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?

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.