All about Rain.

Something about the Central Lending Library at Bugis allures me. For the longest time I have never really been to the library to do what I'm supposed to do. Borrow out books. For sure I have borrowed books once in awhile but only because school requires me to do research. It is the borrowing for the pure pleasure of reading. To be honest, I stopped reading avidly by Secondary school. The library soon became a place to just sit down and steal a nap or two.
*Somehow I feel that the library holds a deeper emotional attachment. One month!
But recently I came across a book by Barry Eisler in the fiction- thriller section of the library. It soon became the perfect cure to my "avoid the library unless for school" problem. This book was the perfect blend of action, suspense and gadgetry that technophobes will flinch at. Meet John Rain, protagonist of the Rain series. *I count my lucky stars you were looking for your book and i stumbled across "Hard Rain" in boredom whilst waiting for you. haha
Personally, books such as these thrilll me. I grew up wishing i was some sort of superspy fooling around with ultracool weapons and killing the baddies. This book relived my dreamy superspy days with a little more twist. John Rain is your non cliched, non stereotypical hero. He's sardonic outlook and the novel's fast pace keep the pages flying by. For once i realise i'm not skipping words because I actually want to read every single word, every single detail in the book so as not to miss anything important or non-important even.

His work as your modern samurai assassin in the backstreets of Tokyo living in the shadows sparks much interests. And yet his hardened hit man persona is softened in various parts of the novel to give him a more tender human feeling as he enjoys contradicting himself. Whenever he begins to show compassion or love, he would immediately denounce it as a weakness in his shadow life or a 'liability' which could cause him his life. Sadly, I see a little bit of John in myself (although not to the extreme that i might die). But that interests me even more.

Barry Eisler's Rain series (Rain Fall, Hard Rain & Rain storm) is definitely a good read for anyone interested in ( a) good thriller novel/s.