Robert's Recommendations

First off, thanks to those who kindly commented on my previous post regarding the video. I am waiting for the 'okay' to sign up with a company which will allow me to post entire films (as opposed to the 2 minutes you watched) online.

Speaking of that number, I have 2 recommendations for you. First is a T.V. show. Many of you may watch it already, but I just got into it this summer. I am talking about "The Office" on NBC. This show stars former "Daily Show" alum Steve Carrell and is hilarious. For anyone who has ever worked (in any capacity) in an office setting would not only love but easily relate to this show. Check it out Thursday on NBC and click the picture to check out the website.

My second recommendation is an incredible book that I haven't been able to put down. Unless I am eating. Or sleeping. Driving too. In the shower is a no-no. Walking would be difficult. You get the point. The book is titled "The Ezekiel Option" by Joel C. Rosenberg. I was hooked from the first sentence, which is a rare thing for me. From the dust jacket: "...a new evil looms on the horizon. A dictator is rising in Russia. Iran is feverishly building nuclear weapons. A new Axis of Evil is emerging, led by Moscow and Tehran." What makes this such a great read is that it really feels as if these fictional events could happen soon. Iran and the nukes part rings very true even today. Parts remind me of an article

Then again, the author has a knack for writing fiction which turns to truth. In his first hit novel, "The Last Jihad", he wrote of a hijacked jet on a kamikaze mission into an American city. No biggie right? Except that he wrote it nine months before 9/11. In the same book, an American President finds himself at war with Saddam Hussein over terrorism and WMD's. The book was published 5 months before the war in Iraq.

His second novel, "The Last Days", opens with the death of Yasser Arafat...Thirteen months before the man's actual death. An excerpt from the same book reads, "Daoud Juan checked his watch. He tried to picture what he and his men would be doing 24 hours later. Would they have been able to reach Canada yet? Would they have already slipped across the border into the United States? Once safely across the Canadian border into the United States, and once convinced they weren't being tracked, they'd rendezvous at the cabin, set up their shortwave radios, and gather any last-minute intelligence they could about homeland security preparations underway in their target cities." For those who don't know, Canadian authorities recently arrested 17 people whom they allege are part of a radical Islamic terror cell planning major attacks throughout the U.S. and Canada.

All that to say this guy has a great mind and his books are mind blowing. For those who love a great read, check out this book!