Final Blog

"The Stone Reader" is a documentary movie that shows the main character's quest in order to find the author of a unfamiliar novel. The novel is "The Stones of Summer" published in 1972 and written by Dow Mossman. Mark Moskowitz brought the novel in 1972 and had yet to finish reading it until years later when he discovered it was one of the best books he had ever read. So he went on to research for the author, Dow Mossman, but he seems to have vanished. He cannot be found in articles in the library or on the internet. He asks all of his friends that could  know anything about the book and asks them to read it and judge it for themselves. Moskowitz only finds one review written on the book and all the publishers and people who worked on the book were now dead. So he researches and finds the author of the review and talks to him about the book. Since not many people have read the novel, Moskowitz feels like he has known the author for years and can talk to him about the book unlike he can talk to anyone else. He is on an insatiable quest to find out more and more about the author that has disappeared when he could just be dead.
     Overall this class was enjoyable and a relaxing class. The reading helped me relax and learn things about different genres of books that i have not known. Blogging helped to keep up with the readings and made the discussions better and more informational in class. The class discussions let me see how other people interpreted the novels and stories which open my mind to deeper meanings of everything we read. The novels we read all kind of had the same character and plot, I wish we could have read a more variety of stories but the ones we read were good. Overall it was an enjoyable experience.