I'm currently reading a book called Monkeewrench. This is P.J. Tracy's debut novel and it is an exciting thriller, filled with misdirection and secret agendas. Grace is constantly on guard 24/7 because she escaped from a killer several years ago but she has no peace because he was never caught. Monkeewrench, which is about a computer game which inspires a serial killer. This is just the kind of book I find interesting, it's full of action, and keeps you wanting to read to the next page. By the third page, two people have already been killed.
"What was troubling the Klienfeldt's this morning was not the suspected presence of homosexuals in the parish, but the undisputable presence of two tiny bullet holes in the backs of their skulls."
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, five friends decide to create a computer company called Monkeewrench. There first game is called Serial Killer Detective, which they do a beta test on the net. Life is connected with this game, people both in the game and in life are dying exactly the same way, then the creator or Monkeewrench finds herself the next target of the serial killer.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Fever 1793
I am about half way through Fever 1793, which is about an epidemic that kills 5000 thousdand people in Philidelphia, with in a three month span. It is a very good book, although, it is depressing to read about peoples deaths, within the first couple chapters, someone dyes from this deisese. There is also a comparrison that can be made between the book and recent real life problems. In the book, the doctor tries to warn people that it may be the dangerous Yellow Fever, however, the people do not believe the doctor because the Yellow Fever hadn't been around for over 30 years. This can be comparred to the recent Madoff Ponzi Scheme, the government organization S.E.C tried was informed about Bernard Madoff possibly schamming people out of there money, and when they didn't listen, it had turned out to be true, along with the Yellow Fever the doctor had warned the people about. In the foreground of this story is 16-year-old Mattie Cook, whose mother and grandfather own a popular coffee house on High Street. Mattie's comfortable and interesting life is shattered by the epidemic, as her mother is felled and the girl and her grandfather must flee for their lives.
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