Well, I don't really see how I can write a response to a story I haven't really read (confession time!), but then again, I got a good/decent grade on my Essay, and that was mostly BS, so maybe I should feel a little more pride for my work/BS. Oh, just to get this out of the way: a lot. Two words. There. :)

Anyway, onto a real response to the book (and, for completeness sake, I'll go ahead and say it: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck; there, I think I have it that on every page of this journal). I thought the book was... very well printed. :) Actually, I don't hate this book that much. I think it does have some good qualities, so don't expect a page-by-page definition of why I didn't like this book, like the one I did for the Invisible Man journal.

Actually, the only thing I really liked were the intercalary chapters. I'd never read a book that introduced events like that. I think it would be cool to try to incorporate that into the next story/book wannabe/abandoned novel that I write. I can already think of the posibilities... <evil grin> Hey, maybe then I could say that I actually learned something in school! Wow! All seriousness aside, I think that I actually could use that. I'd just follow his example, and keep the characters in those chapters nondescript. Come to think of it, I think I've read stories that have similar sections (where it deviates from the main characters, but doesn't deviate from the main action) but they were done so poorely, that I'd never thought about doing anything similar to that. Well, thats what one should expect from the Internet, especially if they are my friends. :)

Okay, maybe I should actually get to the book now. All in all, I don't actually hate the book. I don't like the way it was written, though. I think that some of the heavy dialect used got a little out of hand at times. I hate it when that happens, as it can really slow down reading, and I enjoy being able to read at a very above average speed, and speech like that slows me down.

Well, I hope that I didn't ramble too much in the journal. I recall you saying at the beginning of the year that the Response section was the part of the journal where we could pretty much say anything. I think I've successfully done that. I hope that I've broken up the rather dull and boring task of grading the journals, since I'm sure that you get so many formulaic journals (I'm not even sure if I used that word correctly there, but I don't really care, I like it!). Oh, and don't worry about me finding out who you eat lunch with. I say this because I'll find out eventually, so you don't need to worry about that! :)