Responding to the previous post (11/2/2009)...

I like reading fantasy novel but I admit sometimes it's hard to understand at first but after you get the whole picture of it...it's like you live in the fantasy world...BTW...I have bought the second book of the The Magic Kingdom of Landover 'The Black Unicorn' but haven't read it yet...too many workload now...sigh...

This is a picture I edited which really express my thoughts and feelings right now...so much for escapism ha?!escape la sgt...hehehe...even though I borrow this from Shrek but still...it's my fantasy world...for those who have your own fantasy world to share...feel free to respond...

Is it real?...you bet its real...for me la...remember...fantasy and reality collide!

I would call this "The Manifestation of Human Degradation"

Ok...this post would be a bit off from what I'm supposed to post on this blog but it really catches my attention...as we in Malaysia are concerned about the 'thing' happened in Perak which I don't I have to mention it here...In the US, a guy who appeared on a reality TV show, Wife Swap was and still being hated by...em...I would say whoever knows his existence in this world...You know the nature of this show where 2 wives from very different family backgrounds will swap places and become temporary spouse to the other family...this guy, Stephen Fowler...He claimed that he's from an elite family and abusively insult his temporary spouse, Gayla Long...he insults her in front of his kids and all the possible way that he could...some of the 'infamous' statement he made are:

"you are undereducated,over opinionated, and you are overweight and its not a good combination, Gayla"
"i probably earn more than a week than you do in a year"
"you read that so well (laughs), i don't know you can read (laugh)"
"she's a very rude lady but its ok cause she doesn't have education"(he told this to his kids)

this is just a small portion of his insults...just watch this video and you'll know how rude, stupid, arrogant, self-centered and what not he is...seriously, WATCH IT!

Sorry i cannot put the video her...so watch it on youtube...

this is only one of the videos...you can find more on youtube...
these are websites/blog that are related to this issue:

1. http://realityrollcall.com/index.php/2009/01/31/wife-swaps-stephen-fowler-threatens-to-sue-reality-roll-call/comment-page-3/#comments

2. http://blog.stephenfowlersucks.com/

"Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold" by Terry Brooks

In the past 2 weeks I have been reading and studying Fantasy genre... I love Fantasy books as it gives us something totally different form what we have in our daily life. The book that I read is 'Kingdom For Sale - Sold!' by Terry Brooks. He is one of the best fantasy writer. For me the story is very interesting and funny. The characters are Ben Holiday - the human and the King, Questor Thews - the wizard and Abernathy - man turn to dog which results to a talking dog. The wizard and dogman had to help Ben to safe Landover...the magic kingdom.The funny bit is the relationship that those three characters had. Abernathy was pissed off with Questor as he was the one who turned Abernathy into dogs. But there's a story behind it...don't want to spoil it. Ben is a very stubborn human being...and can you imagine how chaotic the save-the-kingdom journey that they went through! This book has its own series which are Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold (Book 1) The Black Unicorn (Book 2) Wizard at Large (Book 3) The Tangle Box (Book 4) The Witch's Brew (Book 5). A must-read book I would say...I'll definitely buy the rest of the series... This book deals with trying to find the significance of our life in this world...even though you yourself is a powerful, rich and so on...sometimes the persons around you are the ones who make your life very significant...they define the significance of your life...sometimes we don't know about it until we lost them...and plus, don't be surprised...there's so much more than just fairy tales in fantasy kingdom...the real thing might not be the same as what it seems...

This is a respond video of the novel "Tell Me Your Dreams" by Sidney Sheldon. If you want to know more about Multiple Personality Disorder or nowadays it is called Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), watch this video. You'll be surprised!

To watch the video, go to this page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-phtvWfKlA&feature=related

The video is about one of the earliest cases of DID. If you want to watch more of DID there are a lot of videos that are available there!

Billionaires Prefer Blondes by Suzanne Enoch

Enoch is one of the romance novel writers. She usually writes historical romance but this book is a contemporary romance. I don't usually read romance novel but I read this book for one of my literature class. We discussed on the characteristics of romance novel. All of us have to read at least one romance novel and come up with a list of the common features found in the novels. This book is a typical romance novel where the female character is drop-dead-gorgeous, independent, curvaceous and the list goes on. Meanwhile the male character is handsome, rich, some with six-packs and to make it easy, name me any good traits they'll have them. One thing I like about this book is it the female character who is a professional thief falling in love with a billionaire. Can you imagine what will happen or what people will think if a person who live by selling valuable things stolen from the rich stay in the same house of a billionare....you just have to read it to know it....

"Samantha Jellicoe has never met a security camera she couldn't disarm. And even though she's promised her billionaire lover, the irresistable Richard Addison, to walk the straight and narrow, she certainly can't help it when trouble finds her..."

"Tell Me Your Dreams" by Sidney Sheldon

For me this is the best Sheldon's book. I read it 4 years ago when I was in matriculation center. This is the first Sheldon's book that I read. I 'fall in love' with him since then. The story is about an illness that some people had.

"Ashley Patterson is the main female character. She always feels that someone is stalking her wherever she goes even in her own room. Then, weird things happen when men around her get killed one by one in a same gruesome way and the evidences are not on her side..."

welcoming note...

Hi! this blog is a site for me to write about the books that i've read. i like to read novels especially thriller, fiction, mystery kind of novels. my fav author is Sidney Sheldon...i've read quite a number of his books which i find very interesting...but i also read novels from other authors. feel free to leave your comment... i might not be a very active blogger since i have quite a handful of assignments waiting for me...but i'll try my best!