9/30/09

The book "The Man that Loved Books to Much" was kind of interesting to me. I never knew that the world of book collecting was as intense as it really is. I would of never of guessed that books could be sold for thousands of dollars.

I found it very interesting how so many people could make a living by selling and buying books. This book started out kind of slow because at first they just started out by telling boring stories about how people stole books. The thing that really held me attention was the prices of the books that where sold. Books that where worth over one hundred thousand dollars seemed like there would be no way anyone would ever buy them. I don't know if it was me I would not put out books at that price because you are pretty much asking for someone to try to steal it.

Something that kind of bugged me about this book is the way Gilky's parents acted when he stole the baseball mitt. They just let him take and did not even punish him and this to me is the biggest problem with him. If his parents would have made him take back the mitt then most of the things he did probably would have never of happened. I also found it odd that a store hired him when he did not fill out his application all the way since he didn't put down whether or not he had committed any crimes.

All in all this book held me attention for most of the time and I found it very enlightening. I would recommend book.

September 24th

The book "The Perk of Being a Wallflower" is a very good book. This is my favorite book so far. I think that I like this book the most just because this book sticks with the main character the whole time. This book really let you get to know the main character, even though he is special in his own way.

The book did a really good job of getting the reader into the book. It made me wonder what the heck was going on at first because I didn't understand why this guy was so emotional and I thought that something must of been wrong with this guy.

Something that kinda of bugged me throughout this book is how Charlie's parents really do not keep track of Charlie. I mean his parents let him go to all these parties, where they have no clue who he is with and how these people are treating him. I think these parties made life a lot harder on Charlie because although he had friends at these parties he also is getting very confused by using drugs and drinking a lot. At the end of the book when Charlie has his freak out I think a lot of his problem has to do with the drugs that he is using. They make him feel good for a while but then when Sam leaves he just has a huge crash.

I did like how I kind of got an understanding of how a person thinks that thinks like he does. It helps me remember that the people that act a little different really want the same thing as everyone else, like friends and having fun.

I would recommend this book to anyone who would like a good read.

September 16th

The story that I am going to blog about is the story "The Shadow of the Mothership". This story was another very strange story. I really do not enjoy books that have to do with aliens and things or the nature.
I did not really understand why they made all of the buildings out of foam. It just does not make sense when they are supposed to be in the future you would think that they could come up with a better building material then foam. I mean they can fly away if someone really wants them to.
I also don't understand why he did not go with his parents when they went on the mothership. Maybe he did not want to go because I do not think that his parents would just leave him there especially if is dad is supposed to be this great guy with great ideas.
Another thing that I did not really enjoy about this book is we never found out what really happened to Daisy Duke and Tony the Tiger. They just end up as what sounds like a hooker and a begger. The story would have been better if the author would have talked about that.
I did like the ending because at first I was disappointed that he was giving in to his dad but it turned out that he never really was.

September 9th

Today I finished the book Olive Kitteridge. I didn't really enjoy this book although the end was a little better.
I really liked how Olive went to visit Chris in New York. Even though it didn't last very long Olive was happy again being with her son and his new family. I also think it was good for Olive to get out of the town that she spent her whole life in and she got a taste of what the rest of the world is like. I also liked how Chris told off his mom. I know it was a mean thing to do but Olive had been mean to people all of her life and it was about time that someone told her that she is not acting right. Although I did not like how Chris just let his mom leave and he didn't even give her a ride to the airport. I wish the book would of said more of what happened to Olive at the airport after the security guards came and took her away.
The whole thing that Olive had with Jack Kennison seemed kind of weird to me. Olive had not been being nice to anyone and then she starts liking this game. It just seemed a little off of the rest of the book. It was nice that Olive found someone else who was lonely and had also just lost a loved one.
After reading this book I would not suggest it to any of my friends because it is to sad all the way through.

August 2 Post

This week we started reading Olive Kitteridge. To me this book started out really slow and it was really had for me to keep reading it. It was one of those books that was to detailed. I also did not enjoy how it jumps around so much. It seemed to be one of those books that really had no main character. As I continued to read though I realized that Olive Kitteridge was in some way connected to all of the people the book talked about, so it started to make a little bit more sense to me.
I did not like how this book made marriage look either. The author of this book must have had a lot of relationship problems because every time this book talks about a couple, the people in the relationship are not happy and in most of the cases really like a different person.
There has been a few good parts in the book like when Henry Kitteridge talks about how he still loves Olive Kitteridge and knowing Denise makes him love Olive even more. Sure it seems that he only cares about Denise but he is just a really nice guy and he knows that she needs someone to help her. Something that might not of been a good part in the book but I enjoyed more was the part in the hospital. This at least gave a little bit of excitement to the story and action books are the books I enjoy. I hope that this book keeps throwing in some twists and hopefully it doesn't continue to be this sad.