Author: Joe

After hearing many good things and always seeing this featured in Borders on lunch break, I figured I’d give it a read. While a lot more graphic and violent than I was expecting, I can see why it’s been so popular. It was a really exciting book.

It started a little slow for me, but about half way in, when the pieces beginning falling into place it was really hard to put it down. I just had to know what happened next in the mystery that was unraveling.

I kinda want to visit and hang out in Sweden since that’s where the story takes place. The author did a really great job of bringing it to life through words. Though I did have a hard time reading the Swedish names and cities at times, but eventually I caught on to their spelling (no idea if I’ve got their pronunciation right).

There’s two more books in this series and I think I’ll have to give them a shot sometime this summer as well. It was sad to hear that the author passed away shortly after the books were released.

I went for something a bit different for my last read, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes by Deepak Chopra with Gotham Chopra. It turned out to be very interesting. It pretty much takes eastern ways and shows the correlations with western superheroes.

While not one for spirituality, it did share some very interesting perspectives on thought. The comparisons to comic book characters was really cool, even though the author didn’t really have a strong understanding of comics. Thor is not a Greek for instance.

The book covers 7 Laws, and in a really bizarre turn of events I kinda fit right in to almost all of them. Guess I’m a bit more in balance and closer to transcendence than I’d given myself credit.

Either way if you like superheroes or spirituality I’d recommend this one. I read through in in under two days.