The Keys of Hell

Well, you might know that I just finished a novel which I had bought 6 years ago if you were aware of my Facebook status's update on Tuesday. The title today is the title of the novel which I meant. 


It's a 264-page novel written by Jack Higgins who receives numerous commendations from San Francisco Chronicle, The Associated Press and etc. It's just a book with a dimension of approximately 17cm x 1.8cm x 10.5cm and a font size of 12. In conclusion, it's a relatively short story, then why I took so much time to finish it?


I bought this book when I was in Form 4 from Tesco Penang. There was a book sale with promotional price. I decided to buy it because it just cost me RM10, the attractiveness of the title as it seemed cool and my will to strengthen my English. I bought two books in total. I started to read this novel, 'The Keys of Hell'.


Within few days, I began to relinquish since I needed to search dictionary for the words which I didn't know or understand. Imagine, almost half of the page was filled with the meanings. You can imagine how poor my English was. What annoyed me was I had to find the meaning of the same word repeatedly since I forgot what I had found out last time. Then I paused to a halt. 


If I'm not mistaken, I started to read the novel again when I was taking my Diploma. Nonetheless, the same thing occurred again but I read more chapters that time. I brought this novel along when I was moving to Kuala Lumpur for Advanced Diploma's study, just in case I got bored. However, it was left at the side until the commencement of this semester. I took the initiative to find back the novel and make up my mind to finish the novel. 


I re-read the novel from the very first page because I had forgotten the story. The process was quite smooth and entertaining partly due to the story and meanings which I found out earlier. To achieve my target, I even set aside my academic text books and concentrated on my novel. Eventually, I did it on Tuesday. 


As a summary, it'll be a novel recommended by me but I think, it's not suitable for girls as the content talks about smuggling, adventure and so on. I love the adventure's parts. This is what I always look and train for. In an adventure, all you need are the courage, judgement, intelligence and so on. Thanks to this novel, I learned some techniques and skills. 


I'm looking to finish the second novel which I had bought six years ago together with this novel but I didn't bring it along. Nonetheless, this wouldn't stop me. I'll continue my e-books after I manage to catch up with my study. I think, I start to have this reading habit since the book fair with Jared and Ping. They're my real models.






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