So, yesterday I have choose Sam Bourne as one of my favourite writer. Can you guess what’s the question for today?

Of course… it would be:

Favourite book of your favourite writer.

I haven’t bought the fourth book of Sam Bourne (The Chosen One), so I am not sure if that book is the best book ever written by him or not. But from the other three books, I would choose..

The Final Reckoning

The Final Reckoning is a thriller that interweave it’s storyline with the Jewish, Nazi, World War 2, and the Holocaust event. It started with how an old man was shot in the public at UN, suspected to be a terrorist. However, upon further inspection, he is not a terrorist; only a tourist, and the UN seems to shot him wrongly.

So the top people in UN deployed their man in other to cover up the story, find the old man family, and try not to receive the blowback.

But does the old man really is innocent? Or was he had some secrets to hide?

That’s how the story unravelled.

What I like about the book is how the history is being told in a third person flashback, where he or she suddenly dreaming or remembering about the old story or events that was once happened to him or her. Add that with some sugar (read: use Facebook to help investigation), and you know you can be hooked to this book.

Overall, a good book, even though I am not sure on how accurate the history facts are. Heck, I am not reading a history book by the way, so I don’t bother about that.

For today, the question is about…

Your Favourite Writer

Hmm. I can actually named a few writers that I love, but apparently the question asked me to choose one. I usually bought books from familiar writers, and only bought some books from random one. Hmm… Let’s start by writing down some of my favourite writers, shall we?

1. Agatha Christie (I love almost all her books – Hercule Poirot, Miss Marples. Not the M & N series though).
2. Dean Koontz (his thriller can make you went nightmare)
3. Sam Bourne (I think he’s the best competitor for Dan Brown, and I haven’t read his fourth book – The Chosen One).
4. Jodi Picoult (one of the master of drama)
5. Rick Riordan (who has successfully sparked my interest again towards Greek myths)

Now, out of this five, which one should I pick?

Hmmm…..

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Okay let’s pick Sam Bourne; just for the reason I haven’t featured or review any of his book in this meme yet.

Now, do you know that Sam Bourne is actually a pseudonym? His real name is Jonathan Freedland and the reason he used a pseudonym is to distinguish his own work in fiction and in journalism.

He has written four books up to now, which is:

And I have three out of four (I still haven’t bought The Chosen One – anyone wanted to give it to me as a gift? *wink*).

Err do I need to explain about the author? Well why don’t you go and read about him in Wikipedia here.

Question for day 12 is:

A book you used to love but don’t anymore.

Let’s start the thinking cap with some dots… shall we? You know what this means. It means a long staring to the collection of books in the boxes.

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Can I get a little personal about this?

When I say I want to get a little personal, I mean that I love this book previously (including the owner), but now I don’t love it anymore. It’s….

Stephen King – Gerald’s Game.

I am not a big fan of Stephen King, actually. In fact, I think Stephen King’s books are quite bizarre, full of stupid supernatural that doesn’t make sense sometime and some of the books are downright mental (remember IT the clown? That’s what I mean by downright mental). This book is no exception.

It tells a story where Jessie, a wife accidentally killed her husband Gerald during a bondage sex game, where she was cuffed to a bedpost. It looks like an accident, because while she’s aroused during the game, suddenly she doesn’t want it anymore when he started climbing up onto her. So she kicked his groin, and he got a heart attack.

Kinda duh.

Then the story continues on how she got hallucinated, attacked, and escaped. Well that’s so Stephen King.

I love this book previously because it contains some sex scene, and the mental thoughts of Jessie is quite eerie. It’s not a bad book. It’s quite good in the sense of mind boggling book. But reading it again, I think the story is quite meh and duh.

Guess who was the owner of this book?

The most hated ex I ever had. LOL Oh yes, when we broke up, I didn’t returned the book. It doesn’t look like she mind it at all, so here, off to the bottom of the box you go again.

Now you do understand why I previously loved but not anymore, do you? Told ya it’s a bit personal and not much about the book itself. HAHAHA