Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff

 
Here we go again. But wait, are we picking on President Trump or trying to explain him? It would seem this author, Michael Wolff, is writing a book to explain Trump.
  Wolff spent some time tracing Trump and observing the activity around him.
 Up to this point Wolff seems to have been writing books exposing other great figures. And with this book, Fire and Fury, he may have hot a jackpot. But you have to ask yourself, how much of this is true? It comes down to how much can you trust the media? Forget the rant and raving Trump makes about the media. Just how much truth does the media actually put out?
   The left has for along time been allowed to infiltrate the news media both in print and on the air. It just sells better. And since our schools no longer as a whole are training students to think but to accept without questioning what some grownup at the front of the room or who writes a book says as proven truth, how are we to know just how much of what Wolff discloses is true truth.
   How are we to know which details disclosed are true and which ones are bias?
   The answer is , we can't
   But the first step is to discern.
   If what Wolff has written is true we have a person in the White House now who doesn't know what he got himself into. If that is the case we need Christian to pray for him and for the vice president to get us through the next few years without destroying America and its' foundation.
    I would be very careful about accepting the facts presented in this book as true truth. Read with an open mind.
   Try to get this at a library and read it. I am not sure it is worth having in your personal library as something to keep.
   Should you decide to buy it at your local book store it is your money. Save yourself the cost.

Origin by Dan Brown

Here we have another entry into the saga of Robert Langdon, the renowned Harvard professor. We have met him in the Da Vinci Code, the Inferno, The Lost Symbol- all recorded by Dan Brown.

This time we have Langdon interfacing with his former student, Edmund Kirsch, who is revealing to the world his take on the origin of man. This is information that could reshape the religious world. The question he is dealing with is; Where Do We Come From ?  And Where Are We Going? Before Kirsch can revel completely what he has deduced he is assassinated.  Langdon must run, and his guide is a computer hookup called Winston.

Technology plays a big part om this story.

This is a plot driven tale. The characters are shallow with action pulsating throughout.

For some reason, Brown enjoys writing in this realm.  He seems to like writing tales that concern the Catholic mind set. He enjoys tweaking them.

It doesn’t take place in Vatican City. It starts in Spain and moves around. The so-called discovery of our origin, so Brown would have us believe, is important enough to base a whole 461 pages on.

Brown, as a writer, can grab the reader and pull him along. The problem with this one is, does it really matter? The ending is weak.

But what can we say about it in a positive light? It has a different kind of villain It has a different feel than his other books concerning Langdon.

For the reader who can really suspend unbelief this will be one to read. For fans of Langdon it will also satisfy.

It is published by Doubleday and retails for$29.95.