A twist in the Tale - Jeff Arch
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A twist in the Tale - Jeff Arch
Finished reading : Growth of the soil (markens grøde) by Knut Hamsun :?
So do I, crazy! :oops: :DQuote:
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read "the kite runner" for some weeks ago :thumbsup:
AR akka :)
mother --by maxim gorky
Just finished reading "L" by Erlend Loe. A lovely little book. :)
About to start reading The Wreath (Kransen) by Sigrid Undset, part 1 of the "Kristin Lavransdatter" trilogy.
Don Quixote de la mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
The Sky is Falling by Sidney Sheldon.
Don Quixote; :thumbsup: Crazy!
The Dark Room (dark tale indeed) and Swami & Friends by RKN.
Finished reading "All the pretty horses" and "The crossing" - Cormac McCarthy :)
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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The font or the text?
the font, amma !
its okie...i shall read it on sureka :? :)
Finished reading Robin Cook's 'Crisis'. Not as impressive as some other novels by him. But the drama in the second half maintained a tempo & continued to be thrilling till the end. A suspense is cryptically solved in the end leaving it to the reader's intelligence to elaborate.
Finished reading, The fourth hand by John Irving and Cities of the plain by Cormac Mccarthy
i just read " Dancing with the Two-Headed Tigress" by Tina Biswas, I thought it would be a light fun read, though at times there were included some really nice, pithy lucid observations that made the author moreso than the characters intriguing. The characters themselves seemed to be too unfeeling and trite, thought this is what their personality are like, it seems sad that the characters do not grow per se as they forget and move on. The mother character especially in being described as a strong personality has been degraded in the feeling department. The daughter on the whole does not learn from her mistakes truly nor does her lover do so either...they both rather just escape to each other again. The ending felt like an attempt to make a smooth circle yet it rather seemed like the ends were just bunched up and crammed into a fitting ball shape.
"The Glass Palace" is one of my favourite novels, I also liked his "Calcutta Chromosome" which albeit hestitating at first,because it seemed like a sci-fi kind of book, turned out to be entrancing. I liked lesser so his latest novel "The Hungry Tide". Could you perhaps tell me a little of "In an Antique Land" please?Quote:
Originally Posted by gaddeswarup
Finished Mother by Maxim Gorky... Read my review on the book at http://paradigmscrawl.blog.co.uk
The witch of Portobello - Paulo Coelho
classic Coelho :thumbsup:
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by carl sagan actually finished it a month ago....
A Widow for one year - John Irving :)
Are you specialising in John Irving, Vaasi? :)
(I like his books too, particularly "A prayer for Owen Meany")
Currently reading: The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
podalai anna, yes :)
Iam trying to read all his books ,,,i still have 2 or 3 books of him...
A prayer for owen meany .....i LOVE it :) thanks to my english/ religion teacher who recommended that to me :notworthy:
Finished reading: A son of the circus - John Irving
an unusual Irving book :? checked many times on the internet to make sure, that it was really written by Irving :)
currently reading : THE GOAL by eliyahu goldratt
Finished reading : A milluion littlep pieces - James Frey
Finished reading: A thousand splendid suns- khaled hosseini
Very beautiful book :(
A Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan. I did not like it as much as The Kitchen God's Wife.
Finished reading: One hundred years of solitude (by Gabriel Marques) wonder why its among the best book/ novels ever written :oops:
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Idhu enna countdown-pola poyindirukku? :PQuote:
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Have you read "Tigers on the tenth day"?
anna :rotfl: :thumbsup:
no, havnt read it yet, interesting, recommendable?
Finished reading: A passage to India -E M Foster (such a waste of time) :banghead: