Book reviews..!!

[Bhargs]

okies,


my to-read list reads :-

* Shantaram (currently reading)- so far , really good. One of the International Bestsellers.

* City of Joy

* Blink

Read "The company of women" by Khushwant Singh and God, Did I repent !
Why wasn't I forewarned ?! *sigh*
Well, just not to my liking.

anyway, would be quite sometime before I can finish any of these. me in my study hols for my sem exams and needless to say , short on time

[pranav911]

dudes
what a thread!!
had thot of this long back but was not really active enuf on the net....
read "songs my mother taught me" an autobiography of marlon brando....trust me he has mentioned visits to a bihar village and the practice of untouchability....was an amzing read...
currently reading "india unbound" by gurcharan das.its an eye-opener and encyclopaedic kinda book but written in an excellent manner and is quite fast-paced.highly recommended.
does anyone like to read plays,theatre n stuff
well,am into theatre(n acting) so my reading taste is lil eclectic.

cheers
Pranav Kumar

[sonika]

Originally Posted by smilingtears

ANyway..has anybody gone thru "how opal mehta got kissed &......"??

Well.. I read it.. N my 2p abt it... If you are free and like chick-lit, its not a bad read..

[vishwas_rocky]

When I picked up this book, I thought ki it wud b a book like 'Pride and Prejudice' or 'Sense and Sensibility' types.... but it was a complete opposite of that...I found it more of a 'Devdas' type ......

Set in the early 19th century in rural England, it tells the story of Heathcliff who is an orphan and brought into the Earnshaw household ..... Hindley, son of Earnshaw despises Heathcliff coz his father is more fond of him than Hindley. Gradually love develops between Heathcliff and Catherine, young sister of Hindley. But due to circumstances and opposition of Hindley, they cannot get married and Catherine is married to Linton. Heathcliff goes somewhere and comes back after few years totally transformed and is set to take revenge from all the ppl who wronged him....

The reason i compared it to 'Devdas' is that it has the same theme of self-destruction of a person who lost his love. And here the destruction is not restricted to just himself..... he goes out to destruct everybody and anybody he comes across.... Regarded as a classic, it is very gripping novel once u get used to the language coz its written a long time ago.....

[rudraksh123]

hii dudes n dudettes.. everyone seems to be more into novels n stufff.. huh. well but i only read magazines.. DIGIT, PC QUEST, CHIP.. n also overdrive.. well boooks ..hmm yaaa jus love the book computer networks by tannenbaum.. as i love the networking subject.. he he.. cant think of any other books.. but going to read one night at call center soon.. btw this times issue of DIGIT is quite good.. they have explained some technologies like nanotubes & also IPTV.. & reviews of best MP3 players available in market..

cheers

[smilingtears]

Hi guys...!!!

It's been long since this thread has been inactive..n It's time to revive it back..

CAT fever is on..for both '06 & '07 aspirants..n everybody's hooked to read as much as they can..I would request all of you to come forward & put up your detailed reviews on everything you are reading as an improvement exercise..That Analysis will also later help us keep in mind the things we learnt from the books..

n Please..I urge you to not to put up your list of favourite books here..for that stick to books I recommend thread..Here put up your specific views on every book you are reading..its good points..bad points..strengths..weaknesses..lucidity..& most importantly language..The way you write a review expresses the way you have understood or grasped the theme of the book..& it is going to be very helpful in summarising & comprehensing skills for RC Passages..& it's anyway fun!

So get on work guys..

cheers!

[necromancer]

Has anyone read Tha Mulet of Smarkand by Jonathan Stroud??
Someone recently told me that they are better than the Harry Potter series.

[gunjan1982]

Okay... i finished reading Shantaram by Gregory david Roberts about 2 weeks back. its one of those books that make you feel that the person in perspective has had his share of more than one lives in just one lifetime ( Khushwant Singh's Autobiography was another such experience) well, Roberts is an Australian drug addict(after he breaks up with his wife), gets into armed robbery, etal and is sentenced to some 20 odd years in jail. after serving 3 years he breaks out and lands in Mumbai on a false passport. well, for the next 8 years or so he remains in Mumbai and pops in and out of multiple lives. he is a doctor at a slum( a noble act), an important part of the Underworld, very close to the top hierarchy, even shows us a glimpse in a Bollywood movie ("Paanch Paapi" - Chunkey Pandey,Kimi Katkar), for a while goes to Afghanistan to help the locals in their fight against Russian empowered tribals, runs a fake passport/visa business for the underworld, well all that is just a tip of the iceberg. also included is a first hand account of the most notorious prison in Mumbai-the Arthur Road prison.all in all a must read. Apparently a movie is being planned on the book, with Johnny Depp in the lead. www.shantaram.com is a good place to look for leads.a prequel and a sequle to shantaram is also on the cards.

[smilingtears]

Originally Posted by gunjan1982

Okay... i finished reading Shantaram by Gregory david Roberts about 2 weeks back. its one of those books that make you feel that the person in perspective has had his share of more than one lives in just one lifetime ( Khushwant Singh's Autobiography was another such experience) well, Roberts is an Australian drug addict.

Hey..thanx for rolling in...

Shantaram is one of the very talked about books..I havent read the book so far..but I had read a lot about it in anycase..I remember watching the interview of teh suthor greg roberts..n it was an eye opener in itself..Glad the first review comes up about this book..Great attempt..keep writing in..

As for me..am reading Malcolm Gladwell's Blink these days..will complete it in no time n then will put up the review..

Anybody who has read the book..?

ANyways..keep writing guys..

[LongShot]

Originally Posted by smilingtears

Hey..thanx for rolling in...

Shantaram is one of the very talked about books..I havent read the book so far..but I had read a lot about it in anycase..I remember watching the interview of teh suthor greg roberts..n it was an eye opener in itself..Glad the first review comes up about this book..Great attempt..keep writing in..

As for me..am reading Malcolm Gladwell's Blink these days..will complete it in no time n then will put up the review..

Anybody who has read the book..?

ANyways..keep writing guys..

How's Blink coming along?

Heard its a good book.....didn't have the inclination to pick it up even after reading the backflap....too lazy

I tried to read "Crypto". Its a book about code breaking, cryptology (err...obviously ) , and the like...

Too heavy for me....first book I left midway.