Contemporary Lit Blog

A blog all about contemporary literature and postmodernism.

[bear1na]

[briidean2]

Post 14 The one thing that I love about this book and movie was the bond between father and son. You don’t see that much anymore. The man doesn’t give up on himself or his son. Even though the love of his life gave up and left them both he still made the best choice for the boys future(hopefully that family wasn’t insane). Its hard to say what I would do if I was in the fathers shoes. Its hard to even imagine being in an apocalyptic environment. I probably would’ve stayed in the bunker full of food.  I really enjoyed this book. This class was amazing as well.   

[brittneykenney]

I couldn't have said it better myself! This is my all time favorite out of everything in this class

[brittneykenney]

Post 14

Last post, yay! Anyways, I really like the movie The Road! Most people hate book to movie type of movies, and I am one of them, but I actually enjoy this one. I like how they stretched some of the details and changed some things. If you just see the movie without knowing any of the book, you will be heart broken and amazed all at the same time. It was hard not to cry in class lol

[brittneykenney]

Post 13

Happy thanksgiving! I hope everyone has survived Black Friday as well! Anyways, I've been going through a lot lately, but u was able to finish the book. It broke my heart and I was actually crying a bit when the father passed. All in all, I love this book! It is definitely a novel that I will recommend to anyone who asks me for a good book

[abragiel-deactivated20141219]

Post 13

The Road was such a good read…again. Besides TTTC, this was definitely my favorite. I wish there could be a “The Road 2” so we can continue with the little boys journey but as far as loose ends or leaving the reader hanging, i think everything was tied well together. This was a straight forward and narrow read, that i love. I’m excited to watch the movie and be able to put pictures and voices and sounds and imagery to the words of the book.

[brittneykenney]

That would be awesome if they made a sequel to this book! Like you said, it wasn't really a cliff hanger (which makes me happy) but I would definitely buy the sequel to this, or even if it were the same story, but told completely from the son's perspective!

[brittneykenney]

Post 12

I love the strong bond between the father and his son! I also really like how simple this book is: there are only two characters, it's linear, and it's easy to read. So far, I haven't had to look up any vocabulary in this book like I did with a Visit From the Goon Squad. I haven't been able to make it to class much lately, so I am not entirely sure what all has been discussed, but I have been keeping up with the readings and everything!

[briidean2]

Post 11

I am really enjoying this book. The bond between the father and son to me is extremely special. It is very obvious in many different ways that the boy depends on his father and in away I feel like the father depends on his son a lot too. They only have each other. I am curious to see what direction this book is going to go. I can’t wait to find out!!     

I love this book! It makes me realize how important it is to tell everyone that you love, that you do in fact love them because one day everything could be gone.

[abragiel-deactivated20141219]

I read The Road over a summer when i was in high school for an AP class but being a “i wanna have fun” junior i dropped the class and i thought it was pretty pointless that i read it, BUT now that i get a chance to reread it, i’m glad that we get to analyze and explore the book. The Road is one of...

[brittneykenney]

Same!! I think I read it my sophomore year, but still, I'm so excited! I like that we get to analyze this book because it is such a good story

[brittneykenney]

Post 11

I read The Road in high school, but I hardly remembered it too much before I started reading it. I knew it was post apocalyptic and very sad, but that's about it. I didn't really remember any of the big events. I'm so happy we get to read this book! I've also already watched the movie with my high school class, and I must say, it is a pretty good movie to book representation

[tpalo24]

Post 10

This book is just confusing. It makes sense in some parts but others I’m just utterly confused and have no idea what is going on. To be honest i really do not like this book. I can’t wait for us to be done with it. What i really don’t like it the jumping in the timeline. Normally I don’t mind but in this case its just bad. Yet even though i don’t really enjoy the book i can’t wait to find out how it ends. 

[brittneykenney]

It seems like there isn't one person in this class that likes this book. It's just to jumpy. I feel like Egan tried way too hard to be post modern.

[brittneykenney]

Post 10

So we started off class today ranting about the elections. I did not get the chance to vote yesterday, but I wish I would have! I agree with Professor Clark on how she likes to vote to give people more rights. Anyways, I do not like A Visit from the goon squad because I feel like it's just about drugs and craziness and fantasy. I didn't even think any of the events that have happened so far in this book could actually happen in real life. I would never do anything like this!

[breescruggs]

Not a big fan of A Visit from the Goon Squad. I do not like having to piece together myself who is talking and their back story. It doesn’t really have a smooth transition either. This book jumps from one person’s point of view in a chapter to another person’s in the next chapter. They all seem to be connected in some type of way and that helps a little. I like the traditional story line though and I am hoping the next book we read changes my mind about the reading list we have had so far in this class.

#PostNine #103114

[brittneykenney]

I have already read The Road, and I loved it! It's dark and actually heartbreaking at times, but it was an easy and enjoyable read. Definitely better than A Visit From the Goon Squad in my opinion.

[brittneykenney]

Post 9

Forgot my post last week! Anyways, I had just started A Visit From the Goon Squad last Monday (because Amazon is slow) and I was sooooo confused. At the beginning of every chapter, I would get confused. It kinda reminded me of ELIC because of the changing perspectives. The chaos of this story drives me insane! The cocaine off a 16 year olds back, the attempted rape, suicide... there's just so much and it gets a little overwhelming at times

[tpalo24]

Post 8

I actually enjoyed reading Generation X. I mean it was just funny because who can come up with a story like that?! This story was just funny how he thinks he got space poisoning and somehow on a meteor with this family. It was just a fascinating read haha, the story was overall a good one! IMAGO was really weird but still intriguing. Who has tentacles for hair?! I’m really glad we got to read these, we need more of these stories to read. Yet  I’m excited to start our next book!

[brittneykenney]

My thoughts exactly! It's so strange, but I think that's what makes me want to read more of these. It was kinda hard to follow them, but once we talked about the stories in class, I was sure of what I read

[brittneykenney]

Post 8

So, I thought my post was posted last week, but apparently it wasn't (I tried to do it from my phone and that's probably why it didn't post) anyways, I liked Generation X because it was something so different from everything I have ever read. Pretty much anything extra terrestrial freaks me the hell out! He had 5 parents! That's freaking weird and creepy!

[brittneykenney]

Post 7 (I think)

I really love the way Professor Clark is setting up our midterm! This way, a lot of the students got to meet other students in the class, and it helped me think back on all of the things we read and get answers to anything I didn't understand that we read.

[courtneyymcfarland]

So today in class my group finished the study guide. However, I just wanted to see what you guys thought about one of the questions. The one that asks, “Why did Rat Kiley kill the buffalo? How does this relate to a theme O’Brien grapples with in the novel?” We thought that he killed the baby...

[brittneykenney]

I agree with what you said! Also, it relates to the theme of death throughout this book because at this point there had been a few deaths in the story

[smcdowell22]

#10/3/14

Extremely loud and incredibly close has been really interesting to me. This book I actually like. The key makes me wanna keep reading so I can find out what it goes to. The book is also heart breaking because of the little boy lost his dad in 9-11. I really want to see the movie after reading this book.

[brittneykenney]

There is so much to this book, it's almost hard to keep up with everything! After reading this book, I researched some more about 9/11 and the facts of the event are just terrifying. Some people want to argue that the United Stats government planned the whole thing because the placement of the plane was too precise and the timing was too perfect, but that is all ludicrous