Bob Ong Updates and Other Trivia

ABNKKBSNPLAko?!
Bakit Baliktad Magbasa ng Libro ang mga Pilipino?
Ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas
Alamat ng Gubat
Stainless Longganisa
Macarthur

Credit these no-nonsense, pinoy na pinoy pieces of literary genius to the man named BOB ONG, the famous author nobody really knows.

Now, I wouldn't dwell much on the facts and details about the identity of our beloved writer as I know that so many articles in print and even in the internet have already been made for him and about him.

Ruel De Vera, in his Sunday Inquirer Magazine titled, The mystery begins with his name-Bob Ong (not his real name) on July 2006, describes Bob Ong as, "the mass-market mystery man, a publishing phenomenon whose blockbuster book sales are equaled only by the anonymity he maintains. He is Bob Ong—not his real name—the most unusual best-selling Filipino author you’ve never met."
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Click here to read De Vera's complete article
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The phenomenon that is Bob Ong may very well be attributed to where it all began- the now inexisting bobongpinoy.com.

The following FAQs provide details about bobongpinoy:

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Q: Ano ang Bobong Pinoy?
A: Ang Bobong Pinoy ay website ni BO, itinatag pagkaupo ng ikalabing-tatlong presidente ng Pilipinas, at binuwag matapos ang pagbaba ng nasabing pinuno sa trono. Kasalukuyan ito ngayong pinagkukutaan ng mga kapaki-pakinabang na tambay ng Pilipinas sa pamumuno ni Osama Bin Laden.

Q: Wala na ba kayong archive o mga natatagong articles ng BP na maaaring mabasa?
A: Meron. "Bakit Baliktad Magbasa ng Libro ang mga Pilipino?"

Q: Bakit ayaw mong... este, ni BO pala, ibalik ang website na Bobong Pinoy?
A: Napakaraming dahilan.

Q: Bakit isinama mo pa sa FAQ na 'to ang tanong sa itaas e hindi mo rin naman pala sasagutin?A: Pamparami
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10 years after bobongpinoy was birthed out; and after six successful books, all selling like hot pan de sal, Bob Ong followers are now craving for book seven (and maybe by now, stakes are high as to what would book 7's cover page color be).

A credible source confirmed that Book 7, another Fiction, will soon be released hopefully by October 2008. And if plans will push thru, Books 8 & 9 will still be Fiction, then the 10th may be non-fiction.

As previously stated, as much as followers are craving for the latest BO book, they are also on the watch as to what would be the color of the cover page this time.

And just in case some don't know about this color-coding schemes on BO's books, some pieces of trivia are posted at visprint's (BO books' publisher), website:

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Galing sa mga mambabasa ang nickname ng mga libro: Green book ang ABNKKBSNPLAko?! (book1); Yellow book ang Bakit Baliktad Magbasa ng Libro ang mga Pilipino? (book2); Black book ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas (book3); Orange book ang Alamat ng Gubat (book4); at White book ang Stainless Longganisa (book5).

Dilaw ang Bakit Baliktad Magbasa ng Libro ang mga Pilipino? dahil spoof sana ng "For Dummies" book series ang cover nito. Pero nag-evolve ang konsepto kalaunan hanggang sa nagmukha na lang itong...um, dilaw na libro.

Peksman! Talagang sina Dan Brown at JK Rowling ang nagsabi ng review na nasa likuran ng ikalimang libro.

Ipinasa ni BO sa editor ang unang libro bilang "ABNKKBSNPLAko!?" pero naipasa ito ng editor sa publisher bilang "ABNKKBSNPLAko?!". (Spot the difference.)

Isinulat ni BO ang ikalawang libro at ilan pang mga tula habang nasa piitan s'ya noong taong 1962 hanggang 2001. (Halata bang nauubusan na tayo ng trivia?)

the complete trivia here
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10 years and counting.

The then bobongpinoy.com might have, for some reasons, failed to resurrect in this time when we are again faced with the same situation when it first began-the nation in political crisis, with the highest person in-charge in question as to her capability to drive the course of the nation in its proper destiny, but Bob Ong's books will continually inspire the Filipino to prove the fact that the Pinoy is not bobo after all.