Just finished book two of artemis fowl, the arctic incident. Well compared to the first book this one’s easier to read for me since I somehow have a grasp of who are and what do the creatures look like. But unlike the first book this one has less of fowl’s mind in it. Which makes me like the first book more. Don’t get me wrong since I like this book too particularly the ending where fowl rescues his dad. I guess that’s why I like the series… because of fowl’s mind and his bag of tricks. Cut down on that and it wouldn’t be that great. But still I’m looking forward to getting my hands on the third book since most of the people loved that book the best in the series. I wonder how many books eoin colfer plans to write. And if this book is going to the big screen anytime soon. I heard rumors before but didn’t kept tabs on that one. Will check it out later.

i just finished artemis fowl… the first book that is. the start kinda dragged for me. maybe that’s why i never finished the book before. good thing that this time around, i psyched myself to go through it. it kinda picked up for me in chapter 4, or during that time of the kidnapping. then the book sustained itself to the end. i love the ending. ingenious! now to get my hand on the arctic incident. i now can’t wait to read book three of it since everyone i know who read it loved it from all the three books.

while waiting for that… i’m slaving over my 56k connection… at home… just to satisfy my bleach hunger. my last chapter was the toriyama scans and that was sooo long ago. then connection at work closed ports to bittorent and mirc so i’m limited to http downloads. ;_; and when i checked back to the bleach chapters again, they’re on chapter 110+!!! that’s like a 60+ chapter backlog! and so now, instead of reading bleach continuously, i have to wait for at least 15 minutes to download a 4Mb chapter. ooooohhhh, the painnnnn!!! well, at least now, i’m halfway there with only 30+ chapters remaining…. and counting.

been reading some of my stocked-up to-reads lately. finally finished reading dan brown’s da vinci code and before that his angels & demons. great reads really. but what i didn’t like about those two books is that they’re similar! if he continues the pattern with the third book, it would be easy to tell who the culprit is. there are still good twist and turns plus the numerous facts he presents are really interesting, things that’ll make you think about and ponder. on DVC, i love it’s cryptograms and codes. while on A&D, i love the ambigrams plus the chase around Rome and the ticking time bomb. between the two though, i think i liked A&D better. i liked the interaction better between Langdon & Vittoria than Langdon & Sophie. plus i find A&D’s plot more exciting than DVC, more ups and downs. but, still… yeah, read both books. my next dan brown book will be digital fortress, one my friend lends me his copy.

in the meantime, reading the first book of artemis fowl. it’s been with me for months but only now that i’m reading it. so far so good. oh yeah… since i’m on the subject of children’s read, i also finished the field guide from the spiderwick chronicles. it’s a very light read (actually finished this one in an hour or two tops) but it’s a cute read. nothing fancy. i’m trying to get my hands on the second book and hope it’ll be as good as the first unlike the third book of ASOUE which went downhill for me. i’ll try to read the fourth one since i have that one plus book 5 of ASOUE to finish.

yeah.. too many books to read. short time to finish.