This blog is for the use of students in Mrs. Oehrlein's English III American Literature course. Students should post their opinions freely but with the knowledge that others may not necessarily agree with those opinions. With this in mind, all students must write their posts and comments using a tone of respect at all times.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Would you recommend it?
To whom would you recommend this book? Give SPECIFIC examples from the book, and about the person you chose, to support your answer. (10 points)
I would recommend this book to my best friend Kara. Kara and I have the same taste in books and are interested in the same thing. Books with suicide, teenage girls and depression really catch our imagination when deciding to pick out a novel to read. In the book it talks about 5 suicides by 5 sisters, crazy parents, high schoolers and fantasy drug and sex worlds.
I would recommend this book to any one, at any age. I know that there is a lot of stuff in it that would seem totally ridiculous to an adult, but I think it is a deceiving read. It seems like just a kid in a private school, going through some typical stuff like getting bad grades, liking girls that don't like him back, having friends who are geeks but wanting to be more like the cool stradlater types, but it is so much more. It makes you look at the very institutions which create the "Honorable?" young men and women from pretty normal good kids, and then you gotta ask yourself- who is really the insane one? the kid who thinks the institution is all hypocrisy or the institution for taking a pretty good kid and jamming him into a cookie cutter life? I think a lot of people would like this book.
I would recommend this book to anyone but especially teenagers. It is very interesting and real. The Book includes very old and very young characters which makes it interesting for anyone. The main characters of this book are Jeremy and Scout. Jeremy is the older brother and Scout is his young sister. In this book you'll see a difference between the two ages and how they act and communicate with each other. You can pretty much compare this book to your own life if you have any siblings. For examnple some of the situations and behaviors that go on between Scout and Jeremy remind me of my little sister and how we act. I think this book is great and if you have a chance to read it than you definitely should.
I recommend 'On The Road' to my good friend Geoff. Geoff and I seem to have the same interests in reading and are both travelers, which is what this book is based off of. This book really explains "the way" and how the life is really just a travel across the country, across the state, across the field. I feel as if Geoff might be the only person I know that will truly understand this book in a relating way. Oddly enough when I did recommend this book, before this blog existed, he replied that he had actually just started it and thought it to be weird that I asked him, it could be said that he was also "On The Road"
I would recommend my book to any person who likes to read about adventure. Huck Finn is about a boy running around with a slave, while floating down the Mississippi. Also in the book, Huck going onto land after staying on an Island for a while with Jim and finds out that men are going to try to go to the island and get Jim to return him to his owner.
I would defiantly recommend this book to anyone. It was an easy read, but it was very entertaining. It was nice to read from a point of view of someone that is a little different. He had autism which gave you a different feeling while you read. You kind of felt bad for him because he was so troubled trying to be social. I think people would like to read this because it was easy, so it attracts the lazy readers. But it was also very fun to read, which everyone enjoys having a little fun.
I would recommend this book to more so adults than teenagers. its a muder mystery which could be interesting to some teenagers. i choose to read this book because it was written by my friends mom, so i thought it would be interesting to read. turns out her writing is a little complicated for me to understand. i could possibly recommend it to you Mrs. O. do you like murder myteries?
I would recommend this book to my mother because it is an interesting book about survival and lies being told by one of the characters. The entire novel is about a college student and an executive on a mission to find a big horn sheep. The book has a lot of lies and decietfullness in the book to keep you wanting to read the next page. There are guns and killing in the book that add somewhat of a twist to the book and how it plays into the entire plot of the story.
I would recommend dreamcatcher to any adult that likes science fiction novels. The only reason i would not recommend this book to a child is that it is a little bit of a hard read. It had words that i didnt even know but the actual story was very good it wasnt scarey by it self but it made you think if you were in their shoes. even though this book was a harder read than most of the books i read i really liked it alot. it grabbed me from the start and it didnt let go until the verry last word.
I would recommend the book. Especially to not only Cub fans, but all baseball fans. Cub fans because the main character Roy got drafted to the Chicago Cubs. Although i would not recomend it to young children because there are so sexual themes in the book.
I would recommend my book to someone in the eighth or ninth grade. Mainly because its not too appropriate yet its not too adult. Considering the fact that the book utters the "N" word alot i would say its for someone who can really comprehend what it means to be policatly incorrect. By saying that i mean that if i gave this book to a fifth grader and he/she read the first couple pages he or she would probably go around saying the "N" word but if i gave it to a ninth grader he or she would know not to say that word because he or she knows its wrong. The younger person would not have had any kind of experiance of hearing that word.
I would recommend this book to anyone in highschool or older. It is a great book. In fact I think it is one of the greatest books ever written. It does have some adult sittuations, like when Holden gets a hooker to come up to his hotel room. It is just a great book that I think everybody should get a chanc to read.
I would recommend this book to my friend Sean because I and he both share the same kind of mind set and usually like the same things. This book didn’t take a lot of thinking to really predict what was coming next but it was still able to grab my attention well to the point where I felt suspense full and didn’t even want to stop reading to answer the phone. Parts like after Madec killed the old man in the desert and wanted to leave the body there and the two of them argued. Or when Madec was going to blame the death of the old man on his hunting guide to save himself from the law. Hooks and turns in the book that really mad it interesting.
Overall this was a good book as it had the main themes of war novels as well as the first person which in my opinion is great in these kind of books as you get to know what the main character's direct thoughts are. I would highly suggest this book to anyone wanting to read a book about the vietnam war because its not all about violence and gore, instead the main conflicts in this novel lies on the minds of the characters strongly because the main character is only a teenager.
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I would recommend this book to my best friend Kara. Kara and I have the same taste in books and are interested in the same thing. Books with suicide, teenage girls and depression really catch our imagination when deciding to pick out a novel to read. In the book it talks about 5 suicides by 5 sisters, crazy parents, high schoolers and fantasy drug and sex worlds.
I would recommend this book to any one, at any age. I know that there
is a lot of stuff in it that would seem totally ridiculous to an adult, but I think it is a deceiving read. It seems like just a kid in a private school, going through some typical stuff like getting bad grades, liking girls that don't like him back, having friends who are geeks but wanting to be more like the cool stradlater types, but it is so much more. It makes you look at the very institutions which create the "Honorable?" young men and women from pretty normal good kids, and then you gotta ask yourself- who is really the insane one? the kid who thinks the institution is all hypocrisy or the institution for taking a pretty good kid and jamming him into a cookie cutter life? I think a lot of people would like this book.
I would recommend this book to anyone but especially teenagers. It is very interesting and real. The Book includes very old and very young characters which makes it interesting for anyone. The main characters of this book are Jeremy and Scout. Jeremy is the older brother and Scout is his young sister. In this book you'll see a difference between the two ages and how they act and communicate with each other. You can pretty much compare this book to your own life if you have any siblings. For examnple some of the situations and behaviors that go on between Scout and Jeremy remind me of my little sister and how we act. I think this book is great and if you have a chance to read it than you definitely should.
I recommend 'On The Road' to my good friend Geoff. Geoff and I seem to have the same interests in reading and are both travelers, which is what this book is based off of. This book really explains "the way" and how the life is really just a travel across the country, across the state, across the field. I feel as if Geoff might be the only person I know that will truly understand this book in a relating way. Oddly enough when I did recommend this book, before this blog existed, he replied that he had actually just started it and thought it to be weird that I asked him, it could be said that he was also "On The Road"
I would recommend my book to any person who likes to read about adventure. Huck Finn is about a boy running around with a slave, while floating down the Mississippi. Also in the book, Huck going onto land after staying on an Island for a while with Jim and finds out that men are going to try to go to the island and get Jim to return him to his owner.
I would defiantly recommend this book to anyone. It was an easy read, but it was very entertaining. It was nice to read from a point of view of someone that is a little different. He had autism which gave you a different feeling while you read. You kind of felt bad for him because he was so troubled trying to be social. I think people would like to read this because it was easy, so it attracts the lazy readers. But it was also very fun to read, which everyone enjoys having a little fun.
I would recommend this book to more so adults than teenagers. its a muder mystery which could be interesting to some teenagers. i choose to read this book because it was written by my friends mom, so i thought it would be interesting to read. turns out her writing is a little complicated for me to understand. i could possibly recommend it to you Mrs. O. do you like murder myteries?
I would recommend this book to my mother because it is an interesting book about survival and lies being told by one of the characters. The entire novel is about a college student and an executive on a mission to find a big horn sheep. The book has a lot of lies and decietfullness in the book to keep you wanting to read the next page. There are guns and killing in the book that add somewhat of a twist to the book and how it plays into the entire plot of the story.
I would recommend dreamcatcher to any adult that likes science fiction novels. The only reason i would not recommend this book to a child is that it is a little bit of a hard read. It had words that i didnt even know but the actual story was very good it wasnt scarey by it self but it made you think if you were in their shoes. even though this book was a harder read than most of the books i read i really liked it alot. it grabbed me from the start and it didnt let go until the verry last word.
I would recommend the book. Especially to not only Cub fans, but all baseball fans. Cub fans because the main character Roy got drafted to the Chicago Cubs. Although i would not recomend it to young children because there are so sexual themes in the book.
I would recommend my book to someone in the eighth or ninth grade. Mainly because its not too appropriate yet its not too adult. Considering the fact that the book utters the "N" word alot i would say its for someone who can really comprehend what it means to be policatly incorrect. By saying that i mean that if i gave this book to a fifth grader and he/she read the first couple pages he or she would probably go around saying the "N" word but if i gave it to a ninth grader he or she would know not to say that word because he or she knows its wrong. The younger person would not have had any kind of experiance of hearing that word.
I would recommend this book to anyone in highschool or older. It is a great book. In fact I think it is one of the greatest books ever written. It does have some adult sittuations, like when Holden gets a hooker to come up to his hotel room. It is just a great book that I think everybody should get a chanc to read.
I would recommend this book to my friend Sean because I and he both share the same kind of mind set and usually like the same things. This book didn’t take a lot of thinking to really predict what was coming next but it was still able to grab my attention well to the point where I felt suspense full and didn’t even want to stop reading to answer the phone. Parts like after Madec killed the old man in the desert and wanted to leave the body there and the two of them argued. Or when Madec was going to blame the death of the old man on his hunting guide to save himself from the law. Hooks and turns in the book that really mad it interesting.
Overall this was a good book as it had the main themes of war novels as well as the first person which in my opinion is great in these kind of books as you get to know what the main character's direct thoughts are. I would highly suggest this book to anyone wanting to read a book about the vietnam war because its not all about violence and gore, instead the main conflicts in this novel lies on the minds of the characters strongly because the main character is only a teenager.
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