Friday, May 23, 2014

The worst books I have ever read

I've read a lot of good books in my lifetime. I've also read many bad books. But the bad one's are the one's you never hear about. I stumbled upon this question as I was ease dropping on another student and teacher. Well not really, they were talking fairly loud, and I could hear it.
Anyway, they were talking about how they've read so many good books, but end up sometimes choosing books that they had no idea would be so bad because they only looked up "Best Books for  "x" ", not "worst books" or "books to never choose for an English class" because sometimes teachers love to throw those in.
So here's a bit of some of the worst books I have ever read (not in any particular order).

Herman Hesse, author of Siddhartha 10 years after it's publishing
The Master and the Margarita Bulgakov

An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore

Animal Farm Orwell

Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler

Catch-22 Joseph Heller

Siddhartha

If you ever have the chance in your life to read these books, don't. Although some might praise these books as a must read, they're books that are a must read for the wrong reasons. You might have read one of these books and found them to be cool, but for the average reader, not so cool.

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Going off topic: Surviving on my own

In two years, I'll be in college. I don't know exactly where or how, but I'll be there. That also means I'll be put out into the wild to survive on my own. I can't remember the last time I've been out on my own for at least a week, ever. If it was, I was probably with someone or having my parents on me 24/7 asking if I'm "okay". But I'm not babied, no that's not the kind of  kid I am or was. I prefer to be treated like a normal person. For example, whenever I'm at Thundercloud picking up a sandwich with my mom or dad, the guy never talks to me. He just says "lettuce, tomato, onion?" with no side conversations whatsoever. But the last time when I was on my own, the guy had opened up to me about how bad his morning was and into serious depth about his girlfriend and personal life. But if I were working there, I wouldn't want to be talking to a momma's boy about my morning either so I guess it's a normal thing. But then the worst part is that I'll have to be paying for it all the time and paying bills which means getting an actual job doing actual things. I mean, the only adult things I did today was drink coffee and have awkward conversations. But no Starbucks. Starbucks is probably the last place I'll pick up coffee. I'd usually just go to any restaurant or coffee shop next to my house, because it's all the same really. There's only two kinds of coffee in this world, pretty good coffee, and eh I'll drink it. There's no cafe latte with a mochachino frap vanilla and cinnamon category in this. That's not even coffee, it's warm milk! It  falls into the pretty good category. The instant coffee you make at home is also pretty good if you add enough creamer. Then there's the one's who drink it with only sugar or only one thing. That falls into the "eh, I'll drink it" category.
I majored in sociology and look at me now! (3rd time I've used this picture)
I went into a Starbucks one time. It was the first and the last time I went there. I walked in and asked for a large coffees. The girl there said "We don't have large coffees, we have ventis." So I said "Alright well give me a venti." They also spelled my name wrong but hey, they work at Starbucks. I won't give them too much of a hassle. But anyway, then they asked what I wanted. I said "I told you I wanted a venti." But they wanted to know what to put in it and I said "COFFEE." "Well what kind? there's a menu." And by now I'm a little frustrated with this girl and so I just said "Surprise me, just give me one of those vanilla cafe swirl things." or something like that, you get the idea. I was then charged four dollars for coffee and milk that tasted like hot cocoa. That was the first and last time I ever went to Starbucks.