It's been a long while now that I've been able to finish a book in one sitting.
With Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", I've managed to do so in three.
Admittedly the book is not that beefy in pages, though it is in content.
The dry, Brit humor present early on somewhat petered off towards the end - which was positive and, well, happy enough - but it had enough to keep me hooked to the end.
Even got to the part about the advertisement on Malaysia at the Tube Stations / Network.
Since the book was written in 2003, it was still Malaysia Truly Asia.
I've mentioned that the book is beefy in content: it is.
I'm especially drawn to the portions about how the mind works to interpret characters, situations, events and everything else.
The skewed, autistic mindset and logic-based reasoning from main character Christopher makes things so easy when we know full well that isn't the case.
Would I go for a second, third and subsequent read of this as I do some firm favorites? I don't know. Give it time to rest a bit.
As the night was still relatively young when I finished Curious Incident, I started also on Superman Unchained.
(Of course there would a comic thrown in...)
What drew me to this trade paperback was Jim Lee's art and yup, while it all looked so damn familiar, I can't say that I didn't enjoy flipping through the pages.
I'm never a fan of Superman as I think his motivations are suspect, but the storyline itself was quite entertaining since Bats and Wonder Women were in it as well.
Like we Malaysian always say: "Boleh la.."
Until the next few-sitting reads come along, let's continue to enthralled by the shenanigans of 1eMDeeB.
Ciao.
With Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", I've managed to do so in three.
Admittedly the book is not that beefy in pages, though it is in content.
The dry, Brit humor present early on somewhat petered off towards the end - which was positive and, well, happy enough - but it had enough to keep me hooked to the end.
Even got to the part about the advertisement on Malaysia at the Tube Stations / Network.
Since the book was written in 2003, it was still Malaysia Truly Asia.
I've mentioned that the book is beefy in content: it is.
I'm especially drawn to the portions about how the mind works to interpret characters, situations, events and everything else.
The skewed, autistic mindset and logic-based reasoning from main character Christopher makes things so easy when we know full well that isn't the case.
Would I go for a second, third and subsequent read of this as I do some firm favorites? I don't know. Give it time to rest a bit.
As the night was still relatively young when I finished Curious Incident, I started also on Superman Unchained.
(Of course there would a comic thrown in...)
What drew me to this trade paperback was Jim Lee's art and yup, while it all looked so damn familiar, I can't say that I didn't enjoy flipping through the pages.
I'm never a fan of Superman as I think his motivations are suspect, but the storyline itself was quite entertaining since Bats and Wonder Women were in it as well.
Like we Malaysian always say: "Boleh la.."
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