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this class has been wonderful it was great to look into horror and sci-fi a lot more then i have ever before horror has always been a genre i was always afraid to get into because i am not much of a blood and gore kind of person even in books (i know weird). but i really enjoyed the books we had to read i liked monster island alot it was a book i found really interesting and a fun take on zombies though the second part i found underwhelming it really opened my eyes up to think about horror and zombie stories differently and i found that really wonderful. i only wish i could have watched more of the movies you had listed to watch but not having netflix and wanting to spend more time reading then watching movies i kinda lost track. but to get back on track this class like your other class has opened my eyes up to horror and sci-fi greatly and i have grown to really enjoy reading them more then before.

Firesign Theatre: I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus

I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus was very interesting and confusing thing to listen to while trying to work. but it was like listening to the future if it was made of clowns kinda like idiocracy but with clowns and in a theme park. which i kinda thought was interesting. bizarro fiction has always been a fun thing to read listen to or watch for me because it really is just whats happening around use the dumb things people do or say just super exaggerated and thrown into the future. like taking trash in idiocracy which is a problem we deal with and making them into mountains or that a company that makes a sport drink now goes to every water fountain instead of water and water is only for toilets. it makes these things feel so far head but yet really relatable and you can almost imagine these things happening and it makes you see things in another light. though i much rather enjoyed idiocracy over i think we're all bozos i found it enjoyable though sometimes needing my full attention.

THE AQUATIC UNCLE

The Aquatic Uncle by Italo Calvino was a short story about the shift of how things use to be to how they are now. in this story it is about living under the water and now how everyone lives above the water and the dealing with the mid point of the elders who still live under the water and the younger who live above the water. its an interesting thing to tackle and to look at because i see how this kinda happens now not with living above land or below the water but with technology and views of issues we are still kinda at a mid point between the two dealing with the struggle of these different view points and how both kinda cant understand each other. i mean to use we have laws that try to be passed censoring the internet which is physcally impossible  because of the size and complexity of the internet even if something is deleted it is on something anywhere and can potentially be accessed. though i digress about the story i found thinking about that interesting and enjoyed reading this story.

Bloodchild

Bloodchild by Octavia Butler was an creepy and interesting story with the relationship between the aliens and the humans that inhabit the land of these alliens. it is really a story of survival and how both truly need each other to keep the others species alive since the aliens use the human to carry there young and the aliens keep the humans safe. though these aliens seems nasty and human seem to by just things. this kinda story can be seen anywhere in life kinda like how the united states work the with the upper and lower classes though i will not say it is prefect and things could be better for the milld and lower class but without the two are government wouldn't kinda like this story. also i liked that you could tell what the aliens looked like and you have to put things together in your head to get the picture of them it added a creepiness to the story that i liked.

schismatrix bruce sterling

try as hard as i could i really could not get into schismatrix i read through half the book and finally gave up not because the stories where not interesting because they where anytime you have people going to a planet and they have to agree to the planets laws and the only law is if you want to die all you have to say is kill me and lasers will take you out i am sold. but the way it was broken up the story jumped around a lot and i felt we never stood in a would for any length of time and they would get blurred together in my head and i started to loose interest. though i liked the worlds it was set in they where all very paranoid to keep there places pure and not to have outsiders who could damage. also the gesha bank which the currency  was kinetic engery from sex which was a fun kinda twist on things. if i didn't feel rushed through these worlds and parts of the story i would have enjoyed this story and i am a little upset it didn't because i liked some pieces of this story but they where to few to keep my interest.

Babel 17

Babel 17 was a wonderful book to read with an interesting take dealing with language and extreme body modification past what is possible to date. though Rydra Wong is a little bit to prefect and seems that everything seems to fall into place for her i didn't mind that. i really liked how the book talks about understanding a language as a way to understand a culture and learning the inner workings. and like i said before i liked the extreme body modifications as what the sailors do when they are bored at port but not tattoos which gives it this wonderful twist as to i could see in the days of space travel sailors of these ships getting work done like a lions main or a tail to show off signs that they are powerful fearless and aggressive kinda like tattoos where and still are about with in the navy though that stereotype has been broken down no an extent now days. but really enjoyed reading this book and could over look some of the aspects of things being to perfect or expected because it did have a wonderful richness to it.

Lev Grossman, The Magicians

The magicians was a really great and fun take on the whole magic genre in away that harry potter never went. It really made magic feel more down to earth and something that was real rather then in this magic world but kids and people dealing with real life things and situation that teen go through with a magic twist but never in away that makes it seem fake. It also made magic seem similar to art school which we talked about in class and it makes a lot of sense because not everyone can create art that is able to manipulate and make you think and that it is a skill that you have to practice hard and even if you try your hardest you may never master. Also the in the magicians it has something similar to are art school the no smoking law though I am not a smoker it gave me a laugh. In all I sound this book really wonderful and fun to read though its not harry potter it stands on its own and if someone doesn’t like harry potter they may like the magicians