Day 7 pose another challenging question to be answered. The question today is:

Most Under-rated Book.

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How do we define under-rated here? Does it mean “book that is good, but not many people read it?” If that’s the definition, how do I know not many people read it? Doing a search on the Internet always yield result that there will be some people read that book.

Or does it mean “book that doesn’t made it to movie?” Or does it mean “book that does made it to movie but somehow the movie is so meh compared to the book?”

Or does it simply mean “book that I hate so much I wish I didn’t read it?”. No, wait, that’s another question for another day. I know I’ve saw that.

Okay stop rambling. Let’s just pick a book, okay?

I think I will pick…

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Personally I think the book is great. Not that it is one of the best, but I can say that Jodi Picoult did her magic again and again in this book. It’s not that bad. I didn’t watch the movie though, but I heard most people says it is not that good as a movie, so I am basing my “under-rated” definition by that.

I do believe that in movie it is hard to portray the character’s self-thought; which is widely being used in the novel itself. So, maybe that’s why the book is so under-rated because of the movie?

Anyway, as usual, the book revolves around heavy, humanity issue — in this book Jodi Picoult talk about how a sister who has been donating about everything in her body to her little sister, ends up suing her own family just for the right to her own body. I like that kind of story — you know it is a desperate measure to put one child in a state of misery just to save her own sister, but does that mean she doesn’t have rights to her own body to say no?

Well, that’s why I told you that the book is interesting, and thus I feel that it is under-rated because of the movie failure.

Here comes a new week and a new day for another post of “30 Days of Book” meme!

So the question for today is:

A book that makes you sad

*grin*

Now that’s an easier question to answer!

I choose….. YOU!! (eh macam iklan Pokemon la plak lol )

Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult

I believe I did a review on this book previously. If there’s any author out there that can write a very effective sad story based on real life issue, I would nominate Jodi Picoult nonchalantly. She’s the best on exploiting every sad, depressing emotion that we have. Don’t you agree?

This book tells a story about how an innocent girl who lives in a religious Amish society, suddenly find herself pregnant. What did she do to hide the baby? Why did she do it? Is she really innocent and really not knowing that she’s pregnant? Are we, as a society, blame her because being pregnant out of wedlock? Or does her innocence and naivety being manipulated?

It is sad. It is sad when it involves a baby. It is sad when it involves faith, moral issue, and religion fanatic believer. It is sad when how small a thing can break up families, or how fragile our life is.

I dare you guys to read this and not feeling a thing. If you feel nothing, you’re either a zombie or you don’t understand English. LOL

Question for Day 5 is….

A book that makes you happy.

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Okay I admit I have difficulty to answer this question. Reason being: I always read depressing, mystery, or death-related books which are hard to consider as a happy book. And even though some of the books I read are considered a non-fiction imaginary creative books, sometimes I don’t really feel happy reading it – mostly I only feel mindfucked, which is what I actually searching for because I read books to stimulate my minds, not actually to feel happy.

If I want to be happy, I usually go out socializing with my friends.

Having said that, I can’t skip these question, right? So here goes a long staring in front of my book collections…

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Okay found a happy-children-book called…

The Greatest Blogger in the World by Andrew McDonald.

The story revolves around a kid who writes a blog to compete in a competition called “The Greatest Blogger in the World”. The happy story doesn’t revolve around his blog anyway, but it’s more on what he encounters day in day out and his way of writing in his blog, and how his friend find out his blog, and how his blog be the source of the problems in later day.

Oh well that’s more or less about it. I think I read this book in.. two hours? Had some smile and chuckled  and that’s about it. Then it resides in the closet at the back. I can’t recall the exact story by the way, and I think I bought this book from the Big Bad Wolf sales? LOL

P/s: The next episode will continue next Monday for easy counting and for the reason that I don’t write on weekends. So stay tuned next Monday for episode 6 and above!