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Books Read: The Colorado Kid by Stephen King


Pages Read 69


Sentances

1) "In big cities evidence gets lost all the time, I understand, but I guess Augusta's not that big yet."


2) To be a success in the news business, it don't hurt to have a dirty mind, dear.


3) " Maybe change and madness are the same?"


4)  Every one of em has a beginning, a middle, and an end.


5)" Even if the story is about a church secretary who probably killed half the congregation at the church picnic because her lover jilted her, that is happy news, and why?"

Rainy Wednesdays

So for the past thee days it has basically be non stop raining, which is not good when I want to skate. See when skaters get desprate to find dry places to skate it's bad. Luckily my friend has a warehouse whig we turned into our personal private skate park sanctuary which is always open and includes ramps and rails for us to skate. Once we got bored of skating the warehouse we decided to start lurking for some parking garages. The art to skating parking garages is to know when all the office personal go home that way you don't get spotted by any bitter civilians who would like nothing better than to yell at you just because You wanted to skate and stay out of the rain. Of course we know th perfect parking garage downtown which is totally enclosed And four stories high, first we just drive straight to the top of the garage where there is the definition of a perfect curb. For those who don't site it is basically a concrete curb with tons of wax on it to allow our skateboards to grind and slide across it. I'm hoping that it will be dry enough for me to skate tomorow, but if not it will be back to the streets lurking for those skate hideaways just for me and my homies.

The Claim Paragraph Based off of JimmehFTW's Claim

             In Walton Ford’s painting “Dying Words” the eyes are magnetized to the distressed song bird spread out in a tragic way, as if calling for a second chance at life. The gritty and detailed picture really makes it seem as if it should be people instead of song birds in the picture. The bleak tone over this entire picture shows an unsightly and grotesque picture of a dying bird. The dull reaction of the birds towards the dying birds makes it seem as if the death of a fellow bird means nothing to them, and maybe it infers that the bird is just a number and no body really cared for it.

Sentances of the Month

Pages Read: 100

Books Read: The Colorado Kid

1) She turned and he was coming for her. It was Jack and yet not Jack. His eyes were lit with a vancant, murderous glow; his familiar mouth now wore a quivering, joyless grin.

2) "Oh dear God!" she screamed to the Overlook's shadowy lobby, and buried the kitchen knife in his lower back up to the handle.

3) Then, as he closed on it, he recognized it and horror closed his throat. Not a wolf but a lion. A hedge lion.

4) "Cane him for it, Jacky my boy, cane him within an inch of his life."
5) "Glad you asked because curiosity killed that cat and it was the HOPE of satisfaction that brought  him."

The Colorado Kid by Stephen King

So last weekend I asked my mom if she had any good Stephen King books because I really loved reading the shining it gave me goose bumps as I turned every page of horror. She gave me a couple different choices one which was Frankenstein but after my experience with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein I didn’t want to risk another reading such as that one. When I came across this book with a lovely lady on the cover looking kind of scandalous, then I looked at the author and it was Stephen King! I read the back of the book and it really seemed to interest me. The sentence that really caught my eye was “With an All-New Investigation into the Unknown.” Doesn’t that just make you want to pick it up and start reading into the whole story?! It started the story off in a diner where The Weekly Islander writers have just walked out unsatisfied with the information they have gathered and they left two fifties under the salt shaker. That’s a lot of money. It then goes on between a conversations with the people still at the table talking about how there is a customer tab that each customer holds and it is all on the waitresses back if the customer pays or not. For example a person could come in eat everything off the menu and run and all that money would put the waitress in debt for paying for that dinner. Which I think is a really dumb idea because it would be real easy to make the diner go out of business just by dinning and dashing. The beginning of this story is kind of bleak, but that is with any introduction to a new story. You first have to know the base line material before you get into the creepy mystery crime story. I really wish it just jumped into the mysterious story line. Because although I loved the shining it did the same thing that this book is doing. Which was start with the back story and memories instead of getting to the creepy parts of the story. The creepy parts were probably the most exciting and heart pounding moments of that book, and I hope that The Colorado Kid  does the same for me like The Shining  did so well.

Claims of the Day

JimmehFTW -The painting's gritty texture, balanced use of space, selective use of colour, and dark tone leave the viewer a sense of depressing realization leading to a climactic finish.

To Kill A Mockingjay-Proenza Schouler's somber color scheme, seductive shape, and aggravated music choice, conveys a creepy and polished look for their fall 2010 collection.

The Average Life of a Teenage Bookworm-In this flash mob by Todrick Hall, the mischievous and adventurous expressions, jubilant sounds, and bustling moves, show the explosive creativity and confident energy of the dancers.

Look Up...(Now!)-This refreshingly bright photograph taken in the environmental center reflects an existence of both dreamlike tranquility and effortless freedom.

Bud in the Garden-Leonid Afremov's vibrant use of color, flowing appearance, and realistic, silky texture illustrates a feeling of whimsical relaxation and majestic euphoria.


I think that JimmehFTW does a really good job at describing and chose very interesting words to tell people about the painting. Look Up...(Now!) I really liked how they used an original picture from around Fort Wayne and it was really creative.

Currently Week 4

Page total 18

Last week 100

Well this week I didn't read as much I just finished my book and now I need to make my next choice for a book. I would highly recomend The Shining for anyone who likes to be on the edge while reading this epic horror story.

Sentances of the Week

1) She turned and he was coming for her. It was Jack and yet not Jack. His eyes were lit with a vancant, murderous glow; his familiar mouth now wore a quivering, joyless grin.

2) "Oh dear God!" she screamed to the Overlook's shadowy lobby, and buried the kitchen knife in his lower back up to the handle.

3) Then, as he closed on it, he recognized it and horror closed his throat. Not a wolf but a lion. A hedge lion.

My favorite sentance out of the little pages I read would have to be number one. At this point in the story Jack has indefinetly lost his freaking mind, he now believes that Wendy and Danny are planning aginst him to take the hotel from him. He now is out to kill Danny and Wendy with a roque mallet, how brutal is that!

Top Three Poems (so far)

1) "Gee, your so beautiful that it's starting to rain"
     - This poem really stood out to me because it really used surrealism in its poem, I also thought it was clever to use a report card at the end of the poem.

2) "First Kiss"
     -This is another poem that stood out to me by kind of tricking the reader. At the begining of this poem you think its just going to be another "roses are red violets are blue" poem. But in fact after  it gets past the gushy love part it tells us that after that it says that the girl is then just sitting in a room all by herself.


3) "Dust"
     -I liked this poem because it says god comes with his black wings which is different you would think they would be white.

The Shining 5

Well as this epic book draws to the end I am still kept on the edge of my seat reading this book all the way until I can reach the exciting finish. First, Jack was some how able to get wasted, funny thing about that is there is no alcohol in the hotel it is all dry. Yet when Wendy went down stairs to find where Jack was she could smell the putrid smell of alcohol on his breath just as she had smelled such a long time ago. But when she got closer calling his name his eyes opened up and grabbed her ankle with an intent to kill Wendy and Danny all because he was now under the control of the Overlook Hotel. After he got up he began to walk forward and choke Wendy with no mercy then Danny started to scream “No Daddy!” Wendy began to see the world darken around her every breath she tried to take burned her lungs. Then she grabbed hold of an empty wine bottle that was on a table and she smashed it over the top of Jacks skull hoping to loosen his grip. That at least was able to knock Jack out. Then get this Wendy and Danny drag jacks body into the food storage room then lock him in there! Why wouldn’t they just end his life, personally if my dad went crazy and was trying to kill my mother and I, it would be a tough decision to kill my father or let him kill me and my mother. Any ways after they lock him in it switches to Mr. Hallorann’s view point, where he is trying relentlessly to get to the Overlook Hotel before it is too late. He manages to bump into one of the people he knows from the hotel and is able to borrow a snowmobile. Then it switches to Jack’s point of view, he wakes in the pantry and is very bitter surrounded by triscit boxes eating them violently and angry. He then hears a voice and it turns out to be Grady the server and bar tender or past keeper of the hotel who murdered his family and wife. Grady then begins to badger Jack about how he is going to fail his job by not keeping his wife and child in line and being overpowered by a mere child and women was unacceptable and pathetic. Then the door was opened by “Grady” and Jack walked out and grabbed a rouque mallet, and it said in the book right as he grabbed the weapon he had a sinister smile on his face. Then it jumps to Mr. Hallorann’s story once again. It says that he was getting close to the hotel when he saw what looked like a mountain wolf pushed down the mountain because of the storm but once he got closer he could tell it looked like a lion, a hedge lion it started to attack Hallorann with vicious intent. It began taking chunks out of him by slashing its twig like claws along Halloranns body cutting him up with every swipe of the hedge lion’s mighty paw. Then it cuts off and jumps to Wendy’s thoughts. It says that she was up stairs in their room with just her and Danny but they started to hear the elevator going again and the sound of people partying and dancing, she also heard jack screaming, and of course later she goes down stairs and Jack basically crushes a lot of her bones and makes a lot of cuts in her body, you will have to wait for more of the ending on this sweet wonderful book until next week LURKER signing off.

The Shining 4

Well this week has been pretty eventful in the book; Jack has been called out on his lying about seeing things in the hotel. Well Danny this time wandered out into the hedges just as his dad did, like father like son. When Danny went out he began to play on the swing set and also went down the slide a few times then he started to hear things and if I were Danny I would have just left and been done with it but instead he just thinks to himself it isn’t real, yea that worked real well the last time when the dead old lady grabbed your throat so Danny just stays in the play ground.  Then he hears the noises again and looks over to the hedges which were now uncovered and bare with no trace of snow on top, event though they had just been covered only two minutes ago when Danny first came into the play ground . He probably should have listened to Mr. Halloran when he said stay away from room 217 and the play ground but instead he just goes right on ahead and chooses to do the opposite of what anyone says. Why he does this I have know idea, but as Danny keeps looking away and looking back he notices the lions and the dog seem to be moving closer and closer to Danny as if stalking him as their prey so he begins to run. Every time he looked back the topiary’s were closer to him, at this point I would probably be freaking out a lot! Then Danny runs up to the porch then he hears what sounds like branches breaking and he all of a sudden felt pain in his leg! When his parents came running down they were freaking out, but when Danny told them what happened Jack seemed to be the one in denial saying that Danny was lying and he took Danny to the window too look out into the topiary’s but there they stood covered in snow not moved a bit. Funny thing is that Jack saw with his own eyes and he was trying to play it off like nothing happened. Maybe trying to keep it a secret from his own mind not to go entirely insane which I think might have already happened. But when Danny said “Dad you saw them with your own eyes” Jack slapped Danny across the face!! Wendy then yelled “you bastard, how dare you hit him!” This came to a real surprise to me because I thought that after Jack had broken Danny’s arm when he was drinking he had promised never to hurt Danny again, right there and then he had broken his promise he had held so dear. This I could imagine pissed off Wendy beyond belief. She then ran off with Danny in her arms and had taken him to his room to tuck him in. When Jack had realized what he had done he immediately apologized to Danny and Wendy not knowing what came over him to do such a terrible thing to his own flesh and blood. Maybe the hotel is making Jack’s mind weak so it can manipulate him the way it wants him to, such as kill Danny and Wendy that way they can stay at the Overlook Hotel forever. 

Currently

Books: The Shining


Pages read 269-374


Sentances of The Week

1. "It was Her! It was Her!"
     This was what Danny said when Jack asked who had hurt him, Jack then turned and looked at Wendy Suspiciously. I thought he would of went off and beaten Wendy for hurting Danny but instead Jack just stayed calm and asked what happened. The real reason Danny got hurt was locked away in room 217

2.  "I hated looking at it, it was as if it had a stinger on the end."
      Jack was told by Wendy to go and see if the snow mobile worked. I think Jack is reffering to the snowmobile as if it were the hornets nest he delt with before the winter started. Even though the snowmobile could have taken the whole family to saftey Jack was still willing to stay but why?

The Shining 3/ part 2 of 2

Now back to the story, after Jack Torrence entered room 217 and when he walked towards the bath room he opened the door and the curtain to the bath was closed so he wanted to open it quick right as he opened it nothing was there just a dry bath he felt the bottom to check if it was damp, nothing it's was bone dry. The only odd thing was that a carpet was in the bathroom which was weird because all the linnens were supposed to be all put away but jack just thought nothing of it and started walking away. Just as he was about to close the bathroom door he heard a sound like the bathroom curtain closing that would have made me run as fast as I could but Jack decided to turn around and the curtain was closed but this time their was a dark figure in the tub. So jack walked to the bath a second time and this time there layed a man covered in blood and sitting in a half filled tub full of murky bloody water. Then the man started getting up and reached out for his neck then he was up to the door and all he had to do was turn the handle bit he couldnt again a dumb thing then he could feel the hands wrap around his neck. Then he grabbed around the door knob and turned and bursted right out the door and shut it and locked the door. He was also able to here the wet footsteps of some one behind the door that right there would have made me poop my pants. But Jack asked himself if he looked in the eye hole if some wet naked dead man would be right behind the door just peering back at him. After that expirence you would think he would want to gt the hell out of th over look but instead tells Wendy that there was nothing up there!! Then when Wendy decided to bring up transportation to get out of the Overlook she mentioned the snow mobile. Then next morning Jack acted like he wanted to sabotage the snow mobile so he and his family could stay there isn't that strange? So he took a vital part to the snow mobile and threw int as far as he could into the snow! Well that's all I got for you so far since I unfortunately left my book in my locker at work which is in Columbia city so etymology should be fun tomorow.