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?

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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

Getting tired with the book meme? LOL. Sorry if anyone waiting at 9 AM this morning and no new post comes up — looks like I’ve drained all the scheduled post, so here’s a new batch being queued

Question for day 11:

Book you hated.

I rarely hate books. Maybe there are some books that I don’t finished reading, two or three of them, but usually that happened because the story got slow, and then I’m bored, and then I forgot to continue. But rarely I hate the books.

Not this one, though.

The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason.

I cannot read past the first chapter. Maybe I put too high of a hope on this book? Since this book rides on Dan Brown “archeology-mystery” genre, I was expecting that this book will have a gripping start, an ascending plot, and a twisted end.

But it feels like reading a history text book. So it is a big turn off.

And yes, I read the first chapter only. Even that takes me more than five days. Five freaking days! Reason being I always fall asleep after two or three pages of reading it. It is like reading a history text book. So, that’s it.

Off to the bottom of the box you go.