The reading we did last wednesday entitled "Herbs Chicken" to me was extremely weird. First of all the meoir itself is actually well written, but the thing is, it's almost to gorey and gross to even begin to like. When i read the first paragraph i thought "well this will be an interesting meoir about a couple's experience on raising chickens". Boy was I wrong. The whole memoior is about killing and cleaning a chicken, and the author happened to be in a very descriptive mood that day. Sentences such as this:" Herb easily pried the mout open with his left hand,and with his right, he pushed the knife into its brain and turned it." (p.124) really made me want to vomit the "processed" chicken that was Chic-fil-a in my stomach up. I just didn't like this memoir. There's not much to say about it. The sentence structure is good. The descriptiveness, however extremely disgusting and repulsive, is in fact excellent. The dialouge is right on. Instead of Herb saying all of these thigns about turning the chicken upside down and draining the blood he summarizes with "Then you gotta bleed it"(p.124). I mean this is exactly what you would expect a guy like Herb to talk like. Honestly no matter how revolted you are...something about the memoir makes you want to keep turning the page. Haha i believe this is what you would call good rhetoric! ahhhh Herb's Chicken...what a memoir.