Are they little and green? Do they have two eyes, a nose, a pair of ears and a mouth, just like we have? Professor Archer Shinford was about to know. 10 years ago, Archer had built a machine to communicate with any form of extraterrestrial life. It was a complex device which could pick up or send out sounds to or from Space. Archer invented many machines, but none of them really seemed to work…until this very night. Archer was working in his lab’ when all of a sudden the sound machine came to life. Archer jumped. It had been silent for 10 years and now it was beeping! Obviously somebody had sent a message to him. For fifteen long minutes the machine kept printing out pages of incomprehensible symbols. After long hours of examination, he eventually decoded the message. It read “friday – midnight – park –
friday – midnight – park…“ He couldn’t believe his eyes.
Would it correspond to you as a reader? Explain why.
1) First, say whether you would like to read this book or not.
2) Then, give some information about yourself as a reader to account for your answer.