Sunday, April 02, 2006

I'm guilty of buying too many books which I don't have the time to read yet but I couldn't resist it when I got to know that MPH was having a sale! Thanks to Irene's membership card, I got two books at such a good offer it's almost a steal.



Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. The first time I set my eyes on this book was a few weeks ago. I have to say that I had no idea who Ishiguro was but the title had me then. It was as if the book was conveying a message of very deep emotional attachment and calling to me to 'buy buy buy'. Ok, I'm a very clingy person and so the title attracted me. (: I've so far read the first chapter, it's very interesting. I can't see the link between the title and the story though but I'm going to find out soon.



Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. When I saw this book on a friend's blog, Salman Rushdie came to mind. I thought to myself, I wasn't ready to handle serious and deep issues about humanity. It wasn't until I held Shantaram in my hands and read the synopsis blurb that I realised how wrong I was to categorise books I was ignorant about. Shantaram is an autobiographical account about Roberts himself who flew to Bombay on a false identity and basically got into trouble with the law and such. (I heard there are some random comic relief in the book) RM45.90 set me back and I put the book back onto the shelf. But that was then. Now with 20% how could I not buy it?? I've not flip the pages yet so I can't say more than that.

Yep, I'm very happy.

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