Disappointment Has A Name, It's Heartbreak Warfare

Pages read this week: 160
Pages read total: 1220


After writing and rereading my last reading response to Swimsuit, once I picked the book up again, I was uninterested. It was getting slow and I was tired of wasting my time on it. So I dropped it for good. I then decided to pick up Everything is Illuminated but after reading the first chapter and rereading the overview of the plot on the book cover, it simply didn't interest me. I gave up 2 books within an hour. I'm disappointed but I would rather just drop it rather than forcing myself to pick it back up. With that said, I decided to start a new book called Goat by Brad Land. I was immediately drawn to the book because of its size (short book!!! YAY!!!!) and it takes place in South Carolina (my favorite!).  The two of them attend a liberal arts college in the same city that they attended high school. Brett is a year younger than Brad but according to Brad, he's the attractive and athletic one and he even states that he'd "give up everything that Brett wants [of Brad's personality] to be Brett." While Brett is attractive and has superb soccer skills, Brad is the artistic and musical genius of the two. Although he's artistic and musically inclined, he is rather awkward when it comes to social gatherings and most importantly, girls. The story opens up at a party with practically the whole small town in attendance for there is "nothing else to do" (sound familiar, Fort Wayne??). Brett starts getting a girl to hit on him while Brad awkwardly stares at her friend as she does the same. Brett then tries to convince his brother to sleep with the girl while he sleeps with her friend. Brad, being the awkward fellow that he is, declines. As he is on his way to his car, two guys ask him if he would mind giving them a ride down the street. A ride down the street? What a joke. Brad keeps driving and driving and driving until it's finally no man's land. The two guys then beat him up and stuff him in the trunk and drive. They are then on a country, barely used road, and continue to beat him up and steal all of Brad's money and credit cards along with his car. Brad eventually finds a house and is taken to the police station for questioning. This story has really gripped my attention for the amount of action that has already happened in the beginning of the book. The author uses no quotation marks when someone is talking which sort of bothered me at the beginning, but no I see it as a way to express an informal writing style which goes along perfect with the story revolving around college kids. I hope to finish this story soon for it is terrific thus far.