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Why'd they pick these words?

The Death Cure or Maze Runner

I'm wanting to get into some new book series like the mazeunner, not into standalone books as much as there's not as much a continuing story. Any recommendations I can look into would be awesome!!

Hi! I'm totally new to the series and I honestly only heard recommendations for the movies but I know you should almost always read the books first. If anyone wants to tell me in details the best order to experience the series I would reallyyy appreciate it

So a little bit ago I got the whole maze runner series(it’s five books right?) and I can’t really decide how I want to read them because before I even got the books, I re-watched the first movie and while it does hold a very special place in my heart, I can’t help but be just a tiny bit confused..

I’m a slow reader, I’m on chapter ten already which is a little bit of a good deal for me, and I think after the first book I’ll re-re-watch the first movie and do the same with the other two books and then just read the others.

But..

I’m also open to any other methods of reading these books that maybe(?) include the movies but if they don’t I won’t be upset lol

Like I said, any method!

Hey guys, I just created a new maze runner discord server and wondered if yall would wanna join.

You can discuss the books and movies, share fanfic, send memes, have watch parties and more! And of course, make new tmr friends.

If you're interested, let me know, and I can leave the link!

I know this book's been out for years and everyone in this subreddit's read it, but humour me for a bit.

Firstly, the characters were a huge switch for me. In the movies, I was meh about Gally, underwhelmed by how little Minho actually spoke in the movie (to me he did) and honestly, didn't care too much about Teresa or Alby. But in the books, Gally is just gone half the story until he just dies and shows up again to kill Chuck (actual heartbreak), I don't really like book Alby, but book Minho is just so sassy and relatable!!! And I know everyone thinks Teresa and Thomas should've been siblings, but to me, I find it kinda flirty the way Teresa treats Thomas (but that part might just be smth wrong with me, so I've been told).

Writing-wise, felt a bit too short as some pretty big scenes and the part where they solve the code was a bit underwhelming, but to me that's weirdly a good thing. It really sold the idea that this was written in Thomas' POV.

Overall: 9/10 read.

But what is “THE MAZE RUNNER INFINITE GLADE” is even about? I cant find any clue from the internet, isnt just people who stuck in the glade? (Maze) ? Im so confused right now lol

i’ve never seen/read the series. is this positive or negative?? what does this mean?? im so confused

This sequence has alot of continuity errors so this is suspending disbelief a littlebit.

Prelude:

After a group of less than 10 immunes escaped from one of WCKDs undercover compounds in Denver, the corporation set a state wide search of the group. After one close call of capturing them at a resistance compound owned by "Jorge", the group got separated and ended up at a base camp owned by the resistance group Right arm. The camp was mostly lead by Marry Cooper and Vince. Teresa Agnes, who was one of the immune members had talked to WCKD through a walkie talkie during the battle of Jorges compound and exposed where they were heading. At the camp of the Right arm, Agnes was able to contact wckd again letting them know of the groups whereabouts.

State of the camp:

The camps defenses were rather poorly designed. The camp was located in a pass, including a few dozen tents. The pass was open from the west side and a stone wall surrounded it. The west side was equipped with a few dozen men armed with assault rifles and light machine guns but the major flaw was not arming the ridge that surrounded the camp.

WCKDs armament and operatives:

After learning of the camps location, Main director Ava Paige and Assistant director Janson gathered the most well trained and armed men of WCKD in the state. The company was able to gather about 16 of WCKDs military operatives and more than 10 of their most well trained special operatives. (there sometimes appear to be more due to continuity errors) Unlike in the battle of Last city, this time the company had time to plan and gather arms, though they still couldve gotten more men if so many hadnt been lost at Jorges compound. The military force was armed with the standard issue less-lethal KSGs which fired electric stunning rounds and special operatives with the Salient arms tier 1 AR 15. (Perhaps a semiauto coversion?)

Combat starts:

Agnes had confessed to the immune Thomas about her leaking the location of the camp but WCKD had already arrived before he could warn the rest of the camp. Right after sunset, WCKDs military force began an all out assault on the Right arm camp, lead by assistant director Janson. The men were loaded onto two EC130s (modified by wckd to be attack helicopters) and began an all out bombardment of the base, immediately taking out the defense posts on the west side of the camp, killing all trained personnel and destroying their best weaponry. WCKD had totally caught them off guard by attacking from the south which was one of their blindspots. (As was every other air direction)

First phase of the battle:

With the defense posts gone, the choppers continued bombarding the inside of the base in an attempt to loosen resistance, also striking some civillians in the process. Seeing the camp start to collapse, A.D Janson ordered the first armed group of 4 military operatives to be dropped in. The group dropped into the middle of the chaos where the resistance least expected and immediately started capturing resistance fighters with their electric KSGs. Second group dropped in soon after. Becouse WCKD bombarded the Right arms best weaponry to non-existence the remaining men who were capable of fighting were left with slow, repeating weapons such as bolt action rifles, pump shotguns and low capacity handguns.

Attempt at resistance:

Before WCKDs the third and fourth group dropped in, the remaining combatants with help from some of the immunes opened fire upon WCKDs forces killing a few. Pretty quickly the camps leader Mary Cooper was captured. As the soldiers were closing in on the remaining combatants, high ranking Right arm member "Barry" attempted to desperately load their Browning M2HB 50 BMG machine gun but right before he could chamber the first round, a WCKD military operative chucked a (fictional model) electric grenade into the group, rendering them all immobile until capture. The third and the fourth group had dropped in and after some more gun fire, all of the camps residents and immunes had been gathered into a crowd.

Temporary capture:

Seeing the chaos slow down, A.D Janson personally requested to be lovered into the camp to observe. The bolt action rifles and other weapons captured by the WCKD operatives were gathered into a pile. The operatives quickly began scanning the immunes, concluding a few had died on their time in the scorch. Right as A.D Janson started scanning the group, resistance fighter Thomas surrendered to the operatives. Seeing this Janson physically assaulted the young man and concluding the area is safe enough to call in Director Ava Paige. Paige arrived in a berg alongside WCKDs special forces men. (Though they do appear earlier due to continuity errors)

Execution of Mary Cooper:

At this point it became clear to the immunes that Teresa had been working with WCKD as Paige reunited with her and also Cooper, the leader of the right arm camp. Paige and Cooper came into a verbal altercation after which A.D Janson drew his glock 34 sidearm and shot Cooper once in the stomach, executing her. Doing this would count as a war crime since she wasnt a combatant in the first place. As no one objected Janson for his misdeed, the permission to round up the immunes to the berg was given. Thomas, strict from quilt of "letting" Agnes fool them, pushed a military operative off him and brandished an I.E.D, threatning to commit murder-suicide by blowing himself up if the captives werent let go. Janson immediately ordered the special forced to hold their fire which mightve been a mistake. Paige insisted that releasing the captives was not an option and hearing this, four other immunes stepped behind thomas and encouraged him blow them up, arguing: "were not going back there."

Battle starts again:

Right before Thomas could press the switch, resistance fighter Jorge who was not captured earlier, rammed a semi-truck onto the other attack-helicopter which was landed. The crash knocked the chopper on its side, its rotor (still spinning) split into pieces spraying scrapnel all over the crowd, taking out some of the special operatives. Seeing this, some resistance fighters were able to break free and started wrestling the WCKD operatives for their weapons. Eventually some of them got their hands on them, starting fire upon the attackers and thus the battle had started again. A group of 4 military operatives told Thomas to drop his I.E.D which resulted in him chucking the explosive at the groups feet, killing all 4. Jorge exited his truck and shot a military operative in the neck who had ordered him to freeze.

Right arm gains the upper hand:

Quickly, the immunes were also able to get their hands back to their weaponry and got some distance to the special operatives who were rather effectively holding them off. Thomas was beaten by Janson who drew his sidearm again, threatning to execute him but was force to retreat to the berg after receiving a bullet to the shoulder. In the chaos, immunes A.4 "Sonya" and D.6 "Aris" were not able to break free and were loaded onto the berg along with Paige and Agnes. Infuriated by Coopers death, Vince was able to reach the 50 cal and succesfully loaded it. He opened fire on the WCKD operatives taking out quite a few. Becouse of this a fire and retreat drill was ordered. Vince then proceeded to empty the rest of the machine guns magazine onto the remaining helicopter doing so much damage to it, it had to retreat also. During the ensuing gun fire, immune A.4 "minho" was captured by some military operatives after fatally shooting quite a few.

Battle comes to a close:

Seeing as there was nothing else to be done, the remaining military operatices (which of there was almost none) and special operatives retreated into the berg also. The resistance for some reason didnt think of firing into the berg to take out the rest before the doors closed. Following the helicopter, the berg retreated from the camp.

Aftermath: WCKDs forces had managed to make the camp unlivable forcing the resistance to relocate. In the morning, resistance fighter Thomas gave a speech about stopping WCKD forever and getting back the captured the immunes.