I buy a ridiculous amount of books and I don’t have enough time to finish them. Recently I have been reading some interesting business and technology books, I don’t like something being dry when I read it or else I would get bored and have a hard time finishing it. Whenever I finish a good book I have no clue what to choose next and I have piles of books all over the place with items hidden left and right, so to find the right book is always a challenge after finishing a good one. Recently I have been reading more business and technology books because I feel that they will get old if I don’t read them right now, its a strange feeling I have but with other books it doesn’t matter.
Books:
Legend – David Gemmell (Old Book but new Print, one of the best fantasy stories period)
Brilliant “Shuji Nakamura” – Bob Johnstone (Work in Japan and the Revolution in Lighting Technology)
In and Out Burger – Stacy Perman (All about this little fast food burger place that turned into a cult following)
Yakuza Moon – Shoko Tendo (This book loses me at times, I want to finish the story since I started it over a year ago)
This I have been waiting for this package for some time now, I have been going over the details of the Canon 7D and found this great book about Halo. There is never enough Halo in this world, and at the same time I kept reading great reviews about the Canon 7D and its 720p videos. Now I just have to learn how to use it correctly to get the best of the camera. I’m curious to try the 720p video, I just need an appropriate size compact flash card to use with it. An nice early Christmas Present for myself, the best feeling when opening the packages.
The Dan Brown books are all getting hyped up after the success of the Da Vinci Code, then the release of the movies, they all got caught up in the hype. I was one person who preordered the booked months before its release on Amazon, my expectations were extremely high but they were not met. I took my time reading this book and enjoying it, it had its moments. You get a real view of the Freemasons, what they believe in, what they do, and what secrets they hold. Robert Langdon is dragged into another mystery, he is trying to figure out the mysteries as events are taking place and people are dying. Things were taken step by step, the funny part is that I was imagining Tom Hanks the whole time when reading this book, you get caught up in an interesting way, but you don’t get pulled into the story as you do the other books. There are books that engage you and you can’t put down, this didn’t achieve that like its predecessors, it was an entertaining book and a fun read but the story just had too much fluff, some parts were unnecessary and could’ve been done without. Overall I wasn’t bad, but I had high hopes, even the ending was a bit of a disappointment, but I’m crossing my fingers for the next one.
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The world is falling apart around its greatest heroes. Batman’s paranoia has led him to create a supercomputer that has rebelled against him, threatening the entire world. Wonder Woman has slain a former ally to save the life of another. And Superman has lost his ability to lead, lost their faith, and lost his faith in himself. Four separate crises are converging, and the only hope for the entire Earth is that their champions conquer themselves and learn how to be heroes again.
This is a bit confusing if you aren’t a fan of the DC Comics Universe, or DC Comics for that matter. I have taken the books completely out of order, it was by luck that I picked up this book. I do enjoy reading comics turned into novels, the one thing about this book though is that you have to be somewhat familiar with DC Comic characters but the one thing that Greg Cox does amazingly is give you a portal into the minds of the heroes, the world is falling apart and they are all trying to figure out their way. I found “52” novel first which is book 3 of 3, then I read “Crisis” which is book 1 of 3, then this “Infinite Crisis” book 2 of 3 so I had a very odd or different perspective when reading through this novel. But when I read it, it made me visualize each character and try to image those who I didn’t remember and I just can’t seem to get enough of it, I hope for novels such as these from DC Comics, if you are a comic book fan then this is a must.
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Anyone who enjoys driving knows Top Gear and the antics of the three, out of them Jeremy Clarkson has written a lot of books trying to battle the lack of common sense of the world or people’s habit of driving. He is probably one of the funniest TV presenters on air and his books are pretty funny as well. I have read a few of his books but I stopped buying them after a while because I couldn’t get some of the jokes or examples that he uses for his humor, some of then are really local and go over my head. I do enjoy his banter on TV but after several tries with his books they just seem as funny because not everyone understands the references.
My simple thought is that every man should read this book, and every woman if they would like incite into a man’s simple mind. This is an extremely simple read, it only lasted two days because its simple articles of conduct and the way of life that “Bro” should follow, and I know I will be reading it again for a laugh just to check a few articles. The best part is I have this mental image of Barney Stinson while reading each article and I could hear his voice in my head, makes me laugh even more. Its just a funny read.
Article 47
A Bro never wears pink.
Not even in Europe.Article 84
A Bro shall stop whatever he’s doing and watch DIE HARD if it’s on TVArticle 93
Bros don’t speak French to one another.Article 103
A Bro never wears socks with sandals. He commits to one cohesive footgear plan and stick with it
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The Japanese way of life is something I fine intriguing and interesting, they have a unique way of thinking and different approach to many things. Such as the balance between the Nippon Government and the Yakuza. Bob Lee Swagger is a retired Gunnery Sergeant from the Marine Corps who has a very comfortable life, until a Japanese man comes into his life looking for the sword of his father from WWII who could have been killed by Earl Swagger, Bob’s father. Bob has slowly started piecing things together from his father’s past and started getting all the pieces of the pie to find this sword, as he feels an obligation to this Japanese man but he doesn’t know the events that will transpire when he finds and delivers this sword to Phlip Yano. I really liked the character of Bob Lee Swagger, but after reading up on Stephen Hunter I expected a little more. The story was fun and I enjoyed following it but some of the pain characters just didn’t come across, they lacked depth and so when a few things were coming together I couldn’t understand the relevance. Also it just didn’t feel like Hunter really got the Japanese mentality down correctly, but overall I did enjoy the story and there was a lot of enjoy with the discussion about the blades. It was a story that kept me turning page after page, overall it was an enjoyable read but a few parts didn’t add up just the way it should.
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Its just one of those very nice things when you click buy and you have a bunch of items in your Amazon cart. Then suddenly you come home to a bunch of boxes with that Amazon smile, that has become like a Christmas gift to myself but it happens once every three months. I decided to buy a majority of the items since I had been keeping them aside for over 6 months now, and I’m not even close to finishing the stack of books that I have. Mostly sci-fi and odd books that I have wanted such as the Starcraft series since I’m getting too worked up about playing the new Startcraft 2 that keeps getting delayed, the Art of Up, Arcade Mania and an Anime book.
Then there is the Asian movie theater that is all piled up and ready to go. I want to have an Asian movie night, all fighting and martial arts ready to go.
Its annoying when customs go through this loop, I don’t think there is anything that passes through customs these days without it being opened. I have been waiting for the Flip Ultra HD for some time now, I ordered it from Amazon with my Barney book, the Bro Code. It got stuck in customs for three days because they didn’t like that the there were was a quantity of two from the cameras, even though I said its for personal use.
I had to wait for Aramex to clear it, I gave them my civil ID and I gave them the go head, it cost 10 KD more for them to clear it but I didn’t feel like going and deal with those guys. First thing I did was unpack one of the Flip Ultra HDs and I started flipping through the Bro Code. You know in TV shows when somebody is thinking something and there is a picture of a person talking above his head and you can see him and hear him, when I was reading the Bro Code I could hear Barney Stinson talking and telling me the importance of the Bro Code, and I couldn’t stop laughing at all the different Articles, this is going to be an easy and entertaining read.
Recently I have gotten more interested in novels of comic books then I have of comic books, I do enjoy reading comic books every once in a while but these books have gotten really good. What I like is that they leave you with so much room to interpret the feel and look of the characters yet you know what they are thinking, and my imagination just goes on overdrive thinking about all the ideas they are bringing across. There are multiple copies of our universe, Earth-1, Earth-2, and a lot more, and they have slightly or drasticly different versions of our superheros and what they do. Something has disrupted the Multiverse and is hell bent on destroying them all, a white wall is all the heroes see before the impending death of their planet and no amount of fighting is able to fight. The key to unraveling the whole thing is Barry Allen aka The Flash. The story is so easy to read, you just want to keep following it page after page, I haven’t flown through a book like this in months. This story was in comic book form over 10 years ago but the novel version gives you the freedom to imagine, and it is very easy to see to get lost with all the characters but it all revolves around Barry Allen. For any person who has any inclination towards comic books then this is a fantastic read.
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