The Diving Bell and The Butterfly

Ok I really did not like this book. It was just not interesting to me at all. I feel like it was always going back to the same point at the end of each chapter. The point being that he is paralyzed, only being able to use his eye to communicate, and can't do anything cause he has locked-in syndrome. I never even understood anything that happened, our conversations in class were just always about he can't do anything and how terrible that is. Yeah, it's terrible that this happened to him and I feel bad for him, but I think this book is just boring. All of his stories feel like they would never actually happen before he got the syndrome. All I learned in this book is what it would be like to be like him. I think he's trying to make a point that life is short and all that stuff, but I know life short and he is still alive. Yeah he can't connect with the people he once could hug and play with very easily at all, but he's still here to see them and love them and I think that's better than not being able to see them at all. It never connected to me and my life, and in books I read I like to feel like I am part of the story. The one thing I did like however was the short chapters, even thought I never understood them, they made the book go by faster since I did not like it. Hopefully, the next book in class we read is more interesting to me than this one.