Final blog of the year

I will blog this time on a different book. The other day at half price books I bought a collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut. I have so far read about half of them and I have two favorites. The first one is about a couple that pretends to be extremely wealthy and interested in buying large estates and than spend their vacation taking in the luxuries of them. The other one is about when the USA sent the first man into space he found that it was occupied by ghosts. I found both stories to be very enjoyable and thought provoking. They both aged very well.

Outside reading blog #4

Well it is time for the exciting finish. As expected the final showdown took place at the White House. But it went down different than I expected. I thought that she would never even get to the President but she did. What Happened is that he came in and stopped her from killing the President and killer her and everyone lived happily ever after. In the end I really enjoyed this book. Ludlum is a great writer it is to bad that he is dead. It is a easy read and it is very engaging and hard to put down. I would recomend this book as well as The Bourne Trilogy, Matlock Paper and The Materese Circle.

Blog 4

There has been a huge twist in the novel. Hawthorne's lover is actually the international terrorist that is going to kill the president. This adds a whole new dimension to the novel. It will help fuel Hawthorn because of rage. A thing that I find very annoying in the novel is how Robert Ludlum can just kill anybody he wants to. In the last chapter he has just killed off five prominent people in Washington and I don't think that that is very realistic. The novel now is coming to it's exciting conclusion. It should be very interesting.

BLog 3

For this blog I am going to talk about the setting. The novel opens up in the Caribbean. Robert Ludlum works hard to express the beauty of the region. he spends a lot of time talking about the nature involved weather it being about the ocean or the palm trees. He also builds in little stories about the region the shows the he knows what he is talking about and it also keeps you engaged. He also draws on the Italian herritage which he frequently uses is many of his books like the materese Circle for example.

Outside reading BLOG N#MBER 2

The book has gotten very, very interesting. we have just learned of the plot by the Palestinian terrorist to assassinate the president of the United States of America. This sadly though is very cliche and unimaginative to kill the president. As Ludlum does well is he does a great job creating troubled but lovable characters(I.E. Jason Bourne). Now there will be a big race between the aasin and the main character to see who will be able to exicute their plan first. And of course the hero will win. this is my perdiction for the rest of the book.

Scorpio illusion

For the outside reading this quarter i am reading the Scorpio Illusion by Robert Ludlum. The main character in the book is Captain Tyrell(Ty for short) Hawthorn who is a former agent in the central intelligence agency. Captain Hawthorn is a very complex character. They are trying to draw him back into the military but he is very reluctant to do so because his wife was murdered because he was a spy. He is very withdrawn from society and is a very nervous twitchy man. But as in all Ludlum novels( the author if the Bourne trilogy) his characters are like action heroes.

State mourns three slain Oakland police officers

I read the article "State mourns three slain Oakland police officers". I found it on the Los Angles times website. Here is a link. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-oakland-police-shooting22-2009mar22,0,7435617.story

This article was about the police shooting this weekend in Oakland California. The incident left three police officers dead. One is critical wounded at the moment. The shooter was Lovelle Mixon a parole who violated his patrol and had an arrest warrant for him. I think that this is very sad because it is always bad when cops get killed. I hope that the reason for this gets explained more because it is not very clear at the moment.

LaGanga, Maria. "State mourns three slain Oakland police officers." LA Times. 22 March 2009. Los Angles Times. 22 Mar 2009 .