STARGATE

This week, I read STARGATE. First of all, I will explain its plot. 

In 1928 archaeologists found a mysterious stone with the inscription: 'A million years into the sky is Ra, Sun God.' Sixty years later in the USA, a young archaeologist, Daniel Jackson, finds a way to open the StarGate. What is on the other side? StarGate is a successful film by Roland Emmerich starring Kurt Russell, James Spader and Jaye Davidson.

So, I will show you three quotes. 

Daniel smiled. ‘No, no.’ He pointed to a group of signs. ‘Here, it really says a million years into the sky is Ra, sun god. And, here, the last word isn’t door into the night but StarGate.’‘The stone is ten thousand years old,’ Kawalsky said. ‘ Impossible!’ Daniel replied. ‘ The earliest Egyptian—‘( p6. )

This is the scene where they discovered the secret of the StarGate. After this scene, the story get more complicated and interesting than what readers thought about. 

Daniel shut his eyes, walked into the wall of light, and suddenly saw himself flying among stars, millions of them. He seemed to fly for thousands of years, until...someone shook him. It was Kawalsky. He went and shook the others. Like Daniel, they weren’t hurt. They lay next to another StarGate, in a large, dark room with walls of shiny black stone. ‘Let’s go!’ said O’Neil. Brown opened a box, took out lamps, then they went into a much larger room. It was more beautiful than anything Daniel knew on Earth, but he had a strange feeling that he already knew this place...They went through more dark, empty room, then outside into bright sunlight. Daniel saw three suns shining in a deep blue sky, and an endless sea of sand. He looked round. They were standing at the bottom of a pyramid. Daniel looked up at it and knew now why he felt that he already knew the rooms inside. The pyramid was the same as Khufu’s pyramid on Earth. ( p12.)

In this scene, characters finally go through the StarGate. I felt that this scene is a key point of this book. This is because from this scene, manifold mysteries are revealed. But the most important mystery of this story is still mysterious.

At last O’Neil found the key. He ran to the bomb, put the key in the lock, turned it. And nothing happened. 01:09, 01:08, 01:07... The clock kept on count down. ( p36)

From my perspective, this scene is the most exciting in this book. Counting down makes readers thrilled. I think this way is brilliant.

Overall, I enjoyed  this book so much. And story was quite agreeable. You may be able to enjoy it too. So I recommend this book.