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Many of you are aware that something happened to the blog and posting was disabled. I only just was able to correct the problems with Google this weekend. I have a How to to help those who haven't posted anything, or just need to submit your final comment. Please do so as soon as you can. Deadlines will be extended to Tuesday, August 19th at 10 pm for all the Summer Blog deadlines.
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You need to post comments three different times for your Summer Reading.
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
Breanne Gottberg-Harris, Catch-22
This book was horrible. The plot was ridiculous and hard to follow, and the dialogue was circuitous and thus went nowhere. The only character I liked was the Chaplain, and it was because he was the only one confused by the way every seemed to talk and/or thought, e.g. when they arrested him and asked him to write his name in his handwriting and then refused to accept it was his handwriting when they saw him write in it. The book was so bad, I would read sections aloud to my family and they would give me blank looks, immensely confused. My mother is a reading teacher, her boyfriend getting his masters and my brother and sister are both in higher college. The fact that not one could help me decode what was happening in the book, is not good. It shows that the books language is outdated, if an English teacher couldn't help me.
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Then I am glad I didn't choose Catch-22. I almost did because it seemed interesting, and I heard how challenging it was. I am glad I ended up with my book.
-Marjory (Natasha) Junkeremeier
The point of the book was to show how ridiculous everyone was in the war; it was a satirical, sarcastic interpretation of Heller's thoughts about peoples' behavior during wartime. That's why everyone was acting ridiculous and that was the point of the 'circuitous dialogue.'
Kimberly Greenwood
Katherine Maxwell: I totally agree with Breanne, I tried reading the first chapter of the book and it completely went over my head. I kept trying to read on but I couldn't grasp any of the concepts and I was not getting the book. It kept switching back and forth and I just couldn't keep up. So I decided to choose a different book.
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