<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>I feel bad. But I don’t particularly care. Potter forever, like hardcorexx.</p>
<p>Kakutani is a hack, mostly for reviewing Deathly Hallows.</p>
<p>Yeah, I didn’t quite understand what happened/what was going with John the Savage. Has anyone here read a Prayer for Owen Meany?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>I agree. I thought the whole forest bit was kinda boring. But I digress on blasphemy.</p>
<p>My friend likes 3oh3, and I have to make a cd with them on there. Ewww.</p>
<p>I love John Irving.</p>
<p>Man, I love college
and I love women
I love drinking
Man, I love college</p>
<p>Poetry.</p>
<p>That’s all you’ll be saying next year; don’t lie.</p>
<p>Lol, 3oh!3 came to St.Paul this past weekend, but I didn’t get there early enough. It got sold out pretty fast.</p>
<p>I’m saying it now; that song is so damn catchy.</p>
<p>I ain’t goin’ out like a sucka no way.</p>
<p>Far too many adults have recently asked me what Twitter is. And I really couldn’t give them a good answer. In short, it’s that thing that only old people use.</p>
<p>I had a twitter a long long time ago, but I deleted it.</p>
<p>What’s with all the semi-colons? Pretentious American swine.</p>
<p>Snoop, have you done acid-base equilibria?</p>
<p>I’m from the same city as Margaret Atwood, and she’s only, you know, the best living Canadian author. She lives in a chic neighborhood. LOL.</p>
<p>We just started. It seems easy enough.</p>
<p>Atwood! I could’ve written about The Handmaid’s Tale! God, I feel stupid.</p>
<p>Who or what is Margaret Atwood?</p>
<p>I think I shall retire early this eve. I’m actually interested in finishing The Count of Monte Cristo.</p>
<p>I am extremely confused with everything involving acids and bases. Hate.</p>
<p>I’m going to start reading The Handmaid’s Tale this week. My English class whipped through Macbeth in no more than 6 classes because we’re behind schedule. I don’t mind skipping the Shakespeare, really.</p>
<p>The Haindmaid’s Tale, sigh. When I read that book, I felt like the author was shouting at me. Every girl in the class omgluved it, but I don’t know, it seemed sort of trite to me. It seemed like 1984 had been rewritten with a sensationalist, feminist slant.</p>
<p>It was alright. I didn’t think feminism was being shoved in my face.</p>
<p>Patriarchy.</p>
<p>I personally find that Margaret Atwood’s style isn’t that great. She’s only ever able to write books in which there’s some crazy, ridiculous plot/climax/both and I feel that, without all of the crazy circumstances within most of her novels, she wouldn’t be able to write.</p>