The Zahir

Why I do not know. But somehow I knew that the latest Paulo Coelho's book entitled 'The Zahir' would be sold at Popular Bookstore at Causeway Point. So upon finishing camp on Monday, I made my way down to Causeway Point and I bought the book.

Although I hate to pay so much for the book which is incidentally the highest priced book among all of Paulo’s work, I had waited to long for this moment. While I was at Popular another book or rather two books in particular caught my attention. The first was the illustrated version of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci’s Code and the other was the war of the worlds by H.G Wells.

Two points to note. I have read the Da Vinci’s Code last year but wasn’t really into it. I read it for the sake of reading it. Or you could say that I read it because everyone I knew had read the damn thing and I didn’t want to the one who haven’t had the slightest clue what this book was about. The last point to note is I actually have read the War of the worlds when I was in secondary school. I even remember the TV series which genuinely frightened me as a child.

As much as I wanted to buy these books, I realized that if I had bought those books, I would be distracted from reading The Zahir and my interest would seem to mingle upon the other books rather than being committed to the book I really wanted to read.

So I decided to buy the Zahir and promised myself I would buy the other books as soon as I finished reading my new purchase.

So till my next post ya, its bye from Ganz.