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Camino Island
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John Grisham
Andrea Herbster
, June 20, 2017
For John Grisham’s fans, this book is not what you would have expected from him. No lawyers, judges or courtrooms as are in most of his books. This one begins with a very carefully plotted out heist at Princeton University of some extremely valuable original manuscripts. The second chapter introduces other characters, one of which is a bookstore owner describing his store which is located in Florida where we find Camino Island. The third chapter introduces a writer who has just lost her teaching position and needs to find a job to finance her time for writing. She has a family cottage on Camino Island and things begin to fit together as she is enlisted by an insurance agent to go under cover to see what she can find out about the book store owner and what is in his bookstore. That is what keeps you reading because by now you want to know how all these characters are going to tie together. Things become involved with the insurance company, the FBI and others trying to find these manuscripts and the group that stole them.
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Steve Jobs
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Walter Isaacson
Andrea Herbster
, January 01, 2012
This book is an eye-opener about a man that most people didn't know. Most knew about what he did early on, but not really how he came back to Apple and made it what it is today. The ways in which he handled all that occurred at Apple were fascinating. The fact that a lot of the time, he was really kind of a jerk, but I guess that was what made him what he was. There is a lot about his personal life that most people did not know. The book was a labor to read at the outset, but once into it, I could not put it down. Also, if your are not a little technology savvy, some things may be a little difficult to understand. His illness was very hard to deal with as the book progressed. You knew that he was reaching the end. (He passed away before I read it.) Upon finishing it, I truly feel that the technology world is what it is today because of this man.
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