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I had to read this play for my Advanced Western Literature course. Unfortunately, (This may sound pompous) I already know everything there is to know about Greek Literature and my professor proceeded to teach us all the wrong facts and information about the play. She has no sense of literary composition what-so-ever. Sorry, but it is true and it disappoints me greatly.
So, enough with my rant about my class, the play was good. I could really relate to Medea's madness, honestly, because by the time we were going to take the test on the play I was ready to murder the professor, the class and myself. This class was like my child, my love, and it was completely destroyed by this woman. I understand, Medea, I understand.
Classic. Too bad, my professor killed it.
7.5/10
- Mood:
enraged
I'll be honest, I watched the second movie before I read the second book, for this one, too. It was just how it worked out this time. Anyway, reading the book made me realize how messed up the movie was, plot wise. So, now I guess the entire series is ruined for me. Sucks.
But this book compared to the first one, was a little disappointing. I found myself being very angry with the girls and noticing that my life couldn't be sorted out until there's was. It was kind of annoying. This was kind of how I felt when I was watching the first movie without reading the book and knowing the characters. And maybe it was mostly because I'm older than they are in the book so I kind of wish they would just grow up and out ot it.
I'm hoping that happens in the 3rd book.
7/10
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares
So, this book has been sitting on my shelf for a good couple years. I saw the first movie without reading the book. (I know. I know! My book-reading friends would shun me.) I didn't really understand the movie. I thought that the girls acted really dumb and superficial.
Then I read the book. EVERYTHING MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE!
I seriously didn't know what I missing. So, here I am continuing on with this series.
I did actually see the movie sequel without reading the 2nd book. Little did I know, I would get the entire series spoiled. :P
Whatever, I still feel if I read the books I will be completely enlightened.
I have a whole new appreciation for the girls and the pants. I realize that when I go to Goodwill I look for my own magic pants.
8.5/10
- Mood:
hopeful - Music:Wishing on a Star - Rose Royce
Breaking Dawn - Stepheine Meyer
Ah, The final moment.
It was great. Meyer really knows how to please both team Edward and Jacob. Which is a hard thing to do, since you can't please everyone.
I, of course, was team Edward. But I'm glad she didn't leave any loose ends untied.
But, it does leave me to question if there is going to be a 5th book. I've only heard rumors.
Please let me know if this is true!
9.5/10
- Mood: chipper
- Music:Scars - Papa Roach
Once again, I find myself completely engulfed in this series. I love it! And I don't care what anyone else says!
I guess you just have to have some part hopeless romantic or silly teenager in you and you are hooked. This book was crack for teenage goth/vampire readers.
Going to the midnight party for the final book, Breaking Dawn, made me realize how incredibly contagious this series is. Some of my friends from school who hadn't read the books last time I saw them were there to buy the latest book dressed in full costume.
Amazing. Great series. Full of surprises.
9/10
Up next: Breaking Dawn and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
- Mood: excited
- Music:I Miss You - Blink 182
So my idea about not reading a series really fast as ultimatley failed me. I read the first three last year and when I started reading this one, I was completely lost. I couldn't remember what had happened in the last three books. I feel like re-reading the series, but more slowly this time.
I don't know. I just know that I was completely engaged the whole time. Great read for kids and greeks of all ages.
8.5/10
- Mood:
awake
Sorry, no plot summary this time!
But I can tell you i did have to read an analysis on the play before I could actually understand what was going on.
I actually did read this one on my own. Seeing as, my acting class is over, but I was a little curious as to Beckett's other plays. The Endgame, eeriely similar to Waiting for Godot, was pretty stylistic to Beckett's ideals. You really have to understand his plays to get this one. I'm glad I started with Waiting for Godot rather than this one, but I do like it. More characters which means more to dialogue and also more satrical monologues.
I think I'll hold off on the deep literature for now, though.
7/10
What can I say? When it comes to hot Vampire love, I'm a sucker (no pun intended). I liked that there wasn't much focus on Edward this time, because we needed to see Bella in a clearer view. I like that Meyer is building up to a climatic choice for her between Edward and the Cullens and Jacob and her mom and dad.
I honestly, though, CAN wait to start the next one. I've learned the hard way with Harry Potter that I need to take my time on series that I desperately love. Unfortunately, I feel like my life isn't complete until I read the next one. God, I'm such a dork.
Whatever! It's clear that my life this summer is going to revolve around my fictional friends and what will be their fate!
7/10
- Mood:
lonely
I actually bought my copy for my friend as a chirstmas present (ironic!) only to find out her mom bought her the whole triology. So, I kept this for myself and I suddenly had the urge to read it. This being the 2nd in the triology, it was very slow for me. I asked my friend and she told me that it really doesn't grab you until the end and the 1st and 3rd are the best out of the series.
I believe her, though I'm stiil not sure if I want to continue. I will, probably, but sometime later. I was raised christian, but I do tend to be more open-minded to other beliefs. When the whole controversy came about I really didn't know what to think (I still have yet to see the movie). I did some research and found out that there is some pre-production work being done on the second book, but It looks like most of it has been stopped due to the surrounding controversy.
I'm really anxious to see this as a movie and I will be very disappointed if it doesn't go to theaters.
Anyway, the series is very good, this installment though, isn't my favorite.
6/10
- Mood: hungry
Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
For me, being the emotional, romantic, and anti-social sap that I am, LOVED this book. Many of my friends who tend to be girls around the same age, in the same situation, feel the same. I personally think that the characters are very well developed and I think it was very well written. My friend actually got me the second book for a graduation present and I'm really excited to read it!!!
I read this in a short amount of time and I reccomend it to everyone. Can't wait for the movie!
8.5/10
- Mood: hungry
This book was reccomended to me by my long lost cousin and he gave it to me during a family trip to Disney. I began reading it right after Cat's Cradle and I never wanted to end!!! I really loved this book. My feeling every time I read it was like the book was making love to my soul and ripping it apart again and again. I really wanted to finish it, but at the same time I didn't want it to end. I absolutely adored this book!
Highly Reccomended!!!
10/10
- Mood: happy
I'm somewhat of a Vonnegut fan and I believe I intially turned most of my friends on to him. Or at least they started reading when I started reading his books.
But of all the Vonnegut books I've read this one was the most bizarre in my opinion. Even though I felt that most of the subplots and characters where being over looked. But I LOVED IT! I couldn't help but feel a closer relation to it because of how fantasical and also realistic it was. Definitely HIGHLY RECCOMENDED.
Good Job, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.!
10/10
- Mood: amazed
The Areas of My Expertise - John Hodgeman
This is a non-fiction I found lying around in my theater's dance room and I happened to pick it up and, well, I couldn't put it down. This is a book about non-factual facts. It's the only way I can put it.
It is definitely a feel good book. I was somewhat depressed when I happened to find this book, or should I say when it found me, and it just really lightened my mood.
It's a great and funny book that you can read whenever you like as often as you like.
8.5/10
This is another read for my acting analysis class. And again I got the chance to see this play performed live at my local community theater (it wasn't bad.) Let me just begin by saying that when I first heard of Equus, I heard some crazy rumors, or maybe I just assumed that it was about a boy who has sexual relations with horse.
Umm... Let me set the record straight in case there is any type of misunderstanding - NO! It is not about a boy having sex with animals. It is more about a boy is in awkward puberty stage and ends up needing psychological help.
I'm not very good at describing books or plays, obviously, but I can tell you that it is defnitely a play that you should read before seeing and read again after you've seen it. There is so much philosophical and theological statements and discoveries that are made in this play that there are sometimes easy to miss. I know I had to read over some lines a few times and I read it again after I saw it performed. It is very interesting to see things and ideas from the point of view of this play.
I liked it. It's a little difficult to love, but it did fascinate me.
8/10
She's crazy and she needs me. I'm her world. Scary.
I don't want to talk to her. I've been feeling this way for my entire senior year and she's just now realizing that she's been doing this to me.
It's not a friendship. It's never been a friendship. It's a therapist-patient relationship. It's a symbotic relationship. She needs me. I DO NOT need her.
I have other friends that build me up. That are there for me and I can be there for them. Yeah... She's been playing the "who has it worse" game. EVERY SINGLE DAMN DAY I've been friends with her.
So, she's trying to "win me back" in her crazy psychotic bipolar way. WE ARE NOT FRIENDS, NOR HAVE WE EVER BEEN FRIENDS, NOR WILL WE EVER BE FRIENDS EVER AGAIN!
So, what do I do? Her eyes open, after everyone in the class has left her and I'm the only person left standing because I was too goddamn nice. I cared too goddamn much.
Angie, if you ever read this: know that this has been building inside me for too long for me to forgive you after one day. You have been a bitch to me for far too long, and to believe that you have changed after ONE DAY and forgive you would be the most stupid thing for me to ever do in my ENTIRE LIFE.
"Fool me once,
Shame on you.
Fool me twice,
Shame on me." --Unknown.
You're scared? Ha. Me too.
- Mood: crushed
- Music:Love Song - Sarah Bareillies
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Another read for AP Lit. Surprisingly, this one was very good. And we all read it in a reasonable amount of time. But it does jump around from chapter to chapter. I liked that though.
It's not a tipical Vietnam War Story, but at the same time it is. I guess you'll just have to read it for yourself.
10/10
- Mood:
accomplished
So, now that I know there's going to be a movie I'm glad I read this book now. I'm somewhat excited for Queen Latifah, but not really for Alicia Keys. Don't get me wrong, I think she's GREAT! But as June Boatwright, I don't think she really fits my vision of her, but whatever. 2009 I'm definitely seeing it.
It's a very good read. My friends made fun of me, once again, when they saw my nose buried in this book. "Oh there she is! In her own little literature world!"
Whatever. I'll admit, I was a little disappointed with the ending - I was so sure that there was a big confession by one of the characters and a resolve for Lily, but no. I had to get in to that ambigous ending, once again. But still - feel good book, hopefully to be, a feel good MOVIE!
7.5/10
- Mood: excited
Okay, so I'm really behind on my reading list... it's like month number 4 and I only have 14 books read... that's kinda bad... I hope I can catch up this summer.
Anyway, Heart of Darkness. The phrase of the week. It's not a very exciting read, I'll be honest. I found myself falling asleep at points and I remember bull-shitting a paper on it afterward and getting a fairly good score. It was short and it was kind of cool with the comments on society and such.
6.5/10
- Mood:
apathetic
Darwin in Malibu - Crispin Whittell
Unfortunately, it is extremely hard to find a plot summary on this play, so if you desparately need to find out what this play is about, then you can try and google it or something.
Well, anyways. When I finished this play in/out of class I was partly distracted, so I really don't know how I completely feel about the ending. It's another one of those ambigous endings that my teacher is so insistent on us reading for my Acting Analysis class. I thought it was extremely well written and witty. I really liked the character development (that's always a big thing with me.) Great.
9/10
- Mood: groggy
I finished this book at the very very end of Feburary and we've been reading it my AP lit class for at least 3 months.
I think I would have liked it better if we had read it quicker and talked about it more. For the first 50 - 70 pages I was so confused. Our class had to go on our own time to go and talk about this book just so we could understand it. We ended up watching the movie in class.
It was okay. Beloved's monologue toward the end was torture for me.
In our class, the big debate was whether it was written beautifully or written horribly and since no one could really understand it, they called it "beautifully written".
5/10
- Mood: cynical
