Question for Day 4: Favourite book of your favourite series.

My answer: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

(Okeh kita letak gambar lain sket kali ni )

Comparing this to the other two books in the series, I am most in awe with the golden compass and not the amber knife or the spyglass. The other two items in the other two books stretched your imagination to other worlds, which is quite hard to relate to, so it might make some people turned off when reading it.

But the first book is the best in the series. I think when the author writes this, he writes it with all the commitment and passions, but the second and third book it slowly withers. Oh just my speculation only.

And do you know at first this book was called “The Northern Lights”? Sounds not gorgeous, so they changed it to “Golden Compass” when the book hit Northern America market. No, that’s a fact and not my speculation.

Day three already? LOL.

Question for today: Your Favourite Series

My answer: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Yes it is also commonly known as “The Golden Compass” series.

The movie is not that good, it is actually quite meh since I’ve read the book first before watching the movie. The plot of the movie and the book is different from the arrangement point of view.

But I love this book series very much compared to Harry Potter series or even the Lord of the Ring series. For me, the vocabulary is very rich and it takes more creativity to imagine all those daemon and make sense of it, in terms of writing the whole story to be coherent.

You know who I like the most in this story? Iorek Byrnison, the white armoured bear

P/s: Dils, at this point I think it’s better to write this in a Tumblr. Then no need to write much comments. Luckily I don’t have a Tumblr account LOL!

Here comes the second installment of the meme “30 Days of Book”!

Okay, the question for today is:

Book(s) that you’ve read more than 3 times.

Well, the original question was “A book that you’ve read more than three times”, but I changed the question a bit since I have more than one book that I’ve read more than 3 times, and usually it’s a series of book. There are a couple of book series that I have and I usually read those books more than once, from the first book to the last.

But yes, I think I read this series more than 3 times:

Percy Jackson and The Olympians Series

I found out about this book from its movie, which is quite rare since I always read book first and then watch the movie adaptation (which, in many case, I always been disappointed with the movie).

The movie is entertaining and I was laughing the first time I saw Grover.

Being enticed, I bought the book one by one and read and reread up until more than three times; I think I managed to read it four times. Since it is a series of children’s book, I can finish from book one to five in one day sitting. The vocabulary is not that hard anyway.

The biggest reason why I read this book series more than once? I tried to check out the real Greek myths and which one is being adapted. So I did a lot of wiki and reading this book at the same time. It’s just, I don’t like to read and then go to my computer to check out the Wiki, so I always read the book – finished it – Wiki it – reread it to check if I missed any explanation of any myths.

Oh well, this book series is already popular, (and I heard there will be a sixth book going to be completed this year) and the reference link can be found at: http://www.percyjacksonbooks.com/