DARRENSHAN PART 1-Cirque Du Freak

hemmm, i love this so muchhh. awal mula gw tau cerita juga dari temen gw yang kebetulan juga mengoleksi beberapa kumpulan novel DARREN SHAN. gw kenal novel ini baru 2 tahun yang lalu tepatnya tahun 2010, saat itu umur gw 14 tahun-ngga penting juga gw rasa-hahaha. dan sekarang gw Tergila-gila dengan novel yang judulnya adalah nama dari penulisnya itu sendiri. awesome banget menurut gw. Bermula dari sini gw cinta segala sesuatu yang berhubungan dengan vampire. menurut gw tokoh yang satu ini memiliki karakteristik yang kuat, dan gw suka banget segala hal tentang nya. yeppy! gw berterima kasih sangattt sama temen ge yang bernama NINDYA PUTERI ARUM yang telah memperkenalkan DarrenShan yang sangat mengagumkan ini sama gw. thankyou sist!!!
sengaja gw search dengan kode "DarrenShan" dan gw terkejut tenyata ada blog office nya juga. dan gw makin terkejut pas gw liat ternyata beda banget ya covernya darren di luar sama di indonesia. bagusan yang mana? ya yang pasti bagusan cover luarnya lah. i should buy it and i really want it. REALLY! hahahaha. ngelatih bahasa inggris juga tuh. hahaha
gw punya resensi asli dari official DarrenShan nya.



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Plot Outline:

Darren Shan's an ordinary schoolboy, until he and his best friend Steve get tickets to the Cirque Du Freak, a bizarre freak show featuring such arcane performers as Hans Hands, Gertha Teeth, the Wolf Man and Rhamus Twobellies. In the midst of the ghoulish excitement, true terror raises its head when Steve recognises that one of the performers -- Mr Crepsley -- is in fact a vampire!

Steve remains after the show finishes, to confront the vampire -- but his motives are anything but ordinary! In the shadows of a crumbling theatre, a horrified Darren eavesdrops on his friend and the vampire, and is witness to a monstrous, disturbing plea.

Later, in a moment of insane daring, Darren sets out to steal the vampire's magnificent performing tarantula, an act which will have severe, tragic consequences for both Darren and Steve. Their lives will never be the same again ...

Author Notes:

I had the idea for “Cirque Du Freak” on May 8th, 1997. I was looking after one of my aunt’s children. She was shopping, the kid was asleep in the back seat of her car, and I was sitting up front with nothing to read, having forgotten to bring a book with me. Out of boredom I looked around the car and found one of the Goosebumps books. I’d never read Goosebumps, since they weren’t on sale when I was growing up. I flicked through the book, reading little bits here and there. My two observations were: (1) It wasn’t a very good book, very formulaic and easy to predict. (2) Regardless of that, I’d have probably liked the book when I was younger, since it was so full of cliffhangers and easy to read.

Then I started thinking that what the world really needed was a book that was as fun and easy to read as Goosebumps, but which had some of the darkness and depth of Stephen King. That led me to think about one of my favourite King books, Salem’s Lot, and how I used to try to scare myself when I was younger by imagining what would happen if a vampire attacked me and turned me into one of them. That set me thinking about writing a story about a boy who meets a vampire and reluctantly becomes his assistant – and a few days later I was writing the first book of The Saga of Darren Shan!!!