I have a subscription to Entertainment Weekly. Every three issues, Stephen King has a column for the magazine at the end of the issue.
This month he wrote about buzz versus hype. Hype is something you pay for to make happen, with advertisement and so forth. Buzz is just word of mouth and free.

Then he started going on and on about the best book he has read in a long, long time. The rest of the article was dedicated to this book and how he couldn’t stop reading it and you won’t be disappointed, on and on.
I like Stephen King. I think the man is a little weird, only because one can’t be normal and write the great stuff he writes, you know?

So recently, I got a gift card to Borders from someone as a going away gift. I have a bunch of books to read that I bought from amazon.com, but they’re all church related. And I couldn’t find any other books to buy. And I wanted to buy it here, since sales tax is a lot cheaper than California.

I went over the literature section, and ran into the book that Stephen King gushed about. I remember him writing that once you finished this book, you’ll want to grab someone else and make them read the book.

The book just came out. Hardcover. 25 bucks. (Why are books so expensive?)
I said, what the heck. It’ll be a nice change to read something for entertainment purposes.

If it is as good as Stephen King said it was, I’ll be making sure to have someone else read it too.

If you’re curious, maybe you can go and pick up (or borrow from your library) a copy of The Garden of Last Days.

I bought a whole mess of books and don’t know where to start. I am currently reading Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White: Thoughts on Religion, Morality, and Politics

But here are the books that I got:

• The Forgotten Ways
• The Gospel According to Starbucks
• 7 Practices of Effective Ministry
• They Like Jesus But Not the Church
• The Great Awakening
• A Generous Orthodoxy
• Adventures in Missing the Point
• Creating Community
• A Knock at Midnight
• Jesus For President
• Next Generation Leader
• United Methodist Questions
• Letters and Papers from Prison
• The Blogging Church
• First Impressions
• Red Lettered Christians
• Jesus in the Margins
• The Big Idea
• Ethics

Guess I need to start cracking books.
How come I never read this much (or wanted to read) in seminary…?

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I wonder if I’ll over stimulate my brain if I read all these books back to back…
But then again, I think many would agree over stimulating my brain is good for me…