Blog Review

My blog review is on Greg's blog.
Slaughterhouse Review
(http://wolf1sr.blogspot.com/)

I think Greg's blog was really well written. It has good ideas that are controversial, but he never sits on the fence, which I like in an author. I never really like it when people don't decide what side to be on. Also, his writing is very relatable, although this might just be because I know him personally.
His one post on censorship is interesting because he talks about knowledge as a human right, which I agree with. He states that a "human should not be forbidden to gain knowledge from a piece, just because a message that the government doesn't agree with is written down, doesn't necessarily mean it will be believed, rather, it helps expand the cititzen's world view and understand what other people think of their nation". I think that just as free speech is a right we have, the access we have to all free speech should also be a right.
His post about memories was cool because I was there for the one incident, when Danielle hit him with the airsoft gun. It was also really well written. Also his post about his book was cool because he is basing one of the characters off of me, so I read a bunch of the first chapter from his book before the "hard drive crash of [his] laptop".
I disagree with Greg a bit on his one post about how "Billy was incredibly special and fortunate" because I think that although Billy did have good things happen to him, he also had lots of bad things happen to him, like marrying someone he didn't want to, be in a plane crash in the first place, go through the events of Dresden, and be ridiculed through the war, and sustain head injuries, etc... I don't think that Billy was especially a lucky person, I just think the good things balanced out the bad things somewhat. If Billy had absolutely NO good things happen to him, it would just be such an even more depressing book.
In his post about him not liking Billy Pilgrim as a character, I really liked the thought of how, "[Billy] worked very well in the context of the novel...  well of course he did, otherwise SH5 would've been terrible". I really found this thought provoking, and I started thinking about how if he was a different character how the book would have a very different feel to it, and therefore be a different book entirely.
In the end, I really enjoyed reading Greg's blog, because he writes as if he is actually talking to you, instead of writing like a formal essay.


By: Rachel Cutler