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Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez

I read these two books awhile back. I was greatly impressed. These are Mr. Suarez’ first books, they will not be his last. At least I hope not. Imagine a cross between Jurassic Park, Star Wars and Terminator with much better writing. I suppose ‘Techno Thriller’ might be the genre. Whatever, it is a fascinating, frightening story (these are book one and two, with the possibility of a third). These are scarier than Chrichton’s Jurassic Park series. The monsters in this case are much easier to activate than prehistoric dinosaurs. This is eBay, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook ,Online Banking, et al on steroids. The overwhelming good accomplished by connectivity is twisted to evil in a scarily believable turn. Granted you have to set reality aside to accept that a dead, evil genius has unleashed the ultimate computer virus, but so much of what it can do is believable. Here’s a new way to dress good and evil and a couple of the most wonderful final show downs I’ve ever read, and I’m old. I’ve read a few. Don’t read this unless you love good science fiction and can abide jargon you only half understand. Fortunately ,there are characters with little tech background who demand explanations and wonderful geeks who supply them. You also need to be able to abide lots of violence and gore (think Terminator and Star Wars variety). Great fun, entertaining, but frightening as Hell itself.

Book Review

Stop Living in This Land, Go to the Everlasting World of Happiness, Live There Forever  by Woo Myung

The title of this book is almost a book in itself.

This was 'enlightening'.  It helped me a great deal, clarifying many questions I had about specific things in Christianity.  I'm not sure that was the intent, but it was what happened for me.  I finally understand God as 'I am', the pervasiveness of sin, and how important continual repentance is.  Not bad for a book I almost didn't take home (from the library, of course).

It was not easy going. The book was translated from Korean.  The author speaks of the world.  Trouble is it might be God's world, or it might be the human world.  Several references required rereading a number of times to be sure I was thinking of the same world the author was.  Even so, it was worth the effort.

I Googled the author, Woo Myung. Seems he might be a cult leader, or not.   He may be related to Rev. Moon, or not.  I really don't care.  I derived value from reading this book, and I am thankful for that.  I will not be taking his  Maum Meditation. I will not go through his 7 steps and will not be cleansed by the process and I won't even be buying his book (aren't libraries grand?).  But I may more fully understand what I do believe and that is not a bad thing.

I love books.  They never fail to provide something and there is such a wonderful variety of experiences that I could never touch upon in any other way.  How great is that?