Colbert

This book is getting on my nerves. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I really don't like this book anymore. As far as I'm concerned Stephen Colbert can keeping rampaging on things that don't effect his life. On his tv show I find it humorous, but in this book it is excessive, and not very witty. He just keeps going on about how old people or the family or race or the media are bad. I'm tired of it Stephen. Come up with something new!

University of Wisconsin- and O Brother Where art Thou?

So I went to the University of Wisconsin over the weekend, with my older brother, and I thought it was amazing. I've always loved the schools sports teams, which I try to show on occasion, and now I'm becoming obsessed with there campus. Even in the winter the campus was a delight, the students all seemed happy, even though it was freezing... and the rooms were pretty nice, but what impressed me most was the amount of change that is allowed on campus. You have such a wide selection of majors and classes to choose from, it's a wonder why someone would not like the campus.

O Brother-

O Brother Where art Thou has been kind of disappointing. Although I didn't get to see the end of the movie, I really think that the humor got dry, and that it wasn't very heavily based off of the Odyssey. My most prominent example is the cyclops and the bible salesmen. It is obvious that the two are based off of each other, but the salesmen beats down Delmar and Everett, steals there money, and gets away. Then way down the line they meat again and he is killed most likely by a burning cross. I just think that some of the things don't relate as much as they should or could, and that the movie is getting a bit dry.

Colbert's book

Unfortunately, it's past the first two weeks so I can't switch books anymore, because I really am tired of this book. All Colbert does is go on rants, which I don't really want to read, most of which are about old people, which makes me feel bad for agreeing with some of them. I also don't see the point of the book anymore. It has come to the point where it's not about him, it's just making his show seem better, and used as advertising to get more viewers onto his show, which to be honest, I find insulting. Hopefully he'll stop whining about random problems throughout the world, and will get back to what I wanted to read, his biography.

Odyssey

Im kind of glad that we're done with the Odyssey now. I mean, it was kind of cool in the beginning, but as the days went on it just got more and more boring. After chapter 12 I found reading become much more of a hassle than beneficial. Really the only part that I thought was good, was chapter 22 when Odysseus and Telemachus kill all the suitors, and after that it got boring again. So in summary, I'm pretty happy that we're done with it, because I really don't like it anymore.

Colbert's book

So I'm still on the first chapter, because they are fairly long, and I want this to be my only outside reading book for this quarter, instead of last quarter where I read two. The book is getting a bit more serious though, and focusing on his life as a child, which is nice, because I was getting very tired of hearing about why a single-mother family would be dysfunctional. He keeps talking about how great his family is compared to others, and to be honest it gets a little tiring. But I'm going to keep reading this book to the end, so hopefully it will get better, and a bit more controversial, which makes it amusing.

Sickness

So far this week, I have been sick, and it has not been fun at all. I think this weekend has been one of the worst weekends I've had in a while because I've been out with the flu. I have to say one thing, when I have a three day weekend, and I'm forced to sit on my bed and watch TV all day because I'm too weak to get up and hang out with my friends, you know I have been having a bad weekend. But enough about that, now I'm going to talk about school in class. So far we're reading the Odyssey and I don't really like it. I know it's a classic but it still seems boring and dry, or at least it has been since chapter 12. I've seen the movie, so I know what happens for the most part, and I've read a lot about the story in latin, so it isn't as interesting to me as it should be...

Colbert's book

So for my outside reading book, I am reading the Stephen Colbert book, I Am America (And So Can You) which is hilarious. The reason I decided to read this book is because Stephen Colbert is hilarious on the Colbert Report, and when I saw he had wrote a book, I had to read it, and so far its been hilarious. He has been talking about his family as a child, and how a functional family should work, and what is not a functional family. Although it is technically a biography, it has a lot of random stuff that doesn't really relate to his life, and is kind of annoying, because I don't like random sidetracks.