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A useful text on how Stephen King writes his novels and fiction. The nice part is that it is Mr. King reading as well, so it kind of enforces what you are hearing. Lots of good pointers for folks who want to write, and also a little bit of "back story" on Mr. King and his inner demons as well.
I enjoyed listening to this and would recommend it.
Excellent fun, for a 1 cassette story. Done like the old radio dramas, and the story is classic Stephen King horror, which I just love. I wish it was longer, but really enjoyable for a short trip, especially if you have kids in the car, it will give them nightmares for sure. Project Arrowhead goes, very, very, very wrong, and a small town in New England pays for it!
Printed Books
An excellent book for parents who just can't figure out why their kids aren't on the Varsity (fill in the sport) team at school. I continue to forget the lessons taught in this book, and find I need to read it once a year to remind myself what my goals are to have my kids in organized sports, and for them having fun. We have raised a generation of disrespectful mean spirited kids, and the blame lays squarely at their parents feet.
I recommend this book, if you have kids in sports, or even if you don't, a lot of the lessons can be used with any competitive situation
Review
A while back I got contacted to do a review of a book on the economy. I was impressed anyone gave a flying rat's ass about my opinion, but they said they'd send it to me for free, and I figured, I'll read most anything most days, so what the heck.
The book's premise is that the U.S. economy is on the verge of a meltdown, and the author(s) are espousing ways to make money or at least not get run over by the steamroller of a recession that will come afterwards. I haven't finished the book yet, but so far it is quite interesting, I am not sure I agree with all the points, but it has made me think.
I will post my final review on Canadian Financial Rants soon, hopefully.
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Prey
by Michael Crichton
Review (Rating: Readable, but not buyable)
So far another interesting Chrichton technology gone awry type story. Not sure I completely buy into all of the interesting nano-technology tom-foolery (but then again, when he did the Andromeda Strain, it seemed far fetched, and now, maybe not as much). It reads kind of like AirFrame, but it seems to be moving along nicely
The story of Technology gone astray has been done (even by Crichton) maybe a few too many times, but still it's an intriguing story.
The "thriller" portion of the story was a little predictable but still a fun kind of read (or in my case listen). I wouldn't say go buy this book or CD set, but certainly take it out of the library, it's worth a look.
I borrowed this from the Ottawa Public Library.
Review (Rating: Rude but Readable)
This is the most sexist rude book I have ever read, and I laughed so hard that it hurt. As a father of daughters I hope they never meet any kind of character like this (even if he is a fictional letch). If half of the stories are true, this guy is lucky to be alive, let alone writing books and making money from them.
He has a web site, with a lot of the stories from his book on-line, so you can do a quick read to see if it's the kind of book you want to read. I laughed a lot out loud, but then again, I don't mind off colour humor either.
I borrowed this one from the library as well. http://tuckermax.com .
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