Mary's Tirade
ok... so this is like my third entry. Oh well. I am beyond angry and I need to vent. I didn't want to use a live journal because I new I would end up just complaining on it all the time, but I will make an exception. I just finished the most disturbing and provoking book I have ever read- oh wait...its a collection of short stories. Really, its just a book about one liberal extremist's views. It is in no way a bunch of short stories. It is Kingsolvers personal tyrade. Deans Book...what are these books they make us read....can't they pick something that won't enrage me to this degree. I seriously feel like the most cynical person right now, because I don't know what the world is coming to if Kingsolver's book, Small Wonders, is A NATIONAL BESTSELLER. People actually CHOOSE to read this shit.,....forgive the language..I am angry. She is absolutely horrible. Everything she says, for the most part, are absolute lies and I feel ashamed of her ideas. I agree that people need to express their opinions, but I find it outrageous that she could be so insane and so completely opposed to everything that I believe. I can tell that this year's deans book is not going to be too enjoyable, at least not for me. I am sure everyone else at UMASS will be quite pleased, although I hope that they will not be, as I hope they will see how insanely radical she is. Why can't people THINK. Or at least apply some common sense. I feel ashamed of what this book says. And I must say that I will argue with almost every point she makes. This book is a preaching attempt by Kingsolver to indoctrinate her extremist views into our country. That is fine....I don't oppose to the writing of this book. I oppose to the fact that my school would pick such a book, which I believe to be a serious attempt to delude us all into a certain way of thinking. Talk about controlling what we read and what we think and what we believe in. I just hope that my fellow students will actually think and investigate what Kingsolver writes and not just follow it in blind faith the way, I am afraid, many will. This is what makes me afraid for our country/world, for what people are listening to. I am enraged that UMASS would make me spend 13 dollars to read liberal propaganda. If this was an extremist right wing book, there would be absolute outrage, but the liberal viewpoint is accepted with open arms. Why couldn't we read a balanced, thought-provoking book that would present varying ideas and concepts.........ahhhhhh.....I am depressed with the world and I am going to put the book down now. END OF TIRADE.