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Spanking Shakespeare

by Jake Wiener

(Free Response)

 

 

              I can say that I am glad that I chose this book to be my last one in my class for the blog.  I started with uncertainty and ended up learning much just by reading books.  I don't really understand the male species yet and I really don't expect to ever understand them.  But with this book I do realize that most men do only have one thing on their mind and that is usually sex.  You may find one that is like Shakespeare that is awkward and ends up finding true love.  I also think it is some what funny that he had two friends that are the complete opposite of him.  Neither one of them were shy or awkward with themselves.  They made notice of themselves every chance they could.  Kind of sounds like me when I was in High school.  The loud bellowed at the end of the hall and everyone turns around to see whats up!  As for the prom night, I just wanted to smack Shakespeare in the head and tell him, "Wake up". Then he did. It gave me goose bumps and you will see when you read it.  My favorite part of the book was all his memoir's.  Some where just down right hilarious and also the poem he wrote for his first girlfriend.  I hope you enjoy laughing, because that is exactly what you will do.

Here we go!!!!

Spanking Shakespeare

by Jake Wiener

(Guided Response)

              This book talks about how Shakespeare's awkwardness towards his writing and his women.  His first romantic interlude was with a girl named Celeste.  Everyone knows about the first kiss.  No one ever forgets, but in this instance Shakespeare wishes he could.  His endeavor for sex was out standing.  Seriously how many seniors do you know that are virgins? Ex specially on the male side.  Not to many now a days.  The one love story in the book just mind blew me and that was the one with his best friends.  I really don't consider it a love story but a nooky fest if you got to get drunk first to do it.  You do have to consider who she picked all he did was talk about his bowel movements, come on I need a drink on that one.  Eventually, Shakespeare finds his calling and the love of his life with someone very unexpected and I'm not going to say who, you will just have to read it for yourself!!  To me this book was everything I didn't think it would be.  I was expecting a drama about his dad being a drunk, his mom being paranoid about everything, and his brother being an ass.  Well that was all true with a twist of hilarity.  I guess all that masturbation paid off for Shakespeare in the end.  He went through trial and tribulations through out his whole life.  A geek to the core and trying to find sex and love was difficult, with no help from his friends.  I did not have that life other than the parents being a drunk.  I was quite popular in high school.  Where you the geek or the popular one?  If you had his life would you do the same thing as him or would your life be totally different than his?  Mine would be different I would embrace the weird name and family.  I don't think I would be the geek, but I think his mom had a lot to do with his geekiness, tell you the truth.

Must Read

Spanking Shakespeare

By Jake Wiener

(Free Choice)

               My first thought would be, hilarious.  Every part so far that I have read was funny and simply enjoyable.  The way Shakespeare is portrayed in this book works.  The shy backwards senior nerd that only has one thing on his mind and that would be sex!  Is the book indecent?  I don't think so, but others may think it is.  He describes everything in a sexual manner, but in away that you can't help but laugh hysterically.  I really did not want to put the book down.  It's very intriguing, impulsive and addictive.  You crave more and more as you read on.  You wonder what is going to happen next.  Some of the papers he wrote for class.  I would not dare turn in a paper like that.  I would have been sent to the Deans for indecency.  Would you turn one in like that?  You truly have to see the fun in a teenage boy and the thoughts that come from one.  I have two boys, one is 19 and the other 17 and a senior.  So yes, I can truly see this in Shakespeare's eyes.  The teenage boys hormones written down in a book.  It screams read me please and laugh your butt off as you go through every page.  I can't wait to read what he has nest for me to read.  I'm in total suspense and can't wait to find out what happens to him.  If he gets laid, if he gets a girlfriend, will he go through with the writing thing, what happens to his best friends?  I have a lot of what ifs and so will you when you read it too. 

Too Funny

Spanking Shakespeare

By Jake Wiener

    This book is really one of the funniest books so far that I have read.  Seariously, what would you do if your parents gave you a goofy name?  My name when I was little was unique.  I got named after a witch on tv.  Like you can't guess which one it was!  But it wasn't any where near as bad as his.   His family life is kind of normal to most, alcholic dad and a dits for a mother.  It makes me kind of wonder if they were on something other than alcohol.  It was probably around the age of aquarius.  Everyone in that time era was named flower, storm, some character off of TV or a famous writer.  So far in the book, its just humorous.  Think about it he is a kid in his senior year with a geeky name.  Can you see tall and skinny?  Kind of dorky and shy.  He only has to friends and there very weird.  I had a friend like that in high school, the kid that belched and farted all day making a huge seen of himself and you were with him.  So you where talked about too.  Did you have a friend like that in high school?  I can almost bet you did just not as bad or did something different but just as imbarrasing!  If you have not read this book, I suggest that you do.  Read it on a day that your kind of down and it will lift you right up.  I can't wait to read the rest.  I hope its stay funny, that would make my day. 

Twilight

Twilight

By Stephenie Meyer

(Free Response)

                 I decided to reread Twilight because it is and awesome book.  Ever time I read a book again, I notice something new and exciting.  This book is about Vampires that don't drink human blood and live peacefully with humans.  It starts out with this girl named Isabella, from Phoenix, Arizona.  Her mother hooked up with Phil, that is on a baseball team.  Her mother and Phil takes Bella to the airport to live with her dad, Charlie. Which is a Police Officer in Forks, a little town in Washington State.  It's always cloudy and rains almost every single day.  Bella also received an old beat up truck, the she loved from her dad.  Bella went to Forks High School, where she met Edward Cullen for the first time in lab science class.  Edward was kind of rued to her at first and Bella didn't understand why!  The Part I am at is where Eric is asking Bella to the Spring dance and she lets him down easy by telling him she was going to be out of town.  Then Edward cuts her off and she wants to hit his car, but doesn't because all of the witnesses.  Then she unfortunately gets asked if she would ask Tyler to the Spring dance.  After Mike and Eric both asked her and Edward cutting her off she was already aggravated and was really not in the mood to deal with Tyler too.  She told him the same thing, that she wasn't going to be in town.  At this point, I think that Bella is just trying to get use to the new town and not really wanting a relationship with anyone

Lets get real

TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY

By Jay Asher

(Guided Response)

       The more I read this book the more I get mad.  Where was Hannah's parents through this ordeal that she is going through?  I relate to this book because I have a daughter that is 16 and a sophomore in school.  She also gets ridiculed on a daily bases.  Yes, she is suicidal and I have to take precautions everyday.  I deal with the schools and counselors everyday.  Some days are worse than others.  I seen it in my daughter and so did the school.  So again, in this book, How did they not see her pain?  Hannah could not have been so good at hiding her feelings to where it could not be noticed.   In today's schools, they try to make it easier to notice troubled children.  They have lowered the number of children per classroom, so the teachers have more time to notice if there is a problem.  They even went to making more lunch times to divide the kids in smaller groups. Instead of 3 lunch times there are 5.  Is the strategy of the schools working.  I would have to say no.  If it was than my daughter would not be going through the same thing Hannah in this book.  Is there a way to fix this?  Kids are a product of their parents!  They learn by seeing their parent, grandparents any role model that is around them doing this.  Its about time for parents around the world to wake up and take some responsibility for their actions.  Gossip is the one worst thing that people do and most of the time they don't realize they are doing it until it is to late.  Here is a solution: You hear something go straight to the person and ask if it true!  As for any young people that have a problem with someone saying something false about you.  Stick up for yourselves, you have a mouth go tell someone that you no will help. Weather it be a counselor at school, a parent or someone you no you can trust.  I don't believe suicide is the answer.  No one is worth taking your own life.  Never believe stories, that's all they are "STORIES" nothing more, nothing less.  You know the truth, that is all that matters.

IT

 A Child Called "IT"

     By David Pelzer

         It's about a boy named David, he talks about how they where like the "Brady Bunch" and then something went horrible wrong with his mother, she just snaps.  To me she kind of treated him like a male "Cinderella" , but I think she got treated a lot better than David did.  Any way, back to the subject on hand, David's mother puts him through total horror on a daily bases.  While his two brothers get to do all the fun stuff.  Wow, this is the first time I can really say that eating is the fun stuff, but for him it was. 
Now my turn to make pot shots on the dad. What on earth was the dad thinking? It sure wasn't grab the kids and run.  No instead throws food to him like he was some kind of dog or something.  David loved his dad, but his dad was to much of a pussy to stand up to his wife.  He let her do whatever she wanted to poor David.  He just drank to forget, How could someone drink and forget about his son?  Ok, enough of my male bashing.  On another note, How is it that it took schools or anyone so long to realize this kid was starved and beat?  Did they really think that he was a bad seed?  Couldn't they see that he was hurting inside and out?  I have a hard time believing this because in todays world we are taught to look for signs of abuse.  Back then we were not shown the signs, we where not educated like we are today.  For me, this book was utterly compelling, I couldn't put it down and read it in one night.  You will laugh, you will cry and you will learn a lot from reading this book.  Can't wait the read the other two books.