Funniest book I've ever read

Ok, so you've seen the movie Forrest Gump and it was funny and touching and all that. Well the book is all that and a million times more. Many of the episodes from the movie are somewhat representative of the book, but the second half of the book goes off in a whole different direction with wilder and wilder episodes. Did you know that Forrest was a NASA astronaut? Stranded on a desert island with native cannibals? A professional wrestler and a chess master! A Hollywood actor. This is definitely the funniest book I've ever read. Right now I'm working on the sequel, Gump & Co. and laughing out loud at Gump's dumb ass.

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My wife has a knack for reading aloud and she is doing a great job reading these two books to me. Please buy your copy from my Amazon store, and prepare to laugh yourself senseless.

The Repentant Peter

El Greco is one of my favorite artists. This is his The Repentant Peter. Something about the long faces and the eyes in all of El Greco's paintings ... captivating.

Lois Lowry's The Giver

So I said that I would review Lois Lowry next. The obvious first choice to read is the Newberry Award winning The Giver. This book is about a society that has given up some of its humanity in order to have a utopia without poverty, crime, sickness, etc... In this setting, the protagonist, Jonas, is the apprentice to the Giver, an old man whose job it is to remember all the terrible things that they don't have to live with, like the pain of sunburn. But other memories that the Giver holds so the people don't have to experience are things like laying in the sun or riding a sled in the snow. Of course, Jonas realizes that this system is askew and the plot develops from there.

The Giver has been compared to Brave New World as well as John Christopher's Tripods series. I would highly recommend it if you enjoy dystopian sci-fi with a mystical feel.