New Books!

Yesterday, I went to MPH and bought some new books! Finally! I bought the completed works of Oscar Wilde (gotta love him, he is so eccentric and his words are so poetic n inspiring to me!), Audrey Niffenegger's new book. She's the same writer who wrote Time Traveler's Wife, so, looking forward to that! And *drumroll......I finally found the sequel to the Last Vampire by Christopher Pike. That was such a THRILL! I mean, I read the Last Vampire 2,3 and 4 when I was in form 1, i think. I couldn't find Last Vampire 1, 5 and 6 because the book was so old, it was published 1996. More than 10 years. That's why I feel like I could walk on air..................

I finished the Last Vampire 5 in class just now. (The class was way boring for words. I just opened my book and glanced at the slides now and then, *to show that I was paying attention.* By the end of the class, I had only a few pages left.) Wheee...now I'm starting on the last book. Awww..

I'll update in a few hours. That book is calling out to me. (Read me, read me!!) :P

Helas by Oscar Wilde

Thought I might share this poem. I love it.


To drift with every passion till my soul,
Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play,
Is it for this that I have given away
Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?-
Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll
Scrawled over on some boyish holiday
With idle songs for pipe and virelay
Which do but mar the secret of the whole.
Surely there was a time I might have trod
The sunlit heights, and from life's dissonance
Struck one clear chord to reach the ears of God;
Is that time dead? lo! with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance-
And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

A Walk to Remember

Yeah, the book came out a long time ago. I heard all about the hype they created over the book and the movie but I never bothered to read the book until last month. I get curious too, you know? I watched the movie around last year I think, and I thought the movie was quite good. Shane West was so gorgeous! Half of the time, I was staring at his lips. I'm starting to like those thin upper lips. So sexy....;)

But then, I'm a sucker for bad boys so maybe I'm a little bit biased.

The movie was quite typical. Bad boy falls in love for a good girl, but in the end he gets heartbroken. But in this story, they really did love each other. It was quite sad that Jamie had to die. But hey, some things aren't just meant to be.

What was even sadder and tragic was that this really did happen. Sparks wrote the story for his sister Danielle. To think that some people like Jamie and Landon really lived, was quite inspiring.

One thing I noticed was the movie and the book was vastly different from each other. The plot was more or less the same. But I enjoyed the movie more, I think. Reading the book, I was quite uninterested at first, but Jamie was such an interesting character. I finished the book enventually.

Nicholas Sparks had a part in writing the screenplay for the movie as well. I read from an interview that if they had followed the book exactly, no one would have been interested since it was set in the 1950s 0r 1960s. Yeah, he was right in that one. No teenager would have watched that. But when he changed it to a modern setting (the new millenium), Landon was so much mischevious. From hanging out at the cemetery eating peanuts (who does that nowadays? I was like, he seriously did that???) to being a total jerk and bullying other students.

The play in the book was different. In this case, I think I prefer that Sparks had stuck to the idea in his book. It made Jamie's dad sound more human. Well, we all saw that in the movie, Jamie's dad did worry about his daughter but the book expressed that feeling more.

Oh yeah, another difference. Jamie really did gave a Bible to Landon when she was dying.

I think I prefer the movie version better. Don't get me wrong, I liked the book. It was GOOD. Very well written. Both of the movie and book scores 4 stars on my meter. :)