Monday, December 20, 2010

Going Cow

Ok so I am not completely finished with this book but you know what I have seen of it so far is pretty... interesting. It's this book about this sixteen year old kid who like completely bugs out all the time and is pretty messed up cause he is always smokin' dope and stuff like that. So he starts to get these like freaky visions of fire giants and and a lot of other things and he seems to be going insane. And as it turns out he has mad cow disease!
So I looked it up and it turns out that bovine means of,relating to, or somehow affecting cattle. This is just my opinion but I think that is kind of a twisted tittle. Basically the author is saying "Going Cow" as her tittle. I mean that is pretty smart but it sort of seems obnoxious at the at the same time. I mean I'm not going to be all like oh this is so like important and stuff because it is just the tittle, but at the same time I sort of feel like it is actually pretty meaningful because it makes up the whole book, and I have read very few books that actually sum up the book in the tittle. I mean there are other aspects of course but it i still pretty accurate. Most books are just like one word saying a vague part of the book.
So yeah I still have a bit more to read but the book so far is pretty inspiring. Like the whole tittle thing is a really good thing to take away from this book when reading it. The idea of the concept that a book is made up of its parts, you would never really think about the tittle being most important. This book makes me think that Libba Bray actually put some thought into her tittle and that is something that everyone could work on as writers.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Watchmyheadgetconfusedmen

Ok so this is my blog about the book Watchmen which is a really good book that is about superheroes heroes and the world in a struggle to keep the fabric holding everything together in whole. Though this was a great book, it still confused be because there was just to much going on at one time it was hard to take in. The illustrations were beautifully drawn and I would recommend the book to... well anyone really.
The book kind of boggled me because maybe it just wasn't really at my reading level, but I am kind of thinking that it might be more than that. I am sort of thinking that the author WANTS it to be confusing in a way. Because the whole book revolves around the end of the world. No one really knows what to do or what happens around the world, especially all of the main characters.
The main characters don't really have anything but themselves throughout the book, and most of the time you just see flashbacks of all of their hard lives or whatever. Alan Moore actually does a decent job of showing the relationships of all the characters and he actually shows the complexity of their beings very well.

Monday, December 6, 2010

V for Vi loved this book!a

OK, i will come right out with it, this is a great book. The illustrations are portrayed beautifully and the dialogue is flat out inspiring. The words woven together in this book spin gold. If there were two buttons that said great and stupid, I would create a button with the word "epic" under it. The book also sends a really strong message witch is that there will never be a perfect world. There will never be just one person that is going to have an entire country balanced in their hand. Thats where V, one of the main characters comes in. He shows just how imperfect the world can be. He blows up stuff. He creates chaos, then anarchy. In this book England is under the clutch of an idea of a perfect world. V shows how imperfect the world can be.
He wants to create anarchy so that a country, can be free. As he says to another character later in the book, you can shoot flesh and blood, but you cannot kill, an idea. That is what I think is so important to remember if you ever read this book that life shouldn't be a record that just replays itself over and over again.
I would probably recommend this book to anybody that likes action mystery because the whole time you are reading the book you keep asking yourself, who is V? V is the character that always wears a mask during the book, but you never actually know who he is. My personal theory on this book is that I don't think that he is just a person, but a symbol, an... idea.