My Vote...

I have to say that I think everyone did a good job on their presentations. It made me want to read all the books, which makes this voting thing harder. I will say that I am down to two books that I think will be good books to read for the next English 110 class and those books are “My Most Excellent Year” by Steve Kluger and “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy. Both groups gave really good presentations and kept my attention the most throughout their speeches. Why I like The Road was because it seemed like a giant mystery. The kind of book that you would want to keep turning the pages because there’s so much going on but you don’t know what is actually happening. I like the fact that the group made it seem that this book is so unnerving, with the whole cannibalism thing, and yet you know if you are going to read it you’re not going to put it down. Apart from The Road, the group that presented My Most Excellent Year made me think of another book called “The Year of Secret Assignments” by Jaclyn Moriarty. Why it reminded me of that book was because when they said that My Most Excellent Year had a lot of notes and e-mails and journal entries that you would read throughout the book to get to know the characters better, The Year of Secret Assignments also did that same thing. Of course I haven’t read My Most Excellent Year but I do know that My Year of Secret Assignments was completely written in that format, and that it actually made the reading a lot more fun but yet still kept to a plot line. I also like the fact that My Most Excellent Year had so many modern day cultural aspects in it, like one of the characters being gay, another being deaf, one who lost a parent, and so on. I agree that it would be a book that would have so much to talk about and that everyone would enjoy.

So I guess from this my vote goes to…..My Most Excellent Year! But The Road would definitely be a close second.