Heart of Darkness

Well this book is certainly a refresher to read after the guessing game of 1984. In the beginning of the book it seems like a telling of a great tale of how a seaman got his start in exploring the unknown. However a couple pages later it seem s the story turns instead of an exciting adventure into a story of dread and the discovering of one's darkest characteristics and corruption of his soul.
If 1984 was a downer this book just changed the scale of how fast you can depress someone. The tone through out the book is one of dread, as the landscapes are described as dead grasses and savage lands to even the people the main character finds himself meeting. each new character he encounters seems more corrupt then the next. The main character faces all kinds of hardships and misfortune from at first being sent to a place starved, meeting unkind people, even his boat sinks unexpectedly with no hope of its repair. Even the person who pretty much runs the place dies while the main character is with him. Such a spell of bad luck only cause the reader to see how his soul is being corrupted by each passing misfortune.

1984

This book was so interesting. This book presents a world of government control of everything from media to a persons own life. Makes you wonder what kind of person the author was to create such a twisted world. Not even the main character could turn the tide and help create a much need power change and over throw the government. This is the first fiction book I've read where that happened. The author I imagined wrote this book either as an insane person or as a warning for what he thought would happen soon after another wold war, since this book was written after world war II. this book is probably the most scary political take over imagined. While I read this book I could not help to imagine how depressing and frightening it would be to live in a society like this. Though this society seems like a mix between Stalinist Russia, Hitler Germany , and current China and Kora. However if you look at the time period that this book is written in , it is not surprising to see how George Orwell could have imagined such a place.

What is the What : Chapters 12- ending

I defiantly like this book, better than some of the other books I've had to read for school over the years. The book drags on a little in some parts, then you remember that it was based off of some one's live, then your right back in it. I think I actually smiled when I read about him getting into college and setting up an aid group. Pretty amazing. It defiantly gives people hope about fixing the problems in their lives reading about a person overcoming so many hardships. It was a very interesting topic and an inspiring book, once you get over the bad situations the main character gets in. Now on to the next book, 1984.

What is the What: Chapters 1-12

At first when I started to read this book I thought that I I wouldn't like it. I mean the dude gets robbed in the first two pages of the book. I thought," Aww, not another depressing book." However, I was pretty surprised that I started wanting to find out what was going to happen next. So, as the story goes on and he starts to tell the story of his escape from civil war, it got really interesting. It was cool to see how different the cultures are. Especially, when I read about the bike, when they didn't know if they should unwrap it or not. I heard from other people that this book was boring, but I found out that once you start to really put yourself in the character's shoes and see it from their point of view, you almost don't want to stop reading.

End of How to read lit...

So this book certainly was interesting. Covered a lot of subjects. Few were echos of what past teachers said. Others were things I didn't even think of looking for in a book. I like how the author not only quoted good books, but also explained what was going on in the books so we could understand what he was trying to explain. In all, the book was good. It did tend to drag on a little. I wounder what the other books are going to be like.

How to read lit like a professor. Chapters 1-6

This book is definitely a different book. I like chapter three the best so far. I guess it's just because I like reading horror books and it let me see the stories in a new light. I like how the book shows how to see the patterns that all books have in common. I'm interested in how reading this particular book will affect the way I read other books to come.