Novels FTW!

Hi. Today I will be sharing about the novels that I usually read :)

The novels that I read are mostly from Taiwan, which was influenced by my friend since Form 2. At that time, we had a sudden craze about novels. We bought novels for collections, borrowed novels from each other, had discussion and shared opinions about the storyline, it was really fun!

Everyone had their own favourite book author at that time (because of individuality problem :P). Mine was jht, but the most mainstream book author was no doubt, Giddens Ko.

Giddens.

He is currently the most popular and successful  book author in Taiwan. His nickname in Chinese means "nine knives", which he got it from his friends during high school. He started his career since 2000, which he first published online. Until now he have already written over 60 novels, some of them were filmed into dramas, movies, theater performances and even online games!

One of the most popular novel that he wrote.

In year 2010, he became the director for his movie "You Are the Apple of My Eye" (which is the novel shown above). The story is actually based on his real life during his time at high school, which he went after this particular girl for 8 years. This novel was the all-time-favourite for the readers and the movie was also a hit. 

So, what makes it so popular? It is all because of the story which resonates with our lives. Anyone of us will surely have the same experience, no matter during high school or other times - falling in love with this one and only special person who once meant the whole world to you. It reminds people of the good old days, those sweet memories that we can never forget during our most energetic, exciting and interesting stage in our lives.

"You Are the Apple of My Eye"

Giddens also took a step further recently by publishing all his novels for free as an e-book application. Readers from now on do not need to go to the bookstores to buy his novels anymore! He made this application not only because of the change of reading habits due to technology, it is also because people can find lots of online version for free, so why not just create an official app for it? But I still prefer the hard copy of the book, the smell and the feel of it. It is also a form of love and support from me to the author! :D

All the novels for free!!

Enough about Giddens. Let's talk about the differences between the novels here and the novels in Taiwan.

We can actually see small differences between them. Firstly, the novels in Taiwan are all in Traditional Chinese, which the characters are more complex than Modern Chinese. It is also because of their national language in Taiwan.

Secondly, the words and sentences in the book are printed vertically. We will need to read the sentence from up to down, then left to right. The vertical format is somehow the same as the books back in the ancient time of China, but modernized because initially books were read from right to left.

Although some of the books selling here are more pricey because of the shipping fees, but most people here in our country still have the habit of bringing them home for own collection. As we all know that e-books has become the current trend but the hard copy of books will never die because good books are always worth the price :)