Last Thursday, I decided to hike to Fully Booked's EDSA Shangri-La Hotel branch to get Christopher Pike's latest work called Thirst 3. The book was not for me but for my sister, who has read the first two books in the series.
I was a Pike fan, and maybe I still am. When I was in high school, I had read two of his books: Chain Letter 2 and Road to Nowhere. The first book was about the occult, while the second was about death and existentialism. I loved both books. In fact, Road to Nowhere may be in my list of the best 20 books I have ever read, if not in the top 10.
My sister, meanwhile, is not much of a reader. Books for her were hit or miss before Thirst--she does not even read Harry Potter. I remember that she loves the Anne of Green Gables series, and nothing else.
Good thing she likes Thirst. Also, good thing somebody else I know now shares my love for Pike.
Thirst 1 and Thirst 2 were collections of Pike's The Last Vampire series, which consists of six parts published from 1994 to 1996. Thirst 3, meanwhile, is a new creation, released only a few weeks ago.
I first saw a copy in National Bookstore. Checking in the Fully Booked branches I frequent--TriNoma, SM North, and Gateway Mall--I found no copy. After a week of hunting, I left my number in the TriNoma branch, and asked them to send me a text message once they get hold of Thirst 3.
Then Thursday came and I got bored and I decided to buy a new book. Naturally, I wanted to save a trip to the bookstore and buy Thirst 3 along with any new book I will read next.
After a couple of calls to all the Fully Booked branches, I was informed that there was a copy in the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel branch.
It was a gloomy night, so I decided to hike there from my Boni office. The trip, the walk, was refreshing. The purchases were also worth it.
I spent more than an hour in the Fully Booked branch before I went home. I treat trips to any Fully Booked branch as quality time. I unwind there, touching each book I come across, debating myself what to buy.
I am a book geek, and it shows.
This post has no picture because I spent an hour looking for Pike's picture on the Internet, and found none. The blurb at the back of Thirst 3 says Pike is rumored to not go out of his house at all.
That's interesting. Maybe he's not a real person but a well-crafted pseudonym by an already established author. He may be somebody's Richard Bachman.
It is now one of my life goals to find who he is.
Right now I'm reading Percy Jackson's The Lightning Thief. When my friends had recommended this to me, I told them that the series is for children.
Reading the book just proved my point. It is not even that close to Harry Potter. The lead character, Percy Jackson, is stupid and has no redeeming traits at all. Yet.
The book's first chapters were so improbable that I had to read a comic book--Manix Abrera's execellent Kikomachine 6--just to vent my disappointment.
I will read this book until the end and I hope it gets better. Anyway, it's good that it started on a sour note than end on one. The last book I finished, Black House, had a great 600 pages only to get a rubbish ending.
This is the worst work of Stephen King I ever came across. Also, this makes me avoid Peter Straub all the more.
I hope authors nowadays do not just publish books hastily. I hope they do several edits--spanning months--just to assure the readers that their works are top-notch.
8532.4/15,000 worth of receipts collected. Finished nine books out of the 17 purchased. One book lost.
New books purchased: Christopher Pike's Thirst 3, Manix Abrera's Kikomachine 6, and Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief.
Last book finished: Stephen King and Peter Straub's Black House. Now mainly reading: Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief.
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