Speaking in :p

My reaction when I first started “Speaking in Tongues” I was really disappointed in it because I thought that it was going to be about some goodie tou-shoe (or however you spell that) girl who went to church and I thought that it was going to talk about how boring church life was and how she had to read the bible and all that boring stuff. But I was really taken aback when I got into the story and found out who her mom was. Then when she ran away and met Dezi I was like dang things are getting interesting. So I guess you cant judge a book by its cover.

SH-V

After finally finishing slaughter house five I was relived. Personally I didn’t like it, I had no idea why the author would skip ahead and back through time every paragraph to me it was annoying and confusing. I think that I would agree with the author that this book was a failure. Another thing that bothered me by this awful book was how he went to that alien planet, I could see the whole being abducted thing as being a metaphor for something. However bad this book may have been I did like one thing about it. The part I liked about it was how Kurt Vonnegut made death present everywhere this made me think of how horrible it would be to have to fight in a war. Also I liked how he told his war buddy’s wife, Marry how he would no portray war as some heroic and glorious game. I think that he did a great job of making war seem depressing since every one who was around Billy die.

A Few Questions

Something that I don’t understand is why we are reading such stories as The Metamorphosis and Slaughter House Five if the authors themselves said they are crap. After reading Metamorphosis I was confident in the decision that Kafka had made as to call his work worthless because that’s what I thought about it. I don’t really seen the meaning in close reading these text’s if the authors themselves didn’t have anything to hide in them. I understand close reading is a good skill to have and all, but I think that it should be used in a text that has meaning not a horribly put together work such as the Metamorphosis.

Another thing that I have been wondering, which has completely nothing to do with literature is why do all girl’s blogs look all the same, the same font, same text and for the most part same color scheme?