Author Topic: Alcatraz 3 spoilers (maybe) (Read 7011 times)

Pygmalion · « **Reply #15 on:** December 29, 2009, 07:11:19 AM »

I suppose I'm a little late in the game here, but I just had the opportunity to read it yesterday. I wish there was more... it only took me a few hours to read, and I do love Alcatraz. There were so many great lines... She Who Cannot Be Named (Swcbn.... bahaha)... the bathroom humor trifecta... crapaflapnasti...

I loved Folsom and Himalaya, especially the scene where Himalaya is sorting the books.

And did we ever clear up the idea of whether or not there would be a fifth book? I was always under the impression there would be...

firstRainbowRose · « **Reply #16 on:** December 29, 2009, 08:06:33 AM »

The information on the fifth book is that it's going to be written up and sent into Scolastic, because they have first rights refusal. If they refuse it, the plan (at least, last I spoke to him, and it was a "i'd rather" more then a "I will") was to wait for the contract with scolastic to run out and sell it to another publisher when they can also publish the other four books.

Also, do you think "she who can not be named" is a play off of voldi? I didn't catch that before. . . *looks thoughtful*

Chaos · « **Reply #17 on:** December 29, 2009, 08:51:29 AM »

I'd always assumed it was a direct Voldemort reference.

Peter Ahlstrom · « **Reply #18 on:** December 29, 2009, 07:27:26 PM »

Of course it is.

Scholastic's right of first refusal can be satisfied with a book proposal. It doesn't have to be a whole book.

Hero of Ages · « **Reply #19 on:** December 30, 2009, 09:21:26 AM »

And as popular as the series has been I would bet they will pick up the 5th book. They have already invested in 4, one more is nothing (in the whole scheme of things, I realize it is a HUGE investment, but they will make it back).

zas678 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 03, 2010, 08:31:29 AM »

I actually hope they don't pick up the book. It seems to me that they haven't promoted him very well. I think that Tor (or someone else) would gladly pick up a book written by the guy who finished the WoT series, even if it is a YA.

I also love Alcatraz. I have many short friends, and I enjoyed telling them some of the many reasons why it was better to be short. After all, Short people don't need as much material for clothes as tall people so, making clothes much more efficient.

Pygmalion · « **Reply #21 on:** January 04, 2010, 05:50:59 PM »

I agree... Scholastic doesn't seem very big on promoting it.... And it took stores in my areas forever to order in copies, even after I had requested that they do so....

Which is a total bummer, because I, too, have many short friends who would benefit from learning Kaz's rules.... short people make smaller targets.

zas678 · « **Reply #22 on:** January 04, 2010, 10:02:25 PM »

I know! One of my friends cracked up when I explained that tall people caused the recession. After all, Short people require shorter buildings, shorter clothes, less transportation, less water and less food. Imagine how much money that could add up to if everyone was short!

Roberts · « **Reply #23 on:** January 08, 2010, 02:03:10 AM »

Quote from: Andrew the Great on October 01, 2009, 07:07:50 PM

Who Alcatraz murders? Attica makes sense. After all, Attica is supposedly trying to give everyone Smedry Talents, which Alcatraz knows from the tomb is not a good idea. My guess would be that Alcatraz tries to stop him from whatever he's doing, and in so doing accidentally kills Attica.

I think it will be Grandpa Smedry unfortunately. (I forgot his first name!) When you compare Alcatraz's relationships to his grandpa and his dad in book 3, Alcatraz is much less close to his dad. Killing Grandpa Smedry would hurt Alcatraz so much more and would certainly explain why Alcatraz has been trying to convince us he's a terrible person for the last 3 books.

Not only that, he's become an old mentor like Obi-Wan or Gandalf.

Pygmalion · « **Reply #24 on:** January 08, 2010, 06:43:55 PM »

Noooo! Not Grandpa Smedry... I can't, I won't believe it!

Maybe it's Bastille who dies... (really this time)

Bastille · « **Reply #25 on:** January 09, 2010, 02:45:31 AM »

Quote from: Pygmalion on January 08, 2010, 06:43:55 PM

Noooo! Not Grandpa Smedry... I can't, I won't believe it!

Maybe it's Bastille who dies... (really this time)

NO!!!!!!!...srry..kinda popped in here after a while...

Miyabi · « **Reply #26 on:** January 09, 2010, 02:50:16 AM »

He's definitely going to kill Grandpa Smedry. Though I don't think it will be directly, I think it will be one of those things where he breaks Grandpa's talent for just long enough that someone else kills him. (Totally an accident on Al's part though.)

Chaos · « **Reply #27 on:** January 09, 2010, 04:45:23 AM »

Quote from: Miyabi on January 09, 2010, 02:50:16 AM

He's definitely going to kill Grandpa Smedry. Though I don't think it will be directly, I think it will be one of those things where he breaks Grandpa's talent for just long enough that someone else kills him. (Totally an accident on Al's part though.)

I can see this happening. Quite plausible.

Bastille · « **Reply #28 on:** January 09, 2010, 02:21:54 PM »

Personally from what I gathered during the epilog in the second book I think he kills himself. Or well a part of himself. In it he explains that the young him was getting replaced peice by peice (like the ship of thesus) until there was nothing left of the original. He is now a copy...a fake.

I don't know... $:-\$

zas678 · « **Reply #29 on:** January 09, 2010, 07:33:48 PM »

Bastille! You're back!

And it makes a lot of sense that Grandpa Smedry is the one who is killed. Unfortunately.

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