The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well.
So, I just finished reading Lauren Oliver's, Delirium─the first installment off the Delirium Trilogy─last night. Honestly, I was a bit hesitant to pick it that I stalled quite a time before I finally decided to start reading it and I didn't really understand why. Until now I am actually asking myself why did I ever put it off, nearly rotting (of course, I'm exaggerating. I don't do that to my books!) just sitting in my bookshelf for months because as it turned out it was such a great book! No, scratch that. It was outstandingly outstanding!
It was something like I have had never read before and I thought I am now infected, not with amor deliria nervosa; but with the "Delirium fever!" I am hooked! :D
It was that awesome of a read that it had been twenty-four-hours now and I hadn't moved on with the ending yetttt! I could not move on! How could I? When I am still feeling like grieving? When I feel like bawling my eyes out all over again whenever I saw my copy of the book! No kidding, I can not move on to Pandemonium yet because I feel like I haven't grieved enough for Alex's death, like I don't want to part ways with his character yet! Oh this is all Lauren Oliver's fault! Lol.
Seriously. How could one write a book so beautifully that even the most heartbreaking of all the heartbreaking endings sounded─seemed─just right and perfect and well, beautiful! It's just so unfair! I am now a fan of Ms. Oliver! :)
If there is one thing that I learned out of this book though is that not everything the government or people who are in the authority says is always right. Or the truth. And that, just because some things are kind of become a norm don't mean we will just keep believing and doing it. Sometimes, err, a lot of times, we must ponder and see right through every things they say, every rules they implement and every action they take. In other words, we must be the captain of our own lives. As what Lena had said,
I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point─the only point─is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and refuse to let them go.
I highly recommend this book for you to read! I promise it is worth your every cent and every seconds of your time. Oh and hey, spread the deliria! :)
Infected with amor deliria nervosa and has no plan of getting cured,
PS. I heard the book is being filmed now into a series and is currently one of Fox TV's wildcard contenders (as of this writing, anyway) to season pilot so I really hope they get to pick it!! That would be so dope!! :))))