On one note, I stopped reading Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" because it just proved to be uninteresting to me. I could never get into the book, and several times while reading it in fact (I am ashamed to admit) I feel asleep. Indeed, it's a very difficult book for me to get into. I don't know why, but his other book "A Walk in the Woods" proved much more interesting to me and hilarious. This might be because I've had personal experience hiking in the woods and found it exhausting, memorable, and amazing all in wrapped into one package.
On a different note, I decided to read "The Call of the Wild" as my classic book, which I hope will be ok since it is a fiction book. One thing that I'm noting is that London changes his point of view that he's writing from when writing about the main character of this book, Buck. At first he writes this book from the third person, as if someone is watching the events occur and then is making notes of them as they occur. Then London seems to change his point of view that he's writing from somewhere in the first 75 pages, at first its disconcerting but at the same time it makes it exciting- almost as if you're with Buck himself and experiencing the same things he's experiencing. Mostly the reason why this type of writing is disconcerting is because London switches back and forth between first person and second person- making it difficult to follow at times. Then again, when I think about it- I couldn't see writing about this topic working in any other fashion and making the plot line flow quite as smoothly.
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