Yesterday afternoon, I downloaded my very first book on my nook.
I’m already done.
This can’t be good.
Mar 012010
Feb 122010
Alright alright, I’m finally getting around to telling you my review of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I reminded myself, aren’t you proud?
Anyway, the book was kind of good, kind of well…I don’t know, it was….yeah….hmmm. Okay yes I am being very indecisive, but if you read this book, you will have the same kind of reaction. I would probably recommend reading it anyway, if you like Dan Brown, just to say you have.
Dan Brown is a very talented writer. Either this guy is really knowledgeable, extremely good at research, or one of the best bullshitters in the world (along with someone who’s name starts with a Ch and end with an erri).
So if you haven’t read it, and don’t want to know, don’t continue to read. The book focuses around the main character, as always, Robert Langdon. The book involves, as always (well almost always, not as much in Angels and Demons but whatever) one of Robert’s friends/colleague/someone he knows needing help or being in trouble. It always involves a beautiful strong woman who helps him along the way. This one is set in D.C. (as any idiot with a pair of eyes can see as it’s on the cover) so it’s slightly more interesting because you know the actual sites, and you have seen what he is talking about. This one talks about the Freemasons (didn’t Angels and Demons a little too? I can’t remember, it was so long ago). I once had a really creepy co-manager that was a mason; he used to carry around this little book with words in code. Okay, book, right. So the Freemasons supposedly protect this long lost secret. The book involves this pyramid and things hidden under the capitol building. It also involves, as always, a crazy person with a desire to rule the world, kill lots of people, etc. etc. Instead of anti-matter, or the Virgin Mary, this one talks about Noetic science. This science being that your consciousness and thoughts actually contain matter. If one thinks about the meaning of that, you can see what is being claimed here. Semi interesting, but I think even the people that study this science don’t think there are any cold hard facts. In this book though, the leading lady does.
The book is of course – since it’s Dan Brown – a page turner. There are a lot of twists and turns and unanswered questions (it kind of reminds me of Lost, just less annoying). Only problem is, you’ve already read the book. Twice. Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code. He has this little formula, and he plugs in the information, and out comes a book. Slightly different, but still the same. So, I say it’s, eh.
Nov 192009
So, in less than 24 hours we will be seeing New Moon.
I’m normally anti-mega-popular-culture. Well that was before Harry Potter. Before Lord of the Rings. And DEFINITELY before Twilight. Ugh. What has happened to me? Pretty soon I’ll be putting posters of Robert Pattinson up on my walls. Someone shoot me.
Anyway, speaking to my not-so-sane-child-like-psyche at the moment, I think it’s great. Actually, freaking awesome. I would use worse expletives but as I have a 2 year old and I try not to curse out loud, I fear that writing it would be just as bad. These are definitely my favorite books. I put off reading them forever, because I figured after my Harry Potter obsession/fiasco that I would never get roped into another over the top teenage girl obsession again. Well, screw it, I was absolutely wrong. More wrong than wrong could possibly be. I have read the 4 books more times than I have read all of the Harry Potter books combined, and we all remember my HP days. *sigh* I really should be reading engrossing ethnographies, and books on gerontology, and on sexual disorders that actually apply to my up and coming promising, very interesting (!) career. But no, I’m reading about vampires, along with the 9000000 other sickeningly infatuated girls. Oh well. Can’t deny what makes you happy. So, go to Stephenie Meyer. She, totally, rules.
Dec 012008
Well I finally finished the twilight series. Well, I guess not *finally.* I started the first book, Twilight, on October 25th. I’m not crazy, I was just in the hospital so that’s why I remember. Ha. Moving on….it took me about two weeks to read that novel. Maybe a little more. Which two weeks being an insane amount of time for me to read. With being sick and messing with work I had a hard time picking it up and finishing it. So, that was around two weeks ago. The second book, New Moon, took me around a week to read. I was interested, really liking the material, but was just reading at night. The third book now leads us to about a week ago when I started. This novel, Eclipse, only took me 3 days to read. The last book, Breaking Dawn, took me two days to read (this is normal Patti book reading time). Funny thing is, the books get bigger as you go along.
So Breaking Dawn got really bad reviews. A lot of the Twilight fans hated it and wanted to return it. I, actually, really liked it. I wasn’t disappointed at all. I think these books mean something different to everyone. The first thing that attracted people to these books is the main character Bella, and her love for the vampire, Edward. Bella was a normal, self conscious teenager, who I’m sure a lot of girls related with. Edward was a perfect being, extremely beautiful and Bella was completely in love with him. She spends a lot of time during the first three books doubting the love he has for her, because she is too ordinary to be loved by someone like him. The final book Edward and Bella marry. So, obviously she has the man she loves. The self consciousness is gone. I think a lot of people lost interest because she got what she wanted. They couldn’t relate anymore. I enjoyed it though. It was a hard time to get to her happy ending, even in the last book, so I appreciate the hard work it took her to get there. I loved the series, and definitely recommend it to anyone.
The movie’s good too. 
