Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

5/11/08

Happy Mothers Day

Love You Forever is a short book written by Robert Munsch and published in 1986


It always makes me cry.

"I'll love you forever,I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be."

To listen to Robert Munsch read the story CLICK HERE

4/30/08

Albert Hofmann


Albert Hofmann died Tuesday. He was 102.

Albert was a Swiss scientist best known for synthesizing lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).

Hofmann authored more than 100 scientific articles and wrote a number of books, including LSD: My Problem Child

Click here to read LSD: My Problem Child

12/8/07

The Gunslinger

OK I am re-reading (for the sixth time) The Gunslinger Series by Stephen King.

I am a huge Stephen King fan and have read and re-read all of his books. I know there are those of you out there that discount his books and I am here to urge you to read this series.

I am a veracious reader and this series is perhaps the best EVERY written. Even if you hate Stephen King you need to read these books.

Just the first sentence was enough for me to be hooked

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed"

The novel was inspired by the poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning

It is about a Gunslinger named Roland Deschain of Gilead that is on a quest to reach The Dark Tower, the axis upon which infinite numbers of parallel worlds rotate. The Dark Tower is under assault by the Crimson King, Lord of Discordia, a Satan-like figure bent on destroying the Dark Tower by undermining the "Beams" that support it.

So in the high speech of Gilead " I ask you to remember the face of your father and yield to your Ka. Read this book!"

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)