Host

While I was reading host by David Foster Wallace, I noticed that I kept getting sidetracked by the footnotes that were actually within the text and not on the bottom where they should be. When I am reading, I usually read some of the footnotes on the bottom of the page, but not all of them because it tends to get annoying and tedious after the first couple of pages. So, I did ignore some of the footnotes in Host, although it gave me some more background information on what I was reading and made me feel like I was actually there.

Overall, this type of writing is different than what I am used to, but I'm glad I got to experience this type of reading. The footnotes were annoying many times, but because they were funny I had the will to keep reading a lot of them.

Bartleby

We read Bartleby in class and usually reading short stories or books interest me, but for some reason this story was one of the less interesting things I've read.

I'd just like to say a few things that I noticed in the story.

Bartleby is a very annoying character in a way because he doesn't offer input for things and basically was a waste of space in the story. The story really became annoying because theres no way that a person can jst go from a hard worker to someone who won't bother doing anything the entire day. I feel like he just doesn't care about his own life anymore which is why he is acting all sluggish lately. Maybe he is just lonely cuz he doesn't have friends or a family to support him in what he's doing and how he lives his life. Aside from all of that, Bartleby needs to stop being boring/annoying and the readers can therefore be able to finish the story smoothly without having to go page by page, bored.

I would like to know more about the narrator other than him being old and a lawyer. This story leaves many questions unanswered, which in a way makes you want to keep reading more because it's suspenseful, but in the end, you realize you're not going to learn any more about the characters than what the narrator has told us.

Turkey, Ginger Nut, and Nippers have weird names and i don't know if that symbolizes anything but by the way the narrator described the characters, such as Turkey, you have a sense like your actually there watching them in the workplace knowing what they look like.