When Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman disappear for a little while and leave it to the rest of the superheroes to pick up the slack after the crisis they went through. I have just started this book and I can’t stop reading it, it reminds me of the days I used to fly through comic books. I can’t help of having mental images when I’m reading through this book, my vivid imagination just kicks into overdrive.
Digital Photographer’s Handbook Revised – Tom Ang
A book that has a lot of helpful techniques and simple explanations of how to take great pictures. It has been very helpful and I have had it sitting on my shelf for over three and half years, I’m just happy I came to it now and especially with how much I’m using my DSLR the past couple months.
There was a time you kept hearing about Blackwater the security firm. I decided to pick up this book to see what the hype was all about. You would think that we do have an ideae about what is going on with the US military in Iraq and other areas of US military interest. As I started reading this book you get a feeling of being an insider on the plans that were being made for the Iraq invasion, but there is more to it then that. The private military industry has been riding a high tide of the Bush administration no longer a tool of the small countries but an integral part of the US military force. You are reading through this book and can’t believe that it is real and that all this is going on. It explains the reason for a lot of what is happening around the Middle East and other areas of military activity. I recommend this book to any person interested in US miltary activities and their reasoning for their approach in their aggressive foreign policy.
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I have been a fan of Trudi Canavan for some time now, and this trilogy (Age of the Five) is one I was looking forward to. I flew through the first and second books, and now the third iteration of this trilogy. Its a real disappoint when you finish a good book and still want more. Northern and Southern Athania are going to go to battle for the last time, and the book ends on a very high note. There is a build up to all that is going on and Auraya seems to be in the middle of it all. A book that leaves you satisfied and wanting more, I recommend this book and the trilogy to any scifi fan.
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This is probably the oddest items that I have ever bought from Amazon. I have been piling up some books and odd items and one item is difficult to locate since I waited on it but still going to purchase it. Now I just have to wait for the release of some of these items.
I tend to use up my Moleskins over an average period of 4 to 5 months. Over the past few months I have had a tendency when stopping in either Dubai or London, I pick up a notebook or two. And now I have a good supply of different kinds of Moleskins. Even though they are now available in Kuwait, I do enjoy picking a moleskin up whenever stopping in a bookstore.
This story revolves around a Witcher name Geralt, he is special type of person. Monsters are around in different areas with different capabilities, when people need to eradicate the problem then he is the man that is needed. A witcher is a special type of human who is genetically and magically modified when born, then trained in the magical arts to have super human abilities and be able to use a certain level of magic. I was looking forward to the book since it got some interesting reviews so I was looking forward to it. Geralt is a very interesting character and you can connect to him, as the story picks up I keep thinking there is something huge that is going to get caught up in. The book is very easy read, but I the plot wasn’t completely clear, I thought they were keeping the best for last. Turns out that the story line is some what related between chapters but just an easy enjoyable read, there wasn’t a huge climax that I was expecting but still it was a fun and easy fantasy book to read.
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Sometimes you just want more time to read, and this is what I’m feeling from reading these two books. One is shocking, and you just keep on reading, Blackwater is an excellent work of journalism, and The Last Wish is a fantasy book that just keeps you enticed. There isn’t enough time in the day to read all that I want, and I have the tendency to forget the time when I get pulled into to them and the result is lack of sleep.
Starts off in the early 70s with a lot of Italian families just moving into the lives of the Italian culture in that time. The story is told from Marco’s point of view, and he was a young kid that had brains but gets into some trouble. After leaving his home he moves in with his cousin, and they go into the pot selling business with a group of friends. Its a first person narrative organized crime story but with a different twist. You get a feel of the time around them and how things were at the time. The author does a good job of telling the story which is different then usual, but I had higher expectations. There were some parts which get you racing and you keep flipping the page to find out whats coming next. Then there was a period where you felt that the pace slows down too much, it really a little tiring that the pace was not constant so it didn’t captivate me as much as I thought it would. It is a good book, but I do feel there are better organized crime fiction books out there.
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I picked up these books from the Waterstones at Piccadilly since that one is my favorite and I tend to spend hours there. After going between all the floors I managed to pick some of the books ranging from Science Fiction to a bit Satire. I had about 12 books that I was carrying with me before going to the counter, but I was I wouldn’t buy more then 3, but I took for in the end. Since I had time I sat down reading some of the books and from that I filtered which ones to pick up.
- I’m A Stranger Here Myself – Bill Bryson
- Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army – Jeremy Scahill
- London – Cool Restaurants
- The Last Wish – Andrzej Sapkowski
And then there are a few Moleskines that I picked up, there were a few small ones that I picked up that are really nice. I can’t help buying Molesknes, even though I haven’t filled up all that I have yet.
I have moved my media PC from my media shelf over to my desk are since I just installed Vista on it and I’m tweaked it for different use. I also managed to organize some anime DVDs around it. So I freed up some space on the media shelf, and I changed my stereo from the one that broke to the one I had in storage, and I cleaned up all the wires connected from behind but I still have a lot of reorganizing to do.
What I need to organize are my DVD, and CDs. I really want to Digatize all CDs so that I don’t have to look for them to listen to them and save area storing them. I just have to go through each CD on the PC and rip it with the right ID3 tags. Its an annoying process that I’m too lazy to go through right now.
I’m not even going to try to organize the wires under my desk, everytime I look at them I wonder what the hell I have contacted to them. One time I did contact what I had so I know that everything I have there is meant to be there, but I just can’t seem to find a way to connect them in an organized manner.
Some Steps:
- Organize media shelf
- Organize CDs after going through a few of them
- Move anime series that I have finished to storage
- Give away some magazines (I HATE DOING THAT, but I have to)
- A few more things as I go a long cleaning up
- I have a PS2 which doesn’t work
- I have some PS2 and X-Box 360 games which I want to get rid off, wish there was some place to trade it in
- Organize my books in some section
Even after all this organization I know that it is going to get a little messy in due time.
