Books I've read recently

I always wanted someone to answer this question: "how not to do anything at all?". I know this sounds pretty strange but I have a good reason to ask such a question. I love breaks: time to be with the family, time to go to the beach, time to do nothing except ... do nothing! And I've never been able to be like that, I mean like normal people who could spend a whole day, let alone a week or two, doing nothing at all. It kills me. One way or the other, I need to entertain my brain into thinking on something. Well anyways, just a rant I've got about "breaks and holidays and so on..."



I am more interested in telling you about the books I've read for the past 4 weeks. They're really exciting and nothing brings more excitment in my life than books (except computers and programming of course).



Contagion - by Robin Cook

I would like to talk more about the book, but the above link will give you more information to let you decide whether you should read the book or not.



Final Duty - by Paul Carson

Final Duty is a book of the same genre as Contagion and other books written by Robin Cook. It's about a set of dangerous conspiracy in the medical and pharmaceutical world and the extent to which people would go for money and fame, without deserving it. It is one of those "hard to put down" books as the Dublin Evening Herald puts it.



Monkeewrench - by P. J. Tracy

Monkeewrench also titled in certain countries as "Want to play" is the first novel P. J. Tracy wrote. I wasn't thinking much about how exciting this novel would be since it was her first. I mostly bought it because it involved a bunch of hackers/game designers/computer programmers (you can already see the connection with me and buying the book) with a queen bee in the name of Grace McBride. Grace has been involved in a series of murders when she was much younger. She and her friends then erased themselves from the FBI, IRS and other servers, created themselves new names (Roadrunner, Harley Davidson for example) and started up the Monkeewrench business. The company (Monkeewrench) was usually involved in creating computer games for kids till Grace came up with the idea of creating a game that involved a number of serial murders in the city she lived in. Using the game as a base, a psychopath started killing people in the city... and the crime scenes were so disturbingly close to those in the game that Detectives Maggozi and Gino with the help of Grace McBride and her partners found that not to be a coincidence...

Want to know more? I suggest you read the book. :-D



I was thinking about going to the bookstore today and get another the latest novel from P. J. Tracy (Live Bait) but I'm too lazy to leave the house. So I started reading a book on XML development instead... Maybe I'll write a review on that one when I'm done.