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Although this is my final year at high school, I still have time to finish another book, eh? This time I had another choice of author. He’s probably one of the number 1 horror storytellers in this world if not the only one. He has written many horror books, and the first one was published under the title of ‘Carrie’. Well, can you guess who he is now? He is…Stephen King!

I’ve never read this guy’s books before even though I have known his reputation for quite awhile. But now, during a visit to Boston Book, which is a newly open bookstore located near Monument Bookstore, I decided to get a taste. So, I chose ‘The Dead Zone’ as a head start because I saw the description rather interesting and the title was cool as well. What’s it about, huh? Well, it’s about a guy named Johnny Smith who got an accident and was in a coma for four and a half years, such a long time that everybody started giving up hope on him. Then he just suddenly woke up from this deep sleep and found out that he had a special ability – the ability to see the future and history of almost anything he touched. However, not everyone, not even himself, thought that is more a gift than a curse. Could he help people with his ability? And if he could, would they appreciate it, or did they just want to stay away from him as he was a freak? Would he save the world if he could, even if no one believed in him? Johnny got a lot of difficult decisions to make, and were they worth it?

There were about 400 pages in all, and after two or three weeks, I finally finished it. My impression? It was really a great book, I think. I mean, it really was different from the other books I’ve read. It was kind of weird, tempting, a little bit boring and most of the times it just kept me wanting to read more to find out more. It was a little boring since sometimes the description just seems a little bit too long and dragging on that made me want to give up the book. Then, unexpectedly, the story suddenly rose to its high pitch and I found interest in reading it again. Moreover, this book had no twist plot at all. I used to think that a novel with no twist plot doesn’t and won’t make a good read, but this guy proved me wrong. That’s probably because I haven’t read books in various categories and genres. Now I’m starting to like King!

This is no commercial or anything, but it’s a worth-reading book and you shouldn’t leave it out of your must-read-books list. Um…for those who can stand reading it on a computer or electronic device, check this link out: http://www.4shared.com/file/101650085/c3e3ad0d/The_Dead_Zone.html?s=1

Here are some memorable quotes from this story:

• Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

• He felt as if Stillson might have taken the game of the Laughing Tiger a step further: inside the beast-skin, a man, yes. But inside the man-skin, a beast.

Oh, a WARNING: this novel is not suitable for people under the age of fifteen or so since there were some disturbing scenes and inappropriate languages. But, besides that, ENJOY!

There have been much stir around what is really going to happen in 2012, particularly on the 21^st of December. For now, Roland Emmerich, the renowned director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, has made another big hit on this phenomenon. What’s about it?

This movie follows a strange change at the Earth’s core which results in earthquakes and volcanoes and other natural disasters across the globe. This, according to the prediction of the Mayan, is supposed to be the doomsday, the Apocalypse or the end of the world as we know it. During this commotion, an irresponsible man faced a big change in his life and he knew he must do something in order to save his two kids and his divorced wife from this cataclysm. Also, many rich people around the world were willing to pay a large amount of Euros in exchange for tickets granting permission onto so-called spaceships which were being built in China near Mount Everest. What about other millions of innocent people? In this movie, it was also shown that the government was trying to cover up this forthcoming disaster and chose not to warn people about it. To make sure of that, they even assassinated those who dared try to make this catastrophe public. Is that fair? What’s more important, will there be survivors? Or will there be no hope for humanity?

In my opinion, I won’t say this is the best film I’ve ever seen, but it’s worth watching after all. What intrigue me most about this flick are the special effects. There were many surreal scenes which may keep you on the edge of your seat. Well, I don’t know if this prediction is going to come true or not, but this film sure is a good one to portray what it would be like when the end comes.

One of the phrases I love the most in this film is, ‘The moment we stop fighting for each other, that’s the moment we lose our humanity.’ Hope you guys will enjoy it.