The characters in T.S. Eliot's poem, The Wasteland, could have used a lot of timely, friendly advice to better their lives. Even in the epigraph, those boys shouldn't have teased the Sibyl. It's not nice to be mean to old people, because they can't h...

Stranger in a Strange Land was a good book. But I wish Miriam, Anne, and whatever that third girl's name was didn't act exactly the same. I wish Jubal took the time to actually follow through on his beliefs rather than spend dozens of pages thinking...

Probably the worst literary writing I've ever done... it was difficult to use "I" The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton In Wharton's novel about Victorian New York society, I wish that Newland Archer had lived up to his own ideals of himself. I ho...

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert could have used many revisions. Emma Bovary is whiny and depressed with the life that she chose. She is utterly selfish and cheats on her husband with two different men. This may sound exciting, but this was written...

"Arthur 'what a git' Dent" or "A few words to the late Douglas Adams" Upon re-reading "A Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (after watching that dreadful excuse of a film) I just had to write this essay. Now, don't get me wrong - I LOVE this book. I ...

Holden Caulfield sucks. He's such a pansy. Instead of trying to erase all the "Fuck You"s in the world, he should have been adding "I am Rubin and I say" in front of them. I wish he wasn't such a wimp.