Minecraft: The Island: An Official Minecraft Novel

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Ebook ISBN 9780399181788 randomhousebooks.com Book design by Elizabeth A. D. Eno, adapted for ebook Cover art and design: Ian Wilding v4.1 ep

INTRODUCTION I wouldn’t expect you to believe the world I’m about to describe, although your reading these words means you’re already here. Maybe you’ve been in this world for a while but just discovered the island. Or maybe, like it was for me, the island is your introduction to this world. If you’re alone, confused, and scared out of your mind, then you’re exactly where I was on my first day. This world can seem like a maze and, sometimes, like a bully. But the truth is that it’s a teacher and its trials are just lessons in disguise. That’s why I’ve left this book behind—so my journey can help you with yours.

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Max Brooks is an American writer of apocalyptic fiction and non-fiction as well as being an actor. He has more than twenty (20) published books in both series and stand alone. The last book of Brook’s I read was World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. This is the first book in the Official Minecraft Series series. The series’ books are written by different authors. The top priority is finding food. The next is not becoming food. Because there are others out there on the island...like the horde of zombies that appear after night falls. Crafting a way out of this mess is a challenge like no other. Who could build a home while running from exploding creepers, armed skeletons, and an unstoppable tide of hot lava? Especially with no help except for a few makeshift tools and sage advice from an unlikely friend: a cow. The man wakes up lost, alone, afraid, like we all are in life. His first experiences are simply pain and fear, no one is good at first nor does everyone have a plan for life, without the vital knowledge of learning though experiences. Max Brooks: Yeah, and also, with everything I write I want to build trust with the reader. I want them to know that when they read one of my books, they can trust me to take them on a journey through a land that I know – that I’m their tour guide. I talked with Max about how he found a great story in the clash of Guy and Summer’s personalities, and why that story is important in our pandemic-ridden times. But I had to first ask about what in the Overworld Guy is thinking when he decides to set out on his boat at the start of the book.

I actually quite enjoyed this book... to some extent. I think for a minecraft book it is done pretty well. For a regular book... maybe not. Brooks' interest in the sandbox video game Minecraft began around 2012 when a friend introduced him to the game. In 2015, he was asked by Mojang to write a novel centered around the game. By the time his contract with Mojang had been completed, Brooks had finished a manuscript. [1] Another thing I would have liked to see was the reason for WHY he ended up in minecraft, the book makes it obvious that he was a real person before he went into minecraft as he thinks of things before such as computers and fridges. There is one small hint as to what it could be but it wasn't really confirmed. It annoyed me as I spent the whole book thinking It would tell me in the end and it didnt! Confidence vanished as I raced out of the woods. How long did I have before the night terrors rose again? How long before they hunted me down?

Minecraft island bases can make for great homes.

This was a moderately entertaining primer on Minecraft couched as a story. I could see how a 9-year old nerd-child might be enticed to read a book using the lure of their Minecraft gaming addiction. I’ve played many hours of the game, although not recently. The story kindled some very vivid memories, and I learned a few ‘better ways’ I could have done things. The author did a good job at describing the joy of Mindcraft world building. The unnamed protagonist’s battles with game zombies were as good as the author’s World War Z combats, although less graphic. Toward the end, the author was less detailed in his descriptions and it became less useful as a learning experience for the game. A large problem I had was that, the author did not make a children’s book that would be consistently entertaining to adults. This is possible by interleaving two or more levels of meaning in the narration. That wasn’t accomplished. I don't think it was attempted? Sometime after the midpoint, despite my interest in the game, the story become boring. I know GoodRead’s members who thrive on reading children’s books. Perhaps my inner child is too deeply concealed? In summary, this was moderately entertaining in the beginning due to my interest in the game's world building. However, it did not go the distance for me. The top priority is finding food. The next is not becoming food. Because there are others out there on the island... like the horde of zombies that appear after night falls. Crafting a way out of this mess is a challenge like no other. Who could build a home while running from exploding creepers, armed skeletons, and an unstoppable tide of hot lava? Especially with no help except for a few makeshift tools and sage advice from an unlikely friend: a cow. My original Minecraft: The Island audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer.

When he was writing the novel, Brooks was given creative freedom for everything except the protagonist's physical traits. Mojang wanted readers to picture themselves in the novel, and were, according to Brooks, "very hands on when it came to inclusiveness". [1] Plot [ edit ] For a story based on a desert island scenario, the tone of the narrative was also much more enthusiastic and upbeat than I expected. Thanks to unconventional personalities like Moo the cow and other barnyard animals that our protagonist befriends (hey, it sure beats talking to an inanimate volleyball), we avoid the usual problems involving loneliness and tedium. As this book is geared towards children and young adults, the humor we get is light and clean, though I’m also confident that readers of all ages will be able to appreciate the story’s universal themes. The table of contents, which ostensibly reads like a list of guidelines to help you succeed in Minecraft, show chapter headings like “Never Give Up”, “Details Make The Difference”, “Take Life In Steps”, “Take Care of Your Environment So It Can Take Care Of You”, “It’s Not Failure That Matters, But How You Recover”, or “Books Make the World Better”—all good lessons that can be applied to the real world, no matter how old you are. His growth comes from the struggles that is his forced to endure, either through outside forces or his own actions. Once he restores the topmost island, surface issues, he is left with the harder task of correcting the rotten underground, which are symbolic or hidden personal issues. He must grow beyond his more basic faillings to deal with the tasks of cleaning the tunnels.

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Be immersed in the Minecraft universe for the first time in a thrilling new adventure like no other! The top priority is finding food. The next is not becoming food. Because there are others out there on the island . . . like the horde of zombies that appears after nightfall.Crafting a way out of this mess is a challenge like no other. Who could build a home while running from exploding creepers, armed skeletons, and an unstoppable tide of hot lava? Especially with no help except for a few makeshift tools and sage advice from an unlikely friend: a cow. Full disclosure—I am both a fan of the author and of Mincraft. In addition, I normally eschew Children’s popular literature.

The main character was an unnamed man, possibly a young man. (I like unnamed protagonists.) He was the only character in the book other than the game's NPCs. At its heart, this was a Man Against Nature story, with an internal and external arc-of-discovery. The main antagonists are the vintage 2017 hostile Minecraft mobs. The mobs are a vaguely supernatural group of entities. The protagonist only encounters a small number of the game’s mob cadre for its Survival Mode of play. Minecraft: The Island" is a book filled with experience. It shows how fast a 'modern' human can live on his own in a 'semi-virtual world' that is Minecraft. The author is the same person who made WWZ and has amazing writing techniques. His writing techniques really fit into the theme of the book and is one of the best, if not the best Minecraft book ever. Max Brooks: Guy has to think and then talk through everything, and Summer is a do-er. She rushes in where angels fear to tread. I think a lot of that comes from the biome she spawned in. Guy had this island, this safe space where he had time to think and talk it out, whereas Summer spawned in the taiga, this frozen wasteland. This was the early version of the taiga, when there was almost no food, and she was freezing all the time, living on zombie flesh, and mobs came at night from every direction, so she had to fight for her life. I think it helped shape her, and so when confronted by a problem, Summer is more likely to jump in and then deal with the consequences, as opposed to Guy, who’d take a couple of days, maybe a week, to look at all the angles. One of the strengths of the book, was that in the beginning it was good Primer on 'how to' for the game. However, toward the end, the author lost this reader. I found myself scratching my head a few times, “How did he do that?” A major example of this was once the protagonist starting building Redstone devices. In the game, once you start building devices with Redstone, its like going from working with bear skins and stone knives to nuclear fusion. The protagonist effortlessly makes this jump. When I played the game, I found it to be one of the most difficult parts of the game to master.This is my home, too, and I'll carry its memories in my heart, because even if I don't find the answers I'm searching for, it's the searching that really matters." Yoto says: The first official Minecraft novel! Explore forests, loot tunnels and defeat undead mobs in a mysterious new world. Max Brooks: Research is very important to me in everything I do. I don’t write that many books because I have to spend years researching. With something like Minecraft, I live under the fear of someone saying, “That would never happen!” So I played thousands of hours of Minecraft, making sure the physics of the game work in the book. Plus, there are certain things that just happen in Minecraft that you could never think of on your own. In The Island, my character shoots his last arrow at a creeper and hits a bat that happens to fly by. That really happened when I was playing Minecraft!