Last impressive books i read was "Sacred Games" by Vikram Chandra and "The Opium Clerk" by Kunal Basu
Now plowing through Nabakov's "Lolita" steeped in literacy but also at time overwhelming
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Last impressive books i read was "Sacred Games" by Vikram Chandra and "The Opium Clerk" by Kunal Basu
Now plowing through Nabakov's "Lolita" steeped in literacy but also at time overwhelming
Hi Q, long time no see. How about a review of Sacred Games ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Querida
Hi Prabhu, yes it has been awhile, hope all is well with you :)
Well I was debating with myself of whether it was because I knew it was an indian author that I thought this book read like a movie...i was amazed how the shorter " location" scenes that were interspersed through the narrative were actually more of an exciting read than the ongoing narrative. I don't know if you or any other hubber has read this work so i'm afraid to pinpoint examples i don't want to ruin it. Overall it's a long but intriguing saga, one which the author seems to consistently keep one glued to details and switching voices, though sometimes the plot comes off as corny (or maybe that's just me) the author ties loose ends and leaves some deliciously untied...
Finished reading : The world according to Garp- John Irving :)
Finished reading Michael Crichton's 'Next'. A very intelligent novel raising very pertinent questions about modern trends in science & research.
I liked his fictitious half-chimp, Dave & the talking African grey parrot, Gerard!
He has a very casual way of writing opening windows into the social life of America- sickening scenes & practices, I find them! He weaves many opinions & information & thought-provoking posers into his narration as he takes up the various threads with such ease & clarity.
Here are some excerpts that caught my attention:
Columbia University researchers now claim to have found a sociability gene. What's next? The shyness gene? The reclusive gene? The monastic gene? How about the get-off-my-back gene?
In truth, researchers are taking adavantage of the public's lack of knowledge about how genes actually operate. No single gene controls any behavioral trait. Unfortunately, the public doesn't know that. they think there's a gene for eye colour, for height, and for hair curliness, so why not one for sociability? Geneticists will not speak out. They all sit on the boards of private companies, and are in a race to identify genes they can patent for their own profit.
Will they ever stop? Evidently not.
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How many addicts are there in this country? Christ, we got more than a million in prisons. So how many are on the streets? Twenty million? Thirty million? ..That would be like, eight or ten percent of the population...I'd bet ten percent of the American population is addicted to drugs, when you include alcohol.
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The only trouble is, nobody in this country wants to think of themselves as joiners or civilizers. Just the opposite - we're all rugged individualists. We're all rebels. We're antiestablishment. We stand out, we strike out, we do our own thing, go our own way. The herd of independent minds, somebody called it.
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..You know the public has no sympathy for these biotech companies. Public opinion polls run ninety-two percent against them. They're perceived as unscrupulous scumbags indifferent to human life. GM crops, trashing the environment. Patenting genes, grabbing up our common heritage while no one is looking. Charging thousands of dollars for drugs that cost pennies. Pretending they do research when they really don't; they just buy other people's work. Pretending they have high research costs when they spend most of their money on advertising. And then lying in the advertising.
Finished reading : The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
"In an Antique Land", "The Glass Palace" by Amitav Ghosh. Both readable and the first seemed to be a new genre (to me). It is one of the few books that I read in one sitting.
"The curious incident of the dog in the night time" by Mark Haddon :?
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