Books and Beyond

I’ve been juggling several books lately. Some finished, some almost finished, some are just simply neglected (I promise myself I will read them, though).

Just finished:
- Deception Point by Dan Brown tells a story of a high level deception in the US Government involving a finding of alien fossils under the Arctic Ice. It’s not the typical alien like the green humanoid, it’s just some kind of big mollusks trapped in a rock that was perceived as coming from high above, a meteor.

- Digital Fortress (also by Dan Brown) tells a story inside the NSA (secret agency in the US), where a new data encryption method (created by a bitter ex employee of NSA) would make the current superior encryption of the NSA obsolete, and even worse that the ex employee was threatening the NSA that he would sell the new creation to highest bidder if NSA did not do as he wished (which was to tell the world that NSA has been snooping the public communication with its superior technology).

I like Da Vinci Code and Angels&Demons better.

Not Finished Yet (but almost done):
- A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: a lovely family saga, so much drama in so much details. So much personalities, so much confusing similar names. You will be amazed to follow how the family in the story grew; strangely, in every person of it. How a place surrounded by swamps built into a village, grew into small town, connected to other small towns, until the government took over municipality, then war broke between the ruling Democrats and the rebellion Liberals, then peace came, then war again and peace again, then eventually connected to the outside world by the introducing of the train, attracted investors of banana plantations, then there was a massacre triggered by labor strikes, then peace again brought by a devastating years of rains. Interesting. I think I will read another book of Marquez.

Neglected Books:
- A book about a history of world great civilizations that had vanished, the book tells the reasons why they vanished and we have to know the reasons so as not to fall into the same mistakes; and also about successful ones which we can draw lessons so as to survive. I forget the exact title, it belongs to my brother. It is an interesting book, really, but so thick, and well, I will finish it soon and write about it.
- A book about investment. I will write later about this later. I bought this book for my refreshments to my investment knowledge. An easy read, actually.
- A book by Nick Hornby, the title is Fever Fitch, about his crazy love on soccer, on Arsenal. Oh I bought it like years ago… I love Nick Hornby novels, but this one has to wait maybe a long time for me to read.

Next Readings:
Maybe, Stephen Hawking’s books (maybe also Stephen King’s). Maybe also Barack Obama’s books. Not sure yet.