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Robin_Ripper
While I was on vacation (see TR) at the evenings I took the time to read some books and will make some short reviews of what I've read so that other people might want to also read it
 (or not)First book was:  Basically it's about the life of a boy who lives in barcelona and visits a secret book library and his life changes from that moment on. Found it to be a pretty decent read, hard to stop when going and kept the excitement going the entire book long. Definately recommended if you like light reading material with a good story. Next I read  Which is actually quite a funny book and has some pretty good insights and is still very true today even when the book was writtin in 1969. It shows why whenever you want to get something done from an organisation they suck balls at delivering it. Only downside is that it drags on a little bit and could've been said in about half the pages imo. Then I read some in  Didn't really do it for me, first quit about 20 pages in, then later tried it again and quit about halfway in, never got exciting for me and didn't like the way it was written. I also read some in:  This book consists out of philosophy and jokes, and the philosophy is not that good, but some of the jokes are pretty decent and made me laugh... I'll find a couple good ones: Quote:
A ninety-year-old man went to the doctor and said, "Doctor, my eighteen-year-old wife is expecting a baby."
The doctor said, "Let me tell you a story. A man went hunting, but instead of a gun, he picked up an umbrella by mistake. When a bear suddenly charged at the man, he picked up the umbrella, shot the bear and killed it." The man said, "Impossible. Someone else must have shot that bear." The doctor said, "My point exactly!" Quote:
It was autumn. The Red Indians on the remote reservation asked their new Chief if the winter was going to be severe or mild.
Since he was a Red Indian Chief in a modern society, he had never been taught old secrets; when he looked at the sky, he couldn't tell how the weather was going to be. Nevertheless, to be safe, he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be bad and that everybody should collect wood, and be prepared. Being a practical leader, he had an idea after a few days. He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is the coming winter going to be bad?" "It looks like this winter is going to be terrible," the meteorologist at the weather service responded. So the Chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more wood in order to be prepared. A week later, he called the National Weather Service again. "Is it going to be a cold winter?" "Yes," the man at National Weather Service again replied, "It definitely will be very severe." The Chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of wood they could find. Two weeks later, he called the National Weather Service again. "Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?" "Absolutely," the man replied. "It's going to be one of the coldest winters ever." "How can you be so sure?" the Chief asked. The weatherman replied, "The Red Indians are collecting wood like crazy!! Quote:
Secretary: Doctor, there's an invisible man in the waiting room.
Doctor: Tell him I can't see him In my next blog post I might finally discuss some pokerstuff again Robin out. ps: if you have any book recommendations let me know because for some reason after 24 years I figured that reading is not as bad as I always considered it to be
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