Thursday, July 3, 2014

A- My favorite books

These aren't in order btw

-Looking for Alaska: I don't understand why everyone loves the "Fault in our Stars" so much, it was pretty good but not amazing. This book is clearly John Green's best book. The characters were a little pretentious and talked in a way that teenagers don't talk like but whatever! The setting was so realistic and the experiences they had were so entertaining, especially the blowjob scene (which was my favorite). I found the main character kind of boring but Alaska, the girl, was pretty interesting. And if you have read both of these books by John Green, I also found it interesting how in "Fault in our Stars" Augustus Waters pretended to smoke cigarettes as a metaphor for not dying while in the book, Alaska smoked cigarettes in order to die faster.
-The Kite Runner: I just finished this book and it was homework for AP English 12. Mr. Child assigned it and I haven't heard the best things about him but he sure does have good taste in books! It was set in the Middle East which was a change from the usual Caucasian main character. It was pretty disturbing but in a good way. I expected it to be horrible since most books for school are but I'm impressed.
-Battle Royale: This was written before the hunger games, and basically has the same idea. Except that it's way better than the hunger games because it's way more realistic and its also a satire of the Japanese government which I found really entertaining. Most of the book is pretty interesting but the end really blew my mind. I usually expect endings or they aren't very surprising but I wasn't expecting this ending at all. And it didn't have a really bad love story like the hunger games, another plus.
-My Sister, My love: Joyce Carol Oates was an author that Mrs. Delliot recommended to me and I've read a lot of her books ever since. This book was super-super disturbing, like even more so than the Kite Runner. There was this one scene when the little boy (the main character) goes over to his friends house and the friend puts on porn that's a whole naked family doing "stuff" and there's other weird stuff like this that happens. And it gives a pessimistic view of rich people and everyone was really weird and their thoughts and actions didn't make sense.
-Harry Potter: Everyone has read these (well actually I'm dating someone who hasn't read these, what an abomination. I should really dump him for not reading Harry Potter). So I don't really have to provide an explanation

You guys should give me some recommendations for books to read since I'll be really bored in China this summer!

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