Book reviews..!!

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Hey guys...

We have books related threads in prep resources..which are very specific ofcourse..n this great thread "The Books I would Recommend"..but,it's more about naming the books you like..

This one calls out for the reviews..of the books you have read..liked..n disliked..We could analyse a particular book..on how it was written..its story line..your take on it n all the stuff..fiction,non fiction..new..old..any book..

If you are a voracious reader or just a beginner..You know that,when it comes to honing your language..you just can't escape reading!!So,please come up with your reviews..summaries..or whatever you feel about a particular book.Take it as a serious exercise guys..We could also discuss the main concepts of the books..

It would be fun analysing apart from helping us with our RC skills...so let's start..!!

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okay for the start..I'm just copy pasting one of my posts..cause i got to go..I'll come up with new things soon...

I have just finished reading erich segal's Doctors..
Liked it a lot..n ws a better read than love story..I mean i just dont know why I didnt like love story much in the first place..ther's a book by danielle steel "Fine things" I happened to read that before love story..mayb that's y..I kno that Fine things n others many in the league are inspired frm love story only..n original is original..but as i said..I cant help it!

As for Doctors..It ws very moving..wud hv been better if shortened a bit..The climax went too overboard n filmy..n lukd like n attempt to connect the characters of the book..the "platonic" frdship between the protagonists laura castellano n Barney livingston ws really remarkable..

But most of all i liked th character Bennet landsmann..but he ws put to n abrupt n fast end..while he ws the most promising characters of them all..I wish I cud hv more of him in the book..

I like the starting n ending lines of segal..they r quite well written..enuff to create interest..but the matter inside is not always too good..I mean,though its all very moving..emotional..but still very filmy..There r places where u expect miracles for ur favourite characters..n they dnt happen..n there r places where thz miracles happen out of the blue n sudden..

What i din like..How stories of sum of the characters were left just like that..I mean partiality towards laura n barney wsnt justified..

But all in all....I luvd reading it..parts abt barney were cool...n bennet..n okay laura too at times..n the frdship they all shared...I even liked seth lazrus..n i wantd 2 read more about lance mortimer...

A gud book..

[smilingtears]

Hurray... for thread being still there...
for nobody posting...

Come on puys...start with your book reviews...Books u read a long time back..liked..disliked...books u r reading these days..come up with ur revies about them..good or bad...

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

[puffthedragon]

Just read "Tuesdays with Morrie" and quite unlike me, finished it in a single sitting.Its one of those books u just cant put down.
The book is about Morrie, a history professor, who has been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease and is dying. A former student, Mitch, who has become a fairly well known sports writer, heard about his teacher from an interview with Ted Koppel on Nightline and decided to pay a visit. This visit soon turned into regular meetings - on Tuesdays .The story plots his declining health and at the same time charts through the wisdom of an old man.Sometimes it takes the wisdom of a dying man to make us realize that human relationships and love are more important than little trivialities we get obsessed about.
It makes u realise wht life is about and wht life is not about.
An awesome book and one of those rare ones tht can make u cry!
Happy reading...

[Dr.Cat]

me too have some book reviews but i will post after my exams.

[vishwas_rocky]

Nice to see a thread on book reviews.... If we can a thread on movie reviews then why not on book reviews.....

Anyways..nowadays m reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.... will post the review as soon as I finish it.....

Enjoy......

[smilingtears]

thanx guys..keep it up...

m busy with exams too...We'll all rock it together..once we r free..

luv n thx a lot...

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[sriks8]

I do like this thread a lot. Well, i shall be a regular here. Atleast i can rant about all the stuff i read now and then.

Puff thedragon - try reading "Five people you meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom. It's 100 times better than tuesdays with morrie. I didn't like it actually but i did like 5 ppl u meet in heaven. I'll leave it for u review it here.

the last book (or collection i should say) i read was "The origin and development of Psychoanalysis". Have less clue if it might qualify as a book. I tried finishing "Interpretation of Dreams". Its un-finishable. Freud goes into so much details and case-studies that it will take years to first read and decades to comprehend it. Atleast for me.

This book "The origin and development of Psychoanalysis" is a series of 5 lectures where Freud talks about how he came baout originating psychoanalysis. He discusses all about dream interpretation, conflict with conscience and subconscience, childhood influences, complexes briefly and with beautiful analogies. A must read for anyone even remotely interested in psychology.

[smartgal7]

hey..nice to c a thread on book reviews..i m quite a regular visitor at " some books i recommend !! "

i recently read ANGELS N DEMONS...yeh pretty late n most of u hav read it...but nevertheless posting its review..i thought i would not enjoy it but i loved the book...very intelligent n well written...the author has done some solid research..the story moves at an exciting pace but also with good attention to details..liked the part esp of the the various arguments between science n religion..must say answered some of my unanswered questions about life...going to read DA VINCI CODE soon..

keep the thread alive !!

[puffthedragon]

I havnt read tht one sriks8 and will definitely give it a try, Mitch Albom sure comes across as an author who knows wht he is writing.
and if its really tht much better than "tuesdays with morrie"(which i find quite awesome), i can imagine it must make some reading.