<p>so i may or may not have read the book yet, when is it "due?"</p>
<p>The most you’ll have to do is talk about it in your visions groups. And considering how much of a joke visions groups are, you don’t actually have to read it. It won’t affect any of your grades. If you really want, read a plot summary so you can BS an observation or two.</p>
<p>My roommate and I are both about 50 pages in. I’m not too worried about it… I’m going to read a wikipedia summary of the book before the first visions meeting. It’s too bad - I liked the book but I just got way too busy getting ready to leave this week to worry about reading a book. If you’ve been reading the facebook group comments I think that’s a skewed perception of the class - I’m sure a lot of other people either didn’t bother reading it or barely got into the book. Hope this helps!</p>
<p>actually yeah, i’m like a hundred pages in, but i’m prioritizing packing and hanging out with friends one last time. i agree, the book is aight (not something that appeals to me, but it keeps my interest none the less. similar to watching animal planet…), just not something i think i’ll legitimately finish. we’ll see tho.</p>
<p>Moosecream (and others):
There was only one book that was required reading over a 2-3 month time frame…and you’re going to read the summary, instead of the book? It’s OK because it “won’t affect your grade.” This sounds like a high school student…not an intellectually curious college freshman.</p>
<p>It’s actually an interesting book and a quick read. Why would you miss out on the opportunity to participate?</p>
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not reading a book that has no impact on your immediate future makes you a high school student? interesting.</p>
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<p>I imagine it’s more so mentality of Vanderbilt saying “Consider reading this book because we will be discussing it”…and the subsequent reaction of “I rather hang out with my friends and party instead of taking the 5-7 hours necessary to read this book” that causes one to be labeled as having the mentality as a high school student.</p>
<p>That random blurb aside, I agree. Why miss out? It’s not too horrible of a book. It gets tedious, especially when you take into account the boring sentence structure as well as diction, but it’s not going to end your life to take a few hours to read it.</p>