After having read Harry Potter and being disappointed, I wanted to read something that had a lot of excitement, so Barbie recommended “The Camel Club.” I have this thing about not wanting to read books that are part of series unless I read them in order, so finding one of Barbie’s books is not so easy since a lot of writers have a character that they write about in multiple books. Barbie assured me the book was not part of a series and that I would be thoroughly entertained, and she was absolutely right.

The book is based in Washington D.C. and is all about conspiracy theorists and the whole political and national defense scene. From the first couple of chapters where a Federal employee is killed and made to look a suicide, the book goes through chapter after chapter of page turning excitement. Honestly, I would read a minimum of 30-50 pages at a turn, b/c I didn’t want to stop. The final night, I read for the final 100 pages even though it was 10pm when I started. You basically get into the book, and don’t want to come out of it. I don’t want to go into details about the specifics of the book, especially since my mom just started reading it and I don’t want to ruin it for her. If you decide to read it, you will not be disappointed. As Barbie and I said, it is one of those books that you easily see being turned into a movie sometime in the future. The last book I read that had that “movie” quality was “The Da Vinci Code,” which they obviously ended up turning into a movie, albeit not a very good movie compared to the book. So, if they ever end up making this a movie, you can say you heard, I mean read, it hear first.

While writing this post I decided to go to amazon.com and see what other reviewers had to say about this book, and oddly enough it only received 3 out of 5 stars. I didn’t read the specific comments, but either the author has some REALLY good books that I haven’t read yet and the reviewers are comparing this one to those, or I am off my rocker. I’d like to think the former is the right thing, as I don’t consider myself crazy just yet.

Anyways, as a side note, some of you may have noticed that I still have the book “John Adams” as the book I’m currently reading on the right side of my website. This is somewhat true, as I actually read half of it, got bored, and just couldn’t finish it. My goal is to listen via an audiobook for the rest of the book, so technically, I’m still reading it, although I’m really not, if that makes any sense.