Book Cover

The book cover was well done I like it because it is very simple and straight to the point. I like it because it just tells you the name, and who wrote it. I am of the opinion that the book cover is unimportant; sure it’s good if it looks nice but what really matters is what is written inside. I believe book covers in general shouldn’t he emphasized because even if a certain book has an amazing well designed cover that has no bearing on whether or not the book is good. Books covers are very much a marketing tool if the cover is nice then more people are likely to buy it. Also if the cover is bland and boring even in a good book it may turn some people off from the book. It is all about the content of the book; you don’t open a Kit Kat because it cover is pretty you open it because you want what’s inside. I do thing my book cover is well done because it is kept simple this way you main focus can be reading, and understanding the text and what message the author is trying to get across.   

Book 2, Review 3

 My book One Flew over a Cuckoo’s nest would best be classified as Historical-Realistic-Drama Fiction. I choose this genre classification because it takes place not in modern times but in the late 1950s. The author kept the story historically accurate in the way the people were treated in the mental intuition. I thought the most accurate description would be realistic fiction because nothing happened that involved and superpowers or magic. In this story every event that took place could have happened, every character seemed like they could have existed at one point. All the patients and all the nurses could exist in reality. None of the events were so amazing, extreme that they couldn’t occur in reality. The main events in this book are introduction of McMurphy, the chief reveling to McMurphy he can speak, breaking into the pharmacy to smuggle two bottles of liquor, Billy killing himself all these events have a possibility of occurring in real life. I can’t really see a way this book doesn’t fit the realistic fiction genre because the characters don’t have any magic skills, and all the technology included in the book has already been invented there is nothing to stretch the imagination beyond reality.    

Reflection #6

The Genres of book that are my favorite to read are thrillers; I enjoy reading them because they are exiting. Thrillers tend to have fast action packed storylines and usually there are plot twists included in this type of writing which add even more excitement. I particularly like legal/crime thrillers because these tend to be realistic and it seems that some of this can happen in really life. This sub-genre is always exiting and keeps you at the edge of you seat and the storyline is always very well developed. I also like the psyological thriller sub-genre as well because it usually takes me out of my comfort zone with strange thought provoking plots and characters. I think it’s very important for book to take you out of your comfort zone and make you think differently. I like it when there are twist endings that make you think how it happened this way and what lead to this conclusion. I love the thought provoking, fast paced stories these types of stories tend to keep my attention. If a story has a fast paced plot there is less chance I’ll get bored and stop reading because I’ll be really interested to know what happens,.  

Reflection #5

   

My pet peeve when it comes to book covers is when the book cover includes photos of the characters in the book, this annoys me because I think its important for you to imagine what the characters look like yourself. I think when the character is shown to you it limits your imagination because it already gives you a preconceived notion of what the character looks like. I think this could affect the book because it shows you what the person looks this could make you choose a personality, this could also make you choose an accent of or way of speech based on what the character looks like. I think when it comes to books it very important to imagine your own personality, and voice for the characters. I also don’t like it when a cover is just a title and author because it says nothing to do with any symbolism or character references it’s just a bland title and author name, has not character.    

Book 2, Response 1

The book starts as he awakens to a typical day on the mental ward and  the aides make fun of him for being a bit of pushover, even though he is six feet seven inches tall, they make him sweep the hallways for them. I would include this scene because it is important because it induces the characters that are important and give you insight about how they look and how their personality is. It lets you know who the most important people in the story are and how they are treated.

  Today, the wards rutine is interrupted when Randle McMurphy, a new patient, arrives. McMurphy’s looks is preceded by hisloud,powerful voice and his confident, iron-heeled walk. McMurphy laughs when the patients are stunned silent by his entrance. This is important because it is showing a another very important character and describing this charastericts and personality. It gives you insight on how the character will act thughtout the story. 

Reflection #4

The Best Adaptions
1.MoneyBall- The combiation of the the buissness acpect and the baseball aspect of the book was shown well in the movie. I like how they went into detail with how they decide on witch players to choose. I also like the fact that they also showed how imoprtant Brad Pitts character daugher was to him. The movie showed very well just like the book how much the sport of baseball ment to the people in the story. The movie also depicted sabermetricks very well.
2. Of Mice and Men- I like this one because they stuck to the story. This movie flollowed the book almost exactly and the characters looked exactly like I imigined they would. They did a great job invoking humor and emotion that i felt during the reading.
3. Lord of the Rings()- I think that lot of parts were left out but most of the important parts were kept in the story. I also understand why they had to keep it shorter because the book is so long and so many things, it would take too long to make a move. And it would be hard to get a movie in the theter thas 5-6 hours long.
4. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secerets- This used the most important parts of the book, and they used a good amount of humor. They did leave out many things but i wouldnt say they were they most important things the imortant plot points were kept in.
5. Fight Club- I picked this even thought they choose to leave certain parts out in the movie. I thought the way the actors portryed the the characters from the book was perfect. They showed the two diffrent personalies and made act complety diffrently just like the book. Also they kept the intro to the book the same as the movie wicth was important becauese it was used to intraduce the narratior and tyler.

Project One

Book Review

The book Fight Club is a high energy, erratic and creatively written book. This book makes you experience lot of different feelings and emotions, makes you think a lot about what is going to happen next. Our story starts out with an unnamed narrator in the present time and he has a gun to his head. Then the story jumps back in time and he starts the describe the situations that lead to the current predicament he is in. He intrudes himself as a recall specialist for a car company, he hates his job, the hates the consumer culture we live in. Then his life starts to change when he meets Tyler Durden a rebellious anti pop culture character he lives his life not by what people tell him to do but based on what he chooses to do. Tyler is portrayed as a funny, charismatic character but he does have a dark side he seems to stop at nothing to achieve his goal of making the world less reliant on martial things and to destroy the current way society is. Together these two man form an underground fight club where other men that are angry and frustrated with the way there life’s are going. Fight club becomes a place where men that are in pain in some way can go to fight with others and relieve the stress though fighting with others with the same feelings. Fight club starts to spread and there become many different underground fight clubs opening up a lot of different cities in the country, all under the control of Tyler. Tyler then uses the men to cause havoc and destruction all across the country. The brings down buildings and other establishments in other to show the groups distain from society. The story climaxes when Tyler wants to blow up a very large building and the unnamed narrator doesn’t want to do it. This is where to two characters confront each other this leads up to where the story stared with the gun in the unnamed narrators mouth.

This book is was amazing I really liked it, the characters and the story went really well together. I recommend this to anyone that like more twisted and dark books. This is good for someone that was to read a story that’s not from the perspective of some good guy but instead from the perspective of someone deranged and lost. This book was very entraining it, showed a lot of creativity from the author the dark humor in the book was also great. My favorite part of the book was the twist ending that really made you analyze the text as a whole to see if you missed something.