THE CLIMAX?!?!?!?!?!

I've enjoyed the book so far, however, the climax was a little disappointing, a little too predictable. Mercer being an android was way too easy to pick up, especially when juxtaposed with the TV and radio personality, they both seemed "too good to be true." I'm very curious to see how the book is going to end and how Rick ends up. I'm also very curious about Rachel, is she going to die at the end? Will she end up with Rick?!

Rick Deckard, Phil Resch, and Garland

The scene when Rick and Phil are held up in the fake police station with Garland is an interesting and important scene. Phil's entire "human hood" is questioned, Rick is very confused by all of it, and finally, Garland is killed. When his acting stops working, because Phil is going to test him, Garland admits his true identity to Rick, but also spills about the entire police station, saying that even Phil is an android. This is a major twist in the novel, it makes the reader wonder about Phil's personality, and question what an android is supposed to be like, a very nice plot twist in the novel.

A question I have about the novel is "Is Phil actually an android? Or just a human that likes to kill?"

Allen & Bacon Ch. 11 Reading

The chapter brought up an interesting point about revising "locally" and "globally," these are two differing types of revision. When you revise so that only the one or two sentences you are working are changed, you are revising "locally." When you revise so that the audience changes, ideas change, or structure changes this is refereed to as revising "globally." The book suggests that both types be used to revise successfully.

Blade Runner Reading

When reading Blade Runner you notice that the characters frequently "dial up" their moods. This is down right crazy talk as far as I'm concerned. There should be no such device that allows someone to just change what mood they are feeling. In the first chapter for example, Rick and Iran are fighting, they are about to "dial up" and they have to promise each other not to dial into an angry more agressive mood in order to try and win the fight. Humans should leave technology out of emotion, if there are machines controlling our moods, then what is real and personal anymore?

Allen & Bacon Ch. 1-3

There were a few things in found in these chapters to be very useful. One of the more important ones is about thesis statements. Thesis statement set the tone of the paragraph they are about to dive into. The book teaches of strategy to write thesis statements with "tension." This is good because it pulls the reader into something they may have not seen before, weather their reaction is a positive or negative one depends on their view. Another great strategy I learned from these chapters is the "Believing and Doubting Game." Using this free writing game really gets the ideas flowing, ideas both for and against your main point. If you have a statement, then free write "for" and "against" that statement, you're going to end up with lots good points for both sides of your argument. These are just a few examples of good writing techniques  in the chapters 1-3 of Allen & Bacon.

An Explanation

Everyday we see people living out their lives, doing things the way they do them. With this blog I want to observe some of the more odd behaviors and write about them. The reading I'm most often exposed to are the random pages I stumbleupon. The writing I'm exposed to has been little to none recently, with school starting that should change. My reading and writing exposures may be lacking, but I spend most of my day around technology, weather it be my blackberry, my mac, or my xbox, it's basically all day.