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I have often described myself as a book amongst books. A close buddy opinioned that I resemble more of a comic book!

I have ceased to consider him a close buddy anymore. After all, they say a man’s best friend is a good book. So I suppose, the dog comes a close second. You might assume that this is simply because a book cannot bite!

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So there is one thing we all have in common, besides dogs. It is the spirit to read. We have all at some point or the other read a book. Be it a magazine, a novel or poetry. Which means we all have so much to share. Wonder where all the knowledge ends up finally? There are all this fascinating books I have read which have left a deep impression on the mind. Somehow I have forgotten the tittles. I cannot even remember their authors. But I must admit the material was fantastic. By the way, how does one spell pornog…!

My favourite read is off course the modest comic book. My hobby was buying second-hand comics at discount prices. It was not easy to read them in our younger days, I must admit. In the schooling years we often sandwiched them between textbooks, out of fear that they could get confiscated. They have re-sale value, mind you! One also has to control one’s laughter as you read the comics to show your superiors that you are in the serious business of studying and that there is absolutely nothing funny written within the text-books. Whoever said that you could judge a book by the cover, probably doesn’t know that looks can be deceiving.

I sometimes wonder why most pretty girls spend half their teenage years reading novels. Could it probably be that they like wearing spectacles? But then again, they always know that boys seldom make passes, at girls who wear glasses. Or well, perhaps they prefer it that way.

I must admit, that frankly, I have never really read a novel. It is simply too many alphabets for a humble mind like mine to absorb. I rather prefer to wait till they adapt the novel into a movie. It is so much more refreshing to let the actors narrate the story. Which is what most of today’s youth seem to be accustomed to. They are simply watching more television. This off course is telling on the reading habits of the new generation. Nowadays, people simply prefer pictures to words.

Which is why, they have filled up the whole of the Internet with images of ‘the Birds & the Bees’!

— Felix Martires


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