Alien and that he is hunting Seth, Seth is another alien that has been sequestering children and when they get of age he sells them to the highest bidder, I felt bad from Daniel at times, he was so lonely and his parents had been killed, I also was saddened to find out that his sister had been killed while in the womb as well, I liked that he was able to create, and he created friends, and his family to keep him company at times.
I was so mad that Seth created Phoebe, I really was rooting for Daniel and her, but it was just a trick. I'm glad that Daniel killed Seth and it was crazy the way he did it I'm glad he found his family, well some of his family, and that his grandma helped him. We will support more languages for comic lovers in the near future. You can contribute your own stories on MangaToon and share your creation with millions of readers. One comic, one world. MangaToon, help you step into a different world!
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