Life, A User's Manual

One of the main things that I enjoyed about Life A User's Manual is how descriptive it was. At times, it was a little hard to follow and felt like there was a lot going on. That was by far one of the least enjoyable things about this reading. Most of the time, it was just very confusing and I often had to go over and re-read things multiple times, which you should do with any reading, but this one definitely did not come with ease. After being breaking everything thing down a bit, I was able to understand the narrative, dialog, etc. more throughly.

The method is very captivating, but also confusing as well. I think the whole set up of it is quite unique and seems to be very helpful to the create writing process. It allows you to take your creativity one step further. First, your just putting words on a piece of paper. Next, your expanding them so much more further than can ever be imagined. By doing methods like George Perec's it helps writers to branch out of their normal writing patterns and explore a different realm. Since Perec's piece was a bit more on the crowded and confusing side, maybe he wanted to game to reflect that. He didn't want this project to be just any old walk in the park. It's weird though how you can take this type of method and turn it into a story. Well, not necessarily weird, but just a little out of the ordinary. I'm intrigued to see where our class will take their stories based on this method...

I think this method will be one of the hardest ones that we will have to tackle in the class just based on my first impression of its complexity.