Mixed Nuts: Book Review #6

Quotes

"There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark." - Helen Keller
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck
You may never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.- Unknown
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow' ~Helen Keller
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."- Dr. Seuss
"Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it."
"God doesn't give children with disabilities to strong people: He gives them to ordinary, everyday people, then He helps the parents to grow stronger through the journey. Raising a child with special needs doesn't TAKE a special family, it MAKES a special family."Author Unknown
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go – Abraham Lincoln
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~ Benjamin Franklin
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle - Albert Einstein
The journey of a 1000 miles starts with a single step
Sometimes in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives you a fairy tale
Where there is great love, there are always miracles - Willa Cather
The Difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
Be the change you want to see in the world
Don't tell God how big the storm is, tell the storm how big Your God is..........
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it
Fall down seven times - get up eight - unknown
Despite our differences, we sink or swim together
Life may not be the party we expected, but while we are here, we might as well dance
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." -Confucius

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Book Review #6

The Northeast was hit with a historical winter storm - over 30 inches of snow we received - so we are stuck inside. So that means......lots of time to read.

I finished off another book during that down time called "Down and Out In The Magic Kingdom"

This was part of my 2015 Reading Challenge Category: A book by an author I haven't read before

This book was pretty strange. It is another recommendation from my husband (and something we already had on our shelf). I think I need to stop listening to his suggestions.

It was a quick read - I will give it that. At just 200 pages, I was able to finish it up in a little more than a day of reading. It is set far into the future - people actually live in Disney World. The cast members that run the rides run the park, and there is a "war" that goes on among part of the different lands. The rides that we all know and love are still there, but have been made a bit better with time. But they try to keep the rides true to themselves. The park still operates as a park, even though people actually live there full time.

That was the interesting part of the story. IT would be cool to have the park be in existece in 2400 and the beloved rides still there. But that is where the interesting part of this story stops. There is strange language that is never explained to the reader (which Mat tells me is the beauty of the book. "The characters know what it is, so they don't need to explain it" yeah yeah). Money is no longer a way you get things in life - it is social status, which is automatically uploaded to you through a chip that ever person has installed in their brain. You never die - you just get a new body when the old one wears out (or you are accidentally killed). You have to upload your memory continually into a database so that if you need a new body, you can pick up where you left off.

It was a neat enough idea, and I - knowing my husband well - can see why he liked this book. He warned me it was strange, and it was. But I read it, and now I can move on.