"If you knew you were dying, what would you do?" I find this a question to be one that dives deep down our psyche and saves the real person drowning within us. One can get lost in the eddies of the mundane chores of every day. In the laughs that intersperse quietly during lunch-time banter.... Continue Reading →
Love in the Time of Cholera – Review
I recently finished reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. While he is very well-known for his work One Hundred Years of Solitude, I happened to chance this other book of his at Landmark. It has a mango-coloured cover with worn out drinking steel glasses and a stark red flowers in a concavity of... Continue Reading →
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Review
Once in a while, it's good to get yourself a ride. And if it's thrilling, that's all the more a reason to hitch one. It's been a while since I read a good crime novel. One that would have a protagonist worthy of admiration because he/she can do almost anything and a storyline that keeps... Continue Reading →
The Fountainhead – Review
Gail Wynand: “what have you been thinking these past weeks?” Howard Roark: “The principle behind which the Dean who fired me from Stanton.” “What principle?” “The thing that is destroying thins world. Actual selflessness.” “The ideal which they say does not exist?” “They are wrong. It does exist-though not in a way which they imagine.... Continue Reading →
Fight Club – Review
(FC = Fight Club) You're in office. Your boss hands you reports to analyze. You've been reading FC while you could. Your boss, your girlfriend, the coffee machine; all of them are like bees buzzing outside your head. Last night you weren't in town. No one knows that. Last night you were in town. Everyone... Continue Reading →
Wuthering Heights – Review
Once in a lifetime comes a book that stays in your mind like a bookmarked event in the sheets of time. A book that was written to leave behind an epitaph when none would come to their grave. It'll be there whether you visit it or not. It'll bear the inscriptions whether you read them... Continue Reading →
Animal Farm – Review
Month: December 2010 Book-had was reading: Animal Farm by George Orwell Review: Power corrupts, BUT absolute power corrupts absolutely. “Animal Farm” is an eloquent and thought provoking simple fable with a full 10/10 symbolic value. As Orwell himself explained, “It is a history of revolution that went wrong”. The novella can be seen as a... Continue Reading →
The Interpretation of Murder – Review
Month: September 2010 Book-Had was reading: The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld Review: The book began thus: “There is no mystery to happiness…” Well, there is no mystery in the book either. Except the reasons for even writing one that is so shallow in places where it should have been deep. The book begins... Continue Reading →
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