Nonfiction All Truth?

I think that a nonfiction book should really be all truth and there are a lot of reasons why. If a person looks through the library and sees a book and it is classified as Non-Fiction. That person is going to believe that the book has all truth. You are going to be misleading someone they are going to read a book and see that the earth is a square and then go into astronomy class or anywhere and look like an idiot. Not on that much of scale but yeah you get the point. That’s the reason Wikipedia is such a terrible site because someone can just post random information on something and someone will believe that and go on with faulty information for some time. So I believe that a book should be all truth to be considered Non Fiction

I don’t think that it was okay for Frey to bend his story and lie to all of the people who have read his story. As you can see Oprah wasn’t very happy that he had lied in his book. She said that you would get inspired from Frey’s story and what if someone did. Then they realize that most of the book is just some fake and then you just lose all motivation like that. But you can’t bend the truth in a Non Fiction. You know why they call in non-fiction. Because it’s not fiction with the made up stories because Nonfiction is real so it’s supposed to have all facts or truths in a book.

Also I agree with David Shields that there need to be lines between genres. If there isn’t you don’t really know what you like to read you pick up a book and you don’t even know what genre it is. You don’t know if its Fantasy or Nonfiction. You can’t even specify what kind of book you like to read someone would say what’s your favorite book and you would just answer the one with paper. There is no specify in books and that’s what you need to make a book a book.  

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

What is a Book?

A book, a book can be many things but one thing I see it as a movie. I know a book as a movie that probably makes no sense right now but just let me explain. When you start a book you have this picture in your head of what the author has given you so far and when you go further and further in the book your mind develops what this book is an it is like you are the director. You know what the character looks like you know what the setting is and you know everything to your own mind. So the better imagination you have the better the book is going to be so you cant disappoint your self unless you really try. This is why so books that are made into movies they are usually worse than the book. Because you have this whole picture in your head an its just shattered when the movie comes. Then there is this this whole thing about not being able to capture the masterpiece the author has wrote and all this other stuff but that's not what this article is about.
The other thing that a book is a escape from reality. You can just go into a book and not even know what is around  you and then when you get finished with it you just don't know what to do you feel like an alien. Not the green little things that fly in the sky but like a person that is unfamiliar with your surroundings. So when you read a book just realize that its more than paper and words.

Book 1 Project

You are reading this because you are a Pendragon Fan or because you are my high school best sellers teacher Mr. Coates. Either way I am here to tell you about something that can further your experience with the Pendragon Series. There is a new virtual reality world that can take you to any territory in the Pendragon Series. You can say any territory into the machine sort of like the flume and it will take you there so it is also kind of like Velox.  My favorite territory to go to is Rayne like in the book I had just read the pilgrims of Rayne. In Rayne you can change the way that everything is done you can essentially rewrite the book by your judgments. Have you ever hated a book because of the main characters decisions or the ay that he or she had done things?

You can change that in Pendragon like the way that Bobby starts the book it’s a terrible way he made so many wrong decisions he had almost got killed by the quigs which is a general term for the sort of monster in the territory. You could change the turning point or the climax of the book. By changing the climax the way that Bobby does it sometimes is the wrong way. Bobby is in the fight for Halla and he has already lost so many territories and if you can change that it feels like you have written the book the way it was supposed to be written and that you are the real author. Also in the book how Bobby goes with the Jakills because they had ambushes him in the woods and taken him to show him how experienced they really were.

You know that is going to happen in the book and how would you change it that could change the whole layout of the book. In the book you would know that the Jakills that includes Bobby now would get ambushed on the boat that they sail out of Rayne. 

You could change the way discover the city and not getting rat boy in the group killed. If you could change most of the situations in the book you could make the story a lot different and see what would happen if you took the story in your own way. What I would find the most interesting is to take the evil side in the book could you imagine if you were on the evil side and see it from antagonists perspective. I always wondered what it would look like if I was the villain.

 

I think if the hero in the book is really the villain in the book. What if the villain is doing it for a bigger and better reason than the hero? I want to see the villain’s side and see if he could switch me over to his or her side. I think that it would be nice to see the villains’ thoughts. The villain in this book and throughout the series is Saint Dane. What the story tells us is that Saint Dane the antagonist is trying to take over the territories and if he does something terrible will happen if he takes 5 of the 10 territories. But I am thinking to myself what if the thing that will happen isn’t that bad but in the view of the travelers. To really put that into perspective that is like saying Justin Bieber gets his leg broken now all of the Justin Bieber fans would freak out. But then me and the people with Brains would be sitting there like who cares. You could do all of this stuff I had described with the new virtual reality machine you can change the book look at the villains perspective and be the main character all with this machine.