Review: To be perfectly honest, I still haven't the faintest clue what this book is about. Apparently some sort of plague came and destroyed most of the population of the world except for in this one little place. Then its inhabitants have to survive, and mostly they just walk around without clothes, make out, and have melodramatic conversations. Then the book just ends. I caught on to a few themes on the importance of teaching the future generations the right things, but other than that, it was just kind of a quick little pointless book.
Quotations: "Spending time with kids generally gives me the creeps."
"'How do you feel?'
'Fine. Like I'm standing at the bottom of a stairway and I don't know where it goes. But getting ready to go up.'"
2) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Review: I'm not entirely certain what I should say about this one. It was great to be sure, but it was a little on the scandalous side. However, it's easy to read and the writing style is quite nice. I loved the parts I could relate to, and overall it was just a precious book.
Quotes: "So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."
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"We accept the love we think we deserve."
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"I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colorful trees and having that be enough."
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"Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not even realizing it."
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"Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them."
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Review: This book is by far one of the quirkiest books I've ever read. It's extremely funny in kind of a British comedy meets science fiction meets The Office way. Reading this piece of literature was also pleasurable because the voice in my head read it in a British accent the entire time. So great.
Quotations: "'You know,' said Arthur, 'it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to do of asphyxiation in a deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.'
'Why, what did she tell you?'
'I don't know, I didn't listen.'
'Oh.' Ford carried on humming.
'This is terrific,' Arthur thought to himself, 'Nelson's Column has gone, McDonald's has gone, all that's left is me and the words Mostly Harmless. Any second now all that will be left is Mostly Harmless. And yesterday the planet seemed to be going so well.'"
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