Books. Story books, fiction, biographies, philosophy... text books. Books are pretty much like the male population, even their very nature the similarities are endless. However, the very main thing that I have noticed of late is the parallel to how one reads a book. From cover to cover.


The rule of thumb is the first page of the story or the first paragraph of the story will make or break the whole piece. It is the first impressions that people will get reading the first few lines of the piece that based on that they would decide if they did want to read further or not. Much like meeting a new person, the first few minutes would make you decide if you’d like to be friends with that person or not.


Once you’ve passed Chapter 3 you start to get familiar and comfortable with the characters of the book and it becomes a whole new world with these fictional characters in them in which you are a casual bystander who happens to know everything going on. It is an intriguing story and there’ll be countless hours spent with the book, leaning about the characters, going through their joys and sorrows and trials with them. It’s like how you’ll spend countless hours getting to know someone and all your free time with them.


I like books with happy endings. I don’t like sad endings. But when a book comes to an end (and you KNOW the story will end eventually), the hours spent cooped up in the house with it are no longer, there is always a sense of sadness and loneliness that will wash over. A wish that the book could’ve lasted longer, but then it would just have been made drag-y and anti-climaxed the whole story. Much like when that new friend of yours decides that they have better things to do than be your friend, or that the mystery is over. The book gets shelved. Sure you’ll remember each other, just that the closeness once you had is gone. Some people are like my Enid Blyton’s, there with me in my younger days, boxed and packed away, but rediscovered every few years and reread.


Thank God for books that never gets boring no matter how many times they are read like WaterShip Down and A Little Princess. Like best friends, or the closest i have to one, and like proper books, no matter how many times you've read it cover to cover, reading it again opens new doors you never knew was there - pick up on a fact you missed out on previously, or looking at the story in a new way. (= These are the ones that will be around for life. I don't like the rest.