So... Wow. I have no tittle.

   This week, I re-read Sold by Patricia McCormic (twice). Honestly I don't even know how to respond to this book. My first reaction would get my blog censored (For curses- don't get the wrong idea, becuase honestly, even though there was a LOT of sex in this book, it wasn't written in a vulgar or perverted manor). It got me so mad, even the "happy ending."

*Hi, there are spoilers there, so go away if you havn't read it- also I'm going to refer to characters by name, so you won't get it. I'm seriously doing border patrol right now, and if you don't follow my requirments GO HOME or go read Sold*

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How is it happy at all? Sure, she gets away after being scarred for life, and having to leave her only friend, the only person who means anything to her anymore. After a year of being a sexual slave, she goes to a maybe happy ending. It leaves me wondering, about so much. We're obviously supposed to assume that Mumtaz was lying about the Americans, and that they were truly nice people who were there to save anyone who was willing to leave. We're left to assume Lakshmi is okay, now that she has come for help from the Americans.

But how do we? How do we know what becomes of Lakshmi once she steps out of the brothel? This book was amazing, and ispiring, but the end is something of which I despise. Almost like a choose your own adventure ending. It leaves you wondering and wanting so much more. I want to know what happens to Lakshmi, and where she ends up after it's all said and done. Does she end up in a safe house, or perhaps on the streets, like Mumtaz promised would happen. When the americans come back, will anyone venture after her, inspired by her courage to leave? Will Mumtaz's brothel be shut down, or will she continue on, paying off anyone who needs to "look the other way." Will the policemen continue to be discusting spine less money-hungry savages who will let anything become of these girls for a few extra rupees?

I suppose you could have a different view of the ending though. You could be glad you're left to imagine, left with some hope that Lakshmi, and all the other girls will be a-okay - but come on, we know they won't- its realistic fiction, not fantasy.)

So I guess really as I'm sitting here writing this, I'm trying to figure out what comes next for Lakshmi. And also I find myself thinking, if this is Social Justice based book, what is it asking from me? 

What can I do anyways?

I feel like this.

When they're like this. 

I feel poweless.

While they have so much power they're nearly unstoppable.

What can I do? What can yo do? How can we stop this alone, when they're banded together- and even still, how can we stop it together?

1 life, 1 planet, hundreds of ballpoint pens

I was reading Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (time number 3) on the train platform a couple days ago. I was pretty much lost in the book, when some guys I didn't know came over, to strike up some pleasant conversation about "How fiiiine you look, but nah nah nah for me, my fren ova there thinks you lookin niiice girl. You got a boyfreeen?"Anyways, I sort of ignored them completely partially becuase most of that sentence was not english. This, which they thought to be profoundly rude, triggered one of them asked me what my book was about and "why it so good you can't even talk to no body, en gid no loove to the main?" before walking away. Which sort of got me wondering, why was my book so good? And WHAT was it about?
I guess you could say the book was about a man who lived on earth whose alien friend saved him before the planet blew up and ten lead him on multiple misadventures to other planets and in other spaceships with a comical cast of aliens such as Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Marvin. Then they discover the infinitely large planet on which planets are created, get in some trouble with genius mice... and I don't need to go on.
But that sort of doesn't capture any of the wit and well writing. Plus with a story like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, there's a lot more. It's like there's a hundred plots, not just one. And to answer why it was so good... There's a number of reasons;

• The writing is so witty
• It's random- but not in the obvious trying to be random sense
• It's never boring
• It's hard to keep up- no matter how many times you read it
• Its So funny- which should count as like 4 points
• It's spacey-futuristic without being nerdy or lame
• All of the space stuff makes sense ^ not like a magical never ending pony lazer beam that runs on tears (I actually read a book with that in it)
• It's So funny
• There are tons of little side stories that are as interesting as the main ones. (Like Veet Vojagig and his quest to find all the ballpoint pens hes ever lost)
• Its So funny
• The names are lame in an amazing spacetacular way - Veet Vojagig, Trillian, Zaphod, and Slartibartfast.
• It's real sarcastic and witty in a deadpan sort of way
• It's... So... Funny

 And of course, it has an interesting main plot. But still in all of that list, I havn't even begun to think of all the things that make my book good... What do you think? What makes a book so good? Or so bad? That's right... I challenge you to think and respond.