Reading Update #1

Reading List

15. Ulysses - James Joyce (3.5/5)

14. Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut (3.5/5)

13. Go Tell it On the Mountain - James Baldwin (5/5)

12. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner (3/5)

11. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers (5/5)

10. Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut (3.5/5)

9. Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut (3.5/5)

8. The Giver - Lois Lowry (4/5)

7. The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier (4/5)

6. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (4/5)

5. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (4.5/5)

4. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (5/5)

3. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (4.5/5)

2. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut (5/5)

1. Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut (4.5/5)

Fifteen books since the New Year. Yay!!!!

I've rated the books out of five stars. Due to reading books that are usually very well recieved by audiences and critics the scores are rather decent.

Bluebeard is a fictional autobiography of an abstract expressionist painter named Rabo Karabekian. The tale is a thoughtful look on the interactions of a younger male and an older females as well as the harroring events of the Armenian genocide. Movie planned for later this year.

Slaughterhouse Five - WWII soldier becomes unstuck in time and....well time travels...visits aliens...great sci-fi. Movie made decades ago!!

Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut's thesis. Great idea. That's all your getting out of me.

A Clockwork Orange - Amazing...Kubrick did us a favor and the book an honor.

Catch-22 - No real small parts since the chapters are divided representing almost every character introduced. Very funny. Movie not so funny.

Catcher in the Rye - the famous book about a young adolescent kicked out of boarding school and roaming the streets. Exciting in parts and hardly intellectually stimulating....good but not great.

The Chocolate War - boys will be boys.

The Giver - what a mind bender!!! if only the sequels were as great.

Galapagos - interesting take on Darwin and evolution. Not the most satisfying Vonnegut.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - great classic novel about childhood and growing up as well as a great account on the social workings of America.

As I Lay Dying - Odd but intriguing writing style. The plot is rather overly simple but maybe that adds to the appeal. Basically, mother dies-transport body-have trouble transporting body-on with more but you'll understand if you read it. Still reccomend it but don't expect an Earth shaking read.

Go Tell It on the Mountain - Personally, I have not read Roots. But I can tell if you have than this book is a must.

Mothernight - Not sci-fi like usual Vonnegut. An entertaining yarn about an American living in Germany during WWII and spying for U.S. Than becomes war criminal. Injustice!!! Some of the mushy lovey parts were weird.

Ulysses - Previously banned from America!!! Ulysses makes a Beyonce video look like pornography to be honest. I suppose America really was a conservative nation at one point in time. The constant stream of incoherent thought and no quotations makes Ulysses a rather difficult read. An interesting observation on the lives of ordinary men and women in Dublin Ireland. Prepare to read on it for a couple weeks.

Well its about time to work up to another fifteen.

p.s. she broke my heart. that's all i'm going to say.