Finally, I broke the sweet spell of Anna Karenina! Not counting the wonderful short read of Alice in Wonderland on my iPhone, I managed to finish a respectable book following Tolstoy: Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol”. Truth be told, I pre-ordered my copy last September (can you tell how I felt about The DaVinci Code, [...]
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If I had to do it all over again, I would….? When you ask yourself that question casually, what is the answer? In some situations, we cannot change the past and the opportunity has passed. In others however, we may be able to set a new course. A few years ago I realized one of [...]
In my mind, I was driving to Manderley last night. I was driving my little Honda down a remote highway when I went into this state of complete mental absorption. Less than a day after finishing Daphne Du Maurier’s classic of a novel, Rebecca, I was finding it nearly impossible to stop thinking about Manderley, the [...]
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones… -William Shakespeare Imagine reading a book filled with quotes, anecdotes, and plots from Shakespeare’s masterpieces!
Reading “Angels and Demons“ in Italy added the intangible that makes reading a novel just right. Dan Brown‘s Robert Langdon, the famous Harvard symbologist, is out to solve a mystery about an ancient brotherhood called the Illuminati. The discovery of the existence of Illuminati, through a careful study of a genuine mark left on the [...]
I am not a history buff. I had no particular reason to read the “Timeline” other than Michael Crichton wrote it. I am very happy I followed my notion. I read the first 50 pages two months ago, forgot all about it, and then picked it up to keep me company on some long flights. [...]
“The Da Vinci code” is pure genius – whether we care to entertain Dan Brown‘s premise on this foundation of Christianity as anything beyond fiction, we must admit that it is a work of a genius that creates not merely a fantastic novel with countless sold copies, but also substantial commotion in the Christian world, [...]
Joseph Finder does it again – a corporate thriller sent directly to my house, the Advanced Reader’s Edition of “Power Play“. This is one of the perks of being a fan of Joseph Finder. The book is due out in August 2007 and I have already finished it as of July. The silly race is [...]
If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it. – Akio Morita I was first introduced to Michael Crichton by complete accident when my husband brought “Travels“ to our Hawaii vacation and I promptly stole it away for my own reading pleasure. Or perhaps more accurately put, Crichton stole me away from all [...]
Sometimes we all have a bad day. Sometimes a really bad day. When I had one of those really bad days a few weeks ago, I needed a big distraction. I picked up Finder’s Company Man and delved into yet another of his thrilling corporate dramas. In comparing Finder’s novels, I enjoyed High Crimes best, [...]
If only Global Warming clearly meant what it spells out, we could at least agree to disagree about the same issue. If it still meant, as it did initially, the slow and steady warming of the globe as a direct result of man’s interference with nature, perhaps we could be legitimately concerned, albeit a tad [...]
My Finder fan phase started with his less popular work, “Paranoia“, where he weaves a story about a particular Silicon Valley high tech corporation, one dear to my heart. I found I really like Finder’s writing style and story-telling voice. “High Crimes” is no doubt one of his most popular works, in no small tribute [...]
If you do not work there, you will not see it! Joseph Finder’s Paranoia is not just a fun corporate thriller out of the author’s wildest imagination. It is a story that has uncanny resemblance to the operation, set-up, corporate culture and technologies of the Fortune 500 workplace, Cisco Sytems. The names are altered poorly [...]
