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Divergent: Of choices and too many needles

For too long, I’ve avoided e-books. Not that I abhor them but it’s the feeling that technology already took over something ancient and mystical. You know, having a book in your hands feels powerful as opposed to having your eyes on the computer screen. Kinda robotic feeling lang. It’s the that tangible thing that one feels when holding a book hehe.

But theeeeeen, technology caught up with this hermit wannabe. And yep, I had that difficult choice of choosing to pick up a book or opening that PDF file. Actually, it was a no-brainer. I got nothing to do and I was bored so I decided to read a(n) (e-)book hehe

Grace, a friend and former officemate (whom i heard had recently discovered the words “gym” and “exercise”, i know, que horror) gave me the books e-copy. And what book am i referring to? DIVERGENT!!!

Well it’s penned by Veronica Roth, a writer (duh). It’s set in a kinda post-apocalyptic Chicago. Not naman extinction levels. Kinda post-famine-and-war-and-trying-to-get-back-to-normalcy levels lang. Wikipedia describes these kind of novels as Dystopian which is the opposite of Utopia daw. Parang nega future and rainbow-ice-cream-honey-dew-drops respectively. Parang ganon. Simply put hehe

Soooo, back to Divergent. As I’ve said, it’s set in a futuristic Chicago wherein the community is divided into five factions. Aaaaaaand, because i don’t want to spoil you all, i’ll leave it at that haha! Basta, its premise reads “One choice can transform you”. Oha, intriguing lang ha!

With that, here are 5 reasons why you should read DIVERGENT!

5. Action-packed! A riveting page-tuner, Divergent makes you want to have a bladder the size of a hot-air balloon so you’ll never have to put it down and get up and go to the bathroom and pee. If plunging needles down your neck and knife-throwing and punching people and climbing immensely high structures and kind of plunging to your death out of your own free will doesn’t say action, what does ba? Kinda like that levels.

4. Kiliiiiiiiiig much. Divergent isn’t hardcore action. It’s prolly because its target market are the adolescents to young adults. Meaning, hormones. Raging hormones. Meaning: the swooning kind of love. The one that’ll make your tummy all butterfly-yee inside. The one that makes you googly-eyed and sends shivers down your spine. In Tagalog: KILIG. josko. haha!

3. Tumblr yo! Yep, if you type in #divergent in the search box here in tumblr, a bajillion results will come up. But that’s not my point. Point is: VERONICA ROTH has tumblr. I know most tumblr people already know this. Apologies everyone ha. I had to get used to jumping on a moving divergent train pa if you know what i mean. of course, you know what i mean hehe. Uy pala, Divergent has twitter, facebook and instagram. Ah basta, eto yung link nung tumblr ni Tita Veronica: http://theartofnotwriting.tumblr.com

2. Quote-a-holics anonymous unite. The books is just overflowing with quote-worthy lines from the characters that’ll surely merit a handful of likes, retweets and favorites from your friends and followers. Actually, tumblr already beat you to it. Graphic designs of quotes and typographics mga ati at koya! In fair, magaganda sila ha!

1. Live action yeah! Divergent’s being made into a movie! Hala mga ati at koya, mag-ipon-ipon na ng pera para sa High Def na sine dahil i am so sure na it will kick arse. And yep, based from Tita Veronica’s (close kami. walang pakialamanan haha!) posts, the production crew is doing a pretty swell job of translating to screen her work! And if the storyteller is happy, we pretty much have an overview of what the movie will be. Fingers crossed!

Ah basta, whether the movie will be a crappy one or not i’m sure that i’ll be one of the people who’ll be lining up to watch it! hehe

Sooooo, with all the apprehension with reading e-books gone (as well as the recent out-of-town trip of my boss) I was able to read book two of the series!!! Did i tell you that it was a trilogy? Yep, i’m telling you now na. haha! Don’t tell my boss haha! Watch out for the post for the second book! This now goes without saying that reading the book was not accompanied by regret.

And yes, that was a choice i made. A Dauntless one. 

Hehe.

Peace and love!

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