Question for Day 17 is:

Favourite Quote from Your Favourite Book

I am still in the mood of reading, reviewing and favouring Agatha Christie’s book, so I’ll pick up a quote from my first favourite book – The ABC Murder. Yes, this is the first real book that I really like and it spurs me for the love of Agatha Christie’s book.

So here’s the quote:

Words, mademoiselle; are only the outer clothing  of ideas.

And… we’re back! LOL

Sorry for being missing last week, been busy with work and got no real mood to update about the books. Anyway, let’s continue this so that I can complete this meme and move on with some other nonsensical posts. LOL.

Question for today is: Favourite Female Character

Okay, I can name a few heroin out of the books I like, e.g Annabeth Chase of Percy Jackson series or maybe the stereotypical heroin like Hermione Granger of Harry Potter, but nahh… I like those characters when it comes as a movie.

There’s one female that I’ve always been impressed though – Miss Marple. So here we go – my favourite female character is Miss Marple, even though she is nowhere near the hotness level (she’s old and a spinster, is that hot for you? )

Why do I think she’s impressive?

1. She’s motherly and a very.. normal old woman. But with her observation, she can think and know the mystery or the real character of the victim or the murderer.
2. She has an unmatched understanding of human nature, and most of her solution are based on her instinct.
3. Even though with her sharp logical mind, she’s still an old woman; sometimes confused and fluffy.

Well you can read more about her in this Wikipedia entry.

Question today is… (Now why does my introduction getting shorter and shorter? LOL. )

Favourite Male Character

Favourite male character in a book eh? Hmm… that’s quite hard since mostly when I read, I remember the story, and not much on the character. Yeah sometimes I can also got quite confused with the character name making me rereading one or two page back. Sometimes is the keyword there

Since I’m a big fan of Agatha Christie, two characters popped into my head – the eggheaded hero detective named Hercule Poirot, or his sidekicks Arthur Hastings.

I think I’ll go with Arthur Hastings.

In most book of Agatha Christie (mostly is the keyword here), the story will be narrated by Arthur. And in comparison to the Sherlock Holmes, Arthur will be the Doctor Watson.

He might be slow to understand the clues, or even sometimes biased to the victim or even some girls (who also sometimes turned out to be the criminal), but he’s pure British, so Agatha Christie wrote him speaking in fluent English, suavely.

I think I always have a soft spot for British customs for no reason. I just find it, interesting.

Comparing him to Hercule Poirot, the character of Hercule Poirot is Belgian and talked in French — which sometimes annoys me so much. Sometimes I can’t understand his remarks in French!

Well, for these two reasons, I think I choose Arthur for my favourite character is a right decision. You can read about him at this wiki.

No picture though, this is a fictional character, remember?