Thursday, June 23, 2005
This is a book that I read. It's called "The Ratastrophe Catastrophe" by David Lee Stone. Well, whatever you may call this thing (Pardon me if I add undesirable words, vulagr, cause I'm a bit crazy these days and I surely have the urge to start shouting and cursing) , a book review, a critical response or what-so-ever...... I seriously still do not get the idea of what a literacy...... what was that called again? Report? Review? Whatever that is...... I don't know what you are supposed to write...... Call me dumb or what? So I'm giving a book review plus some extra whatever-you-may-call-it, points? By the way, if you think this is too casual, too too too extremely casual, then please feel free to edit my works. I seriously don't mind and you have the permission to do so, just that please keep the point there and no puuting words in my mouth. For example, adding words that I did not say and doesn't contribute to this what-so-ever literacy report. I find you out and you are dead beat...... You know what I mean? Now, bak to the point.
"The Ratastrophe Catastrophe" is basically a book or novel...... By the way, this novel has about 300 pages, so consider it a novel. This novel is about this boy called Diek Wustapha (I don't care how you pronounce his name) who suddenly had this special power to play melodious songs on his flute, mesmerizing people who listen to his songs. Something like "The Pied Piper", like I said in the first entry, which I think make this novel a fairytale or some sort like that. So we come to the center of attraction of the book, I mean the center of attraction, the place, I mean. Dullitch is where all the excitement began. Dullitch was at that time, plagued with rats, big ones, and I mean really big. The duke of Dullitch, Duke Modeset, was frantically looking for mercenaries to kill these rats and rid the city of the plague. Diek Wustapha saw his chance at making money and although he wasn't a mercenary, he volunteered to rid the plague. So now we fast-forward this whole thing and Diek Wustapha rid the plague but the city did not pay him the money they agreed to have paid. You see, the city had not much money left in the treasury. Diek Wustapha was of course (Pardon me) , bloodily angry and so played a song that led the children of the city of Dullitch into a mysterious place. In case you still do not know, Diek Wustapha had this evil thingy in his mind, persuading him to do evil stuff and if you don't know, he drowned all the rats in a river, just like in the story of "The Pied Piper". So then, the head of the counsel of Dullitch resigned, or rather sneaked away.
Ermmm...... I do not have a rather good memory of this novel as I read it at the beginning of the holidays...... Heehee...... Never mind, I will try to produce some results...... Heehee......
The head of the counsel then travelled with two mercenaries called Groan Teethgrit and...... I don't know...... Anyway, the head's son, Jimmy Quickstint, was sent out by the Duke to look for Diek Wustapha. Well, of course, to get the parents' children back. Jimmy later stumbled upon his father and the two mercenaries and they set out to find together. Obviously, in a novel, there would be obstacles. I remembered that the group had two obstacles, the first one which I forgot, the second one is a giant. Well, in any case, they escaped the giant just in time, if not, they would be eaten by the giant. Anyway, just t wrap this summary up (I don't even think this is a summary) , the head of the counsel who was a magician defeated Diek Wustapha but in the process, died too.
So well, what now am I supposed to write? So I think it's something like a book review now, right? OK, OK...... In my opinion, "The Ratastrophe Catastrophe" is a so-so novel. This is because the novel is sometimes loong-winded, at certain parts of the story, it becomes terribly boring and so sometimes and grew tired of reading it. Besides, it was adapted from a fairytale. To me, that is meaning no originality and so the contents are not really interesting, just for the part that the head of the counsel defeated Diek with his magic. All in all, I give it 3 out of 5 stars. The second book to this series, "The Yowler Foul-Up" is a better novel. By the way, this series is called "The Illmoor Chronicles" and by the way, David Lee Stone has already finished the third instalment, just that it isn't in our libraries yet...... Waiting for it......
Cedric Lim // 7:15 PM
