The Best American NonRequired Reading Cont.

:Second Assignment:

Rock the Junta - Scott Carrier

Litature Unnatured - Joy Williams

Middle-American Gothic - Johnathan Ames

It is rather sad but I have to say it, the second part of this book was not as good as the first; in fact it is rather depressing. This is like every other book we read in this class; except for Water for Elephants which was awesome. The Middle-American Gothic was mildly entertaining, except for the fact that he was out of sorts and he himself was depressing adding up to the depressing atmosphere. At this point I just want to stop reading these stories.

The last story about literature and nature was very deep and profound; going on about how we are losing our colorful language and become a sort of grayscale. At least that is how I perceived it, it is sort of like words are no longer profound and meaningful, instead we just have a lot of words that mean the same thing but there is only a slight difference. So I guess in a way that is happening but it has happened a lot throughout history, I bet that we will get some more words somewhere; we always seem to.

The middle story was Rock the Junta, this story I didn’t understand and like one bit; it was just boring as hell. I couldn’t wait to get it over with, it was like walking though a bog; wishing for death and a swift end. All I can do is look forward to a time when we read stories that will hold my interest long enough to get a point across instead of just boring me to death.