Thursday, August 18, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
The Catcher in the Rye
For my classic novel that I was supposed to read, I picked The Catcher in the Rye. I enjoyed the book, which is unusual for me when I read books. Its even rarer for me to enjoy older books. I think the reason I liked it is because it came from the point of view of somebody who actually acts likes somebody our age.
The Catcher in the Rye is a story about a guy that was going to a prep school in Pennsylvania. The story takes us on his journey to New York. It's a coming of age story, but I really didn't like the book because of the story. I honestly only liked the book because it always told what the main character was thinking in detail. Whether it be about Preps, Gays, Girls, or any other subject, it always explained exactly what the guy was thinking. You couldn't tell that it was an old guy writing the book. I really liked that. The main character used a cuss word in probably 99 percent of his sentences, but that doesn't bother me because you know that's what he was really thinking.
I really enjoyed this book, which came as a big surprise thinking it would be a boring classic novel. Maybe in the future I will give classic novels more of a chance.
The Catcher in the Rye is a story about a guy that was going to a prep school in Pennsylvania. The story takes us on his journey to New York. It's a coming of age story, but I really didn't like the book because of the story. I honestly only liked the book because it always told what the main character was thinking in detail. Whether it be about Preps, Gays, Girls, or any other subject, it always explained exactly what the guy was thinking. You couldn't tell that it was an old guy writing the book. I really liked that. The main character used a cuss word in probably 99 percent of his sentences, but that doesn't bother me because you know that's what he was really thinking.
I really enjoyed this book, which came as a big surprise thinking it would be a boring classic novel. Maybe in the future I will give classic novels more of a chance.
Monday, August 1, 2011
goons lurkin'
I decided to do a report on the song Goons Lurkin' by the artist Plies. Plies is a hip-hop/ rap artist. I like Plies because I like his voice and the beats that he raps to. He is probably my favorite rapper in the modern era.
The only down side of Plies is that his raps are incredibly explicit. In the songs Goons Lurkin' Plies uses many different explicits like, for example, the f-bomb, the "n" word multiple times, and the p word. The song that i picked was a song about killing other people in the middle of the night. "5 in the morning nobody out but us, everybody asleep but we gunna wake this city up" are the first lines in the rap, so you can kinda tell whats coming. I'm not going to go into detail about the rest of the song because its all just about the murder.
I really don't like Plies' lyrics to his songs because they are so dirty. But the beats and the way the song is set up really appeal to me.
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