Currently Reading

Of course I'm not only reading Jurassic Park. I'm not sure why I always have a couple books going at the same time. I finished our book club book for March. There will be a post after our meeting on it. I also finished the third book in the Stephanie Plum series and will be working through the rest of them. This is a series that I can read a book in a couple days and be in a good mood after them. The books are just hilarious! I also picked up The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction (sixtieth anniversary edition) at the library. There are a lot of authors I haven't read anything by yet. I figured by reading some short stories I will know if I want to pick up a larger work. I've read two stories so far; "Other People" by Neil Gaiman and "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut. Both stories piqued my interest. Gaiman's story is very short but brings up some harsh questions about the afterlife in Hell and how one is punished for the sins they committed. The ending threw me a little but it makes sense to me. Vonnegut's story was just scary in how the human race has tried to make everyone equal to each other through hiding differences and adding weights to slow people down. The idea of this government that wants everyone the same is ugly to me. You root for Harrison but know that there was no other way the ending could be. I'm sorry - I don't want to give too much away!

Jurassica Park by Michael Crichton

For the past couple weeks I have been working my way through Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. It's taking awhile mainly because I have been only reading at work. I am enjoying it though. There is just so much extra technical stuff in it. Crichton puts a lot of content in the story that is difficult for me to follow because of the terminology used. But it is helpful content. I have seen the movie and can see parts of it in the book; but luckily there is a lot that isn't in the movie. This is the first book by him that I've read and I am liking it. There are a lot of questions raised in this story. The whole idea of being able to bring dinosaurs back to life and be able to control them is very pompous. Hammond, the money behind all of it, is very blind to everything that could (and is) going wrong with his island.  I'm only at the part where things begin to go wrong. I'm waiting to see how Hammond is in the rest of the book.