Greatest Stories Ever Told: Follow Your Passion Part One

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Follow Your Passion Part One: As a performer of any kind, one of the first things you learn is to never apologize for mistakes before your performance. As a musician, I...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Message directed to Pope Francis

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Message directed to Pope Francis: To all the people who read my blog posts, I am writing this as if it is a letter directed specifically to Pope Francis. This will save me ti...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Reiteration Explanation Purpose

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Reiteration Explanation Purpose: First, I want to explain some different variables in my prior posts.  I have talked much about my past and much of my accomplishments. As it...

Jason by Laurell K Hamilton

  I've been a reader of Laurell K Hamilton since middle school when I first found Guilty Pleasures at a garage sale. I've since read every book she's written loyally.  However, Jason, I am not a fan of.  I like the character, but the book....

I first was intrigued by the main character Anita Blake.  A vampire hunter in a world where vampires are legal citizens and have rights, so how can these conflicting ideas exist?  It would be murder to hunt a vampire right?  I was pulled in by the plot and complexity of Anita, and found I related to her.  The insecurity, the false toughness, the stubbornness beyond belief.

The plot line was entertaining, the tension, both sexual and otherwise was entrancing.

But after about the 7th book in the series, everything started becoming too sexual for me.  Her series about Meredith, is almost all sexual in nature, and frankly it is not my cup of tea, though I still read it for the plotline and magic, fiction has always intrigued me.

But this latest, Jason, is all sex.  Basically the entire book is sex, referencing sex, talking about sex, inuendos and more sex.  I want more to my books that I read than that.  I want more about the characters, and something should happen in them other than the main character getting laid.  My attention simply will not be held by just sex for more than a page or two.

I'm sorry Laurell, but for Jason I'm not a big fan.

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Family of BlackHawks

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Family of BlackHawks: Because the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, I have decided to share an anecdote. Though most of my long winded anecdotes don't get read...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Intensity through Love and Passion- Music

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Intensity through Love and Passion- Music: While very ill and going through chemotherapy it had been years since I had picked up the guitar.  I was in the studio, warming up my finger...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua~A letter from his wife

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua~A letter from his wife: Joshua was a great athlete all throughout school.  He excelled in all sports such as basketball, football, track and field, cross country an...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua ~Chapter 3

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua ~Chapter 3: At 12 years old, in 6th grade, Mr. Graves, Joshua's school counselor, had taken his class went to visit an airforce base.  There the...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Joshua's Joys~ The story of Rocky Raccoon

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Joshua's Joys~ The story of Rocky Raccoon: When Joshua was a teenager, he was out cutting firewood with his family and a friend.  In a hollowed out log were seven or eight baby racc...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua~ Chapter 3.5

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua~ Chapter 3.5:       Though with this story and stories to come, we will be sharing some of Joshua's Joys.  They are all intertwined with sickness ...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua ~Chapter 3

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua ~Chapter 3: At 12 years old, in 6th grade, Mr. Graves, Joshua

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Joshua's Joys ~ Driving South LIVE from Nashville ...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Joshua's Joys ~ Driving South LIVE from Nashville ...: Joshua Jet Vaughan and the Voice of God will be releasing an album version of Driving South Soon.  This rare live version was recorded while...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Joshua's Joys ~Praise The Lord

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Joshua's Joys ~Praise The Lord: Feel free to sing along!

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Joshua's Joys

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Joshua's Joys: Leaning on his cousin Perry's boat at just 12 years old.  At this age, Joshua had started helping others trying to raise money for St...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua~Chapter 2

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua~Chapter 2:        At the age of 12, the neighbors took Joshua out tubing with them.  When it was his turn, the father took off going 60mph in their spe...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua~ Soon to Come

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua~ Soon to Come: Joshua was blessed enough to find a band of seasoned musicians to play with a kid who had just been playng the guitar for a year. T...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua~Intro and Chapter 1

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua~Intro and Chapter 1: As our team has been reading through everyone's submissions (and thank you so much to everyone who has submitted a story so far) we woul...

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Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua~Detailed story of the Tubing I...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua~Detailed story of the Tubing I...: Example of a 185 hsp Engine Bass Boat The summer of Joshua's 12th year, he was invited to go tubing with a neighbor family. They had...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua~Detailed story of the Tubing I...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua~Detailed story of the Tubing I...: Example of a 185 hsp Engine Bass Boat The summer of Joshua's 12th year, he was invited to go tubing with a neighbor family. They had...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua~Additions and Extended Details...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Story of Joshua~Additions and Extended Details...: As we publish The Story of Joshua there will be additions and extension versions of some of the smaller anecdotes that will be added later. ...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Joshua's Joys Sidenotes

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Joshua's Joys Sidenotes: Through talking of his struggles and tragedies, which there is so much more, much of it would be considered horror and torture; there were a...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Joshua's Joys

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Joshua's Joys: While Joshua's story is filled with tragedy, there have also been moments of great Joy.  During the next few weeks, while we post Joshua...

Joshua Jet Vaughan- Demo- Stevie Ray Vaughan Tribute Preview

Joshua Jet Vaughan- Demo- Stevie Ray Vaughan Tribute Preview

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Texas Strat Breakdown- Recorded on Laptop

Greatest Stories Ever Told: Texas Strat Breakdown- Recorded on Laptop: Due to my illness I have not picked up the guitar for 4 years. Was fiddling around, decided to test out my GHS Boomers on my 70's reissu...





 5 out of 5 stars

Divergent Series

I recently read the Divergent series by Veronica Roth.  Overall, they are a great set of stories for young adults.  In my opinion best for ages 13-17.  If you are 18 and up reading them, then I would hope they are strictly for entertainment purposes, not to learn.  However, the thing that I love about young adult books and even children's books are the lessons that I don't think the authors even catch that they include.

In the Divergent trilogy the main character Beatrice "Tris" Prior lives in a futuristic world where society is broken up into "factions" based upon personality traits.  Courageous are Dauntless. Selfless are Abnegation. And so on and so forth.  I doubt many of the kids who read these books took the time to look up the definitions of any of the faction's names, but still the attempt to educate our youth on words bigger than lol I applaud.

Tris is faced with a difficult decision when the test that determines which faction she should belong to gives unconcrete results.  This begins a world of mystery of exactly what it is to be Divergent (have more than one test result), what this means to her society, and the dangers and trials that face those who are Divergent.

I don't like spoilers, so I try not to reveal too much in any of my reviews.  Overall, it's a quick read, I finished the trilogy in about two hours, but I am a very swift reader.  It flies by quickly and is moderately entertaining.

I give this series 3 out of 5 stars.

Greatest Stories Ever Told: So we begin...

Greatest Stories Ever Told: So we begin...: I am waiting to share my story because this page is not about me. It is for and about everyone. Eventually I will share and if I have to sta...





5 stars check it out