24 posts tagged “good reads”
After I finished The Lost Symbol, I let AES choose my next book to read - and here's what I got:
I'm about 1/3 of the way through it -- good so far (she knows I'm a huge Dante fan)
I'm nearly finished with this book. A Dan Brown fan, I had to get my hands on this book and give it a go.
Starting reading Stephen King's UR (on AES's Kindle) on the beach a few weeks ago and finally took the time to finish it last night. It wasn't a very long story and probably took 2 hours total to read but it was an entirely new experience for me to read a book entirely in an electronic format on the Kindle.
While the story was nothing to write home about - it was interesting to see such dedicated product placement in a story, especially when the product is the one you're holding your hands. I know this was the plan for both Amazon and for Stephen King - but it's a little odd as a reader, in my opinion. The Kindle format made it so easy to flip through with one button press and made the experience of reading, both outdoors in full sun and indoors in low light, very enjoyable and equally viable. Having no other experience reading on the Kindle - this was a great way to start.
Anyone who has a Kindle but hasn't picked this one up --- have a look - best of all, it's free.
Finally finished reading Duma Key. It was a good book and I enjoy most King novels, but I had a hard time getting to the end of this one. Decided to take a slight detour and pick of a John Saul book. Haven't touched any Saul work in 10 years, but I used to really enjoy his stuff, so I thought it worth a try.
I remember Saul's book to always be pretty creepy and have a good mystery to them. It's been my experience that his storys are similar but not in a way that is repetative (like for instance, with Koontz, who I feel is telling the same alien story 15 different ways, in my opinion)
It took me forever (for-ev-er) to finish my last book --- I just wrapped it up last night. While I enjoyed it, I've been looking forward to reading something different. This time, I picked up a Stephen King book that I'd been holding for quite some time, Duma Key.
It took me quite a while to get through the SRV book --- it was a good read but I changed my reading schedule a bit and it slowed me down. Before I dive back into my Clancy/Patterson routine, I thought I'd slip a sports biography in, so I selected this book about Daisuke Matsuzaka, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. Thought it'd be a good read to welcome Baseball season and get me hyped-up for visiting Boston/Fenway in June.
After finishing Born on a Blue Day, I thought I'd work my way through a couple musician biographies before I slipped back into the Clancy/Patterson routine. I'm gonna start with a book about SRV, one of my favorite guitar players. I've always been a fan of his work and hadn't had an oppurtunity to learn much about his life and inspiration (perspective) so I'm hoping this book takes me down that path.
Decided to take a short break from my string of Clancy books and try something a little different. Got this book from my parents for Christmas and thought I'd attack this one next.
From Publishers Weekly:
This sounded interesting to me so I'll drive into this one before I slide back into my string of regular reading material.This unique first-person account offers a window into the mind of a high-functioning, 27-year-old British autistic savant with Asperger's syndrome. Tammet's ability to think abstractly, deviate from routine, and empathize, interact and communicate with others is impaired, yet he's capable of incredible feats of memorization and mental calculation. Besides being able to effortlessly multiply and divide huge sums in his head with the speed and accuracy of a computer, Tammet, the subject of the 2005 documentary Brainman, learned Icelandic in a single week and recited the number pi up to the 22,514th digit, breaking the European record. He also experiences synesthesia, an unusual neurological syndrome that enables him to experience numbers and words as "shapes, colors, textures and motions." Tammet traces his life from a frustrating, withdrawn childhood and adolescence to his adult achievements, which include teaching in Lithuania, achieving financial independence with an educational Web site and sustaining a long-term romantic relationship.
This is the most current book I've been reading. Typical Splinter Cell but with a twist toward the beginning that makes this book a little different than the others I've read in this series. I enjoyed the book, but it took me a little longer to finish it than I would have liked. Another good read in the series --- might try something a little different next.
Got into this book a while back, but Thanksgiving got in the way, and I didn't have a chance to write about it until now. I'm about half way done and it's pretty good -- the net related stuff is interesting for anyone into computers and there is plenty of tactical action to keep things fun. Looking forward to diving into another Clancy book when I'm done with this one/.
