At the Mountains of Madness 1 and 2

 Our group is reading At the Mountains of Madness, so far it seems to be very sci-fi. I’m not a very big fan of science so hopefully thats not all it is about. It also doesn’t really seem to be like any of the other books that we have read so far in class, theres not very many connections that I can make between books, at least not as far as I can see. But as far as the group aspect of this book goes I think we are doing a good job, we are all working good together and finding lots of good stuff for our wiki. Also in class we have talked about canonical and non canonical themes. So far I don’t really see how our book applies but maybe soon we will understand a little bit better. Another thing about this book is the author uses big words and a lot of scientific words which makes it really annoying and hard to read sometimes. Hopefully the book will pick up a bit and become more interesting or if not hopefully we will atleast find a way to connect it to class and the other books students are reading.

Our group is now done with reading out book. The book I think was interesting because it had a lot in it about science and stuff but at the same time that made it confusing for me at some points. I’m not very interested in science so sometimes it was very hard for me to keep reading. Even though the book definately does pick up a bit after the first few chapters.  It also can be interesting at somepoints because there is a lot of suspense to it so you have to keep reading to find out whats going to happen. But then there is a lot of things that go on in the book that you really have to analyze to even understand whats going on or what it even means which makes parts of the book were very confusing. Another thing that our group noticed is that our book wasn’t really like anything else we have read in class or the other books students our reading. It was hard to find cannoical themes from the list that applied to our book and even the ones that did I think barely did. But overall I think our group did a good job at finding information for the wiki and trying to understand and analyze what was gonig on in the book.