GenMe Blog

My impression of GenMe is of wonder, how did this get past the editors and turn out to be a required reading book for College composition, it must be because it is thought provoking with the information presented and not the presentation itself.  Is she writing a research paper in novel form or is she writing a non-fiction novel based on researchable evidence that supports her own personal point of view? For me there are too many snarky remarks thrown in to make this a research based book.  It came off that she was writing a paper with facts used to support her specific point of view of the current generation.  I felt that she had many valid points but she allowed her viewpoint and presentation style get in the way of how they were presented and it was too jumbled, I found it difficult to read, let alone finish.

I do find her advice at the end of the book intriguing, I feel that she redeemed herself and was able to bring some type of redemption to the text.  While she paints the generation as lost throughout the text she is able to end the book with some relevant advice about what we can do in order to help the generation learn and grow, I personally feel that this specific are could be expounded upon in greater detail since it cuts to the core of how many of the problems in the current growing generation could be overcome.  And while reading and writing about the text one could begin to discover why the current generation is like it is, what has happened in such a short time, 1940 to present, to take us from the Greatest Generation ever to the GenerationMe way of life. Surely it cannot be so simple as making sure that everyone is taught that their own life is the most transcendent event around.