Hackers and Painters

Author: Paul Graham

In Progress...

The Rising

Author: Brian Keene

Dec 17-21

This is either a completely unredeemable work of trash or a clever play on the standard post-apocalyptic zombie horror movie. As usual, the dead start coming back to life, eat living flesh, and only a headshot will stop them. The twist is that the dead are being reanimated by "demons" passing through the veil, because said veil was weakened by super-collider experiments. Also, it's not just people - birds, all mammals, and fish are coming back as well.

Quite a lot of gruesome scenes. All the characters are poorly developed with the possible exception of one of the main females. Women are horribly depicted as baby makers, prostitutes, dead, or evil ex-wives.

TERRIBLE ENDING.

I love an apocalyptic tale, but this one didn't really leave me with a good taste.

The Art of Power

A book by Thich Nhat Hanh describing true power. In Progress.

Julie and Julia

This was a quick weekend read, about a woman in NYC that decides to start a Grand Life Project to cook every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in her tiny NYC apartment kitchen. 

Read: 11/28-12/1