"No I haven't the right."
"We can never understand each other, you and I, Commander Dalgliesh."
"No. We can't. But does that make us different from any other two people?"
A conversation between Commander Dalgliesh with the murderer taken from The Murder Room.
I know that I have been posting some nonesensical stuffs and am sorry if you think of it that way... *sigh a heavy burden of work is actually my reason for not been posting any reviews whatsoever... I know that I went out (of course la! Or I'll go crazy like a chicken... mmm... chicken...) besides that I know that I would certainly go insane if I don't release all that frustration and go out once in a while and since financially am short of cash I refuse to go to the movies UNLESS if it is a must... which I think that is also must be an overstatement too... coz most of the movies which are being recommended by my friends I still haven't watch on the big screen as of yet... I know... +_+ pitiful...
Anyways... that is all in the past... the next one week would be a bliss... I wouldn't get much out of it but it is nice not having to spend a quarter of my time on the weekdays waiting for the train and cramming myself against others during peak hours... Although... I still have tonnes of projects to finish off too... But there is always the good thing of being able to sleep and wake up late...
Back to the main purpose of me being here though... I believe that there are books that you just have to read and some that you just plain not supposed to... and once or twice I have done that... I bought a book that I just wish I can finish without being bored to death by it... and I think some if not most of those books come under the literary section... I do not know why I despise these types of books because I love Emma by Jane Austen but I just can't stand Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy... or maybe that was because I was forced to do Emma by the HSC Board hmm... But even though I haven't got a penchant for literacy I love absolutely LOVE crime novels... that is why I am such a commoner... hehehe... but there is this one that I absolutely hate and by the first few chapters I just refuse to read it any further... that is my relationship with books... the love and hate relationship...
These two books are definitely come under the category of you have to read it if you want... but one particular one "The Murder Room" by PD James have to be one of the best I have read... I couldn't even guess the murderer until the end! Or maybe I wasn't diligent enough... whichever way you want to see it I am a bit intellectually deprived when it comes to analysing...
Anyways... back to the novel... who says that an 85 year old woman cannot write such an exquisite piece of mystery?!? No one... I know... that was just for an effect... But I guess she finished writing it when she was 82? 83? Coz the book was first published in 2003... which is surprising... because obviously she hasn't lost that 'touch'... It was a nice read... the story was laid out carefully and such a fine writing... haven't read her previous novels though... and am wanting to read more...Some summary on "The Murder Room" (according to the back of the book or the blurb... hehehe... I definitely can't think at the moment coz I'm IN HOLIDAY MODE!!) here it goes...
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquited with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of both staff and fellow trustees. Everyone, it seems, has something to gain from the crime. When it becomes clear that the killer is prepared to kill again, inspired by the real-life crimes from the murder room, Dalgliesh knows that to solve this case he has to get into the mind of a ruthless killer. It is a MUST... and there is this one particular scene where I was scared shitless... sorry... but that was the impression I got when I read that part... and it wasn't really that pretty... I know that the scene is probably soft and not that gruesome but it left a little bit of imprint in my imagination...
Alright... that was one... there is another one to go... "Body Double" another novel by Tess Gerritsen... this was the sequel to the previous one I reviewed "The Sinner" and have to say that it was well laid out but I wouldn't call it perfect... it was CERTAINLY better than the previous one... because there is more drama involved in this... it was certainly simple to read the novel because it took me quite a while to finish "The Murder Room" but it took me only a couple of days to finish off "Body Double"... I have to say that it was very fast-pacing type of novel which is great in its own merit... as a quick crime fiction... there wasn't a great mental exercise involved with this but it was a certainly pleasurable read (how ironic!)In this novel we are met with Dr Maura Isles again... but this time the beginning of the novel opens with her arriving from her trip overseas to meet her own dead body... The novel deals with Maura's past and how she became to be (because she was adopted) There were a lot of gruesome and sometimes gory story involved but none too big... All I have to say about this novel is how it was very entertaining in a sense that there were a lot actions involved and the story twisted into something unimaginable... where initially is pretty impossible for a crime novel but in the end the story has been tied up very well done...
I thought this was a light, entertaining, quick crime fiction that I recommend for all those people who are busy and want to read... hehehe... But don't get me wrong am still recommending it...
So that is all for today... I probably still have tonnes more books to read... I bought quite a lot of books since I purchased most of it from that Basement Bookstore... IT WAS SO CHEAP! How can you get away from that bookstore!?! It was such an impossible thing... I get hooked up with books that are cheap and affordable so easily and am not joking that they are selling books which are worth reading!! How cool is that?!? Anyways... I still have tonnes more books that I bought off that store... can't remember all the titles but I think one of them was "A Good Doctor" and a complete err... chronicle of Sherlock Holmes and also I think I bought "Mansfield Park" hmm... what else?? hmm... I can't remember but I'm pretty sure I can't finish all of those books in just one week full of things to do...
ok ok... I'm rambling... I better go now anyways... Anyways... enjoy my review!! Hope you like it...
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