litfili 8th blog.ö

Im not a READER but i can read a novel in just a few hours if i am so interested in the story. before i could read the assigned novel to be read. my friend( jac) won't stop talking about the funniest and sexiest scenes in the story. so i got curious, and interested in what she is talkin about. as i open the book. i read aloud " GETTING BETTER" . a question hits me " tungkol kaya saan ung storyang to?" in my mind.

it was all about, literally, getting better in a typical break-up of an Accounts executive in an advertising industry to a guy who is a COMPLETE jerk. what keeps the story going is that how realistic the story can be. after reading it, "ganito ba tlga sa advertising industry?".

Karen, only wanted a normal life where she could be normal office person, in a normal office. with a loyal boyfriend who can become his loyal husband. and normal friends who wants normal things in their normal life. but NO. everything she wanted is the COMPLETE opposite.she doesn't have any normal life because her work needs crazy ideas and with that they need crazy persons to think of these crazy ideas with a CRAZY workplace. SHe doesn't have a loyal boyfriend but she has a Miko who is taking up too much space in her apartment because of his clothes and taking control of her decisions in life and is constantly cheating on her. and she does have normal friends but her friend doesn't want normal things, Janice wants something extraordinary in everything. and would do anything to get what she wants.

Her life with Miko was a "routine". but even though it's like a routine, they'd still go to weddings of their friends.and visits her parents on weekendss. just that and nothing else. when they broke up, she was more of a wreck than ever. and in her mind. "could my life get any worse?" her friends helped her to have a good time everyday for the rest of her life. they even got her blind dates that was not a success. but nobody could blame her with her passion for loving Miko. and she has done it. she slept with him once more and this time she thought everything was getting better, but she found out that it was not only her friend Cynthia, there was another girl.

as she recovers from the devastating truth, her personality grows and she is taking life like how it's suppose to be. and found her self in the arms of Robert Redford Reyno, who they thought he was gay because he watches sex and the city, the series. a typical story but it became special because of how the writer gave life to every line in the story. emphasizing details that are extremely true to life. and inviting the audience to be actually in the scene.

As to some of the readers, they find this novel quite not interesting because of the sexy scenes and the use of words to be so bold.

another novel that we are asked to read gave me the CREEPS.
Smaller and smaller circles.


At first, the cover seemed to be "dapat nakakatakot" everytime i see my book unread. its just an ordinary book with eyes that stares at you. but its different when i already read it. i have to put the book always on the paper bag of powerbooks so the cover of the book will not be seen. even the presence of the gives me chills thinkin of what happened in the story.


what made the book interesting is that i know the places the suspect has been to. i have been there and still passing that way. but whatever happened to the story is too much. with the how the suspect killed his victims. and how is the killing very symbolic for the suspect. the writer made you imagine EVERYTHING. even the tiniest detail and how you should feel.

what struck me the most is that, everytime father Saenz and father Jerome drops the reality that it is almost end of the month. where they worry, because it only means, the killer will again kill in the first Saturday of the month. creepy. And when they found out that the killer is someone who you wouldn't thought that it was him, a volunteer worker giving service to children who doesn't have any budget for cleaning teeth, having medical examinations and more. Alex Santos did not want to do it.

its your usual horror suspense story where the there is a deep reason why the suspect wanted to kill. its because of his disturbed background.screaming for REVENGE.

and for the other readers, they thought it was something ordinary. where the killer kills and the killer is ,in the end, killed too.

*and what i think, that is Alex's eyes in the cover*