BOOK LIST! Part 2

Part Two. I love a part two. I bet you have been waiting for it as well haven’t you? Have you been waking in the night, a cold sweat on your forehead, as you wonder 'what has Chris been reading whilst he is away? I simply must know!' WELL, wipe your beady brows my friends as here are some more of the delights that my eyes have been feasting on during my trip around planet Earth.

In The Night Country by Stuart O’Nan

Bit of a depressing one this one. But still, brilliantly written. It’s a ghost story about three friends, who die one Halloween night in a terrible car accident. Set one year on, the two survivors from the crash are still trying to deal with what happened to them. One is still mourning; the other is badly brain-damaged from the accident. The three dead friends come back to haunt the people they blame, and help their friends left behind. Like I said, well written, with an awesome ending, but MYGOD depressing.

The Taking by Dean Koontz

After some pretty heavy going books, I needed something a bit more popcorn, a bit more blockbuster. Steven King and Michael Crichton were obvious choices, but Dean Koontz is pretty good at the blockbuster book too. Easy reading, extreme stories and some freaky bits along the way. Taking is about a woman who wakes up in the night next to her husband to an unusually heavy rain fall. When she goes outside, animals are running wild, terrified from something gigantic flying above the clouds, and when she smells the rain, it smells of SEMEN. Yup. Pretty weird. Really good end of the world story though, totally my kind of book. Part religious, part sci-fi, it’s a survival story about how two people survive the end of the world when aliens attempt to terraform the planet. It’s got a surprise ending too!

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

An awesome and devastating book about friendship and growing up in Afghanistan. It’s a story about two boys, Amir, the son of a rich Kabul merchant, and his servant and friend, Hassan, a Hazara boy. The horrible prejudices explored in this story and the awesome writing made this one of my faves from the trip so far.

Lone Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima

When I was in Singapore, there was so many Chinese and Japanese influences around, I kept finding good comic shops, so what better place to read some Japanese Manga!

Twilight by Stephanie Myer

Oh god. From what I have seen in all the hostels and dorms I have shared over the entire trip. It seems that amongst backpackers, this is the popular book of choice. And what a load of crud. For one thing, it’s FRICKING HUGE. You need like a spare backpack JUST for the book. And this is only the first, there’s three more and they get progressively larger as you get through them. Plus its like 400 pages long and 350 pages of it are just full of the main character banging on about how much she loves her wimpy fangy boyfriend. The last 50 pages have some bitey, vampire action which is pretty cool. But that is all. I am NOT a fan.

So, thats the end of part two. ENTHRALLIN HUH!? I bet you opened this post and utter dissapointment flooded your veins yes? maybe becuase i havnt posted anything for some time yes? Well, all i can say...poopies. Big fat poopies to you. Becuase, i am currently in the land of Middle Earth, and internet connection is even rarer than it was in the Land of OZ. BT Broadband would do WELL in Mordor. The net is cheaper yes, but rarer, certainly. HOWEVER, another post is in the works so you shouldnt have to wait too long, PLUS, there are lots of photo's and Vids still going out so keep your piggy little peepers on those guys.

Right, well i better go, just realised i have locked myself and my friends out of our home, a campervan, and its like minus 480 degrees outside so i think they may already be dead whilst im sitting in here in the warm. Ahh. Warm ignorance.