Questions and Answers

In the book Guns with Occasional Music society is obviously different but a main odd feature is the fact that they can not ask any questions because it is considered impolite. This is where the main character Conrad Metcalf comes in because he is a detective which allows him to ask questions. All the digging he does leads him to some pretty messed up stuff that happens in the future. So he uses his own special mix of drugs to forget the pain. Following down the road of life Metcalf comes to an investigation about his former employer Maynard Stanhunt who also used lots and lots of futuristic drugs. All of this is done in hopes to clear a man named Orton Angwine who ran out of karma points which basically means he is a dead man walking. It's only a matter of time until his time runs out. Now thats as far as I have read into the book so I am not sure whats going to become of either Contad Metcalf or Orton Angwinr but I am excited to keep reading this book so see what it holds. The future of this futuristic book should be crazy!!!!!!!!

Opinion on GwM

Gun with Occasional Music is an interesting book to say the least. It portrays a completely different outlook on life and makes me wonder how the future is really going to be. Is it going to be screwed up or will it be a good time for humanity. The way it is shown to be in this book seems pretty screwed up to me. Whoever put certain laws in place has a twisted view on what is right and wrong. I mean I am no dictator on morality but giving people a card on karma which determines how long they live is pretty messed up. Sure people who do wrong deserve punishment, but human beings are not ones to say how long a person lives or when they die. Which brings up the controversial topic of the death penalty. Can a human being play the role of God. The answer I say is no and which is why the death penalty should be outlawed and if a crime is so absurd than the person should be imprisoned for life. The sustainment of human life outweighs the cost of food and shelter the government provides for them. Sorry for my discretion but back to the fake screwed up reality of the book and enough of ours lol. In the novel people have changed the way of life by giving babies an animals the ability to speed up the growing and development process. So the people in this time period have figured out how to cheat the game of life and I do not think I would like my future to be similar to this one. 

Gun With Occasional Music Blog #1

This story by Jonathan Lethem takes place in a different futuristic realm, where animals can talk and babies can skip the growing process right to adulthood, they are known as "baby heads." There are different drugs such as forgetall and acceptall and life is just done all together differently. The main character is Conrad Metcalf who is a tough private inquisitor. His job is basically a detective who helps people in trouble with debt and karma. Everyone in that day and age has karma and if you run out you are in big trouble. You are taken away and just disappear from life. Signifying death I am sure but I have not read enough to fully answer that question. If i had to make a guess on what happens to them my guess would be that they are put to death. Possibly humanely or not, by the way this book is going anything could happen. It is clearly fictional but that is completely fine with me because I really enjoy reading books along these lines. Nerdy science fiction books that strecth the mental limits of what we know as possible and impossible. This books has made me think about the aspects of life we have not even touched into yet. What awaits the world and how are things going to change are two questions I am most likely never going to know the answer to. So whatever happens happens I guess. Should I be concerned for my future children or should I just not care because it won't affect me in anyway. Either way its an interesting topic that no one on this living Earth will ever truley know unless they have figured out a way to time tracel which I highly doubt, but hey this book has taught me so far that through imagination anything could be possible.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

The question I have chose is number 2 which asks "Why did Li Mu Bai have such a strong desire to teach Jen?" There may have been a couple reasons for him to feel so, but one main reason was to get her onto the right track of life and keep her there. She was raised an trained by the evil Jade Fox which made her viewpoint on life a clouded dark one. He wished to take the martial art talents she had and convert their bad nature to good. She was living a life of wrong doing and he wished to change that. She used her skills for the wrong reasons. Speaking of which, another reason Li Mu Bai wished to teach her was because she had been teaching herself techniques and gone so far. If she became a disciple of Li Mu Bai her skills would become much greater. He could have more throughly taught her moves and trained her to her true potential, which she nor the Jade Fox could do. I believe this would have been really good for Jen. It would have made her abetter person  for sure, basically converting her from the dark side to the good side. Although without ever becoming his disciple, Li Mu Bai dying still turns Jen into a better person. Just through an unnecessary tragedy.

Even more of the Hobbit

Blog number two lets keep going with some Hobbit information!!! Bilbo yells, and out of the crack jump dozens of goblins, who tie up and carry off each member of the company except Gandalf, who was warned by Bilbo's yell. The goblins carry the dwarves and the hobbit down into the mountain to a huge chamber where the Great Goblin sits. The goblins follow quickly after them, and one of the goblins catches up to the dwarf Dori, who has been carrying Bilbo on his back. Bilbo falls off, strikes his head on the ground, and loses consciousness.When Bilbo regains consciousness, he can see nothing in the darkness. If Gollum's riddle stumps Bilbo, he will eat Bilbo, but if Bilbo's stumps Gollum, Gollum will show Bilbo the way out of the mountain. Through sheer luck, Bilbo happens to slip on the ring, and Gollum runs right past him. Realizing the ring's power, Bilbo follows Gollum, who heads toward the exit thinking that Bilbo is ahead of him. Bilbo leaps over him, runs past the goblins unnoticed thanks to the ring, and just barely manages to squeeze through the door into freedom and fresh air. So far overall some crazy stuff has happened and I am really digging this book! I suggest it to all those who have yet to read it!

Summary of whats happening so far

In as much as i have read this is what has happened to Bilbo. As he approaches a clearing in the woods, Bilbo sees three huge trolls sitting around a fire, eating mutton. The trolls stop fighting just long enough to hide in the trees and throw a sack over each approaching dwarf. The trolls decide to cook the dwarves immediately, but then a voice, which sounds like one of the trolls, starts an argument, and the three trolls start fighting again. The sun peeks over the horizon and the trolls all freeze because apparently sunlight turns trolls to stone. He had been throwing his voice to mislead the dwarves and to keep the trolls arguing until morning. As the company approaches Rivendell, a number of elves approach them and invite them back to eat and rest. This book so far is really interesting and fun too read. Although I still have not seen the second movie.

Beginning the Hobbit

The book I have been reading is The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. It is a very interesting book to say the least. It starts off with the description of Bilbo Baggin's sweet little life in Hobbiton amongst all the other hobbits of his race. Then one day Gandalf the Gray shows up, a very wise old wizard, and everything changes. The next visitors to show up are thirteen dwarves who are know for their adventures and quests. I found it funny how the dwarves made themselves right at home, ate everything, and messed up the house while Bilbo just kept trying to be hospitable. It seems the the innocent little Bilbo is being forced into what is going to be a fierce rough adventure and I can not wait to read the rest of what is going to happen so I can see the second movie and be an expert. Because I saw the first movie and was quite bored because all I they seemed to do after meeting, like what I have just read, was just walk. They walked and walked and walked some more. In fact me and my friends left the movie early because all they were doing was traveling and we got really really bored. Although from what I have heard there is supposed to be a lot more action coming up in the sequel because it is going to be about the interesting and intense part of the novel. So I am not only looking forward to seeing the movie but reading the rest of this very renowned book.