2005 Booklist
As I am a voracious reader, I decided to make a blog about my books that I read!
My first of the year was the new Clive Cussler novel, Black Wind. It was a Dirk Pitt adventure and featured his son and daughter as the main characters trying to head off a biological attack. It is one of his best and follows his unique style of presenting viable situations in the near future. Many of the adventures have actually come to pass such as the Raising of the Titanic which was done very closely to what he described.
Cussler has a massive knowledge of nautical procedures and history and uses it to accent his adventures but his knowledge base does not end there. He also uses old cars and vintage aircraft in his stories which make them interesting to history buffs like me! It is amazing how he blends historical events into adventures that have a realism almost unmatched in the publishing world.
I highly recommend any of his books if you like derring do and historical fiction.
I believe his website is www.clivecussler.com if you wish to visit!
posted by Branduin the Bunny Blogger! @ 10:51 PM
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Just finished Dan Brown's Digital Fortress. While it was better than DaVinci or Angels and Demons (I'll comment on those later), it wasn't Tom Clancy or Dale Brown.
This author seems to like plot twists and surprises as well as inundating his reader's with codes and such to boggle the mind ;)
I wish I knew what the code on the back flap meant. ;) But I am not intrigued enough to try to decode it.
Thankfully, he kept his disdain for the Church at a minimum in this precursor to the works that made him famous. His only slap was showing a priest with a human fault.....reminds me that we are all sinners.....as Romans 3:23 tells us. At least it didn't involve some huge cover-up by the Church, just the government. ;)
I am currently listening to Dee Henderson's O'Malley Chronicles on audio on the way back and forth from work. Just finished the Negotiator. I like it .... just the right blend of suspense, action and Christian elements.
I also found the prequel to the Negotiator....um, can't remember the name right off but I just finished it as well....it deals with the sister of Kate O'Malley's love interest in the Negotiator. Goes back over some history alluded to in the book. Rather good actually....even if the 'everyone finds a soul - mate' stuff is beginning to bug me.
Currently reading Michael Crighton's newest, State of Fear. Will let you all know what I think ;)
Also, reading several works by the likes of Euripedes and Plato as well as several apocryphal works in the Other Bible by Harper Collins. Can't hurt to have more than one book going ;)
Oh and Star Trek/X-Men crossover Planet X for some light reading ;)
I've not read The DaVinci Code and to be frankly honest I don't think I will. I've come to understand that the 'Scriptures' (and I use that term very loosely) that it is based upon are NOT from the Apostolic Gospels, but rather are based in writings refered to as the Nostic(Gnostic?) Gospels. These works purport to also tell the story of the life of Jesus, but were written considerably later than the accepted accounts. Some as late as the early 1600's.
One of our mutual friends from Ark wanted me to read it so that together we could discuss it, but to be frank, I have no interest in this work at all.
Books that I AM reading however, include a goodly portion of what has been written by Christian author Frank Peretti; including This Present Darkness,Piercing the Darkness,Visitation and a teen series who's name I am completely blanking right now!--but it was very good. At some point here I'll be reading Tilly and the new one he's releasing soon entitled Monster.
I have however also been known to crack the bindings on what I think of as Techno-thrillers. I've been a big fan of Tom Clancy since reading The Hunt for Red October roughly 15 years ago. My other favorites of his are the Jack Ryan novels such as Clear and Present Danger, which tells of a response to the War on Drugs that I seriously doubt we'll see actually enacted. On the advice of collegues, US President Jack Ryan (in other books we see him in the military and working his way up through various offices) decides that the War on Drugs is very literally a war, and by executive order starts using military force to stop the influx of marijuana, cocaine and heroine into the United States.
I have noticed however that reading books that become movies does one of two things for me. Either the book makes the movie look innane--because they rarely follow the plotlines completely (noted exceptions being the LotR series...which only took minimal shortcuts), or the movie doesn't match up to the book at all! (SEE: DUNE--worst movie adaptation I've ever encountered)
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