I had to read this book in my Theology class senior year at St. Ignatius. This book is amazing because it showed me what being human really is. Frankl is in a concetration camp. He describes ridiculous aspects of the camps, including suicide. The only thing that stops Viktor from doing so is because, as he says, that they could strip everything from him but his inner soul. That was one thing they could never get to. I loved this book because Frankl even forgives the men who did this to him. He showed me even in the most horrific circumstances, the human heart is the strongest thing in the world.

This book is extremely interesting because Fitzgerald attacks people's morals in America. My favorite part is the beginning, where Nick says he wants to bring the world to a "moral attention." I cannot say enough about how well-written that paragraph is. He is telling the story after the fact, not while it is going and he is reflecting on it. The character's are extremely selfish and self-centered. Fitzgerald attacks every character, even accusing the female golfer (her name escapes me) as a cheater. I also like the symbolism involved with the glasses billboard. It stands over the "valley of ashes," and I take it to mean God staring at a society where morals have turned into ashes. I love this book because Fitzgerald communicates so well with the reader and every word seems so carefully chosen.

This is one of my favorite books too. Holden Caulfield is amazing because he seems crazy when one first reads the book, but thinking back on it I think he is a highly relatable character. I love the fact that he considers so many people "phony." I thought he was extremely pessimistic(sp?) at first, but as I grow older one realizes that the number of friends you have reduces dramtically as you get older. People do seem phony sometimes and Holden seems like me except he is not afraid to let his emotions out. This is gibberish, I know, but Holden just amazes me because I think he and Salinger are brutally honest about people.

I just recently read this book and I loved it. I read this as an attack on Darwinism. The story takes place in 1986, but it is being told by a million-year old ghost. I found a lot of religious undertones to the novel, including a pretty obvious reference to Noah's Ark. I liked the book because I am somewhat religious, and the book seemed to say that just because The Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection are legitimate theories, that does not mean it is right and it does not rule out the possibility of God existing.

To me this book is a brilliant satire. Vonnegut, a war veteran himself, describes vivid and often disturbing images of an under-publicized aspect of World War II: The fire-bombings at Dresden. My favorite aspect of the book is when the alien creatures are introduced. I also enjoyed how time is shown in the book and how time jumps from chapter to chapter of Billy's life. My own interpretation is that Billy suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and that is the underyling anti-war statement.