Outsiders

Title: Outsiders
Author: Susan Eloise Hinton

This book was composed by S.E. Hiten when she was very young. She began writing this book when she was 15. She published this book when she was 16. When I first read this book, I thought this was written by male. I was surprised when I heard that the author was a young girl. The setting of this book is America in 1960s .This book is about a group of young men living in very bad condition with out their parents but friends. Ponyboy, who is the protagonist and the youngest gang in his gangster group. There are two brothers of Ponyboy.
Darrel Curtis - Ponyboy’s oldest brother. Darrel, known as “Darry”
Sodapop Curtis - Ponyboy’s handsome and charming brother. He is also very good at fighting but he has good mind.
There are also friends of Ponyboy Curtis in the greasers.
Two-Bit Mathews - This guy makes great jokes. He looks kind and funny but he is someone actually proud of his switching blade.
Steve Randle - Randle is Sodapop's best friend. They work together in a gas station. Eventhough Sodapop and Randle is best friend, Ponyboy and Randle do not like each other.

Dallas Winston - is the thoughest guy in Ponyboy's group of greasers. Dallas is called as "Dally" and he use to be a member of the gangster in the darkside of New York.

Johnny Cade - Second youngest member of greasers. This guy is Ponyboy's best friend. He kills a member of Socs to saver Ponyboy. Johnny dies in the hospital after Ponyboy, Johnny and Dallas go to resque the children from the church of fire.

There is another group called Socs who are from the nice family but has mind against the social. They are use to be the enemy of greasers and the 2 groups fight. Greasers fought to get rid of those socs from their territory and the socs fought to get the territory. Greasers win this battle and saves the territory.

Amazing things are this though story was wrote by a young girl and this book does not contain bad words such as "F" word.

Dragon Raja

Title: Dragon Raja
Author: Lee Young Do

This is another book wrote by Lee Young Do. This books is the leader of Korea's fantazy novels.
I'll introduce the characters first.

Hutch Nedval - The protagonist of the story. Actually, this guy is really weak. However, he gets an item called " Ogre Power Guntlet' which makes a person's strength like an ogre, the strongest creature in melee except Dragons.

Sanson Percival- The guard captain of Heltantm, the village where the story starts. He is a great warrior with great strength. However, he is such a foolish and dum guy except when he is fighting.

Karl Heltant- The half-brother of the Lord of Heltant. He gets a duty to get the money for the victims who were caught by the black dragon living near Heltant.

Iruril Sereniel- An ethereal elf who Hoochie and his company meet during their journey towards the capital. She is also a good warrior and she has respectful knowledge.

Axelhand Eindelf- The Knocker of the dwarves, he is at the highest rank of honor in the dwarf society. He helps the Heltant people alot.

Gilsyon Vyseus- A charismatic prince of Vyseus, he is the rightful heir to the throne. He left the kingdom by himself. He is one of the best warrior in the world.

Unchai Baltan- A spy from Zypern, a country that is currently at war with Vyseus. This guy was caught by Sanson but later he became a member of their adventure. He does not fight. He do not have to fight as he has great skill to make any creature feel an atomsphere of menace. However, he also fights very well.

Neria- 'Neria of the Trident'. She is a thief but prefers the nickname 'Nighthawk'. She tried to rod Hutch but she fails. However, she become the member of the Heltant party.

Aphneidel- A young wizard with too much self doubt. He was against Hutch's party but as Iruril did not kill and gave him encouragement, he became a great magician and joined the party.

Jereint Chimber- 'Teperi's misfortune'. As a priest of Teperi, he has powers to make the 'perfect choice' between a yes or no question. He has very good sense of humour and everyone like him.

Tyburn Highseeker- A mysterious blind mage who stumbles into Heltant during the battle between Cathselprime and Amurtaat. He is the one who gives the guntlet to Hutch. Also there is a twist that this guy is actually a legendary human magician.

Nexon Heuritchel- Son of a Raja and presumed a Raja himself. He is a noble-born with great ambitions. This guy's aim was to destroy Vysus. However, he was actually playing in another witch's hand. The witch kills Nexon Heuritchel and this causes a disaster.

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After the war between black dragon and the human in Hiltent, the black dragon require so much money and jewerlies. Karl Hiltent, Sanson, Hutch start their journy to the palace to get the money from their king.

Hutch, Sanson, Karl meets a guy called Tyburn. They just thought of him as a adventurus guy but not more than that.However, he was actually a legendary magicion who is living for more than 400 years. His real name is Hendrake. The party of those 3 people start to travel to the Palace. They meet the orcs which starts to follow them through out their whole journy as enemy. Party meets Iruril, Axelhand during the journy to the capital. They meet Aphneidel too as an enemy. Later, when they arrived, their king says that they do not have money! The reason was that the crimson dragon, which once made Vysus as destruction, is waking up again. The dwerfs who were gaining the golds and silvers ran away already and there is no one to dig up them. Until this journy the party gains Neria, Aphneidel,Axelhand,Iruril, and Unchai. Their new aim was to stop the crazy dragon from destroying the world. They required the "Raja". Rajas are the people with special ability to be the friend of the dragon. The party finally finds Reni, a raja who didn't even know herself was raja. Jereint also joins the party and goes in to the Dragon's miro. They meet the crimson dragon there. However, Nexon, who always disturbed the Hutch's party, was a raja. He became the raja of the crimson dragon. At that time, the witch who came and helped Nexon, kills Nexon. If a dragon loose his or her raja, they go crazy. Crimson dragon starts to destroy everything. At that momment, blue dragon who was met by the party once before appears and demand Reni to be his raja to stop the crimson dragon. They make the dragon and raja's relationship and the two dragons fight. The humans help blue dragon. However, right before the crimson dragon was killed, Hutch saw the crimson dragon's eyes. The eyes were full of tired and Hutch realized that the crimson dragon actually desire to die. The party separate up after the incident, and Hutch comes back. Hutch find out that Tyburn is the legendary magician and It shocked me very much. It was kind of twist in the story. The last scene after the victims were released, as Hutch brought the money from the crimson dragon's storage, the black dragon says "What are your goals now?" before she fly away to the very west to go sleep. Hutch tells her "My role is done now. Refer the first snow as the funeral song, my magical autumn is finished." The black dragon sees him once and smile and flies away.

The Bird That Drinks Tears

Title: The Bird That Drinks Tears
Author: Lee Young Do

This book is wrote by the most famous and most skilled author in Korea. He writes the fiction- fantazy books usually. His books are likely to have philosophical factors.

This book is special because this book is unique. This book does not only have fantazy factors of western such as magic, dragon, elves and orc. However, this book also contains the traditional Korean fantazy factors too such as Dokkebi, a ghosts that appears in the old Korean fantazy. They enjoy Korea's traditional games and foods. They behave good and pure usually but when they see a blood, they go mad and destroy everything. The author also created the characters such as Recon, a bird headed with human body. That creatures are impatient and have amazing strength. However, Recons are afraid of water, any kind of water. Naga is also another creature which does not appear in book usually. They should dismissal their hearts when they are adult. The Nagas can not endure the temperature which are not fit to them.
There is another one called Doo Uk Si Ni. They were the first creature of the world. Their God was "God who can not see himself" and the creatures knew that if they were complete, their God whould disappear. So they remained uncompletely but the other 3 Gods killed the God. So the first creatures were completed and remained as Doo Uk Si Ni and wonder all around the world.

Every creatures have religions.

Humans believe in "God who is nowhere ".
Recons believe in " Goddes who is lower than every one"
Nagas believe in "Goddes who does not make foot print"
Dokkebis believe in "God who kills himself"

The language they use is based of ancient Korean languages(Arazit)

The main story of this book is adventure of Kaigon Draka(Human) Bihyung Slavle(Dokkebi)Tinahan(Recon) and Ryun Pei(naga). Kaigon Draka, Bihyung Slavle, Tinahan are the rescue party which was formed by monks to rescue Ryun Pei, who was seem as th treason to the nagas as he didn't dismissal his heart.