The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Paper Towns by John Green
Sentences of Interest:
"IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS." Paper Towns There was something so strange about this sentence that I had to reread it 4 or so times before I actually understood what the character was saying...and then I laughed. ALOT. I don't know if it's the idea of owning the world's largest collection of black santas or the context in which the statement was made, but I still find that sentence funny.
"Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning." The Princess Bride As morbid as this sentence seems it's actually quite funny if you understand the context that it's coming from. The idea that the Dread Pirate Roberts would being willing to not kill someone because of true love is kind of laughable. The pirate who is known to have no mercy is stopped by the thought of true love.
"I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said.
Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse."
"I am you Prince and you cannot refuse."
"I am your loyal servant and I just did."
"Refusal means death."
"Kill me then." The Princess Bride I am not a fan of love stories. Most of the time I try to avoid them, but this book is the one exception. William Goldman created this book that makes love so wonderful, yet there's action and death and pirates. This section itself kind of represtents Buttercup's love for Westley; she is often displayed as this beautiful, dumb woman, but she has this undying love that seems to make up for the fact that she would have trouble spelling 'box'.
Pages this week: 228
All pages read: 443
Friday, August 26, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
John Green pt. 2
“Paper Towns”…I just love that title; it’s so simple yet has such meaning. Thinking about it I imagine a whole town made out of paper.
Margo: “All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.”
John Green puts a lot into that one sentence. There’s a reference to the over usage of natural resources, the fakeness of people, the fact that people are so fragile and breakable. Even though I’ve only just begun the book I can see that it’s not merely a story of entertainment. There’s so many underlying themes :D I love it! Who said literature for teens didn’t have a purpose behind the plot. If you need a book to read, you know what to pick.
Margo: “All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.”
John Green puts a lot into that one sentence. There’s a reference to the over usage of natural resources, the fakeness of people, the fact that people are so fragile and breakable. Even though I’ve only just begun the book I can see that it’s not merely a story of entertainment. There’s so many underlying themes :D I love it! Who said literature for teens didn’t have a purpose behind the plot. If you need a book to read, you know what to pick.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
John Green
I’ve been reading. I have been reading my whole life; and now is time that I share my over abundance of thoughts about the never ending list of books that I read. So to begin….
Recently I finished reading An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. If you haven’t heard of John Green then prepare to be educated. John Green is the marvelous author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and the yet to be released book The Fault in our Stars. I’ve taken it upon myself to read all of his books. A task that decided to achieve after watching numerous videos made by John Green and his brother Hank Green. If you’re really into YouTube, you might have heard their names mentioned once or twice. They are “vloggers” (people who make video logs of just about anything) that made it big when they only communicated through the videos that they posted online. Ever since then a large amount of people have created a community of sorts, they go by the name nerdfighters. Go to http://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers?blend=1&ob=5#p/u/0/FyQi79aYfxU to learn more about them and their many videos.
Now onto the book! An Abundance of Katherines was interestingly funny. Just for some background info: It’s about a prodigy that graduates from high school and then is dumped by his girlfriend; the nineteenth girl that he has dated that had the name “Katherine”. To cure is heartbreak woes he and his friend go on a road trip and end up in a small town that claims to be the burial site of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. While there he works on a mathematical formula as to why he is always the dumpee and never the dumper. Read the book if you want to know more. Mi opinion on the book: I found the basis of the plot to be interesting, but the book wasn’t much of a challenge to read. The plot was easy to follow, the only part that I found confusing was that there was quite a bit of math involved and I’m not a math extraordinaire. Thankfully Mr. Green helped out the math deficient by explaining ALL of the math, there’s even an appendix that describes how the theorem in the book was created and how it is used. Speaking of the author, he included footnotes that were kind of like his commentary on the book which I thought was awesome. It added some more character to the book in a way. Over all I thought it was a great book that is well work a look into.
Pages read this week: 0
All pages read: 215
Recently I finished reading An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. If you haven’t heard of John Green then prepare to be educated. John Green is the marvelous author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and the yet to be released book The Fault in our Stars. I’ve taken it upon myself to read all of his books. A task that decided to achieve after watching numerous videos made by John Green and his brother Hank Green. If you’re really into YouTube, you might have heard their names mentioned once or twice. They are “vloggers” (people who make video logs of just about anything) that made it big when they only communicated through the videos that they posted online. Ever since then a large amount of people have created a community of sorts, they go by the name nerdfighters. Go to http://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers?blend=1&ob=5#p/u/0/FyQi79aYfxU to learn more about them and their many videos.
Now onto the book! An Abundance of Katherines was interestingly funny. Just for some background info: It’s about a prodigy that graduates from high school and then is dumped by his girlfriend; the nineteenth girl that he has dated that had the name “Katherine”. To cure is heartbreak woes he and his friend go on a road trip and end up in a small town that claims to be the burial site of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. While there he works on a mathematical formula as to why he is always the dumpee and never the dumper. Read the book if you want to know more. Mi opinion on the book: I found the basis of the plot to be interesting, but the book wasn’t much of a challenge to read. The plot was easy to follow, the only part that I found confusing was that there was quite a bit of math involved and I’m not a math extraordinaire. Thankfully Mr. Green helped out the math deficient by explaining ALL of the math, there’s even an appendix that describes how the theorem in the book was created and how it is used. Speaking of the author, he included footnotes that were kind of like his commentary on the book which I thought was awesome. It added some more character to the book in a way. Over all I thought it was a great book that is well work a look into.
Pages read this week: 0
All pages read: 215
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