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What a horrible, lying, Christian jerk who happened to write a lot of crap books.

I was thinking if you read his books, because you like this jerk, I'm quite certain that we could not be friends. 

If you read these books for research for how someone who is fucked in the head by Jesus think, then my hat-off to you if you didn't throw up. 

These books wasted the sacrifice of tress. Don't get too curious as to encourage publishers to print more crap like these.

Yes. I know he blamed the killing of journalists on the lack of religiosity of Christians. Seriously? How this jerk mind works is really scary and puzzling. 

     I first came across this book years ago while I was scanning through the aisles of the then newly-opened PowerBooks store in Greenbelt Makati.  

     I had not read a single children's book for quite some time as my interest in them had waned already, so it was quite a surprise for me to find myself actually reading one whose cover and title caught my attention. By the third page, I was taken, much to my disbelief.

   "It was a missing piece. And it was not happy."

     Each page had only one to a few sentences and a simple hand-drawn image that could have been penned by a 3-year old. Hell, even the  sentences could have been thought up by a six year old kid. It was not the images nor the individual sentences that impressed me but rather the message behind the sentences and imagery, which I would describe a nothing short of profound, truthful, and accurate.  So profound, in fact, that to this day, I still recommend adults to read the book. 

     How impactful was the book? I was so caught up in reading it that I could not put it down, despite the fact that I was standing on a sign that read "No Private Reading".  I only paused at times to wipe the tears off my face! Even before I was done reading the book, I was already a mess.  A grown man crying in a public bookstore because of a childrens' book. lol

     The fact that the entire book had a black and white theme on every page-- something that few would dare expect to appeal to young readers; the fact that each page contained no more than one word to one sentence; and that the  images were extremely simple, made for a brilliantly thought-of piece.  Whereas TV had its "Sesame Street"; books have Shel Silverstein's masterpieces. "The Missing Piece" is one brilliant work of art.  

      I found a video of The Missing Piece in YouTube.  So if you are okay with a spoiler, go watch it.  Have a box of tissues handy.  Be ready to break down. Don't say I didn't warn you. 

     And if you think you will end up not buying the book just because a free video is available online,  I still think  that  owning a physical copy is still worth every penny. Watch the video and find out why.       

Short, interesting article on the value of honest criticism (both good and bad, but especially the bad).

Are we seeing a resurgence in "challenging" fiction, to compete with our new Golden Age of television and give us something that movies and TV can't? Terry McMullan over at The Guardian thinks we just might be.

 

"As the introduction of photography affected the role of painting, or as film altered the place of novels in the 20th century, new narrative forms are inevitably affecting the place and purpose of the novel. As the basic need for storytelling is catered for to a large extent by TV dramas, it may be that readers turn to the novel for something else, something new."