Day 09: An Unexpected Liking Towards A Book

Okay, the prompt asks to discuss about a book which you thought you wouldn’t like but unexpectedly, you ended up liking it. A book like that would be difficult to find in my “read” list because I always tend to read the books that have appealed to me in some way, either by their synopsis or the popularity factor. I am once again going through the list of books that I have read. Let me look for a book which could fit into this category.

Well, I don’t know if I’d ever read a book which I thought was going to disappoint me. Tell me truly: who would read a book one thought one wouldn’t like? We all want to have a good reading experience when we pick up a book. It is that simple for me.

So, I am going to discuss about a book which doesn’t fall into this very category (none of the books I have read would). I am rather going to discuss a book which I read just because everyone was reading the books by that author. And that book is Desperation by Stephen King.

Isn’t that a creepy cover!?

A widely popular author; I don’t know but I never wanted to read his books. May be it was because I had heard of the competition between him and Sidney Sheldon; the latter being my favorite author once. But I finally put aside my prejudice and I read a book by him. I don’t know whether it was a good choice to start with or not but in the end, I quite liked the book.

I enjoyed the haunting reading experience which was certainly creepy. It is a story of a town which has come into the control of some ancient gods. After a closed mine was reopened, there were certain figurines found which came to control the beings who had come in close vicinity to them. The book starts with incidents of such tourists who were travelling through a highway quite near to the haunted town in the state of Maine, who were confronted and tortured by a possessed police officer.

It was a very interesting book, in which God was of course a very important identity like in many other books by the author. I liked the characters and their story of how they were going to defeat those powerful creatures of the dark.

I didn’t read any book by Stephen King for a while after I had finished this book. But later on I read some other books by him and I look forward to reading more of his work.

That is all. Would you like to share about your reading experiences of any book or even if you would just want to say hello? Please feel free and write to me; either down in the comments section or you can send an e-mail to me through the Contact Me Page.

Day 07: Most Underrated Book

I am quite confused with the statement for today’s prompt. Do I have to discuss a book I have read that holds the least rating? Ahem! Why would I want to discuss about such a book? And I have also seen the term ‘underrated’ used for those books which are not commonly known but are quite good. So, that is the thing I will be writing about.

I am browsing through my goodreads list. Let’s see if I could come up with such a book.

Okay, have you ever heard of Jennifer Donnelly’s A Gathering Light? I don’t know whether many people know about it or not but I had never heard of the author or the book when I read it. It was not an easy read for me for the first time or may be I was not in the right frame of mind then. But I tried reading it once again and that time I had a quite splendid reading experience.

It has been quite a while, so, I won’t be able to give a detailed synopsis of the novel. But I will try my best.

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It is mainly a story of a girl named Mattie who works in a hotel/motel. She is given a bundle of letters by a woman guest there to burn and that woman is found drowned the next day. The man who was residing with the woman is not to be found anywhere. So, the main details of the book lies in those letters which Mattie finally reads to come to know about the story of that young woman, in order to figure out the events that had happened. It is a very light-heart suspense tale. You wouldn’t have to rush. It is just that you get to unfold the mystery page by page. It is quite an interesting read, particularly because of the writing style of the author. It has some unique quality to keep you enriched, by introducing some new information slowly and slowly in the whole book.

I never wrote a review; I do not why. If I get to read it again, i would definitely share a detailed review with you all. That is all for now.