Thursday, January 28, 2010

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Just began reading the Road last week and I am blown away. I was not expecting this in a book ever. It is written with a very unique writing style I have never seen before. The book its self is amazing. The story of a father-son, I think, group traveling and trying to stay alive just blows me away. I am always looking foreword to the next time I read the book or even turn the page. It is exciting and sad but overall a great read so far.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut 2

Jailbird was an excellent book. I was very surprised to see how great this book was. So far one of my favorite Kurt Vonnegut Jr. books, for right now. Ill be doing my book talk today about this book and I am very excited. I hope my peers in my English class try out a Kurt Vonnegut Jr. book. His books are great and funny, and the best part is that you can never put it down. I look foreword to reading more but I don't want to say anything about my book before I can tell my classmates all about it. Looking foreword to next time.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Jailbird By Kurt Vonnegut

This is like my one-thousandth Kurt Vonnegut book but I plan to keep on reading them. This story so far is about a young buy,Starbuck, who works for a Cleavland millionaire, Alexander Hamilton McCone, who happens to be the nicest member of the McCone family. He tries to help Starbuck and his family every way he can. He plans to send Starbuck to Harvard, where Starbuck is eventually accepted.
He then meets a Jewish woman who survived a concentration camp, who inspires him to go into politics to try and help people. He begins his work in the Nixon Administration, around the time of the Watergate scandal, which ends him up in jail.
That is all I read so far, until next time.