One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Un Cien Anos de Solidad) is a novel about a imaginary town named Macondo. Garcia Marquez follows the town, and the Buendia family through a century. The book starts with Colonel Aureliano Buendia facing a firing squad, and reminiscing about the time he first discovered ice. The book goes on from there, all the while with the Colonel facing the firing squad, remembering the past, tracing the history of the town of Macondo. You are introduced to the complete lineage of several families. (I would most definetly reccomend buying a copy that has the family trees in the front, as they are desperately needed to follow the characters without an eidetic memory.) Jose Arcadio Buendia and his family ore the center of the book, as they founded the town. There are his sons: José Arcadio and Aureliano, grandsons: Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the wonderfully charismatic women--the Úrsulas, a few Remedios, Fernanda, and my personal favorite, Pilar. This book was really good. It is one where you need to just stick with it. I actually had to take a break from it for several weeks, and then resume my reading with fresh eyes. It was worth it. This book is really different from any American literature you see, and opens your eyes to a completely different world.

Angels and Demons....the MOVIE!!!

For all of you who have bought the Da Vinci Code movie, you know that Angels and Demons the movie is coming out. That is all we are told, but IMDb gives the year of the movie as 2008. Anyone who is a prime member can find out more, and if you do, please tell me!!

Secondly, Patsie Trollinger will be at the Hub tomorrow, and give a discussion at 6. Good times!!!

The Da Vinci Code {DVD} Release

The Da Vinci Code DVD {based on the superbest seller by Dan Brown, and starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou} came out on the 14th. There is also a very cool special edition boxed set. It contains and real working cryptex, and a Robert Langdon journal. It is very exciting, and would make a great Christmas gift for and Dan Brown enthusiast. It is $80 shelf price, but Amazon has it half off now. Thanks for the great comments! I am looking into several of the books you have reccomended. I must say I have been busy reading the Innocent Man, and All the King's Men, and some Poe short stories. On top of all of that, I have been putting all of my music onto my new iPod {30G Video}. Very exciting!!! I went to Joseph-Beth with a group the other day, and we had a very nice tour there, given by the PR lady. If anyone has a group that they are in charge of entertaining, I would reccomend that you look into a similiar tour. Plus, you get a 10% discount!

Thomas Friedman Interview

Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat, had an interesting Q&A session. The topics ranged from Withdrawal from Iraq to Education in the US. I would show it, but I don't want to get sued. You have to be a member of the NY Times online paper to get access to all the goodies. If you are a member, the article is in the @Times section of your email. If you are not a member, I would reccomend it, you get an electronic newspaper every day, and lots of other weekly journals, for example, I get the Book Review. As I have mentioned previosly, I am working on a video blog about All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren. I have been gathering information and reading the book for about a month now. I have been working on this ever since the idea hit me when I posted my video from Alaska. You can expect that by next weekend. It should be good.