Vote for My Most Excellent Year!!!

I am getting really excited to present our book My Most Excellent Year. This is a book that I personally picked and I think that it has a lot of offer the class. I wouldn’t call it the most difficult or mind blowing book ever but I think it has a lot of Water For Elephants qualities to it. The book is basically about three kids growing up in Massachuset and their best year of high school. I know it seems a little immature or more high school level but all of the characters are really complex and the story line is addictive. What I liked the most about this book is the incorporation of instant messaging and e-mails. They are part of the text and help tell the story. I didn’t know that this book had that until I started reading it and I was immediately taken back to eighth grade when your entire grade was online by 8 pm. I feel like the best way to describe this book is a symbolic, complex and thought provoking novel disguised as a quick, lighthearted read. It tricks you into thinking you are reading a fun, enjoyable story but the depth of the characters and symbols will make for some awesome in class discussions. This won’t be a book that the professor has to pull teeth to get us to talk about. Also, for anyone who hates this book, there can be lots to say about why as well. I think the most important thing about this class, to make it successful, is that people have to feel passionate about the book and have something to talk about or else everyone will just sit there waiting for the clock to say 11:00 and I think this book will do that like Happiness and Water For Elephants.