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Maximum Ride- Patterson, best known for his dark, gritty thrillers featuring psychologist Alex Cross, first dipped his toes in the waters of children's literature with SantaKid (2004). Aiming at an older youth readership this time and reworking ideas and characters that appeared first in his adult novels When the Wind Blows (1998) and The Lake House (2003), he delivers an action-packed cross between Gertrude Chandler Warner's Boxcar Children and Marvel Comics' X-Men. Fourteen-year-old Max (short for Maximum Ride) leads an usual group of children, escapees from an institution that designed them by "grafting avian DNA onto human genes." Yup, these kids have wings. When Angel, the smallest of the group, is kidnapped by mutants and taken back to the "school," Max and her family determine to get her back--no matter what. Patterson occasionally forgets his audience here, as evidenced by his sardonic tone and such glib adult asides as "they found their prey: moi," but he's picked a comfortable formula (orphans protecting one another and making a home together), which he's cushioned with an abundance of slavering beasts, childhood heartaches, and unresolved issues--all in preparation for the sequel in 2006, in which Max will, presumably, assume the role she's been assigned here: savior of the world. Expect the Patterson name to attract a crossover audience of both adults and youth.
Stephanie Zvirin, Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved For more information, visit the official website: MaximumRide.com
The Layout- Copyright © Hannah. Made in PSP9. Don't own the manga image. Nothing to do with it. Just edited it to fit my layout.
Fanlisting opened May 21, 2005. How spiffy is that?
Last updated:
August 16, 2009. ,
TO RECAP: Made a Maximum Ride Winamp Skin. It's up for download if anyone wants it.
As I'm sure everyone knows by now, there's a new MR book out. I don't know why Patterson's still going off on this save the environment crap, but if you all out there are too paranoid to buy it, iTunes has the first three chapters for free at the moment. So grab it while it's there! :)
(3/28/09) Wow, I actually put up two layouts in the same month. That's a new one. Normally it's every six months, eh?
Made a Maximum Ride Winamp Skin. It's up for download if anyone wants it.
As I'm sure everyone knows by now, there's a new MR book out. I don't know why Patterson's still going off on this save the environment crap, but if you all out there are too paranoid to buy it, iTunes has the first three chapters for free at the moment. So grab it while it's there! :)
(3/2/09) Hah, finally put up a new layout. Well, that's a lie. It's not a new layout. *twiddles thumbs* It's more like a layout I made way before these last two but never put up. . . But, it's a change, at least?
By the way, I would be ecstatic if people tried to help promote this fanlisting. I know the fandom has more than somewhat died ever since that painful forth . .bookthing, and especially since the official forums magically closed down. It's stupid, but yeah. HOWEVER, you can't deny the magic of the first book, or even kinda of the second and third. Let's just pretend there is no . . . forthbookthing, k?
Cheers!
(8/1/08) WHOOHOO FINALLY A NEW LAYOUT. Sorry, I've been meaning to make one for MONTHS. I just wasn't inspired *coughlazycough*. Hopefully I'll put up another one this year, but we'll see. By the by, affiliates always welcome. And those of you who are memebers of the maximumride official forums (if it's still up--man, some weird stuff has been up with the site since early this year), let people know about the fanlistng!
(12/17/07) Merry Christmas, everyone! We've reached 152 members-- to celebrate, I've put up a spanking-new crappy layout. Cheers!
Now, lesse if we can make it to 200 members? :D
(6/6/2007) Well, we've finally reached 100 members. So in celebration of this, and the release of Maximum Ride 3, I finally put up a new layout! (I like the old one much better . . . screencap for it will be up soon.)
By the way, I'm still accepting affiliates! Email me here if you'd like to be. Also, those of you who are members of Maximum Ride forums, let others know about the fanlisting. Let's see how many members we can aim for now. :)
(7/21/2006) Whoo! New layout :) It's a tad different from what I origionally had in mind, BUT my computer went crazy and shut down photoshop and I lost it all. The other one was much better too. >< Also, I'm looking for affiliates, so if you own a site and you'd like to be one, please feel free to email me here.
August 16, 2009. ,
| 189 Fans 2 Fans Pending |
Updates/Notices:
(3/30/09) Shoot, dawg, 'nother layout already?TO RECAP: Made a Maximum Ride Winamp Skin. It's up for download if anyone wants it.
As I'm sure everyone knows by now, there's a new MR book out. I don't know why Patterson's still going off on this save the environment crap, but if you all out there are too paranoid to buy it, iTunes has the first three chapters for free at the moment. So grab it while it's there! :)
(3/28/09) Wow, I actually put up two layouts in the same month. That's a new one. Normally it's every six months, eh?
Made a Maximum Ride Winamp Skin. It's up for download if anyone wants it.
As I'm sure everyone knows by now, there's a new MR book out. I don't know why Patterson's still going off on this save the environment crap, but if you all out there are too paranoid to buy it, iTunes has the first three chapters for free at the moment. So grab it while it's there! :)
(3/2/09) Hah, finally put up a new layout. Well, that's a lie. It's not a new layout. *twiddles thumbs* It's more like a layout I made way before these last two but never put up. . . But, it's a change, at least?
By the way, I would be ecstatic if people tried to help promote this fanlisting. I know the fandom has more than somewhat died ever since that painful forth . .bookthing, and especially since the official forums magically closed down. It's stupid, but yeah. HOWEVER, you can't deny the magic of the first book, or even kinda of the second and third. Let's just pretend there is no . . . forthbookthing, k?
Cheers!
(8/1/08) WHOOHOO FINALLY A NEW LAYOUT. Sorry, I've been meaning to make one for MONTHS. I just wasn't inspired *coughlazycough*. Hopefully I'll put up another one this year, but we'll see. By the by, affiliates always welcome. And those of you who are memebers of the maximumride official forums (if it's still up--man, some weird stuff has been up with the site since early this year), let people know about the fanlistng!
(12/17/07) Merry Christmas, everyone! We've reached 152 members-- to celebrate, I've put up a spanking-new crappy layout. Cheers!
Now, lesse if we can make it to 200 members? :D
(6/6/2007) Well, we've finally reached 100 members. So in celebration of this, and the release of Maximum Ride 3, I finally put up a new layout! (I like the old one much better . . . screencap for it will be up soon.)
By the way, I'm still accepting affiliates! Email me here if you'd like to be. Also, those of you who are members of Maximum Ride forums, let others know about the fanlisting. Let's see how many members we can aim for now. :)
(7/21/2006) Whoo! New layout :) It's a tad different from what I origionally had in mind, BUT my computer went crazy and shut down photoshop and I lost it all. The other one was much better too. >< Also, I'm looking for affiliates, so if you own a site and you'd like to be one, please feel free to email me here.
Fanlisting opened May 21, 2005. How spiffy is that?
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