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Video Game Review – The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

An all around amazing game that still holds up all these years later.

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I finished this game back in January 2022. Just catchin up on some of my game reviews.

I played this game on my Atomic purple Game Boy color way back in the day when it came out in 1993. I remember the game taking me a long time to complete and by the time I was done I had done everythhing there was to do in the game. I recently re played the game but this time I played the 2019 nintendo switch version. It was a great experience overall. The game didn’t take me as long to complete and some of the puzzles were burned into my memory but overall the game was enjoyable and as epic as I remember as a kid. I like taking trips down memory lane.

The game took me just under 20 hours to beat but I have played through it in it’s entirety before. Someone picking it up for the first time can probably expect to spend about 30 – 40 hours if they are familiar with the classic Legend of Zelda formula. The game is presented in a hybrid 2/3d style of overhead camera but the art looks more or less 3d and there is depth to everything. Overall absolutely gorgeous on the Nintendo Switch Console. Bright, colorful, and chipper soundtrack.

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The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening starts you off in rough seas as your boat is being thrashed. A bolt of lightning crashes and you wake up (famously) in a small village. A local girl named Marin found you washed up on the beach and brought you to her home, and from there your quest begins to figure out where you are and how to get home. As you journey through the game the story takes an unconventional twist that strait Fucked me up as a young teen. I won’t spoil anything here but anyone who has beaten this game knows what I’m talking about. It’s not bad or evil or out of the vain of Zelda lore but it’s a key twist that stayed with me for all these years.

The game is classic Legend of Zelda. You start off with basic equipment and as you conquer dungeons and explore the land you become stronger by finding hearts pieces and equipment. You gain access to previously inaccessible areas using the tools you find along the way and in dungeons. The game requires you to remember where obstacles are and you have to back track a little bit in your exploration to uncover all of the secrets and power-ups. It’s a pretty standard video game formula used through out times and in modern gaming. You can say “The Legend of Zelda” kind of pioneered the “open world” adventure action game.

Links awakening is a great game and retains all the features of the game boy color experience with some added levels and stuff to accomplish. The Nintendo Switch version has the color dungeon that was introduced in Links awakening DX for the Game Boy Color hand held game system. The switch version also includes a basic dungeon builder mode with some optional side quests attached to it to unlock an item. These optional side quests are not necessary to the story and game over all, but just an added tid bit new to this remade version of this game.

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The graphics in this game are crisp and colorful and the music is great as well. The soundtrack is redone from the original 8bit sound and sound fully performed and little Marin’s voice sounds like an actual voice singing instead of a little beeping tone. Hearing her balad of the wind fish for the first time after all of those years brought a lil tear to my eye. Same feeling and emotion as I felt when I heard Zelda speak for the first time ever in Breat of the Wild. The catchy tunes and memorable jingles are part of the reason people like The Legend of Zelda video games. They are familiar, yet challenging games that have a certain charm about them that most games lack.

Gamers who like actions, puzzles, and exploration would like Zelda games, and this game in particular. The Legend of Zelda is a classic series that most gamers will have at least heard about. Zelda games are exclusive to Nintendo, which may alienate many players from an otherwise great experience. Nintendo has always been seen as a console more geared toward a family and younger demographic. Hands down, Zelda games are difficult and are not necessarily kids games. They require a level of thinking and problem solving that most younger kids may find too difficult.

I’m biased because I love The Legend of Zelda video games but I definitely recommend giving them a try if you never have or ever wanted to. For modern gaming I would recommend Breath of the Wild as a good Zelda entry point. It’s more free flowing and let’s you choose your own path, while classic Zelda games are more structured and require you to take a set path. If you like playing retro games, and remakes then this is a top notch title that is very worth your time if you own a Nintendo Switch.

Finally they are releasing a new entry and sequel to Breath of the Wild. It is slated to release sometime in 2022 but no exact date has been confirmed. Super stoked for that. As always thank you for reading this review and feel free to comment or chime in if you have anyting to add or discuss.

More games to play and write about. Stay tuned and check back for more!

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Book Review – “Zen and Now: on the trail of Robert Pirsig and the art of mototcycle maintenence” By Mark Richardson

I listened to this book on audio book, as I was driving to and from a job a city over. The expeience was good and the reader was clear and had character.

This book is a re telling of a famous book called “Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance” written by Rober Pirsig, of his own accounts of a cross country motorcycle journey with his son. I have not read the original book which was published in 1968. The author of this book I read is named Mark Richardson and he basically followed the famous path of Pirsig and wrote it his own accounts and philosophies as a docu/memoir. If i remember correctly he was in touch with some members of Robert Pirsigs family or friends. Mark Richardson studied and took great interest in the story, man, and philosophy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, to the degree where he literally followed in the late authors footsteps and retraced his epic journey for himself, only solo and with no passenger.

In this story, the author describes his situation and need to escape and all that encompasses the desire to ride solo across the country on an old motorcycle. Throughout the book he relates philosophies of the original “Zen and the art” book as he sees them in relevance to his own life and relationships with his family and others. Mark goes on a journey two thirds of the way across the country as a quest to himself for his birthday and more or less to ponder who he is. Maybe like a midlife crisis thing or maybe to satisfy that itch that only a writer/journalist would know. The overall story is entertaining and not as much actual motorcycle maintenance as I thought it would be.

I liked the relation to Zen and motorcycles. A friend of mine recommended the original “Zen and the art” and when I needed something to listen to on my long solo drives I found this “Zen and Now” book by Mark Richardson. I believe the author even Read the book for the audio book I listened to. I found the story satisfying and entertaining. The philosophy is mild but relatable and the motorcycle jargon was a nice fit for my attention while driving. I didn’t find my self bored and I could pay attention easily.

I found this story particularly relevant for two reasons. 1) I own a motorcycle and have ridden myself for years so I understand the terminology and the feelings of combined freedom and isolation, confidence and caution. Thoughts and feelings that only comes with being on the road by yourself, on only two wheels. 2) At the time I was driving a full hour to and from work by myself with just my thoughts if not for the Audio book playing.

I think I found a deeper connection with the book itself because of the long hours spent driving. I could relate to the stress of weather and maintenance and traffic issues. Before I had ever heard of the book or it’s title, when people ask me about riding motorcycles, I would automatically tell them it has very zen like qualities to it.. So I learned I was far from the only individual who had ever made that connection.

I would recommend to anyone who is interested in motorcycles, true life adventure, or philosophy. The book isn’t heavy or in depth on any of these subjects but combines them into an entertaining and ultimately satisfying experience.

Overall, thinking back, to when I was working in a different city, I listened to a boatload of music and a handful of audio books and this one is the one that resonated with me the most and has also stuck with me the most. I definitley recommend it all the way around as just a good piece of literature. One that explores the common mans desire for adventure and brushes on the the workings of relationships and how they relate to stress and passage of time.

Good read

Thanks for reading the review! Stay tuned for more.

Pax

Video Game Review – Battlefield 2042

As a long time fan there isn’t much to be said that hasn’t been already. The game has had a piss poor launch and long time fans of the series are rightfully ticked off. The game feels bare bones and ultimately not complete. There are dozens of things missing for me that kind of ruin the core Battlefield experience, and should be a no brained. Battlefield 2042 feels like it went backward in it’s progression. That being said, I do have fun with the game somtimes and it really shines when you play with friends, yet even that aspect has a weird design flaw because there is no way to communicate within the game?!? Overall I have a hard time recommending this game in it’s current state. Even though Battlefield is one of my favorite shooter games for the past decade or more.

The game is trying to be something that it is not. It’s leaning heavy into the hero shooter mechanics of special abilities and goofy “specialist” characters, instead of the nameless soldier classes that encouraged teamwork and a rock-paper-scissors style of strategy. In Battlefield 2042 It’s just a mess of the exact same model of characters, all of which can revive and also carry a rocket launcher, with a light machine gun that lacks recoil, or a sniper rifle. The game just feels very “meta”ish. Now everyone runs around with the most effective gear and that’s about what you see. The action is so spread out it often just feels like chaos with no sense of holding points or strategized movement and flanking.

The game plays decently on the Playstation5 console and luckily I haven’t experienced the game breaking bugs that a lot of people complain about. The game runs fairly smoothly for me. Only occasionally will it freeze or not load me into a match. The visuals are OK but nothing dazzling and atmospheric like the past two entries. This game just has a generic samey feel that I can’t quite put my finger on. I joke and call the game Battle of Apex Duty Field: present day fight game. The gun play is good and tight for me and the sound is decent but it all lacks some of the chunk and boom and umph of the past titles.

I like the setting and the time period, but like so many others I was hoping more for an updated BF4 style and feel. I really like calling in vehicles and equipment even if they Ranger drone is kinda worthless I can imagine the future with all kinds of other equipment that you can call in. Playing with friends is definitely the highlight for me. Unfortunately for a team focused game, it completely lacks any formal communication system within the game. This had me scratching my head as it renders one of the featured game modes pretty much unplayable. The maps are good in my opinion but I will be honest, compared to the past 2 titles the maps in this game feel very sterile and empty, even soul less. There is no gun emplacements, or blown up wreckage, there is no trash in the big cities except for a plastic bag blowing around every now and then.. For such massive and gorgeous maps they lack any atmosphere whatsoever.

Of course by now you can tell that there are plenty of things that I am not happy with. I don’t like the fact that there is no in game voice chat. This ruins any sense of team play and coordination. Aside from there being no way to communicate outside of discord, the game doesn’t reward the player for doing team related stuff. There are no bonuses for following the leaders orders, there are no real assist bonuses for spotting and killing enemies or sticking with your squad. There are no squad bonuses at all except for small ones for spawning on squad mates and marking enemies. This is a drag as it just promotes a solo playstyle where everyone just kinda plays for themselves. Medics don’t revive, Everyone can be carry a Sniper rifle AND have rocket launchers, and now characters can literally squirrel suit and zip their way to you with spring grappling hooks.. One of my biggest gripes is that there is no scoreboard or out of match stats. One of the things I geeked out on as a long time player was seeing how many kills I got with each piece of equipment or in total over the countless hours i would spend with the game. There is none of that lasting appeal in this game. I don’t care about dorky skins and stupid cosmetics. I just want a Battlefield game that feels finished. The game needs balancing as well yada yada yada, I could literally write a full post on what I think could be balanced for a better experience, alas I am no developer or game designer..

Honest recommendation as a long time fan. If you know what you are buying and think you will enjoy it, you probably will. If you are expecting too much or were hoping for an actual Battlefield game, I regret to say.. this isn’t it. Not yet.. This isn’t to say I don’t have hope. It took BF1 and BFV about a year to fully start fleshing out and being dialed in. I am confident that the game will get better as time passes.

The past couple Battlefield games have left a bad taste in my mouth because they took a bunch of my money at full price and then slashed the price of the game less than a couple months after release. That is shitty. I should have known better and waited honestly. I feel slightly cheated. But I think I finally learned my lesson because this wasn’t the only title I purchased in the past several years that were not worth the full price.

I wish I hadn’t have pre-ordered and waited for more content or for a discounted price. Because at this point the game is not worth the full price. I give the game a 2.5 out of 5 stars. I hope it will be more complete in 6 months to a year, but that is a sad statement considering Battlefield used to be one of my go to video games.

Video Game Review – Far Cry 6

Before I begin I am fully aware of the current situation with Ubisoft and how the company treats employees. I hate that the CEO and Executives of these companies treat their employees poorly. It’s sad that an industry I love so much is marred by such a terrible work culture. In short I buy Ubisoft titles because I genuinely enjoy the work that countless talented people create. I support the artists, writers, programmers, musicians, testers, actors, designers, engineers, etc that make these games come to life. I stand in solidarity and support of all of Ubisoft employees, I want them to be proud of their games and work. They should be.

Just finished the game earlier today Nov. 6th. Very happy with the experience overall. I enjoy the chiseled gun play and entertaining characters of Far Cry games. The villains are some of the best in Gaming and media in general, Far Cry 6 featuring A-list actor Giancarlo Esposito, who famously played bad guy Gus Fring on the hit TV series Breaking Bad. He plays a very well written and perfectly acted Dictator. I had hoped him and the player had more verbal and physical interaction like in past Far Cry games, but every scene he is in has Gravity and cements why he is a Feared Dictator. Also notable is the beautiful world maps they create and let us subsequently destroy. I especially enjoyed the music in this game, set in Cuba. The Island scenery is lush and beautiful with active day night cycles and weather effects and lots of different local wildlife

I spent about 60 hours on the Main story and doing other side activities. I’m close to a Platinum trophy on PS5 and will probably go ahead and get it. Only a few super grindy requirements to get the Platinum, otherwise most of them can be gained simply by being thorough and playing the game normally. For for strenuous “collect all of …” trophies I will use YouTube sometimes, no shame. I just don’t have time in my life to search every little location on a map and so I miss some of the more random collectibles on my own.

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The pacing of the game isn’t bad there are some parts that kinda drag. The mission structure is tried and true and sometimes a bit repetitive. I like mixing up my weapons and I alternate between stealthy and Rambo play styles to mix it up a bit in combat. In Far Cry games you can pretty much be way overpowered very quickly in the story. It’s up to the player to use the different mechanics and weapons to keep things fresh. It feels great clearing out a whole enemy base without alerting a single guard, however, If you go in with a silenced pistol every time and don’t spice up the action things will get stale quick. Use the companions, and gadgets, and sometimes let the guard hit that Alarm to call in reinforcements. The game is an absolute playground of destruction!

The progression system is kinda flat in my honest opinion. The game starts you off with a full tool box and kinda lets you create your own action. You can equip silencers and armor piercing ammo almost from the very start of the game in your first couple upgrades. And you can customize and fully kit out every single weapon except for special named weapons which come with predetermined perks and buffs. Once you get the (very basic) stealth mechanics you are pretty much A one man super Army. The stealth is satisfying and super useful to get through areas easily but sometimes there is more fun to be had in going in guns blazing. The star of Far Cry games (other than the characters and world) is the guns and gun play. FC6 doesn’t disappoint in the slightest. The guns look and feel amazing. They sound good and feel powerful when fully upgraded.

Player stats and perks and special abilities are gained by switching to different types of armor. There are 5 kinds in a “set” each set of armor together helps with a certain defense or skill set. For instance, The hazmat set helps against poison and gives you boosts against poisoned enemies. The “Fuego” armor set gives you defense and buffs against/with fire and explosions. Parkour Armor set helps you move around faster and quieter, etc, etc. There are a ton of different sets and you can mix and match the 5 different pieces of gear; head, torso, hands, legs, and shoes for basically customizing a play style or load out type. My one gripe is that you have to open the menu every time you want to switch gear or guns or any other equipment. Some sort of quick swap, at least for armor and worn gear, would have been super nice and require less time in the menus.

One of the newer features of combat is this multi-function backpack Called a “Supremo”. It can do things like shoot missiles, create EMP blasts to disable machinery, or other cool abilities. This back pack is how you equip “Gadgets” such as grenades, health kits, and C4. Each one can be customized for a different load out and you can switch between them on the fly during combat. I will admit I underused this ability in battle mainly because I was having fun and forgot about it. Honestly the powers are nothing super amazing. They are fun to use but not a game changer usually. Just another tool in your arsenal that helps you destroy or take down enemies.

The graphics are top tier, and on the ps5 the game ran perfectly and I had no issues with freezes or other major glitches. Occasional in game glitches but they are just kinda funny and not terribly inconvenient. The game ran smoothly for me over the course of 60+ hours. The enemy AI is decent when you are engaged, but pretty basic if you are playing stealth. It’s not the hardest game and is fairly liberal with health and player durability.

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Overall I highly recommend Far Cry 6 if you like shooter games in general. This is a top notch shooter! Great open world, entertaining characters and a Good story. Nothing revolutionary (pun intended) but a solid video game worth a play through, and not to miss if you already enjoy the Far Cry formula of games. As always, thank you for reading and I hope this was informative without spoiling anything.

Video Game Review – Ghost of Tsushima

By far one of my favorite games of 2020 for sure and winner of several “best of” awards throughout the gaming industry. The style and authentic feeling story was a joy to behold and the tight sword play stay entertaining throughout. The story follows Jin Sakai through what amounts to a classic tale of revenge and family drama. It is an open world master piece that is made by a lesser known studio called Sucker Punch. What they did with the subject material and the visual aesthetic is simply brilliant.

Long story short, I devoured this game. I have always connected deeply with the ancient far east culture. I took a traditional form of martial arts as a kid and I got a lot out of it. I have taken the teachings of my karate training and fascination with the Japanese culture with me throughout my life. Not that this has any to do with the game but I connected deeply with the feel and vision of the game. This game let me live out my fantasies of being a samurai warrior. I don’t know why this time and setting is usually skipped in modern gaming unless it’s strategy games or the Dynasty Warriors series. There was Tenchu Stealth Assassins back in the day.. and Bushido Blade.. we’re talking old school PlayStation 1 here. like 1995. There may be some other great samurai subject games out there but those are some of the ones that come to mind and they aren’t even necessarily “Samurai” games like Ghost of Tsushima stake out to be. This game is literally a Japanese Samurai / Samurai movie simulator.

The main character is Jin Sakai. He is an honorable samurai from a noble clan who is forced to do less than honorable things to keep his homeland and his people safe. The games art style is where it really shines. This game is absolutely beautiful and it really shines in the aesthetic department. Sucker Punch used super rich contrast and color pallets so all of the scenes look like they could be a painting or out of a graphics demo. I am playing on the OG PS4 which at this point is like a 7 year old system but i was surprised how the massive world and depth of colors played well together. The game ran smoothly and loading screens were fairly short from what you would expect from a game of this sheer size.

Everything about the game was superbly Samurai. While I don’t know how historically accurate or true some of the conflict is, I did enjoy the various romps through the world and the side characters you meet tell interesting mini stories within the main narrative. I spent easily over a hundred hours in the game and I completed pretty much everything I am fairly close to a Platinum trophy.

The game has some repetitive elements toward the end stretch. If you are seeking trophies or achievements you will be doing the same things over and over. Luckily this game is absolutely beautiful so going to random locations and the far ends of the map are fairly entertaining in their own right. This is pretty standard in many large and long open world type games. There is always the first part where you feel overwhelmed and then you get side tracked from the main story and over level yourself then once you are bored of all of that you are like, “oh yeah there is still a whole main story arch to finish” That’s more or less what happened with me and this game. Some of the larger games of recent memory (coughs AC Odyssey coughs) have definitely dragged on. Like they could have been 20 less hours and still been phenomenal games.

Ghost of Tsushima drags a little bit for sure but it’s not as bad as some of the other games out there. It’s definitely worth seeing to it’s conclusion though. there are some memorable parts at least for me there were.

Once you beat the game, sucker punch released a free update that let’s you team up with other human players and fight gauntlets of demons. The art style is a bit different and the expansion kinda delves into the myths and demons of Japanese culture. At least it seemed like it to me. The art definitely looked darker. I haven’t played the expansion except for a couple of matches but I plan to once I get back into the game to get that Platinum trophy.

Overall this game is excellent and worthy of your money and time if yo like the open world style of game. It doesn’t do anything super new in terms of innovation on the formula but what they do with the world and the colors and the stories is absolutely superb. Not to mention a full multiplayer mode added on after the fact, Ghost of Tsushima is a no brainer and a must play if you enjoy anything Samurai or ancient Japan.

Book Review – Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

If you like tales of survival and stories about real life events and acts of heroism, then Unbroken is a book for you. The book is written about a man named Louis Zamperini who’s fighter plane was shot down over the south pacific during world war 2. The author Laura Hillenbrand actually got to spend time with the family of Louis Zamperini and the man himself I believe. This fact makes this story all the more impactful because most of the facts probably came from the Veterans mouth, or those close to him.

The book takes you quickly through the beginning of Zamperini’s life, through his basic childhood and adolescence, but the story actually begins once he is flying missions over the South Pacific Ocean during World War 2. This is very much a story of survival against insurmountable odds and about perseverance. I won’t give up any of the main story but not much goes well for Louis during those years as a captured POW.
What I liked about the book.

The main character himself could be fictional but it makes the tale all the more exciting knowing he was an actual living person. I don’t know why I find that time period so fascinating. The World War 1 and 2 eras impress, and irk me at the same time. I have been fortunate enough to travel and tour some of the famous memorial sites throughout Europe and Japan both. The whole concept of a “World War” is a terrifying reality to our human culture. You can arguably say that those wars gave us the modern drive for industry and capitalism, and still to this day, play a big part in the world economy.

I enjoyed this book because it doesn’t stop once you start reading it. There aren’t really many slow parts so to speak. The book takes you on the full ark of his experiences during the war itself, and then continues on to detail the healing that takes place among the soldiers coming home from those conflicts. I can’t imagine having to go through some of the ordeals that him and his crew had to go through, or the sheer terror of being stranded on the open ocean. So many experiences happened to Louis Zamperini yet he stays sane and even grows from the experience. A true testament to the will of man and the unyielding drive that some can develop to stay alive.

I love stories like this but it may not be a good one for people who are sensitive to detailed depictions of torture and survival.

I enjoy anything to do with WW2 and that time frame. I believe everyone should know something about the era all of our grandfathers and grandmothers lived through.

Definitely read this book if you like tales of survival and details about lesser known facts about WW2. Unbroken is a thoroughly engrossing story of a man who wouldn’t give up. Some good lessons and humanity in these pages, I definitely recommend.

Book review – Shantaram – By: Gregory David Roberts

Shantaram

By: Gregory David Roberts

This is an amazing tale that I would recommend to anyone as just a solid piece of literature. There are many endearing factors of this story, but the characters were the most engaging I think I have ever read about. The setting was detailed and rich, and the action was well paced with the unfolding of the story. Gregory David Roberts, an Australian author, ex heroin addict, convicted bank robber, and humanitarian (you read correctly) writes with an elegant style that is almost poetic at times but strait forward enough to keep readers on track. I just wanted to do a light review of the book and what it meant to me. Basically why I enjoyed this story.

The story is a novel but it is largely based on the life, trials, and tribulations of the author Mr. Gregory David Roberts. There is much debate over how much of the story is factual versus inflated with fictional aspects. This makes the story so much more endearing and lasting to me, because I know it is steeped with real details from his life.

He himself stated in an interview “Some experiences from my life are described pretty much as they happened, and others are created narratives, informed by my experience. I wanted to write two or three novels on some bare elements from my life, allowing me to explore the themes that interested me, while keeping the narrative immediate by anchoring it to some of my real experiences. They’re novels, not autobiographies, and all of the characters and dialogue is created. It doesn’t matter how much of it is true or not to me, it’s how true they are to all of us, and to our common humanity.”

The characters in this book are absolutely genuine and are expressed with definite sense of passion. Right from the start you are drawn in by the people he describes. Their looks, personalities, emotions, and actions captured with such brilliance that you feel drawn in from the very first couple pages of the book. There are so many characters that you fall in love with because of the things they say and the things they do. Just really well written the dialogue for me was easy enough to follow. Some of the names of the characters got a little confusing because there are so many but the important ones are described in detail many times so you start to remember and even begin to feel like you know them as you continue to read. There are little bits of the native languages peppered throughout the story and that adds to the immersion of the setting. The small bit of language and the accents he uses in his writing are top notch and really drive home that the people speak English only as a second language. The author describes nationalities and ethnicities of many different people and he describes their physical features with the same detail so after a while when he says a person’s name you can get a mental image of what they look like when they walk up to him.

The setting of the story is in Bombay. He describes the city in such a fashion that it seems dangerous but beautiful, diverse but traditional, and all in all like a magical, colorful place. He describes how culturally imbalanced the social strata is and he describes the slums in great details and even lives in one himself. He saw firsthand the class difference from neighborhood to neighborhood. Later on in the book he travels to other locations around Bombay. Being what it is I love to travel and have done quite a bit of globe-trotting, It all sounds so beautiful. This book and the wonderful descriptions of the setting and culture made It a point on my personal bucket list to travel there and experience the sights, sounds, and smells for myself.

The Book has a little bit for everyone: plenty of action, adventure, love, lust, crime, humor, life, and death. All these things blend beautifully together to create a hell of a story. The author Gregory David Roberts is a real person and pretty much is himself in the story. This makes the book all the better to me because I feel more connected to a story when I have experienced some of the feelings and emotions as their characters.

Let’s talk if you have read it!

Happy reading!

Poetry – Let your mind wander

When I sit here awake and so close to sleep, My mind starts to wander… Who am I really? What am I doing here? You know… The usual life to ponder.

Hits from glass and smoke so smooth, feelings be numbed, nervous and stress does it soothe. Into thin wisps the smoke then curls, as I fell into sleep, the world twists and twirls.

A heavy head rests on hands, as I venture through mountains, cross mighty oceans, and dunes of emerald sands. Every love ever lost, Epic Stories never told, So real you can feel the pain of the frost, or the warmth of the fires gold.

In this space I jump and leap, As well, in this place I solemnly weep, For I know this beauty I cannot keep, because it lies to me, this visage of sleep.

The slightest shift, a head starts to turn, abruptly awakened, through un blinded windows sun does burn. Immediately saddened, why couldn’t it last, a pen and empty pages, why does sleep happen so fast?

Now I sit here awake and so far from sleep, get up and face your day yonder… know that that place is inside of you, as long as you let your mind wander..