Books

Here I am attempting to list books that I've read but others may not have.  I will quickly share a portion of the story, and whether I enjoyed the book or not.  Comment if you would like to about a book that I've written about.

Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Saara.

This is an amazing book about the revolutionary war, one of the most documented portions of history.  It's an epic tale of 4 men, John Adams, Ben Franklin, George Washington and General Thomas Gates.  It is fiction, but everyone that I've spoken to that has read this book has been moved by the ideas that are presented in this book.  Almost all of the principles found in this book were reason's our forefathers saw a need for our political break with England.  I would suggest this book to ANY one who loves America.

Hanging by the thread by Donald B. Anderson

This book is an economic thriller that shares to readers why freedom is important.  A group of men, calling themselves "the thread" secretly plot to take over the world by reducing people's economic freedom.  In this book Anderson outlines why economic freedom is important, and how we have been slowly giving it up to an increasingly totalitarian government.  This is another must read for people who loves freedom.

Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card

I read Ender's Shadow a few years ago and enjoyed it.  I recently got into a discussion with some friends of which book is better: Ender's Game or Ender's Shadow.  I had read a portion of Ender's game a while ago, but never finished.  I was convinced at the end of the argument to that I had to read Ender's Game.  So both books are the same story, written from two different boys' point of view.  Ender's Game is a futuristic story about a boy named Ender, a brilliant student.  He is taken up to battle school to train to command an earth fleet launched many years ago to go and destroy the "buggars" home planet.  The buggars had invaded earth 70 years previously.  Ender is trained and then is forced to command the fleet in this last and great battle.  Ender's Shadow is told from the perspective of Bean, another genius child.  He is genetically altered so that he is smarter than other kids his age.  Bean often serves and Ender's Shadow throughout both books.  This is a thrilling novel about leadership, love and sacrifice.  I highly recommend both books to anyone who loves reading. 

The Robe by Lloyd Douglas

This is the story of what happened to the robe of Christ after he was crucified by the Romans.  The Roman soldier who gambles and wins the Robe is at first repulsed by the Robe, which stands as the only physical reminder of what he had helped do.  His servant is a classic example of loyalty to his master.  The Roman soldier feels compelled to learn all he can of this mysterious man that he was ordered to crucify, so he travels back to Judea and finds out what the people who actually knew that man had to say about him.  He is eventually converted to Christianity and dies for his beliefs.  This is a book that I enjoyed, but had a hard time with it for the most part.  It's an awesome story, but I had trouble with it.

Da Vinci Code

I found this book while browsing through the library shelves.  I thought it looked good, so I picked it up.  Once I had, I couldn't put it down.  It's the story of a legend called the Holy Grail.  Some believe it to be a myth, but others are convinced of the reality of it.  The book explains that the Holy Grail is a collection of writings that the early Catholic Church tried to destroy.  These writings are supposed to include some epistles of the apostles that never found their way into the Bible, because they contradicted the Catholic Church.  The Churches enemies reportedly collected all the manuscripts that they could, and hid them.  Only a select few people have ever known the location of this great historical treasure.  The book is a tale about some people trying to find the Holy Grail.  I would recommend this book to someone of a mature age.  There are some parts that I was scared at, and not the language is not the cleanest.  But it is a great story!