Friday, December 23, 2011

Light Reading

A buddy of mine sent me this book in the form of an E-Book the other day. I have never read a full book from the computer and to print off six hundred and something pages would be a waste of paper and ink.
Unlike the wife, I think a book is better read holding it, dog earring the corners, spilling coffee on it and sometimes leaving it in the bathroom so I decided I would just skim through the E-Book picking up on some of the main points and tell him thank you, it was a great book. I figured I would need to read the first, second and last chapters to get the feel for the plot and make my story believable. Then I would be in the clear and could use my computer time for more productive things like playing games on Facebook.
Holy crap, I shouldn't have started reading it at all.
I really liked the book One Second After another friend of mine sent me and this one goes hand in hand with it just from another point of view.
I am now on chapter 16 and it is getting even better. My work is suffering because I cannot stop reading it. I held up a concrete truck from pouring yesterday because I needed to see what was going to happen next. Maybe I can finish it over the three day weekend.
     
On another note, maybe it will be dry enough to get something done this weekend. Yesterday's high was 63 and I am proud to say the inside of the batch water heater box was 175 degrees. I cannot wait for that first shower.

29 comments:

  1. MDR, it's a great read. I've read it at least six times. I have a hard copy, one saved .pdf on computer and another copy on my Kindle. It's addictive.

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  2. Light's Out is one of my favorites too! Did you ever make it through reading The Walk?
    Shar

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  3. Stephen - I am going to have to build more book shelves if this keeps up. In the past I averaged three to four books a year but now all the sudden I have tripled that.

    Shar - I did and you were right about the twist in the end. I did kinda figure as much on it though. I also kinda wished it had a little more to the plot than just making it home. I guessed he would have made it about half way through the book and then the rest would have been on how they survived until order was restore but it abruptly ended.
    Good read and it makes you re-think what you need in your everyday carry and your car bag.

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  4. I'm currently reading it. It's a great book, but wow.... 600 pages and the font is fairly small for me. I read maybe 2 chapters ( sometimes 3 ) a day and that's about all I can stand. On the other hand, if it was printed normally it would probably be over a thousand pages and use a lot more paper.

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  5. Matt - Then I guess it is a good thing I got it E-Book. I can email it to you if you want it.

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  6. okay, i just made the mistake of reading the first few pages on amazon. i'm gonna have to add this to my list of things to read

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  7. That sounds really good! Will have to see if the library can get it for me. Thanks for stopping by my blog today :) I am really enjoying yours!

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  8. TransFarmer - You won't be disappointing it is a great read.

    Stephanie - I highly recommend it.
    No problem on the stopping by and Thank you.

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  9. Merry Christmas, my friend. God bless.

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  10. I think the plot was about more than him findig his way home, it was more about him finding "himself". It put a different/interesting twist to what's out there in the fiction survival stories.
    Shar

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  11. Shar - I do agree, it was a nice change.

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  12. Another book to read, maybe I should start a list.

    Merry Christmas to you and your family.

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  13. You're right...great read. Merry Christmas you old brush popper.

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  14. Happy holidays to you and the family! I hope you all enjoy a safe and joyous holiday!

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  15. That is how I keep up with them all Rob. Merry Christmas to y'all

    Thanks Hillbilly and same to you and yours.

    Thanks and Right back at you HJ.

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  16. Thanks, But I'll just deal with it.

    Merry Christmas, MDR, to you and your family.

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  17. I'm 2/3 of the way through One Second After. Love it. I guess I'm going to have to try this one too. You need to get a kick back from Amazon if you keep this up. lol

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  18. SFG - I wished that was the case but I am just passing along some very good reads. The knowledge I have gained from these is amazing.
    I don't have anything after "Lights out" so if you know of a good one let me know.

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  19. MDR, I have a long list of books you and your readers might be interested in! Like I said before, I read ALOT!
    Shar

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  20. Shar - Thank you. If you would like you can reply with it or email the list to me.

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  21. MDR, I will e-mail you a list, just been busy the last couple of days.
    Shar

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  22. No hurry Shar. I am only half way through this one. It takes me a while.

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  23. Great book... I read it a few weeks ago...

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  24. KAJ - I am on chapter 27 now and it keeps getting better.

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  25. Clicking only gave me a maximized view of the cover. Howdy,just found you through somebody. Going to bookmark you under my most readable file "Good Blogs". Be back tomorrow.

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  26. Trying to get the books through the library; can you give me the authors of the three books mentioned? Email me if you wish. I'm reading addicted.

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  27. Thank you Sissy and when you get a chance you can hit the little blue Join button on the right of my blog and become a member of MDR.
    The pic is from Amazon. I just put the image of the book on the blog.
    "One Second After" is from William R. Forstchen.
    "Lights Out" is from David Crawford
    "The Walk" is from Lee Goldberg.

    If you need anything else just let me know.

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