Author: Joe

The last couple of books I’ve read have been pretty dark and twisted. So, this time I thought I should read something a bit uplifting and positive to bring balance back to the Force. So, a book with a cute puppy on the cover seemed like a very safe bet to me.

Well, a dog dies in chapter 2 or 3. Yeah, that’s right a dog dies right off the bat. So much for my plan.

To make things even more amazing, I believe this dog dies a total of 4 times in the book (he’s reincarnated which was nice to imagine is true of dogs). Dog deaths are tough, and having to weather 4 of them was quite the true.

Oh, not to be outdone there are numerous human deaths as well. Of which I truly lost count of.

Though in the end everyone is happy and together in heaven, I was not in any way expecting so many dog deaths in this super friendly looking book!

The book was pretty good though, and I do like the author’s take of a dog’s life. I really hope my trusty friends though the years do have a way of coming back and still being around.

I figured I’d try to read Under the Dome after watching the first episode on TV. I figured if I liked the show, then I’d like the book as well.

Turns out the book is much, much better than the show (especially since the first one). Though it was over 1000 pages, I read through it pretty quickly. It was hard to put down at times with all the craziness going on.

I also have to admit that I was very surprised at the ending and what was behind the whole dome thing. Even though I know to expect something a bit different from a Stephen King novel, it was still a refreshing surprise.

There were moments where I found myself reading for several hours at a time. I’m not sure if that’s exactly a good thing, but it does speak for the book.

The only drawback is that after reading, I don’t think I’ll want to watch the show as I’ll find too many “errors” in it.

Very good stuff and a good read.

Figured I’d continue with some non-fiction on my summer reading tour and picked up The Way of the Knife from my super friendly library. It turned out to be a pretty interesting book.

It mainly details the CIA post 9/11 and just how much the organization has changed since then. I found it pretty interesting to hear now much they had changed in the 70’s and within the past 10 years. I hear on the news about recent events, but this book went into more detail on most of them.

With the crazy perception we get from such government organizations though movies, it was cool to read about real people and operations. But a couple of the people detailed kinda seemed straight out of a movie, so maybe what we see at the box office isn’t all that far-fetched after all.

The library had a nice little section of recommended book by other fine library visiting folk. With me having been stumped on what to read for a bit now, this really came in handy. So browsed the shelves for something fine to check out.

I figured I’d try out Cell by Stephen King. With the hundreds of books I’ve read over the past few years, I was kinda shock that this would be the first by Mr. King by myself. Not sure how this came about, but I was determined to end my streak.

Cell was a pretty cool book. It’s really funny in about 10 years or so just how much the adoption of cell phones has grown. If this story took place today, I wonder if there would have been any survivors of the Pulse at all.

I also really liked how the whole Pulse was and the human mind were compared to computers and reboots. While a bit of it I disagreed with from a tech point of view, it was pretty cool and not your standard zombie approach.

Now that I’m done, I just realized how many questions I still have with this one. A fine book and glad someone put it on the recommended shelf.