Books, Movies and the Foo Fighters

Let's start with books.  I just finished The Hot Gate by John Ringo.  Book three in the Troy Rising series.  As usual I finished the book in one setting.  The author claimed that people would be upset as they were with one of the Prince Roger books because he kills off a couple of characters.  I was not upset but I guess I can see why someone would be.  With Mr. Ringo, you learn to expect someone you have grown to care about die.  If you have not read the other two books in the series, Live Free or Die and Citadel, go out and buy all three.  There are two more books in the plans, let us hope they are coming soon.

I am currently reading A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge.  I am enjoying it and will be buying the rest of Mr. Vinge's works as I can. I am almost finished, I have about three hundred pages left to go.  I can say that reading this book and reading The Hot Gate at the same time, caused me to have some very interesting dreams.  Fighting armored spiders in tunnels in zero gravity.  Very interesting dreams. 

When I finish A Deepness in the Sky, I plan on reading The Amazon Legion by Tom Kratman, the fourth book in the Legion del Cid or Terra Nova or Carrera's Legions novels.  Another wonderful series brought to you by Baen.  I am a bit disappointed as there are no negative reviews on Amazon.  Perhaps the Colonel's writing has finally exploded some heads?

Let's talk movies now.  I saw Thor on it's release day and enjoyed it.  I never read any of the comics, so this movie is the first I have ever been exposed to the comic book character.  I did not understand the extra bit at the end of the credits though.  Guess I will have to wait for the Avengers movie to know what that was all about.  Next up this summer is the Captain America movie which looks like it is going to be awesome.  I can't wait for that.

I also watched the movie Salt.  It was actually pretty good.  It gave me a couple of twists that I was not expecting and the ending is not what I thought it would be. 

Another I watched was Toy Story 3.  It was much more adult themed than the other in my opinion.  It would still appeal to children, but there were more adult themes through out.  I can say that the ending actually made me tear up.  First time that has happened in a very long time with a movie.

I also watched the movie Monsters today.  Space probe crashes in Mexico, the probe has alien life forms on it.  They breed and a large part of Mexico is turned into a quarantine zone up to the American border.  It was actually an okay movie.  I would probably buy a copy to keep and maybe watch again in six or eight months.

 The Foo Fighters released a new album entitled Wasting Light.  I think it is one of the best albums to be released in a very long time.  I have listened to it almost twenty times by now and I am not sick of it yet.  They actually used one of the songs in the movie Thor.  It plays when the credits roll.  So yes, you should go out and buy the album and play it and love it and enjoy it.