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If I were trying to find a better way to advertise the book Slaughter-House Five I would design a poster. Something colorful and eye catching. The title, Slaughter-House Five is very misleading as to what the book is actually about, so I would make sure the poster gave potential readers a better idea of what kind of novel Slaughter-House is. I would include giraffes, spaceship and eyes. The book is for someone who enjoy unconventional plots, and scifi novels so a wild, intrepid poster should display this.

Another great way to attract more readers would be to produce a movie. Though, compacting slaughter-house into a short 2 hour film, might be a challenge it would be a sure fire way to attract more potential readers. When a consumer can read and then watch the wonder of there favorite story it is a huge money maker. People want to read before they watch so they can compare the two. Not to mention the commercials for the movie would people a taste of what slaughter-house is really about and maybe sway them to read the book before watching the film.

A book like Slaughter-House Five is particularly hard to advertise because it is so subjective and unique. However, I think it would really rad to have like a theme park sort of thing where you can ride like themed rides, and do like a simulator where you can go through some of the crazy stuff Billy does on his adventures. You could actually simulate the fire bombing, and all that stuff - like a movie but like more real. I think that would be fun~ and you sell the book at the parks, and people want to read what inspired the fun :) It's a stretch but its interactive!

an apple is a book

A book is an apple. Good apples are thick, and sort of crunchy, with lots of juice. When you’re in the grocery store, strolling down the produce aisle, you're picking though the fruits looking for the best one. Some are yellow, bruised, and soft, other are blackened, hard and dull ... but then there is that one perfect apple. It's shiny, and fresh you hold it in your hands, and it squeaks a little bit when you run your thumb over its illustrious wax skin. Apples like that are the kinds you can't wait to stick your teeth into. You can eat all kinds of different ways, you can cut it up, dip it in sauce, you can fry it up with cinnamon, or you can just bite right into it. You can eat fast or slow. Some apples are red or green and others are a little bit in between. Some apples come sour, others sweet and some are even a little bitter. Everyone has different taste, but for everyone there is a perfect apple. An apple is a book. Good books catch your eyes in the crowd of other dusty books on the shelf. They are thick and juicy. You’re drawn deep into its pages by the intoxicating smell of the ink heavily pressed in the paper. The cover art, painted rich over a glossy jacket hits the light just right, and you hold it in your hand. It squeaks a little bit when you run your thumb over its shining bright face. Books like that are the kinds you want to burls up under your favorite quilt, with a cup of tea, and read until your eyes grow heavy and you just fall asleep. You can read take it anywhere you please. You could read it all in one night, or you could stretch it out over days and really take your time. Some books are happy, or sad and others are little of both. Some books are just for fun, and others are all business and some are even a little insane. Everyone has different taste, but for everyone there is a perfect apple. 

 

 

reading is like eating apples

Why Do I Read?

I read books
because I like
being able to
pretend
I like to step away
from my life
and live someone elses
I can expeirence
new things
I can try to understand
the veiw points of
other people
and try to
emapthize
with their feelings
and I then
when I close the cover
I can take what
I learned
back with me
to my life.
It can do
things I otherwise
never could have.
I can go places
and be people
and
It's hard to explain
but I think
the biggest reaons I read
is to be able
to expand
my life
widden my horizon
of thought
and try to understand
the world
a little better.

Kurt Vonnegut

The first book I'm going to read is Salughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. He was born on November 11th 1922 and he died April 11th 2007. 11. He lived in New York City. He is most famous for his book Cat's Cradle (1963), Salughterhouse-Five (1969) and Breakfast of Champions (1973). Vonnegut’s works are often associated with genres such as satire, gallows humor and science fiction. Vonnegut was honorary President of the American Humanist Association.

Vonnegut was a solider and prisoner or war during World War II. He was imprisoned in the City of Dresden. He witnessed The Fire Bombing of Dresden, which destroyed most of the city. After the war Vonnegut attended the University of Chicago. He also married his childhood “sweetheart” Jane Marie Cox. However, he and his wife separated in 1970. Vonnegut and Cox were not divorced until nine years later. While during those nine years Vonnegut lived with Jill Krementz, who would later become his second wife.

He raised seven children. Three adopted from his sister when she passed away. Three adopted with his second wife. And one biological son called Mark Vonnegut.

Vonnegut described himself as a freethinker, humanist, agnostic, atheist and a skeptic. He disbelieved in the supernatural and considered religion “so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash,” and believes that people were motivated by loneliness to seek comfort in religion.

In “The Sexual Revolution”, Chapter 18 Vonnegut grades his own works. He says he is comparing “myself with myself”. The grades are as follows:

Player Piano: B

The Sirens of Titans: A

Mother Night: A

Cat’s Cradle: A-plus

God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater:  A

Slaughterhouse-Five:  A-plus

Welcome to the Monkey House: B-minus

Happy Birthday, Wanda June: D

Breakfast of Champions: C

Slapstick: D

Jailbird: A

Palm Sunday:  C