Week 5 and 6

Write a blog post that considers what are the defining characteristics of your generation. Discuss a few specific works that in your opinion give "voice" to the outlooks and attitudes shared by your generation.

Literature has definitely come a long way, except I don’t really prefer this generation’s books and novels unless it’s something that’s truly a piece of work. Of course, that’s all based on opinions and personal preference, but I feel like the works now are a lot duller than decades ago. I guess ‘Simple is Best’ but for some things, it’s not necessary at all. I’m not saying that there are no good works now, they’re just very hard to find without flowing along the clichés of very popular subjects; such as vampires and werewolves. Those subjects are way overboard because of sudden popularity over the years in a short time.

Reading older works, however, I felt like it had more depth. Authors had intricate words, and a more ornate style of writing. Reading works from people like Poe, I love the way the words are put together, as well as the format. There’s a more cultural feel to older works too, especially the novel, The Great Gatsby. I know that the subject spectrum isn’t as large as it is now back then, but I just feel like it’s a better collection back then than now.

For this week's blog posting please write a 350-500 word review of the novel focusing not on whether you liked the book or not, or whether you thought it was good or bad, but rather on a description of the experience of reading the book and what you think are the most defining aspects of the novel.

Honestly, I was not expecting this book to be like this whatsoever.  At first, I thought that this novel was going to be something similar to something along the lines of a girl and her journey, something probably not so… alien. But that’s what I really liked about it. I would have never known that this novel was about a girl and her family trying to start life on a different alien planet. It immediately came to me as a slight sci-fi novel. It being an older book, I assumed it would be something describing the culture wherever it took place. Don’t get me wrong, it still had culture, but it was a made up culture, and I think that was a great point for the author to ‘wow’ readers. I highly doubt that there were many of that kind of novels back in that time. All in all, I found it very confusing, but I kinda enjoyed it even though I had a hard time grasping it. It personally just seemed a bit awkward to me because I didn’t expect it in the first place.