Monday, January 29, 2007

Gay Cruising Kitchener

So far I like what I read in The Alchemist. I feel that the plot is very easy to follow and I find that the book has me bored. May be considered bad because it is written in a very simplistic and does not seem a very profound book. The sentences are short and the vocabulary is not very advanced. At the same time, the characters are not well developed, for example, while the pastor is the main character, the author does not tell us much of his personality other than that is a pastor who likes to travel and pursue his dreams.
Despite these characteristics that can make a book is bad, I can not deny that I'm enjoying it a lot. After reading so many complicated books for my literature classes, I feel very refreshing to reada book like this from time to time. Although the idea of "follow your dreams" is a very typical in the literature and in movies, always something that leaves me feeling in a positive way. It's like watching romantic comedies are typical stories ... but I always leave feeling happy. I have not finished the book, then do not know if James will find so treasure, but I hope it is a book that I leave with good feelings and not disappointed.

Monday, January 22, 2007

Stomach Pain After Using The Bathroom

The other day in class when we talk about Eva Luna talked about how there are many characters that seem irrelevant in the lives of Eva and the plot of the book. I liked to read that even if many of these characters reappear in the book and we can see what happened to them. For example, Eva meets Melesio (or Mimi), Hubert, and godmother. I like that the end is that the characters end interconnected, as we see Rolf Hubert and word knowledge. If Allende had not done this, I think so, many of the characters would have been irrelevant and useful only to fill space on the pages.
Another thing I liked was the history of Arabic. I found this part of the narrative was entertained me the most because there were otherparties when I was kind of boring. For example many of the parts of politics is not really liked them. I think this is only because I'm not interested in politics and I love to read books on this subject. At the same time, I think to put this book makes it seem like a more serious literature than it is, and perhaps may be the reason some people see this book as good literature.
In conclusion, I just want to say that although I do not think that Eva Luna is a high quality book, not to say that is a terrible book. To be really bad a book is to completely bored and then I have to feel bad because I lost hours of my life. I read Eva Luna entertaining moments during which I was and I felt so abu

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Nail Salon Blue Print Eva Luna

I confess that once more I have fallen victim to the soap operas on Telemundo ...

Friday, January 12, 2007

Victoria Secret Sanitary Belts The worst book I've read

The book I remember as the worst I've read is The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne I had to read in my first year at UBC. Not everything that happens in the book because I finished reading it, but if I remember certain things that I liked. One of the reasons I found the book enjoyable is that it had a coherent story. The book is supposedly the story of Tristram Shandy's life but is actually a series of digressions. The narrator can tell something without being distracted and then start with another story. Supposedly these digressions make the book will be comedic but I was laughing at me, I was sleeping. Every time I read it was very boring. I felt like I was wasting my time because terue I have so many bad memories of the book, I'm kinda interested to see how they could do in a movie ....