The man who loved books too much

I must say i could not get into the story too much. i found it boring to be truthful. there were definitly some elements in it that made me surpirsed though. The biggest surprise to me was how much some of the books were worth. i could never imagine a book being worth 35,000 dollars. thats insane. Ive always known that some books especially old first edition books turned out to be pretty expensive. however i always thought the number stayed in the hundreds. I guess i was very wrong. it is kind of strange to think that a book might cost just as much as a car would. I can only imagine a very wealthy person would have such books in thier collections. Another interesting thing was the whole concept of the library of books the man wanted. when i think of a library of books in a house i imagine a room with books lining the entire wall all hardcovers and in perfect condtion. i would imagine almost none of the books being read to keep thier pristine look but if i were to look upon someones library i would imagine they had some sort of knowledge that was greater than my own. I find books the most valuable if they are able to be re read. I find the best books i have read ive read at least twice. The values of the gilkey in the story seems to be simply having them whether he has read them or not and just wants them in his possession. i can kind of see this because there are times when i myself will be obsessed with a certain collection of books and i must have them. and then i get a couple books in and then move on to a new series where the old series will be left on my shelf. there are things to this day that i like to try and collect in this aspect i can connect with the book collector.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Admittedly from the moment i looked at the book and read what it was about i wasn't looking forward to much at all. I immediately assumed this was one of those high school tale books that all the girls in my high school would be reading. Full of drama and other ridiculous things. I am so glad i was wrong. from the first letter i could not stop reading this book. I like how the book is written and we can really get into charlies perspective of things. I really like charlies character no matter how depressing the story gets. I feel everyone in some way can connect with charlie. I think everyone has had the sense of being alone in their lives and just observed people. I find myself relating to the story as much as i can and it makes the story that much better to me. I really want to find out who charlie is writing to. I'm waiting for some kind of hint as to who it could be but I'm not getting to hopeful about it and i think the author chose this on purpose as if to make it feel like we are the person hes writing to and we are the great listener who didn't sleep with the person at the party even though we could have. I am very surprised at how much i like this book and how much i constantly want to be reading it. The things charlie writes in his letters makes me think that its almost like his last attempt to try and be heard and fully understood by someone. To him it seems as the story progresses he is more and more of a ghost in the eyes of everyone around him. I cant wait to read the ending and see what happens.

Cory Doctorow

So far the short stories we have been reading have been hit and miss with me. There are a couple i like and a couple i don't like. First off though i have to say Cory Doctorow has quite the imagination. Starting with a place so foreign. I have mixed feeling for this story i liked the idea of it but i just couldn't quite get into the story. I didn't get excited to read it and i found it rather boring. When i read in the shadow of the mothaship i really liked the story and the characters. the only downer to this story for me was that it was hard for me to follow and got confusing. I found myself having to reread parts to understand what exactly was going on. overall though i really enjoyed that story. Next we have Billy Baily. I thought this story was funny and kind of relative to how marketing is getting today. I enjoyed reading the story and how all the 6th grade kids have sponsors. it was an entertaining read. Finally theres 0nzw0red. I thought this was a really cool story. i liked the concept of remaking yourself and re engineering your body. it was really interesting. The constant jargon that was used worked well with it but made it a slower read for me. While i enjoyed the story the jargon after a while put me off to it a little bit. So far most of the stories in this book have been interesting but they all have their faults. some more than others. I'm hoping the rest of the stories we read are just as entertaining.

Olive Kitteridge pt.2

I don't know what to think about the ending. I have mixed feelings towards it i liked it but then i didn't at the same time. I found it kind of sad after it was told Henry died. I had liked his character even though he did some unnecessary things he was still a good person to me. Lets start with the good parts of the ending. I thought the ending with Olive and jack was kind of nice giving the book some little hopes for the future. i did like that. but at the same time i hated how it ended with that. with olive getting the what seems to be the best ending in the story i wanted it to be Henry or Christopher maybe. But instead it went to olive. i was already stil mad about the whole Jim ocleary fiasco i never got over that she said shed leave Henry and she was the one so mad all the time. I did like though how Chris started talking more and you got to see his character more. but yet again olive made me mad always yelling at everyone and not accepting things. Another random thing that i dont think was neceassary was the stealing chapter. yet again she seemed to have no relevance to very much but it did show how olive helps what seems to be the worst hurting people and trying to help them which is always a strange thing to read about i think. Its almost like she has a knowledge that knows its there in the people she is trying to help. Overall im decently satisfyed with the ending i just wanted the happiness to be a little more towards someone else