I wrote this in an earlier blog on June 25, 2005, and thought I would repost it again:

One
of life’s luxuries I hope I can be able to afford in the future,
currently only knowingly practiced by the world’s richest man, is the Think Week.

Twice a year, for one week, Bill Gates goes into a secluded site for his bi-annual think week. 

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Last month, I finished a book by David Baldacci called Wish You Well. He is a great author who spins stories with characterizations that are realistic. This book invokes to you not only the story of rural America, but also how potentially, corporations can abuse power when allowed to. He delivers this in sharp contrast to what rural folks really aspire for in a good life.

It is a great book which brought me to another book of his, Absolute Power which was his first novel back in 1996 which has since become a movie starring Gene Hackman and Clint Eastwood ( thought the movie’s plot was slightly different from the novel). The plot is a little bit far out, casting the US President as a crazed villain, but then again, it delivers in the realization that people who have too much wealth and power, and whose ambitions spawns in them to get more, may become a little bit ( or maybe not a little bit, but very much) divorced from the basic values on what is important in life - something which David has consistently been able to conjure and debate in his novels.

In many parts of his novels, you see debate on basic values, and salient observations like, ” People like to talk about other people’s misery. It probably makes them feel their own life is somehow better when it usually isn’t…”

Both novels: 4 stars out of 5.