a good "Dan Brown wannabe" story

The story “Smaller and Smaller Circles” is a nice crime fiction story because it really keeps the reader thinking of who the culprit is. The only thing that is disappointing is that i thought that there will be a big twist in the end like it's Father Emil who did the killings or something like that but there isn't. When they found out the suspect was, it turns out that he really was the suspect. I thought that there would be really a big twist in the end. After reading so much of Dan Brown's books, my mind was set that there will be a twist. F. H. Bacatan's way of writing is somewhat similar to Dan Brown's. But despite that disappointment, it was great.

The story has so much signs and symbols in it like the scar on Father Saenz, Father Saenz wearing a jacket before he got up with a fight with the culprit, etc. There are also some weird things in this story like the two main characters being priests, not having the element of sex in this story unlike other crime fiction story, one of the priests having a rockstar look, etc. Although these are weird elements, the author intended to put those in the story, meaning that these elements has a meaning. Maybe the main characters are priests because people think that priests don't have lives outside the church, they pray all the time, and does not leave the church. Maybe one priest has a rockstar look because people think that priests only listen to church music and gregorian chants and some other religious music and they never listen to punk rock music. I know that priests do have lives outside the church but what shocked me is that i never thought that the lives of the priests outside the church can be so extreme like solving a murder case and doing some forensic stuff. As for the passion for music, i know that priests also listen to other music but i never thought that they would listen to rock music.

The story , despite that it can be disappointing to some readers and having some weird elements, it's still a good movie. Like the movie “Seven”, the killer was never revealed until Kevin Spacey showed up. The watchers would have never guessed that he, the photographer, was the killer, but it was a good movie. The story is also like that because the killer was never revealed until they had a lead of who did the killings. Maybe it just depends on the reader if “Smaller and smaller Circles” is a good story.

It just got better

The story “Getting Better” is a great story and people who have similar problems as Karen had could really relate to it because this kind of situation happens in the real world. And most people who experience this kind of problems do what Karen did. It’s more like a guidebook for people who just had their love life messed up than a story of a person who had her love life messed up. After all, the author of this book is a written in Cosmopolitan, so maybe that’s why it reads like a guidebook so that it’s easier to relate to.

In this story there are so many scenes where they have sex. I didn’t know that it happens. For me, I don’t think what they do is right. They had a relationship and have sex all the time. The guy even proposed while having sex when it’s supposed to happen if the guy has a ring and uh.. not while having sex. Then the guy suddenly happens to have sex with his fiancé’s friend. In short, he was never serious about his fiancé. He was never serious of proposing. All he wanted was sex. Even when the girl was so irritated to the guy, they ended up having sex for the last time before they really broke up. It’s all about sex, which irritates me because I don’t think they’re doing that until they are married because I think that if they really love each other, they won’t be disrespecting themselves. If they really love each other, they can wait for the really special and right moment to have sex and I think that time would be after the marriage. It just irritates me because the look and thought of having sex with the one you love before getting married just isn’t right. But that’s just me.

Despite the sex parts in the story, I liked it. I also thought that only women can relate to this story but I was wrong. A good story for me is that I don’t get bored, and the plot’s good. It was really nice reading this and maybe what the author did of having the second person point of view tell the story is good because it’s different and it just makes the story more entertaining because it doesn’t make the story dull like other stories. These kinds of stories are either extinct or a new breed of story.

the power at the palm of HIS hands

I think sweet summer and the wedding are stories that tell the readers about some discriminations happening to women in terms of authority because in both stories, the men are the ones who are in authority (at least in sweet summer because the guy in the wedding had a stroke). The man (older brother) in the story “Sweet Summer” told his younger brother why he’s dating that ugly girl. Then he told his brother to follow him so that he can introduce his brother to the real chicks. In that story, the older brother sets his young brother’s mind to not go out with ugly girls. It’s like men tell who they should go out with. The husband in the story “The Wedding” is the bossy type who restricts his wife to go out and party. Women don’t like that much because all people want freedom but women can’t do anything because they’re afraid of their husbands.

Here in the real world, discrimination really happens. Discrimination between races, skin colors, sex, job, sickness, and even in physical appearance. Terms like “nigger”, “a man’s job” and “bitch” are all parts of discrimination. Some people don’t even know that they’re discriminating people, which is bad for them also because they might be in trouble. But in the story, the discrimination is in between men and women. Men always come far more superior than women in most stories. In most stories, they have elements like the damsel in distress and men will always rescue them.

The most simple and possible solution to discrimination that could happen is to be careful of what people say to each other.

the power at the palm of HIS hands

I think sweet summer and the wedding are stories that tell the readers about some discriminations happening to women in terms of authority because in both stories, the men are the ones who are in authority (at least in sweet summer because the guy in the wedding had a stroke). The man (older brother) in the story “Sweet Summer” told his younger brother why he’s dating that ugly girl. Then he told his brother to follow him so that he can introduce his brother to the real chicks. In that story, the older brother sets his young brother’s mind to not go out with ugly girls. It’s like men tell who they should go out with. The husband in the story “The Wedding” is the bossy type who restricts his wife to go out and party. Women don’t like that much because all people want freedom but women can’t do anything because they’re afraid of their husbands.

Here in the real world, discrimination really happens. Discrimination between races, skin colors, sex, job, sickness, and even in physical appearance. Terms like “nigger”, “a man’s job” and “bitch” are all parts of discrimination. Some people don’t even know that they’re discriminating people, which is bad for them also because they might be in trouble. But in the story, the discrimination is in between men and women. Men always come far more superior than women in most stories. In most stories, they have elements like the damsel in distress and men will always rescue them.

The most simple and possible solution to discrimination that could happen is to be careful of what people say to each other.

The tale of Wonder Woman and her new enemy: "Two Face"

I think that “The Tale of the Spinster and Peter Pan” is a story that only women may relate to because the main character here is a woman who always dreams of a perfect guy to spend their lives with. Maybe the woman was surprised with the nature of Joel because in her young teenager days, that seldom or never happen.

This incident where the guy wants something else besides companionship now frequently happens especially in bars. Women who were being persuaded by these kinds of men also frequently gives in maybe because they just want to do “it”.

I think that the things these men are doing is wrong because they remove the sacredness of having sex with the ones you love. They just do it like another hobby. I always thought that making love to another girl can only be done and is always done by married couples, who are both dedicated and loyal to each other. They do that to show their love physically. But these men who pick women in bars and these women who gives in to the persuasions of these men are sick. They only do it because they want to do it. Nothing more, nothing less. Some don’t even use condoms and stuff. They just keep doing it until they realize that they have AIDS or something then they’ll regret the things they did. But that’s them. I can’t control them not to have sex with women they never ever met before.

Most people like Joel have two faces. One face, the good face, is shown on the public to raise their popularity and maybe to be cool also. The other face, the real face, is shown only on their closest friends and relatives. Sometimes they don’t even show them. The real face can be good or bad depending on the person. Like all our presidents, they don’t show that they’re corrupt. They even let the media get the good shots like when they’re shaking hands with the poor and show it to the public. That’s “showing the good face” in action. Very few people are true to the public. That fact is so sad.

The advice I can think of to the women, who often get persuaded by men to have sex or something, is to do what the old woman in the story did. Walk out of it.

The advice I can think of to the people who has two faces, show the real you. I always see the ads on commercials to be yourself but they just don’t listen.