Let me off at the top!

I have been reading this book called let me off at the top and its narrated by the character Ron Burgundy from the movie Anchorman. This book is fantastic and there are a lot of reasons to read it. In the beggining Ron talks about his childhood and all of the crazy and stupid things that he does throught it. The book goes through all of his thoughts which are not completely sane but you get over it. Like in teh book he talks about how he has hunted jackalopes with Peter Lawford and what crazy things gappen during that trip. He describes all these knock-out fights that he has seen in been in throught his whole life. Whats more funny about it is the way the fight gets started radther than the fight.The book is hillarious even on the front cover Ron Burgandy comments 'I worte a hell of a book' and you should read it to find out why.

Readicide

No I think readicide isn’t a problem in school and there are many reasons why. Say you get assigned the Hunger Games to read for class. Then let’s say the rest of the day you get a lot or just some homework you are not really going to want to read it because you have homework already and no one likes having to read after homework. Now let’s say it’s the weekend and you happen to see the book lying around somewhere and you decide to read it. Since you have time and nothing to do and you want to read it you are going to like that book more and read it a lot than if it’s assigned by school. I think that we should not add more genre fiction to the school I think that if we do that we will just see those books as part of the nuisance to read for homework and won’t like that genre or books in general. There are some classes in school that let you choose your book. Like Best sellers and that’s an okay class to read for since you get to choose and it not being assigned by a teacher.

 I am reading a book called Let Me off at The Top! It’s narrated by Ron Burgundy and I got to choose it so it is more of my style so I will read that book more.  What an English class should look like in the 21^st century it should look like what it looks like now. You need to read those boring books so you get the line between boring school books and what you really want to read. If you don’t have that line then it all becomes one big mess of books you will never want to read. If my favorite book was assigned in school and I had never read it I wouldn’t have because it was assigned in school and it already seems boring. That’s why schools need to make a class like bestsellers to make a class that student s get to choose their book so they want to read and it is for school. But you need to read boring books at school to so you get the line between want to read and I want to burn this book it’s a fine line trust me on that.

Carrie

I have finished reading the book Carrie. I have to say this book was pretty messed up but in a good way though. What I mean by that is that there was a lot of crazy stuff that happened in the book but it was essential to the plot. Like with the first scene when Carrie is on her period and all the girls start making fun of her. Being a guy and all that's not really my style. Well then again I'm sure that even being a girl that's not your style. Or at the very end of the book when Carrie demolishes her High school because of what happened at the dance. That was very essential to the plot because without that it would not have shown all of Carries true powers and how destructive they were. Another part of the book that I thought was weird was the poems that were on the desks. They were essential though because you could see that the poem would get more terrible and then her powers would be shown more.

Therefore her powers got more destructive in the process. In the end Carrie has to die. Reasons why are she already killed a massive amount of people so she would go to jail but I don't think that she could live normally. Also if people knew that she had these powers they would just think of her as more of an outcast. A part that I also found very interesting about the book is when he would go to different characters points of view so it gave you a better understanding of the book. The White Incident Snippets were cool. What I liked about them is how they gave you kind of foreshadowing of what was going to happen in the chapter or a part of the text. Overall this book deserves 5 out of 5 stars as one of the most exciting and interesting books I have ever read.

Carrie Adaptation

I am reading the book Carrie by Stephen King and there are some important parts in the book that would be essential to keep in the movie through the adaptation. The first part that you would need to keep is in the beginning of the book when she gets made fun of in the gym shower in the locker room. She gets made fun of because she is on her period and it is her first one at her age 17 and she doesn't know what to do about it. This is essential to the story because it shows how little she actually knows about herself and society. I mean a girl who doesn't really know about that probably isn't aware of a lot of things. This scene may also show about her mom how she didn’t even tell her daughter about these hangs that are going to happen to her and maybe even her mom has zoned out of society a bit. Because in the book it describes there house as a bungalow because it has all these weeds over it so it looks old and if the mother cared I think that she would fix it

 

Another scene that I would also keep is actually her reading the poems I know that I had made a big deal yesterday why they didn’t make sense but now I see it. In the beginning one of the poems that were scratched on the desk was just calling Carrie stupid but throughout the story the poems get worse. I think the poems show how severe of bullying she is going through and the more bullying and stress she has the stronger her powers become with her telekinesis. So as the poems get worse Carries powers get more destructive and more evil. Like in one part of the book she is talking about smashing the people’s heads with rocks. Another scene that should be kept in the movies in when this little boy is riding down the street and he yells out to Carrie that she is fat and he sticks his tongue out at her. Then she thinks to herself I wish that boy would fall off his bike and a couple of seconds later he loses control and scrapes his knee and she thinks to herself I wish I could make that happen more often.

This foreshadows in the story that she has telekinesis powers and that she will use them to get back at the people who have done her and her mom harm. Also it shows one of the first parts where she uses her power and the power itself is a major part of the story. Two specific parts that I would cut form this story is when Carrie is walking home and is just thinking about random things like Summer Camp. This part is just her thinking to herself for a long time and I think that it would be weird on screen to just see her talking to herself for that long period of time. The Summer Camp is kind of relevant to getting made fun of but that is what the whole beginning of the book is basically about.  Another scene that I would cut is in the beginning they are just playing volleyball and she is just thinking to herself again. I think that any scene in an movie where someone is just thinking to the themselves isn’t really a good scene that is in of the reasons Catcher in The Rye can’t become a movie next to the fact J.D. Salinger