**** JESUS?!

**** JESUS?!
I posted a tweet and said, “Interesting….ly weird.” I guess I will be the odd duckling for the discussion again, because I read some classmates’ tweets about how this book is interesting. I believe this book itself is weird; I personally didn’t like it because it had no sense of direction. Only after I read reviews and short plots about it did I even understand what this book was trying to do. One page Kathy disappears and then another page she magically shows up again. I was shredding my hair trying to read this because there was no PLOT! I dislike reading books without plots because I can get lost while reading, easily. After halfway through the book was when I decided that I don’t really understand what this book is trying to do, all of these “Hypothesis” and whatnot. So I resolved to the usage of the internet to help guide me while reading. Afterwards, I understood what these “Hypothesis” were which made me kind of like the book more, but not really. I see the relation to the Vietnam War and see what effect it had on the soldiers because come on, John is crazy.
The book didn’t really end off with giving me what I wanted, which was an ENDING. I’m trying to express my anger if you can’t really tell but yes, I’m definitely angry. Maybe I’m wrong; it did have an ending, but nowhere near relevant to Kathy’s disappearance. Instead, it ended off with another hypothesis! Tim really wanted to keep us guessing and questioning I suppose. I could look at it from another angle and how an argument could be proposed. After all, this could be Tim trying to sway us towards believing into one argument more than the other. If we all think about it, Tim wrote a lot about John’s insanity, his denials of insanity, and the way he copes with his insanity by talking to himself. A couple of the hypothesis was about Kathy leaving John because she was scared, another was that John poured hot boiling water on her face and drowned her. Those are two totally different hypothesis but both relevant to John’s insane behavior. The other hypothesis are just about her being lost and losing sense of direction, drowning, and something of that sense, but with the reader knowing how cynical John was because of the loss of the election and the war, the reader (me) will tend to think that the hypothesis that doesn’t involve John are false.
From the text, Tim recaps a lot, I remember him typing almost the same things in different chapters. I especially remember the part where John boils the hot water and pours it on the “Geranium” because Tim put that text in there numerous times. Who pours hot water into plants?! Not me, just something a cynical person would do. Tim also exaggerated and overused John’s phrase of “KILL JESUS!” which was pretty eye-opening for me. Who yells out that phrase?! Not me, just another something a crazy person would do. These are just examples of how Tim makes me think of why the hypothesis of Kathy’s, “Disappearance” had to have involved John.
P.S. I liked the book to some extent don’t get me wrong, but then again, it didn’t have a plot! =(
Hopefully I don’t become shunned in class because of my opinion. =)