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A review by janica_aira
Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan
4.0
I stumbled upon Smaller and Smaller Circles on twitter but it was about its movie adaptation. TBA Studios has uploaded it for free on Youtube! Being a fan of mystery/thriller stories, I decided to watch the adaptation and I ended up really liking it. It is rare to see a Filipino movie about Jesuit priests who are possibly looking for a serial killer. So I decided to search more about the movie aaand lucky me, it was actually based on a book by F.H. Batacan.
"That's the nature of any kind of rot. If you don't stop it, it keeps going. It will keep going until it destroys the very organism that feeds it."
There were many thoughts going through my mind while reading this book. The author was able to highlight the problems that the Philippines has been facing since time immemorial (kind of) - about the corruption in the Philippine government and its unreliable judiciary system.
The author actually wrote this book in 1996 because of anger about the
"That's the nature of any kind of rot. If you don't stop it, it keeps going. It will keep going until it destroys the very organism that feeds it."
There were many thoughts going through my mind while reading this book. The author was able to highlight the problems that the Philippines has been facing since time immemorial (kind of) - about the corruption in the Philippine government and its unreliable judiciary system.
The author actually wrote this book in 1996 because of anger about the