I could not imagine which book I would finish reading in Singapore. And the answer turned out today. You may have already guessed right. It is HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS.
It was just a coincidence that I picked up this book. I was reading THE KITE RUNNER a few days ago. That is also a best-seller book for it moves tens of thousands of people. I had to admit that I cried three times before I have finished reading it when I was in China. It describes a love between two brothers. When I borrowed this English edition from Wei Yaxin, I couldn’t help to wait to read it. After I have finished almost half of it, a friend of mine asked if he could read the book. I was glad to share such a great book with him because I had already known the whole story. So I thought I could wait to read the book after him.
With nothing interesting to read, I wandered around the dormitory, asking my friends if there were books they could lend me. One of them gave the HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS to me.
I have read the whole series of HARRY POTTER during my stay in China. (But I still could not finish the fifth book for I thought it was too boring to read) I can still remember clearly when I first saw the book. It was on a school bus. We were going to take a spring outing at that time. And the long trip in a jolty bus was not so interesting. Luckily, a girl who sat beside me brought two books of HARRY POTTER with her. And she was very happy to see that I was interested in it. So I began to read it on the bus. However, one thing had gone wrong was that I could not bear to put it down. After the trip, I asked whether I could borrow it. She said OK for she was reading the first one, and she lent me the second book of the series. It was exactly the one which I have just finished yet.
To be honest, I have finished reading the book in three days. I spent a whole Saturday reading it. Seldom have I found books that can make me laugh when I was reading alone. When I was reading with my friends, I would share with them the interesting parts and I would laugh. But when I was the only one in the dormitory, I would read books silently. But this time, I couldn’t help laughing because of the amusing conversations in it. I had to admit that J.K ROWLING have created a vivid imagination in my mind.
Before I read this book and THE KITE RUNNER, I was reading the book’ AROUND THE WORLD IN EITHTY DAYS’. I gave it up when I had finished three quarters of it. It was a little boring for me to read so I could not find fun in it. Maybe J.K ROWLING has the magic that appeals youngsters to follow her.
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I`m glad you`ve caught up with your reading. It`s true some of the classics like "Around the World in Eighty Days" are boring to read although they represent the best of English Literature. It really doesn`t matter what you pick up to read so long you find it a good read.
ReplyDeleteI’m glad that both you and Brent like my book The Kite Runner very much and Brent likes my books so much that he gives a new looking of my book.
ReplyDeleteHarry Potter is really a very interesting book and I really appreciate Rowling’s humor and imagination though I only read two books of the series but I like to think of the book again and again. There are so many interesting details in the book and there are also many suspensions and clues indicating the things around corner.
Unlike you, I really like the book Around the World in Eighty days. This is one of my favorite books and Jules Verne is one of my favorite writers. You might as well read the Chinese translation, which is very interesting, and the climacteric is not in the middle but at the end of the book.