Night, Dawn, Day

I have read these books by Elie Wiesel (born Eliezer Wiesel on September 30, 1928) authored 57 books best known for Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps.

Night: “His experience as a young Orthodox Jew of being sent with his family to the German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Second World War.”

Dawn: “Unlike Night, Dawn is a work of fiction. It tells the story of Elisha, a Holocaust survivor. After the war, Elisha moves to the British Mandate of Palestine and joins a terrorist group determined to oust the British from the area. One night, Elisha is told that he must execute a British officer at dawn, and the novel covers his struggle with his inner demons.”

Day: “Day is the fictional story of a Holocaust survivor who is struck by a taxicab in New York City. While recovering from his injuries, the main character reflects on his relationships and his experiences during the war. Note that Wiesel was struck by a taxi cab in New York City two years after arriving in United States, so it can be inferred that some personal experiences are added into this book.”

I read all three books over the past 2 years, they are short, about 90-120 pages long and although short they are deep and emotional. Night was my personal Favorite of the Three.

“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.”

I think even if you were yo buy the book and only read the ending “The Nobel Acceptance Speech Delivered by Elie Wiesel in Oslo on December 10, 1986″ i thing it would have an effect on you.

The acceptance speech can be found here.

Transformers

I was a little slow posting this, and reading the book. But for any one way out of the loop, the book is much better than the movie. Like most cases your imagination is much better than Hollywood’s. More detail, better back story, and the plot was much better.

Transformers

Into The Wild

For once i read a book before watching the movie, and i must say like usually any move based off of a book tends to suck. Into The Wild wasn’t quite like that, the movie was fairly accurate although Holly Wood had to add some Drama, While maintaining a lot of Christopher Mccandless personality. For those of you who don’t know what the book is about, and in trying to keep this short. Its about a Young man in his early 20s who takes to the road after his graduation, basically separating him self from his family on the east coast. Christopher travels around the country mainly on the west coast and meets a lot of interesting people along the way. He ends up in Alaska were he embarks on the greatest adventure of his life. This adventure will bring disaster for him and his family.

Jon Krakauer, the author of the book needed to clear up some things written in his article that was published in Outside Mag. And how Christopher’s adventure parallel his own life as a young man, the main difference is that Jon survived.
Read on..

The Physics of Superheroes

If you were anything like me and wondered why you cared at what point a train leaving Chicago would intercept a train leaving New York at. The Physics of Superheroes puts you in the rite frame of mind, the crime fighting frame of mind, and makes you think about the possibility and realities of a lot of comic book characters powers and even thought they might not exist, it could be in the realm of possibility.

Written by a physics professor and long-time comic-book fan James Kakalios, he Talks about the Physics behind memorable moments in comic book history. One example most people know about is the death of Gwen Stacy and the forces acting upon in her final moments.

Recommended as a good read.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physics_of_Superheroes