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Warning there are some story details in this post.

This book was probably the hardest for me to read out of this series.  To mean right after the ending of The Girl Who Played with Fire the story really slowed down again and almost reverted back a scene setting as if it was the first book of the series.  Much to my disappointment this type of narration seemed to take up the majority of the book.

The whole book was building towards the trial of Salander.  Finally when the process meter on my Kindle show 80% the trial was about to get going and the story really started picking up.  At times I was asking myself why I was still reading this book if it was taking so long to get to something exciting.  Just as quickly as the excitement came it was gone.  Through out the whole book I expected the part about the trial would be full of lots of detail and finally culminating at the end.  Instead the trial part of the book seemed to be over almost as soon as it had started.  This was very confusing  especially when the last 8% of the book just seemed to be wasted space.

In the end I would recommend this book if nothing else to finish the story so that you know what finally happened with all of the character.  Although in my opinion this book seemed very much to be an after thought and was by far the worse one of the 3 in the series.

Next up Steve Jobs.

Today is this the Birthday of the most wonderful person I have every know.  I have loved you since the first day we met and love you more and more every day as we raise our wonderful son together.

Happy Birthday Aramelle!

I hope you have a great Birthday!  I Love you so much!

Taken a little bit of time to get this post up as I have had other things taking up my time in the evenings (so long in fact I am already 10% into my next book).

As much as I loved the first book of this series The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo this one was even better.  The first book was actually almost dull in comparison.

The story in this book takes place after some time as passed since the last book ended.  Since most of the character from The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo are back in this story there isn’t that part in the beginning where you just have the voice in the back of your head wondering when the hell the “real” story was going to star.  There is actually a lot more action in this one through out the book and not just in the beginning.

Definitively one that needs to be picked up if you have started or plan on reading the first one.  There ware way more things that I wish I could say but as Aramelle will probably be reading this I better stop where I am so that she doesn’t get mad at me for giving a way the story.

More to come after I finish The Girl who kicked the Hornets Nest.

That’s right it is finally football season once again!  This has to be the best time of year.

As a 49er Fan I haven’t really had any thing to root for from the NFL.  Luckily I have had a bit to root for from the Nevada Wolf Pack (that is two words for you Wolfpack fans from NC State), including a WAC Championship.  This year will be hard since we weren’t able to get season tickets but we plan and hope to get them again next season.

This season with Zachary really understanding so much of what is going on around him I really look forward to watching games with him and sharing with the enjoyment of the game as I did with my own dad when I was younger.

Lets go Niners!

Lets go Pack!

* No blues for Boise: Boise State will be prohibited from wearing its all-blue uniforms in Mountain West Conference home games because commissioner Craig Thompson said the coaches believe it is an unfair competitive advantage. There has long been the theory that wearing all-blue uniforms on its blue field has given Boise State an edge over its opponents because they can’t find the Boise State players.

As Broncos’ coach Chris Peterson said, that’s ridiculous. Hawaii and Colorado State will be allowed to wear their all green uniforms on their green grass fields. Since Boise State hosts Nevada this season in a non-MWC game, it will be allowed to wear the all-blues against the Pack if it wants.

Wow it has really been way too long for a blog post.  Couple of reasons for this.  Haven’t really had anything going on that I felt the need to write a blog post about, and the latest book that I have been reading, The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, is a much longer book than the ones I have been reading lately.

I have to say, though, it was well worth it.  Well at least it was when you finally got into the story.  I had put off reading this book for quite a while because I had heard that it was one that is really hard to get into at the beginning but if you could get through that then it got really good.  That did turn out to true.  I I believe the progress bar on my Kindle read 25% or 30% before it seems like anything other than just “scene setting” was going on.

Even after the book started to pick up the beginning was still pretty frustrating because, at least in my opinion, I didn’t see it was so relevent that it had to be said or what it had to do with anything.  As you finally get to the end, it all really starts to make sense.

I am probably going to regret when I finally see it, but I am really looking forward to the moving coming out in December.  I know that most of the time to make the movie they really have to ruin the story to make it all work.  I just hope that they do a good enough job or by the time the move is realeased that I will have forgetten enough that it won’t be that much of a let down.

Next up is the second book of the trilogy The Girl who played with Fire.

Even though we have only had the chance to go out for some Geocaching a couple of times I think it is really something that I am going to enjoy once we get going with it a little bit.

So far we haven’t had a lot of help with the weather.  Since we are taking Zachary out out with us we really have to wait until it it warmer and the weather is little more consistent.

I had know that Geocaching itself had not been around too long as it has not been very long GPS were a common idea for people to have in the car, cell phone, or eve a handheld device.  That led me to being very surprised today when I found this post on my Facebook new feed this evening and come to find out today Geocaching is 11 years old.  I one day if I am ever in the area would like to go to this cache.  That may not happen but I would get there if I can just to say that I found the first cache ever hidden.

Now I am really looking forward to the warmer weather so that hopefully we can get some caching in soon.

I am sure that most are well aware about Colin Kaepernick was drafted by the San Fransisco 49ers.  I had actually thought about making a post on Friday after it happened but decided to wait just incase something happened with some of other potential draft picks from Nevada.  Which was a good thing I did.  At the end of the draft Nevada had three total players taken.  Including Colin there was also Dontay Moch who went to the Cincinnati Bengals and Virgil Green went to the Denver Broncos.

NFL Network only had Video of Colin being actually picked, but they still had some informational videos that they put together before the draft.

Colin Kaepernick selected in the second round #36 overall to the San Fransisco 49ers.

Dontay Moch selected in the third round #66 overall to the Cincinnati Bengals.

Virgil Green selected in the seventh round #204 overall to the Denver Broncos.

Pirate Latitudes is the newest Michael Crichton book.  Found and published almost a year after his death this book is not your typical technical/medial adventure that all Crichton’s fans have come to know him by.

Pirate Latitudes takes place in the year 1665 in the Caribbean.  Charles Hunter is a privateer who is hired by the Governor of Port Royal of the English colony of Jamaica to attack a Spanish Fort and steal from it a galleon filled with treasure.  Although it wasn’t the typical story this book made me remember how much of a fan I had become of Crichton’s work after reading Jurassic Park and Congo in high school.

For a book that is 320 pages it almost read like it was only a 100 pages long.  This is one that I would hight recommend to anyone that is a Michael Crichton fan or a fan of pirate stories in general.

After doing a couple of searches for links for this post I found that there was another novel found on his computer after Crichton died that was only about a third of the way completed.  The book that was originally scheduled to be released in 2012, and there are reports that the publisher was going to pursue a co-author to finish it.  If this turns out to be true and the book is published I just hope who ever it is that finishes it does a good job as I plan on getting it.