Gulivers Travels Post 2 - Matt

First off, if you are reading this you are a yahoo! that's that.

Now where was I? Ok yes, in the third part of the book the man goes on Cloud Nine, er i mean a cloud city. On this cloud city he notices that people get distracted really easy and yet they don't get interested in much either. Kind of strange? Well i forgot to tell you about the slaves that go around with them and hit them with mallets. Before this people will listen or speak they must be hit with these mallets in order to make them come back to reality. While I am sure they gave the city a name in the book, i am just going to say it is Cloud Nine. In order that i don't give every thing about that part to ya, i'll move on.

The last part is the most interesting part. As with all the other parts he gets very descriptive about many things. one of them being yahoos. In this nation the most vicious, yet semi-trainable creature is the yahoo. This creature has long claws on it forefeet, long hair streaming from its head, has a ferocious howl, and will fight it's own type without much reason. Hmmmm......... What creature could this be? While during this part one of the creatures is found to be rationally thinking as compared to the more competent people governing this nation. It was found covered in the furs of other animals and preferred to support itself on its hind feet. Hey, come to find out, the creatures name was Guliver. Hmmm. Yup yahoos are human creatures but than who is the "rationally governing" creatures. Well, that's one thing you'll need to read the book to find out.

Peace

"point of impact" tyler palmer

there is not very much humor in this book. there is alot of irony and real life humor. humor like the feds getting outsmarted in there own game. ha that kind of humor. ya ik know its not very funny but thats all there is. the biggest and funniest irony is that through everything that goes on bob lee saves the girl and actully ends up being with her. which ks his ex partners wife. its messed up but its also ironic bc bob lee and don, his partner are supposed to be friends for life and bob lee ends up with his girl. dont choose this book. its not very funny at all. ugh

Confessions of a Not it Girl part 2 (Josie Jackson)

Now that I've gotten deeper into the book, more of the authors humor style has become apparent. Such as whenever she thinks about a boy she even remotely likes, her daydream is in the setting of a Shakespeare play, then, at the end she says "CURTAIN". The main character also compares people to unusual famous folk, or describes them with unusual, yet humorous terms.For example, "...when all of a sudden there was a squeal. Literally a squeal. Like the violent death of some animal."Here is also an example of the sarcasm used in the book. Flirting with this guy she says"I don't like to mix business with pleasure." As the story goes on you get a better feeling for the characters, and everyones very unique personalities, that is one thing this author does well is she gives very good, detailed descriptions even of characters with the tiniest parts, but its makes the story just that much more of an experience. So, onto the summary. Jans love life is slowly progressing, while her best friend, the it girl's, is moving rapidly, she is having a thing with on of her fathers middle aged employees, even though she is only 18. Jan is falling in love with the old neighbor boy.

Ariel hudson

The book the absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian is one of the worst book I have ever read. What i mean by that is it is very sarcastic and really has no point unless your a little kid.the book is starts out like a kid would "I was born with water on my brain" who would start a book like that. At the end of the book he says "Well, the thing is, I don't thing Indians are nomadic anymore. most Indians, anyway."
I would never tell anyone to read this book, this book has a lot of sarcastic in it which makes it a humorist but its not ever funny at all. the funny thing in the book is the pictures which looks like a little kid made them.

Flush -Tram Dinh

I think that the humor is starting to show as I kept reading.

Where I left off is when Paine escaped from jail. Everything seems to be going fine and Donna and Paine became closer then ever. Since Paine couldn't do anything Noah and Abbey comes up with a plan to get Dusty and his goons shut down for good. Without telling there parents, they come to Shelly who is the only one that could help them. "She waved us inside and cheerfully resumed shaving her legs at the kitchen sink.The way she did it wasn't quite as glamorous as in the T.V commercials.Whenever she nicked herself, she'd cuss like a biker and wipe her blood away with her pinkie." I think the funniest character in the book would be Shelly, she is very blunt and she also has a sense of humor. There plan was to get on the ship and flush "fushia" food coloring down the toilet, so that's where Shelly had to flush,and flush often.I also thought that it was funny when Noah and Abbey was stopped by Bull and Jasper because Abbey clamped on to bulls ear with her teeth until he would let them go, they also found out that there was someone that was watching them they call him the "pirate" he protected them like a guardian angel.To find out it was their long lost grandpa that was supposedly dead. There is humor in this book, I just can't describe what kind it is.

the life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid.

Bill Brysons life in Iowa is very simple and boring, but in his stories he makes life sound interesting. My favorite part in the book is where he and his friend Willoughby are in Bishops diner, I'll show you the passage from the book and you'll see why. "Like me Willoughby was a devotee of Bishop's, but he was more daring and imaginative than I could ever be. He liked to turn on the table light and send the waitresses off on strange quest. "Could I have some Angostura biters, please?" He would say with a look of choirboy sweetness. Or. "Please could I have some fresh ice cubes; these are rather misshapen." Or. " Would you by any chance have a spare ladel and some tongs?" And the waitress would go clumping off to see what they could find for him. there was something about his cheery face that inspired an eagerness to please." This was just an intro so you know wWlloughby's character, he's a charmer. The following Saturday, Willoughby led me into bishops again. this time he drank half his water, then pulled from his jacket a jar filled with pond water; which he used to top his glass. When he held the glass up to the light there were about sixteen tadpoles swimming in it." For me this is my favorite passage because it actually made me laugh out loud! Who would even think about putting pond water in your glass just to get two free sundaes? Not many kids i know and it makes it even better because their so young when willoughby comes up with this plan. In his book Bryson makes you think about what he is saying, sure its funny but at the same time it makes you think it has a deeper meaning he gets his point across by being funny, like in one of his chapters where he breaks his leg on the playground no one really noticed for hours! Yeah it's funny how he says it but it makes you realize it's true when he says you cant trust adults, because come on who in their right mind wouldn't notice a kids leg turned half way around? And don't even get me started on that doctor his cheap dad took him too! The doctor didn't even know the stuff he was telling Bill and his family. After reading this I think the pot was to point out how childhood in the 1950's was much simpler then, than it is now and after reading this it kind of makes me wish I were a kid back then, but i think hes also saying in general life was simple and cheerful back then, now we have to worry about so many things, life just isn't simple anymore and it's a shame. But in my opinion i think we now have greater knowlege and common since then they did.

Kendra Johnson- 24 girls in 7 days

Now that Jack Grammar is the talk of the school, girls are coming onto all different ways. Jessica Woo, a girl that goes to his school, writes a whole newspaper article explaining Jack's situation. "How did Jack go from being the slightly geeky kid who could name all thirty-some Shakespeare plays to suddenly being the flavor of the moment?" She talks about how over 200 girls responded to the ad, and how all these rumors are going around about him. In the ad she even asks Jack to call her. Jack was sitting outside his house that night and a girl drives by and yells out the window "Jack, give me babies!". Girls are going crazy over this newly popular Jack Grammar. Some girls get creepy and contact Jack's family, and Jacks sister decides to set up a speed dating date with 5 girls. She holds this speed dating in her kids play room, so Jack is sitting at this little plastic toddler table, with his date. There is a big pole in the room that is surrounded with at least eight inches of foam padding, and while hes on one date his niece runs straight into the extra-foam padded pole. Jack couldn't stop laughing and that girl got mad that he wasn't paying enough attention to her, so she got up and left. Too bad for him huh, cause he only has about 199 other girls that want him. One of the speed date girls wants to play one-on-one basketball with him. They went out and she beat him by a long shot so hes pretty much in love with her. There's one part that's kinda funny because Jack says why his favorite day is Thursday, because he was born on a Thursday and conceived on a Thursday. At school that day a hippie girl, Mary, with huge out-of-date glasses according to Jack came up to him and played a song she wrote for him on her guitar. That night, star football player, Scott comes a knocking on Jack's door in his wheelchair because he broke his leg. Scott begged Jack to go to prom with his girlfriend because she thought it would look dumb if she went with a guy in a wheel chair to prom, but Jack talks Scott's girlfriend into taking Scott. Every year at prom, Percys' grandpa, who is also the janitor at the school, start off prom by dancing to the first dance. Everyone watches in an awe because there two people that you can tell that are in love and always have been. This year, Percy's grandpa is really sick, and is still in the hospital. At the end of the book, Jack doesn't find one girl he actually wants to go to prom with. (which was a big waste of the whole 24/7 thing) So he asks Percys' grandma to go with him. She said yes, so Jack and Percy's grandma started off prom this year.