"Who reads these days?"
The famous line I heard from most these days, from most of the community. Living in Brunei, reading has pretty much become one of the least favorite hobbies around. I guess it doesn't just apply to just Brunei but, I can't help noticing living in my district, it's pretty much hard to get nice leisure books.
I'm talking about bookstores that sells bestseller people, classics too.we barely have good bookstores around in my part of the district. I myself have have to go to the capital just to get my share of the literature.
Teh other day I was sitting about while waiting for my order in some resturant, reading one of the Twilight book, I notice, people starring at me like I'm some what of a weirdo. I must admit I'm a bit weird at some point, but reading in public is the least of my problems.
As a librarian, it's regretful to see that the teenagers these days have no idea who Tom Sawyer is, or Alice in Wonderland (of course they know what I was talking about now, since Tim Burton is making a movie out of it now - comign next year people). They have no idea who Oliver Twist is either. Sad.
Speaking on that note, ever notice how we know most of the classics but, the golden question is, does any of us actually read them? Do we know about it from movies, the radio, the cliches or was it just something you know about.
Ever since I was young, Oliver Twist, the Three Musketeers, Alice in Wonderland and Sherlock Holmes have become part of my favorite literature. But of course, back then I was reading the children version of the literature. A few months ago, I found the Penguin publications and damn those are thick! I remembered reading really thin versions of it and I felt left out. Then, I caught myself thinking. Have I actually read those books properly? I guess not. cause I ended up wanting to get a copy to read wondering what I've missed.
The most recent humorous book I have encountered would be the Roscoe Riley Series by Katherine Applegate. This is a story of a boy who always (as far as I've encountered, started a story while he was sent to the corner, over a punishment of breaking the rules. It's either this or that. Pretty much reminds me how children thinks. He managed to get through typical event and turn it into an adventure where he always ended up in trouble.
about several weeks. The sypnosis was quite intriguing for me and so I gave in to have a copy of my own. If you love stories of stranded people... in this case a family of aliens who posed as humans, and live their life as one (remember cone heads), I guess you would like to read this one. This aliens favorite food would be human essence. Their child, have come to an age where she has to prove her worthiness in the family and the bad part is, she has to drain her human best friend to prove herself to the family.
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