The Media Equation

Media = Real Life.

I'm also going to patent my own equation. It's called the media equation equation. Here's how it goes: The Media Equation = The worst book I've ever read. I understand that the point of these blogs isn't to rant about things I don't like, but its my nature to get angry about everyday things (no pun intended on the first book we had to read...but yes...it made me angry as well). I think I wouldn't hate this book so much if it was a book. If it was a research paper it would be fine. But when I pick up a book I'm not expecting to read: "Here's what we thought would happen. Here's what we did to test it. We were right. Here's why you think we're wrong, but you're wrong...we are right." Every 15 pages for 250 gruesome pages. I'm not saying that there weren't ANY good things being said in the book or that it was a complete waste of time, but I read about 1 page every 2 minutes...I'm just a slow reader. I can read faster if I try hard enough, but I don't enjoy it at all then and I have to focus on reading quickly and it's just not any fun. So taking that in consideration, I spent 5 hectominutes (that's 500 minutes or 8 hours and 20 minutes for those of you who don't prefer the metric system). So an average of Reeves saying something remotely interesting once ever 2 hours doesn't really cut it for a book I'd want to read. I tried to mellow out on the first book blog because this is for a class, but we were told that this blog is mainly for our own records so we can remember something from this book. So this to future Cole: if you wonder what it was like to read this book here's an activity to illustrate it...turn on a football game, mute the volume, then turn around and close your eyes for 8 hours. You are allowed to turn and glance at the score every 2 hours to keep you "interested." And to all the rest of you reading this blog: I'm sorry I've wasted your time. But not that sorry.