snoopyiscool

Just analyze how an outsider to a society reveals the society's morals and attitudes and such.

Mike41691

Michiko Kakutani is a hack.

I write all impromptus about Slaughterhouse-Five, it has a bit of everything.

JBVirtuoso

Both Catcher in the Rye and The Scarlet Letter would have been perfect. To Kill a Mockingbird would have been nice, as would Brave New World. I wish I had that prompt for the AP test.

I made the mistake of reading Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut. I consider it one of the suckiest pieces of all time. Hopefully Slaughterhouse-Five is better.

If I'm coming to Chicago, I should also read The Jungle.

Mike41691

Timequake is one of those books that you have to have read his other works for, and you have to read it three or four times. Then you appreciate it.

Pizza Pizza.

If you're coming to Chicago, you should read something by Studs Terkel.

JBVirtuoso

Toledo doesn't have any good authors. That probably stems from the fact that it has only one-tenth of the population Chicago has, but still. Jamie Farr and Katie Holmes are pretty much all Toledo has.

jazrie481

Slaughter-house 5 is good, but it's kind of confusing to read. I like Vonnegut's sense of humor. Right now I'm reading the things they carried and it's pretty good. Brave New World was kind of creepy. I really enjoyed Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.

JBVirtuoso

I thought Brave New World was creepy at first. Then I recognized its stroke of genius. However, I still don't quite get the ending. Even though I read it a year and a half ago, some SparkNoting may be in order.

snoopyiscool

I feel bad. But I don't particularly care. Potter forever, like hardcorexx.

Kakutani is a hack, mostly for reviewing Deathly Hallows.

jazrie481

Yeah, I didn't quite understand what happened/what was going with John the Savage. Has anyone here read a Prayer for Owen Meany?

JBVirtuoso

My position on Deathly Hallows is that it had to end that way. It was pretty dry when they were all running around the wilderness, and the end was a bit cheesy, but that was how it had to be. A quirky ending on such an epic series would just be an atrocity.

snoopyiscool

I agree. I thought the whole forest bit was kinda boring. But I digress on blasphemy.

My friend likes 3oh3, and I have to make a cd with them on there. Ewww.

Mike41691

I love John Irving.

Man, I love college
and I love women
I love drinking
Man, I love college

Poetry.

snoopyiscool

That's all you'll be saying next year; don't lie.

jazrie481

Lol, 3oh!3 came to St.Paul this past weekend, but I didn't get there early enough. It got sold out pretty fast.

Mike41691

I'm saying it now; that song is so damn catchy.