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July Books
Gone Tomorrow
by Lee Child
Another great Reacher novel, this one starts out in a New York subway where Reacher spots a woman he believes to be a suicide bomber. After many twists and turns the book ends with one of the best action scenes of the whole series. I'm down to 5 or 6 more Reacher books after this one. Sadface. 4/5
Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
I talked about this book a little bit in LJ already. It's like this book was written for me. It takes place in 2044; the internet has evolved into a huge online environment called OASIS. The brilliant creator of OASIS has died, and left clues to the location of a treasure within the OASIS. By deciphering clues and puzzles based on 80's pop culture and gaming, Wade Watts hopes to find the treasure and use it to help out mankind. The fictional creator of OASIS (basically Bill Gates and Paul Allen combined) was born in June 1972, 3 months before me. He was into gaming, RPGs, sci-fi, fantasy, genre movies, video games,, stuff that's right up my alley. Not recommended for everyone, but for the target demographic it's fantastic. 4.5/5
Time Riders: Day of the Predator
by Alex Scarrow
Second book in this series. This time the Time Riders get sent back to prehistoric times, facing off against dinosaurs and some proto-human animal-like creatures. I still enjoy the story, but I'm getting a little tired of all the global warming BS thrown into these books; every time the future gets mentioned they have to throw in all these baloney global warming scares: melted ice caps, running out of oil, millions of people starving, blah, blah, blah. Detracts from the book a bit. 3/5
Transfer of Power
by Vince Flynn
My manager and another manager recommended this author, claiming his books were better than the Reacher books. I openly scoffed at that, but it was a pretty good book. The series centers around Mitch Rupp, a super-secret covert CIA assassin. In this book he hunts down a Middle Eastern terrorist who ends up taking over the White House in an attempt to grab the president and force the United States into agreeing to his demands. It's highly detailed, seems very realistic (I mean , not the White House being taken over, but the way the book is written). I found out Flynn was a writer on 24 , one of my favorite shows ever, for a while. Definitely will read more. 4/5
The Stranger Beside Me
by Ann Rule
After reading her book about Gary Ridgeway, the Green River Killer, I was interested in reading her classic, most well-known book. The story of Ted Bundy and her interactions with him did no disappoint. Understand that she was writing true-crime stuff before she ever met Ted Bundy. How crazy is that? They then became good friends, so as his nature and his crimes became more apparent she had a unique perspective, since she was good friends with both Bundy and the investigators who were after him. The kind of story that would be too cheesy to believe if it was fictional. 4/5
The 13th Reality: The Journal of Curious Letters
by James Dashner
This is pretty similar to the Time Riders series, expect instead of trying to prevent problems along different timelines, this group is trying to prevent problems along different realities or dimensions. I liked it at first, but I grew tired of it by the end; it's written at a very low level, and is downright silly at times. The action scenes were boring, and none of the characters grabbed me. It's also one of those stories where the main character is being introduced to a whole new world and whenever he asks a question the answer is “I can't tell you that yet.” I despise the whole “smarmy mentor who knows everything but won't tell you anything” archetype, and here it's in spades. Even up to the end of the book the main is still asking questions and still being told “can't tell you that.” It gets really old after 40 or 50 iterations. 2/5
The Third Option
by Vince Flynn
Next book in the Mitch Rupp series. This one starts with Rupp being double-crossed during an assassination attempt and the rest of the book is him trying to figure out what happened. This series is building up something nice; it's definitely a continuing series that brings in more and more pieces with each book. Hopefully everything got tied up OK; the author died in 2013 at the very young age of 47 after battling cancer, leaving behind a wife and three kids. Very sad situation. 4/5
61 Hours [audio book]
by Lee Child
An audio book?! What...?! Yup, I took a road trip this month and decided to grab a Reacher book. I really do enjoy listening to the audio versions of these books; the reader, Dick Hill, is great and at this point he is Reacher to me. But with my new very short commute it's not even worth it trying to listen to books. I only got through about 7 of the 11 discs on the road trip, and listening to the remainder 10 minutes at a time was not very satisfying. And to top it off disc 11 was scratched up and I couldn't listen to the end of it. I have the printed version on the way so I can read the last 30 pages or so. Anyway, this was another great book by Child. I knew who the bad guy was immediately, but it didn't hinder my enjoyment at all. 4/5
Edit: Obviously Lee Child read The Accountant's Story before writing this; he kiped two ideas straight out of that book. The ones about the drug dealer spending $2,000 a month just for rubber bands to bundle up all his cash, and about losing 10% of his money due to cash rotting, getting wet and ruined, etc. Pretty funny that Child used those straight out of another book.
Books for July: 8
Books for 2015: 42
by Lee Child
Another great Reacher novel, this one starts out in a New York subway where Reacher spots a woman he believes to be a suicide bomber. After many twists and turns the book ends with one of the best action scenes of the whole series. I'm down to 5 or 6 more Reacher books after this one. Sadface. 4/5
Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
I talked about this book a little bit in LJ already. It's like this book was written for me. It takes place in 2044; the internet has evolved into a huge online environment called OASIS. The brilliant creator of OASIS has died, and left clues to the location of a treasure within the OASIS. By deciphering clues and puzzles based on 80's pop culture and gaming, Wade Watts hopes to find the treasure and use it to help out mankind. The fictional creator of OASIS (basically Bill Gates and Paul Allen combined) was born in June 1972, 3 months before me. He was into gaming, RPGs, sci-fi, fantasy, genre movies, video games,, stuff that's right up my alley. Not recommended for everyone, but for the target demographic it's fantastic. 4.5/5
Time Riders: Day of the Predator
by Alex Scarrow
Second book in this series. This time the Time Riders get sent back to prehistoric times, facing off against dinosaurs and some proto-human animal-like creatures. I still enjoy the story, but I'm getting a little tired of all the global warming BS thrown into these books; every time the future gets mentioned they have to throw in all these baloney global warming scares: melted ice caps, running out of oil, millions of people starving, blah, blah, blah. Detracts from the book a bit. 3/5
Transfer of Power
by Vince Flynn
My manager and another manager recommended this author, claiming his books were better than the Reacher books. I openly scoffed at that, but it was a pretty good book. The series centers around Mitch Rupp, a super-secret covert CIA assassin. In this book he hunts down a Middle Eastern terrorist who ends up taking over the White House in an attempt to grab the president and force the United States into agreeing to his demands. It's highly detailed, seems very realistic (I mean , not the White House being taken over, but the way the book is written). I found out Flynn was a writer on 24 , one of my favorite shows ever, for a while. Definitely will read more. 4/5
The Stranger Beside Me
by Ann Rule
After reading her book about Gary Ridgeway, the Green River Killer, I was interested in reading her classic, most well-known book. The story of Ted Bundy and her interactions with him did no disappoint. Understand that she was writing true-crime stuff before she ever met Ted Bundy. How crazy is that? They then became good friends, so as his nature and his crimes became more apparent she had a unique perspective, since she was good friends with both Bundy and the investigators who were after him. The kind of story that would be too cheesy to believe if it was fictional. 4/5
The 13th Reality: The Journal of Curious Letters
by James Dashner
This is pretty similar to the Time Riders series, expect instead of trying to prevent problems along different timelines, this group is trying to prevent problems along different realities or dimensions. I liked it at first, but I grew tired of it by the end; it's written at a very low level, and is downright silly at times. The action scenes were boring, and none of the characters grabbed me. It's also one of those stories where the main character is being introduced to a whole new world and whenever he asks a question the answer is “I can't tell you that yet.” I despise the whole “smarmy mentor who knows everything but won't tell you anything” archetype, and here it's in spades. Even up to the end of the book the main is still asking questions and still being told “can't tell you that.” It gets really old after 40 or 50 iterations. 2/5
The Third Option
by Vince Flynn
Next book in the Mitch Rupp series. This one starts with Rupp being double-crossed during an assassination attempt and the rest of the book is him trying to figure out what happened. This series is building up something nice; it's definitely a continuing series that brings in more and more pieces with each book. Hopefully everything got tied up OK; the author died in 2013 at the very young age of 47 after battling cancer, leaving behind a wife and three kids. Very sad situation. 4/5
61 Hours [audio book]
by Lee Child
An audio book?! What...?! Yup, I took a road trip this month and decided to grab a Reacher book. I really do enjoy listening to the audio versions of these books; the reader, Dick Hill, is great and at this point he is Reacher to me. But with my new very short commute it's not even worth it trying to listen to books. I only got through about 7 of the 11 discs on the road trip, and listening to the remainder 10 minutes at a time was not very satisfying. And to top it off disc 11 was scratched up and I couldn't listen to the end of it. I have the printed version on the way so I can read the last 30 pages or so. Anyway, this was another great book by Child. I knew who the bad guy was immediately, but it didn't hinder my enjoyment at all. 4/5
Edit: Obviously Lee Child read The Accountant's Story before writing this; he kiped two ideas straight out of that book. The ones about the drug dealer spending $2,000 a month just for rubber bands to bundle up all his cash, and about losing 10% of his money due to cash rotting, getting wet and ruined, etc. Pretty funny that Child used those straight out of another book.
Books for July: 8
Books for 2015: 42
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