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    Daniel X: Watch the Skies

    Written by Ned Rust and James Patterson

    Narrated by Milo Ventimiglia

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    All's quiet in the small town of Holliswood, the television sets a-glow in every home. But not all is as perfect as it seems.

    A terrifying outlaw has just arrived in town, with the goal of throwing it into chaos – and filming the pandemonium for the fellas back home.

    Only one person can stop him and his thugs from destroying the city and everyone living there. Daniel X assembles an all-star team of his own creation, but not even he could imagine the enormity of this made-for-TV-villain's powers.YAF001000

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateJul 27, 2009
    ISBN9781600246210
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    Daniel X: Watch the Skies
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    Ned Rust

    Ned Rust is the author of the Patrick Griffin and the Three Worlds series as well as the co-author of books in the Daniel X series and Witch and Wizard: The Gift with James Patterson. He lives in Croton, New York, with his wife, son, and daughter.

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    • 5/5
      Daniel is a boy from outer space. He lived on a planet much like Earth called alpar nok. He can reanimate his friends (though he doesn't know if they are dead). He is an alien hunter. He has a list that he "inherited" from his parents who were killed by the number one most wanted alien. The story begins with him knowing who he will target first and that man or rather alien is #5 on the list. #5 looks kind of like a fish. Daniel follow him to a bar where there are many vaporized people. Next #5 plants caviar or fish eggs inside of women making them pregnant with fish aliens. Now fast forward Daniels friends that die who he reanimates help him in his final battle and destroys all of the caviar and #5 died and everybody lived happily ever after.
    • 3/5
      Second verse, same as the first. Although I think Milo does better with voices in this one.
    • 5/5
      I enjoy reading the Dainel X seiries it is something that helps connect me to my little brother as he is fifteen and a half years younger to me.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed it. Nice new genre; I liked the change.
    • 4/5
      If you have read the previouse book, Dangerous Days of Daniel X, then you already know all about Daniel himself. In Watch the Skies Daniel is once again saving Terra Firma from the clutches of evil alien tenticules. This time he is going after #5 on the List. And #5 isn't a walk in the park. #5 is a master at anythign electronic and uses his power to basically take over the town of Holliswood. All the Women of the town are 'pregnant' with his offspring, or rather clones. He has nursery ponds on a farm that were dug out and filled with water by the towns people. Anyways though, Daniel meets #21 on the List as well while in the supermarket. And gets his butt kicked from surprise. #21 leaves him however on orders from #5. Later on in the story Daniel gets revenge on #21 and then some. When #5 finally figures this out he is seriously angered. Apparently even thoguth he treated #21 like crap they were friends. But with all of #5's electrical power, enough to run the NYC for a decade, Daniel and the gang were no match for him. With #5's camera's rolling, recording the entire battle, Daniel willingly goes up to give slimy, catfishy, swampy #5 a hug. Why you ask? #5 wanted a touching effect for his video, Daniel convinced him by wanting to get a closer look at his dad's necklace wrapped around #5's neck. Daniel had his mothers, or so #5 told him. using the hug as his last chance Daniel holds both necklaces up to the sky which is like a strom form a horror story. The SILVER necklaces attract the lighting so well that #5 is practically crispy immediatly. Dont' worry, Daniel surrvives it. After destroying #5's body, the gang confiscates all electronics in Holliswood to free the town's people from #5 and completely destroy him.
    • 4/5
      Fun Sci-Fi book for early teens. Easy reading, moves fast. Totally unbelievable but that is what makes it fantasy.
    • 5/5
      This book was entertaining to read. But at the same time creepy imagining some parts of the story.
    • 5/5
      Decent book. Not as good as the first one.
    • 3/5
      Daniel X is a teen-age alien hunter with some special powers of his own. He rides a motorbike and can do wheelies on his front tire. He has four imaginary friends, but unlike most kids, he can materialize them and they often help him out when he needs help, or just keep him company when he needs company.The town of Holliswood is being taken over by aliens - from outer-space. These particular aliens are able to manipulate the radio waves, and t.v. stations to control humans. They also like to eat humans, after they make them dance around, filming them for entertainment. The head alien is a director. Even though there are some horrific things that happen to humans, the way it's written it's not very graphic or gross. Most teens have watched plenty of movies and shows that contain much worse than is shown in this book. Daniel X needs to find a way to stop the aliens from taking over the town, and eventually the whole world for the purpose of filming, eating and using the world and it's inhabitants as entertainment for the rest of the universe. But the alien in charge of this epic project, (alien no. 5) seems to always be one step ahead of Daniel X, and in fact is planning to use Daniel in the finale of the series that he's filming. Daniel X meets a young girl and her strange parents. He is has quite a challenge solving this crisis, things go wrong but he perseveres.I found the narrative of this book interesting, and the dialogue between characters was pretty good. There's some snarky dialogue between aliens and Daniel X, and intelligent dialogue between Daniel X and his friends/family. Though gross things are happening, there isn't over the top descriptions, but there is enough to keep a teen or tween interested in the story. Daniel X also is not a do it yourself type of hero, he takes advice and help from his friends...although they are a product of his imagination. Maybe because it's written from the pov of a teenage boy, one who has been hunting aliens, but there doesn't seem to be much to his personality - there's a little history we learn as we read, and little things he quips. He seems to care about animals and humans. It's just not very in depth - the presenting of his personality.This was a cute, light/horror sci-fi book. The only thing that kind of got to me, was more the set up of the book. There are 91 chapters in this 251 page book. How can that be, do you wonder? most of these chapters are two pages long. As in half of one page (the beginning of the chapter) and half or a little over half of the second page (that would be the ending of this epic chapter). So really, I believe this book could have been condensed into 125 pages (approximately). I don't know if the authors meant for the book to be set up this way as a dramatic way of separating scenes, or if this was done to "flesh out" the book. There were quite a few of the 2-page chapters that could have been combined. A few of the chapters were really a continuation of the previous chapter. That's my only complaint of the book, and it's not anything to do with content or writing talent.Overall this is a entertaining book, a light read even with the horror aspects.
    • 4/5
      This book was quite weird and random, like a lot of James Patterson books. It's about Daniel going after Number 5 in The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firmia. Sometimes in the book, you don't really get what the author is trying to say....like for example. When they microwaved the caviar, the result of it, I did not get. Only after further reading did I understand. But it was a pretty interesting plot over all.
    • 3/5
      A quick read. The characters are amusing with just as an amusing plot. A funny take on the world of aliens and alien hunting. I would say it would grab the attention and entertain young adults.
    • 3/5
      This short, shallow story has Daniel taking on aliens #s5 and 21 on the most-dangerous-to-humanity list. The book is primarily plot-based with a little side romance, as Daniel flirts with a gorgeous high-school aged waitress named Judy Blue Eyes. Fans of other James Patterson books, including his Cross series, might like this since they'll likely know what they're in for. Like his other titles, Daniel X is a quick, interesting read with little depth or character development. It's pop lit, with the emphasis on popular much more than literature.
    • 2/5
      In the book Daniel X, by James Patterson, a boy named Daniel is the only hope for protecting earth from deadly aliens that invade areas and kill many people. His backup is a team of imagined heroes, appearing out of nowhere in Daniel’s mind. Together they fight the most evil aliens in the universe, number five and number twenty-one, along with all of their minions. Read all about his encounters and battles with these aliens.When this book was recommended to me by my teacher, the first thing that caught my eye was the author, James Patterson. I had heard plenty of great things about his writing and other series that he had published. Naturally,then, when I began reading this book, I had pretty high hopes. However, I was sorely mistaken. I could give the idea to any person on the street, and they could do a better job with developing the plot and making it interesting at the same time. They could also write longer chapters. The average length of one of the chapters in this book was about a half a page in a regular size font. In terms of reading level, I would recommend this book to someone in sixth grade. However, if someone was looking for a good book, I would not really recommend it- two stars out of five.
    • 1/5
      Wow. This was bad. I'm a fan of the first book, but this one was horrible. The humor was exceptionally juvenile and the big-bad's evil plan is to impregnate the women of Earth with his offspring (which he succeeds at with a few hundred/thousand women) and to eat the liquified remains of murdered humans (also a partial success). It's sickening and extremely inappropriate for the intended demographic (there're few demographics forced impregnation is appropriate for).
    • 3/5
      I paid $19.99 for the hardback (published by Hachette Book Group), a sum the average teen would be hard-pressed to part with for a book that didn’t also slide neatly into the slot of his Wii.As a woman squarely in middle-age (depending on how you calculate my potential life-span), I am clearly not the target audience for this testosterone-fueled romp, but I liked it nonetheless. Each short chapter ended in a mini-cliffhanger that kept me turning the page, much like a snowball rolling down a steep slope, picking up whatever is in its path and flinging bits of detritus to the wind.If I were a teenaged boy, I’d eat this stuff up, assuming my usual diet was filled with stomach-turning descriptions of slimy aliens and the nasty ways they kill and devour people. It almost felt like I was reading the script for a television show on Nickelodeon, you know, except for the graphic violence. Although, given the average Spongebob episode, even the violence isn’t that bad—for a teen thoroughly inured to it, as I suspect most these days are.This is the second in the Daniel X series (I haven’t read the first). I had a hard time pegging the exact target-age the authors were going for, especially after the huge, blobby fish-alien antagonist has impregnated all the unfortunate women in a small American town with its wriggling tadpoles. It’s meant to be horrific in a humorous way, and it is. Only—as the mother of a young boy who is an advanced reader—the objectification of these zombified pregnant gals gave me a twinge of concern if the reader happened to be, say, a fifth-grader who isn’t even clear on how babies are made. I’m not here to start a debate on what’s appropriate in a young adult novel. In this book, people are forced to carry alien progeny, and people die hideously; it’s all in good fun.As I continued reading, I found myself wondering: if Daniel has the imaginary power to point his finger with his thumb cocked like a gun and blow a hole a mile deep into the ground, turn himself into a mosquito, or teleport himself away from danger, where’s the room for a plot to even develop? He should be able to breeze in and out, enemies smoking in a burnt-out crater behind him—but no. Daniel wants to know what the bad guys are up to, and his snooping ways let the creepy-crawlies get the jump on him. This allows for moments in the storyline where the reader is *almost* tense at the outcome (if I’m a thirteen year old boy, then I probably *am* tense). Will Daniel succeed? Will his imaginary friends get hurt or killed, and if they do, how long until he simply brings them back to “life?” The story is told in first-person point of view in Daniel’s voice, and I kind of felt like he wasn’t being honest with the reader. He’s got the power to do virtually anything with his mind. He’s young and his powers are just developing, but does he know he’s going to win; is he just playing with the bad guys like a cat toys with a cricket? Of course, his parents were killed by the topmost baddie on the most-wanted aliens list when Daniel was three, but we don’t know (maybe the first book answers this question) if his parents had the same powers as he does. If so, then Daniel’s mom-and-dad-slaying nemesis would have to be invincible indeed, and the reader can assume Daniel and this super-villain will definitely clash in a sequel near you.Sprinkled throughout the narrative are some not-so-hidden messages for the reader, as if the authors couldn’t resist tossing in a few political opinions about our broken school systems (what better platform than a bunch of pre-voting adolescents?) These messages are not preachy; on the contrary, they are quite amusing, like when Daniel’s imagined mother provides the school with sarcastic lists of why he’ll be absent on successive days (“Dr. I. M. Trubbell is assessing the state of his bureaucratic mumbo jumbo allergy.”)All-in-all, Daniel X qualifies as a “good” read in my book, but it’s probably an “awesome” read to its target audience, red-blooded teenage boys who’d like nothing better than to be like Daniel; whipping out the biggest gun, smearing alien guts all over the place, getting the coolest, prettiest girl—anything he imagines.(Review originally posted to Booksquawk)
    • 2/5
      Quite a short read and I’m not sure it was worth reading. Daniel X is an interesting character, but one that has little humanity or depth. Everything about him was just a repeat of the last book; nothing new was given to the reader.(Not to mention the only other characters were useless or part of Daniel himself) Also Daniel X seems like the goody good guy, loves literature, an avocet for learning, environmental cleaning, using your imagination, and all that good stuff. He’s good at everything, the only reason he failed to bring down the alien at the beginning was because he didn’t know what was happening. It’s not very interesting when a hero’s only weakness is his cluelessness. What bothered me the most was if the whole point of Number 5 being so bad was because he was using mind control, how come Daniel was doing the same thing? Just because the guy he was brain washing was bad? Does it make it right to manipulate someone’s mind? As for the bad alien; Number 5 was really two dimensional, and frankly I don’t believe an alien like this would just terrorize one small city. Also if all of the thousands of aliens are supposed to be as bad as Number 5, there would be no one left to save. It seem that this series is not going to last very long if in the next book Daniel is battling Number 3.
    • 2/5
      Once again Daniel, who readers met in The Dangerous Days of Daniel X, is on the hunt for a big, bad alien from The List. This time it is Number 5, a creepy catfish looking alien with the ability to manipulate electricity and electric devices.Number 5 is in Holliswood for a reason. He has a plan for the residents. Number 5 plans to make the people of Holliswood the stars of his latest interstellar reality television show. Number 5 coined the phrase endertainment because he kills the people at the end of each of the impromptu musical performances he orchestrates for the entertainment of other aliens in outerspace.With the help of his family and friends, Daniel battles Number 5 and attempts to save the people of Holliswood from one of the most dangerous aliens in the world.DANIEL X: WATCH THE SKIES was a let down. THE DANGEROUS DAYS OF DANIEL X wasn’t stellar literature, but it was much better than this series installment. There were too many hokey parts that left me rolling my eyes.I’m not sure about how I feel about James Patterson anymore. I haven’t read MAX yet and I wasn’t happy with FINAL WARNING at all. Below you’ll find a link to a USA Today article that explains his writing process when he uses a co-author. So, my question is, how well does he read the final products after the co-author fills in all the gaps? I can’t imagine that James Patterson could think that DANIEL X: WATCH THE SKIES was good enough to publish. That being said, I do want to read his next book WITCH AND WIZARD, it sounds very interesting.USA Today article about how James Patterson writes with a co-author.