Books n Shit

I love horror. I have been watching horror movies since I was a teenager so picking up a book catered to the "final girl" archetype really appealed to me. I just don't think this book captured them in a compelling or even fun way. I find the main characters to be very stereotyped, and it's painfully ablest toward one character. It also has a very heavy " All Men Are Evil " plot point that so drilled that it's hard to ignore that when reading. Backstory is dropped in the middle of tense scenes. The action scenes don't do much or don't allow the reader to build tension to get the trill out of a triller. Horror fans can see every horror trope a mile away which makes it predictable in an unenjoyable way.

Mortal terror isn't just restricted for a communist country in another part of the world. Any sequence of events can go from success to a genuine attempt to corruption. The U.S. has done it for decades in South America. The notion that just because we live "free" in a western country doesn't mean we are smart enough to recognize and resist mortal terror. Police brutality, racial prejudice, exploitation, assault, intolerance, and exclusion happen daily but we are taught to silence those who scream because we have it better then "them". Who is "them" when we embody everything you told us they were? We are all the same- it was never Them and Us. We are just as cruel. Orwell warned us about that fact of human nature. We didn't listen and we live that hell.

The Holocaust is such a horrible stain on history and somehow people still try to erase what happened. They erase the idea that we let 6 million people die. They erase that people let it happen without question. Most of all they erase that some people just existed during it. We focus so hard on the tragedy that we forget that other people lived during that. We erase what life was like for them. Of course what happened to the Jewish people was disgusting but history has many sides. The side of a small German girl who liked to read is important too. It just shows how easily life can slip by and things go on around you that you have no control over. How war touches everyone some more than others. It took a lot more than we give it credit for.

Of Mice and Men is everything John Steinbeck gives to the idea of the American Dream. Lenny is the dream, naive but very strong. His nativity allows him to be pushed around to make barely enough money to survive but he's happy because he thinks that dream is getting closer. George is the realist. A man who makes his paycheck and spends it on booze and girls. He realizes that the dream is dead and never existed but needs it in order to make life worth living. Sometimes it becomes to much and you have to kill the dream before it sours itself. Kill the dream before it kills you, yet you continue to suffer under the boot of what it could've been.

Americans aren't loved wherever they go, whatever they do...People are hated a lot of places... AMERICANS ARE FOOLISH to think they should somehow be exempted from that penalty -page 98

1984 is one of those books that you don't forget. Most of us had to read it in school but trust me, reading it outside of an educational setting makes you consider so much more then what I need to write in my essay. It's disturbing how the things Orwell wrote in 1949 are happening today. This book was banned for promoting communism and it was banned in the USSR for not being communist at all. Don't you think a book nobody can point to WHY they're mad at is the ultimate book to read? 10/10 plz read📚

This book is one that made me think. Consider life from a perspective that isn't my own. Main protag-kun is seen as crazy but from the medical perspective of PTSD and being held prisoner in a slaughterhouse, is he really crazy or just a victim of circumstance? This book makes you see a person in how they are themselves and then switch to how the public sees you. A perspective not seen often in literature. A hilarious and moving read- 8/10 plz read📚

Banned literature = education. Period.