Nov. 4th READINGS

If on a Winter Night a Travel
I really enjoyed reading Calvino's writings. He does so much with the way that he writes that really kept me interested. I couldn't read read fast enough I would get past the first paragraph and be curious as to what was on the next page. The title of the text in no way gives any insight as to how the text reads out. What I liked best about this reading is the fact that Calvino is a very descriptive writer. I also enjoyed the fact that he gets so off into his writings the reader can actually get a sense of feeling that Calvino is writing directly to you as though he knows you. I also enjoyed the parts in the excerpt when Calvino goes back over his writing and tells you what he did to the story for example the section on pages 25 and 26 when he talks about us reading the same pages more then once and he describes it as a publishing mistake. I also like how Calvino jumps in and out of the text and he takes the reader with him. He is very descriptive and he goes from telling a actually story, to basically having a conversation with the reader, to talking about his way of writing.

George Perece
I really enjoyed reading this excerpt as well. George is a very descriptive writer as well. I also like how the title of the section went alone with the text that followed. My favorite section was pages 156 to 164. I really like how descriptive he was in writing this section from him talking about different clothing items that are ready to wear to him discussing different writing methods in sections like 3,4, and 5. I found Calvino and George to be different but similar in many ways