Peer evaluation

For my peer evaluation, I will be critiquing Zach's Blog.

Fir off, I really liked you idea of a novel in assignment #5. I totally agree, not every novel has to have some sort of a life lesson in it. Novels can be read just for fun, to kill the time if one needs to. A cliché can always be used if one does not want to cause controversies, and make people come up with questions such as "what does that mean?"

I haven't read a novel in a while that's just a plain novel, with no deeper meaning behind it, and after reading your post, I really want to go read one.

 The SH5 movie that we watched in class was really bad. It detracts from the entire plot of the novel, and, when seen by someone who haven't read the novel, they would probably never understood what the novel was about. The transitions shown in the trailer never made it clear that each cut is a jump in time. I would think that people would want to read the book just to understand what they saw in the movie.

Slamming the trailer aside, remaking the movie would be a great idea. Maybe part of the reason that the movie was so bad was because the special effect techniques were limited, and the film makers didn't want to spend any time time on the special effects. But with today's advances in special effects field, as well as advances in CG techniques, the movie could be remade to better represent the book. Smoother graphics and better quality sound would at least make the movie bearable.

However, I have yet seen a movie that represent a book perfectly. There is always a gap between what I imagine and what the film makers imagine.

The interview with the author himself really brings up useful information from a reliable source (the person who thought of the idea first). Information today are shared across the globe. With new information coming to light every day, causing information in the world is growing by 75% every year. Where does that much information come from? Part of it could come from people reading other people's ideas, and by putting ideas together, generate new ideas for other people to create. Different people relate to different experiences that they had, and generate different ideas.

I think Vonnegut would whole heartily support out little blogging assignment. It allows for endless inspiration between the two classes.


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Are you kidding me... After I write my peer evaluation, I find that two other people did their peer evaluation on the same person...