After a lengthy hiatus (kinda), I AM BACK!!!
Ok, summer for me is simultaneously going too fast and too slow. Too fast because of the reading assignment and too slow because I'm stuck in the house every day, which really sucks.
I've actually finished one of my books. The Merchant of Venice was good. I actually liked it, and I would recommend it to others. Now I just need to figure out what to write about it. I'm not going to spoil the plot of the play. If you want to know what happens, read it!
I'm about halfway done with my next book, Gulliver's Travels, and I'm still trying to figure out if I like it or not. I'm leaning toward no. It's divided up into four parts, and after reading the first two, I'm starting to detect a pattern. 1: Gulliver goes on a voyage. 2: Misfortune befalls the ship. 3: Gulliver ends up in a land where he is unique for some reason (in part one, everyone else is about 6 inches tall; in part two, everyone else is about 40 feet tall). 4: After some size-related misadventures, he gets in good with the ruling body of the land. 5: Gulliver finds some way to tick off said ruling body. 6: Gulliver escapes to sea and is found by sailors who doubt his story, but then Gulliver produces proof of his adventures. 7: Gulliver returns home.
Each part is good right up until he gets in good with the Emperor or King. Then the story becomes largely politics-driven and I start wishing they would just kill Gulliver, or do something to make the story start moving again.
Two more parts to go, then on to Don Quixote and Catch-22 (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!).
P.S. Once again, guess the title quote. It's from an early 90s Spielburg movie.
About Me
- JCat
- I am a Senior at Cascade High School. My hobbies include reading, watching TV/movies, playing video games, and surfing the internet
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Quick update: I've started part three, AND IT'S DOING THE FRICKIN' PATTERN AGAIN!!! THIS TIME WITH PIRATES!!!!!
if this helps, GT is a satire for what was going on in England at the time. .... that would be a good paper! :)
Well, I do get that part, but I don't know if I can expand that enough to make a good paper.
I wasn't around back then!
J-Cat its called a history book/website. Anyway, good luck with your AP stuff. Gulliver's Travels sounds like a weird book. And the pattern does sound as if it might get annoying after a while, especially in an adventure book.
More annoying than you know, Carmen.
i read Tess of the D'Urbervilles and it sort of did the same thing but with 7 or 8 sections she always experienced something bad then usually something good. and i definitly agree with you that it gets a little boring
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