The Road-begining

So far, I am surprised to say this, but I have enjoyed this book to a degree. The writing style reminds me of that of Chuck Palahniuk. He is the author of such books as Choke, Fight Club, Lullaby, and Survivor, the later three of which I own and have read more than once. There are many short sentences in Chuck's writing just like in The Road but, his writing is even more obscure than that of Cormac McCarthy. An example would be Chuck's one word sentences in Fight Club, or the main character, counting in his head, each number a sentence, in Chuck's exceptional novel Lullaby. I also enjoy how Cormac does not give names to his main characters just like Chuck does in Fight Club. Although I have talked about it a lot, this is not the only reason I like this book. I also like the fluidity and fanciness of his sentences. Too many books these days come out and are all basic sentences all the way through with no descriptive words and the same old adjectives and "he said she saids” all throughout. This book and, as I've been told by my dorky girlfriend, all the books by this author, are very well written and are actually enjoyable to hear out loud. The one problem I've found is that it is kind of difficult to retain the information when read late at night due to its occasional new vocabulary words and non-monotonous descriptive words. Other than that this novel is great so far. ☻ (Sheshot)

Death of world's oldest person

This week I read an article on yahoo about the world’s oldest person, Edna Parker, dyeing last week. The article was inspiring really. I've always had this strange fear of becoming old and not being able to take care of myself. However, Edna lived by herself as a widow from the year 1939 until she was 100 years old and only then did she move in with her son. On top of that, she outlived both her sons and had 13 great-great-grandchildren! The article also stated that oddly that the Shelbyville nursing home she spent her final years in was also home to the world tallest living woman at 7'7". She lived to be 115 and I hope someday, when I'm old, people will look up to me like I'm sure they looked up to her as an example of how keeping an active lifestyle can preserve your body, mind, and soul for a very long time. Edna Parker is an example of human excellence and I'm glad I read this well written article about her and her life.

The Odyssey round two

The Odyssey kinda sucks the big one. Not because I don't like it, but... more because I hate it. Nawwww jkjkjk lulululululul. The Odyssey is ok by my book, get it? book,... the odysey is a book? ;) As for my real thoughts I liked all the parts that had action because people died. Also, I liked how Oddyseus killed all the suitors at the end, even the one who was like innocent and begged for mercy. I personaly liked the way the movie ended more than the movie. However I liked the book version of cercie's island more than that of the movie. Well, that's my general opinion on the Odyssey as a whole. Thanks for reading, rock on.

Oddysey

In my opinion, the Odyssey just is not a very good novel. Even though it is supposed to be history I just don’t find it believable or entertaining. Well I shouldn't say that because the idea of the story is really good however, I find the length of it and the fact that we have to skip chapters just to get through it makes it less appealing to me. The parts I have enjoyed about the Odyssey were the scene with Polyphemus because it’s funny how Odysseus tricks him into thinking his name is nobody so When Odysseus blinds Polyphemus he cries out "I've been blinded by nobody!!!" That was tight. The summaries I do enjoy It's just the real book that seems too long and drawn out. First of all they repeat the same stuff over and over again and don’t even use different adjectives. I realize that it was a long time ago and the story was so long that people zoned out a lot but I think they could have cut it down for the actually printed version at least a little. That is my basic opinion on the Odyssey.

Max Payne

This week I saw a movie called Max Payne. It's a movie about a man named Max Payne who used to be a real cop but after the murder of his wife and daughter was very distresed and now worked with the "cold case files". Even after two years he is still searching and soon meets with a girl named natashia. she has a tatoo of wings and it seems vaguely farmiliar to him. As the story progresses there is more and more evidence that the companie his wife worked for may have been responsible for her murder. And after a great realization about the company he goes on a rampage almost dieing several times.
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Angels and demons.

This week I read Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. It is a story about a man named Robert Langdon, professor of symbology at Harvard, who gets a call from the head of CERN, the top scientist organization in the world. He calls Langdon late at night to come look at a brand on their top physicist’s dead body rumored to have been created by an ancient brotherhood called the Illuminati. They soon discover this someone has stolen a less than one gram sample of antimatter that has the destructive power of the nuclear bomb from Hiroshima. They then have to save the day before its holding canister runs out of battery and destroys the thieves’ target.
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Quarantined

This week I'll be writting about a movie I saw with a couple freinds called Quarantined. It was a horror movie about a news reporter, her camera man, some firemen and some residents that get closed in by the american government when there is an outbreak of a rabies like virus in the apartment building the firemen were called to. The virus seems to have started with an 80 some year old woman who all of a sudden, while trying to be helped, attacks one of the policemen in an inhuman display of speed and bites the officer who soon shows the same tendancies as the woman. Later, after a few more casualties, people in hazmat suites come through the recently place plastic seal around the whole building to inspect some of the infected people that were managed to be straped down in a storage room. More unnecesary, typical zombie movie stuff happenes. and the movie ends with the reporter, the last person not infected/alive, being pulled into the darkness by a human that looks like it had been living in a pile of dirt for 30 years. It wasn't the best movie ever, especialy as far as horor/zombie movies are concerned but, non the less, it was mildly entertaining.