The end of Looking for Alaska. SPOILER
I liked the closure the author gave the reader. it wasn't just a big author's intrusion that was all like "people who die might actually be gone forever. but believing in god to gain closure is okay." it was more for the reader to feel a comfort at the end of the book, like it wasn't an ending that was hard, or emotional. it was just an ending that had closure for a lot of things, not just death, but for mistakes and accidents. This made me realize that in a way, this book was mainly about life. living. growing up. having experiences, making mistakes and trying to find who you are before you end up in the ground. i liked how i could tell that most of what pudge was saying was an authors intrusion, but at the same time it fit so perfectly into the story that it didn't really matter. it was mostly some kid growing up and figuring things out like how will i get out of this labyrinth. I really think this only worked because the author made the characters come to life and believable. Because if they weren't as fit and you weren't able to relate to them it was just a book about some kids that had a friend who died and they do some pranks that aren't really funny and they go around and are realize some stuff about dying and how to cope with it because it was their friend that died and they think they killed her whatever. But there's really a lot to think about in this book. it's not just some kids who do pranks. they do pranks because they gain respect from some of the kids in their school, and they gain ego from their success and pissing off other people. it's not just about a kid questioning where people go when they die. it's actually making the reader taking that into consideration and wanting to know what happens. I feel like other than realistic characters that the author uses to reel you into this book, it's also the suspense of having 20 days before, 10 days, 5, 1. and then wondering what actually happened, and wanting to learn what happened to these characters and having so many cliff hangers. In my mind, this was a pretty successful book for me. i really couldn't put it down.
1/27/11
1/20/11
Labarynths
I've recently started a book called Looking For Alaska, and found it was pretty good. it was funny and smart. Though there's really nothing too specific that i would point about that i thought was especially memorable about what Ive been through so far in it. . .
So the main character Miles starts out as a total loser in his old school. And suddenly he is shipped off to boarding school where he immediately befriends some hard core pranksters and gets himself into smoking and drinking and all this type of teen angst stuff.
the reason i think this book is so successful though, is because there's this flawless balance between sophisticated, visionary philosophical and like teen drama with a little twist of suspense. Having that balance makes the book a little bit more interesting and it gives it a backbone ish moral behind it that makes the book meaningful. (i.e.)Not just some forth grade chapter book about a guys first crush or whatnot. it makes it relatable to a variety of audiences and it makes you take the book a little more seriously.
"There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through times eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow-that, in short, we are all going."
I feel like this line from the book was a direct authors intrusion. that this was the bowels of authors writing and it was what he wanted to get across to the reader. I mean, for deity! He's in a boarding school, like a thousand miles away from his parents and he starts making all these decisions for himself and he is truly out on his own for the first time. His best friend was eight when she realized this, when her mother was having an anurisum and wasn't able to make things better. sooth the crying (eight year) old best friend, and make her pain go away, like the (eight year old) best friend's mother was supposed to do in her eyes.
(trying to sustain from making this a spoiler)
I am really only like half way through the book, and a couple flimsy pages from "AFTER" and I'm really on the edge of my seat.
and scared out of my mind
and sad that his life will be changed forever, because i don't want it to.
oh well.
So the main character Miles starts out as a total loser in his old school. And suddenly he is shipped off to boarding school where he immediately befriends some hard core pranksters and gets himself into smoking and drinking and all this type of teen angst stuff.
the reason i think this book is so successful though, is because there's this flawless balance between sophisticated, visionary philosophical and like teen drama with a little twist of suspense. Having that balance makes the book a little bit more interesting and it gives it a backbone ish moral behind it that makes the book meaningful. (i.e.)Not just some forth grade chapter book about a guys first crush or whatnot. it makes it relatable to a variety of audiences and it makes you take the book a little more seriously.
"There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through times eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow-that, in short, we are all going."
I feel like this line from the book was a direct authors intrusion. that this was the bowels of authors writing and it was what he wanted to get across to the reader. I mean, for deity! He's in a boarding school, like a thousand miles away from his parents and he starts making all these decisions for himself and he is truly out on his own for the first time. His best friend was eight when she realized this, when her mother was having an anurisum and wasn't able to make things better. sooth the crying (eight year) old best friend, and make her pain go away, like the (eight year old) best friend's mother was supposed to do in her eyes.
(trying to sustain from making this a spoiler)
I am really only like half way through the book, and a couple flimsy pages from "AFTER" and I'm really on the edge of my seat.
and scared out of my mind
and sad that his life will be changed forever, because i don't want it to.
oh well.
1/7/11
The steryotypical teen drama.
Struts and Frets:
The boy gets the girl. the girl gets the guy. They like music and are talented. The parent(s) are really cool. Everybody ends up happy in the end. oh wait....SPOILER!
There's more, right?-(Anabel Polin)
Actually no. This is the way every thing ends. Oh.. the grandpa is crazy, but i bet that was pretty obvious if you got threw the first couple of chapters of this book. But see, I did happen to get through the whole book- before realizing that unlike the other half of it, the ending was unrealistic and just what the reader wanted to hear. . .which wasn't what I wanted to hear. I wanted to read something that was realistic. Where, maybe the main character didn't exactly get what he wanted. And not everyone ended up happy, but there was some conclusion. I was hoping that this story would end in something that would have a reasonable conclusion that would keep the story real. for a story that started out completely relate-able and realistic, it ended in some gushy, love fest where every turns out OK. And fine. Which isn't too realistic. I mean, his girlfriend's father gives him a very, very expensive guitar, he gets together a really amazing band, and his mom is attacked by his insane grandfather... who has already been established as insane. She's fine though.
I guess I'm just disappointed that the end plot of this story was clesa (spelled wrong) and kinda unrealistic. But other than that, I pretty much solute the author on how realistic the whole beginning was. And how I sometimes even believed that the story was real, because it made me feel so connected to the characters. I guess that that's really what reeled me into the book. The point that i was reading something that i could relate to and had feelings about.
The boy gets the girl. the girl gets the guy. They like music and are talented. The parent(s) are really cool. Everybody ends up happy in the end. oh wait....SPOILER!
There's more, right?-(Anabel Polin)
Actually no. This is the way every thing ends. Oh.. the grandpa is crazy, but i bet that was pretty obvious if you got threw the first couple of chapters of this book. But see, I did happen to get through the whole book- before realizing that unlike the other half of it, the ending was unrealistic and just what the reader wanted to hear. . .which wasn't what I wanted to hear. I wanted to read something that was realistic. Where, maybe the main character didn't exactly get what he wanted. And not everyone ended up happy, but there was some conclusion. I was hoping that this story would end in something that would have a reasonable conclusion that would keep the story real. for a story that started out completely relate-able and realistic, it ended in some gushy, love fest where every turns out OK. And fine. Which isn't too realistic. I mean, his girlfriend's father gives him a very, very expensive guitar, he gets together a really amazing band, and his mom is attacked by his insane grandfather... who has already been established as insane. She's fine though.
I guess I'm just disappointed that the end plot of this story was clesa (spelled wrong) and kinda unrealistic. But other than that, I pretty much solute the author on how realistic the whole beginning was. And how I sometimes even believed that the story was real, because it made me feel so connected to the characters. I guess that that's really what reeled me into the book. The point that i was reading something that i could relate to and had feelings about.
sopwize.
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FORTIFIER. NO. ANABEL SAYS HI.
FORTIFIER. NO. ANABEL SAYS HI.
1/6/11
About an Elephant.
One thing we forget when we get older is; where was the last time we put our keys. We forget who people are, and what year it is. we forget why we were talking, and what time it is. we forget everything. until we are nothing. And by the time we are nothing to ourselves, we are no one to other people. and by then. we are forgotten. Jacob Jankowski was a polish man from Cornell College. he lived his life in the circus. he throws plates of food off tables because he doesn't want to eat. he takes drugs that make him forget even more things than he already does, and he makes every one's life hard. on purpose. Jacob Jankowski is my type of old guy.
just like all old people, Jacob had a life before the start of his golden years. he had love and jealously and death and booze. he was the most strong headed man i ever knew and had a life story that was morally timeless. knowing Jacob makes me feel like i underestimate old people. He alone makes me feel guilty for not getting to know my grandparents too well. this one man. Jacob, winces at his liver spots and cowers over his wispy gray hair, yet to have noticed his age. he is timeless. Though his life and all the stories he tells about it is based off of the circus, he is a very polished man who would never lay a finger on a woman. he never even brags about how amazing his life was.
One thing i noticed at the end of Jacob's life, was that he very much resembled an elephant. the way he describes himself and elephants; the wrinkly skin, and dreary complexion. people underestimating him, and always longing to eat things that people don't want him to eat. for example: who gives elephants liquor? and apparently Jacob hasn't seen fruit in years. he's constrained to his little room away from the outside world much like an elephant restrained to a train car of tent away from towns and bustling people. every once in a while (when people remember) Jacob is paraded around and his faceless family coos about their lives and their promotions and kids. much like a polish speaking elephant paraded around and shown off to people babbling in English. . .its sad to not know who and what your talking about when conversation comes by. (which isn't often for jacob) its lonely and cold when you don't know the people who are willing to talk to you are. like i said; when you get old you forget things. for Jacob, his past was his present and future. it was his pride and singularity.
RIP JACOB JANKOWSKI
timeless.
just like all old people, Jacob had a life before the start of his golden years. he had love and jealously and death and booze. he was the most strong headed man i ever knew and had a life story that was morally timeless. knowing Jacob makes me feel like i underestimate old people. He alone makes me feel guilty for not getting to know my grandparents too well. this one man. Jacob, winces at his liver spots and cowers over his wispy gray hair, yet to have noticed his age. he is timeless. Though his life and all the stories he tells about it is based off of the circus, he is a very polished man who would never lay a finger on a woman. he never even brags about how amazing his life was.
One thing i noticed at the end of Jacob's life, was that he very much resembled an elephant. the way he describes himself and elephants; the wrinkly skin, and dreary complexion. people underestimating him, and always longing to eat things that people don't want him to eat. for example: who gives elephants liquor? and apparently Jacob hasn't seen fruit in years. he's constrained to his little room away from the outside world much like an elephant restrained to a train car of tent away from towns and bustling people. every once in a while (when people remember) Jacob is paraded around and his faceless family coos about their lives and their promotions and kids. much like a polish speaking elephant paraded around and shown off to people babbling in English. . .its sad to not know who and what your talking about when conversation comes by. (which isn't often for jacob) its lonely and cold when you don't know the people who are willing to talk to you are. like i said; when you get old you forget things. for Jacob, his past was his present and future. it was his pride and singularity.
RIP JACOB JANKOWSKI
timeless.
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