The Review

I have just read two memoirs from my english book(The Norton Feil Guide to Writing) and now its time for me to give my imput. I will start from the begininng and move on from there.

The frist memoir I read was by David Sedaris titled "Us and Them". I really liked the story line. I thought it was very interesting, and I liked watching David talk about how interested he was that these people don't own a television. Sure, I know it is a little weird, but he acted lie they were from another planet instead. Reading about him wtching these people and trying to figure them out is what kept me reading the story. I thought in the end he would either get caught or his family would throw out their television or something like that, but no. Instead it ends with just a simply request from the Tomkey family. They simply want some candy on the day after Halloween. Now I don't think it is such a big deal, but clearly David did and he turned into an animal. Suffing his face with the candy to not let them have any really makes you wonder "Why David? Just let them have some candy." I thought the ending was nice, but it could have been better. And on my last note for this book, the only thing I had against it was it was a little slow to start off, but in the end it all worked out.

The second memoir was by Susan Jane Bilman titled "Mick Jagger Wants Me". Now when you first hear that title, you ssume, no, expect it to be about a girl meeting Mick Jagger. First of all, who would want to meet him, he is disgusting. Well, I guess that is what you get for being a rock star. Back to the memoir. Instead it is about these two girls who are crazed fans who want to meet him after learning that he is recording near their home town. They wait all day (I could never do that, I would get bored) to meet him with no avail from what I got. Then it goes off wome wild tanget about them going to parties where they do drugs, alcohol, and make out. Now that sounds like a party from the 70's. And then it skips back to the present where they see the guitarist and then she gets the idea they are going to wait for mick jagger. But Susan then realizes, that she wants mick jagger to find her, not vice versa. So she doesnt want to be some crazed fan, she wants to be more. Then again, doesnt everyone want to be more than a fan. Don't we all want to be special to that celebrity we love. Thats why we are the crazed fans, so that they can recognize us. And we believe once we are recognized, we can truely win them over. So her whole epiphany was actually just hypocracy. But I still love the memoir. It had great imaging and it was captivating. I think the only issue with it was it could have been better with staying on topic, but other than that, fantastic.