The 13th Apostle

                                  
‘Three souls. Two thousand years. One truth.’
…so goes the tag line for Richard and Rachael Heller’s ‘The 13th Apostle’. And trust me, that forms by far the most interesting line in the entire book. That single line right there on the cover.
The short review -
Utterly hopeless, worthless, uninteresting and uninspired work of fiction ever [...]

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Words on paper

What do the following have in common?
. A fundamentalist in Pakistan
. A girl on an island
. A girl living amid windy poplars
. A sex worker in South India
. A doomed civilization
. A tree and a sleeping woman
. Snow in a Turkish city
If you guessed it right, bravo! may you be blessed with that which is [...]

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Books books everywhere!

I’ve been tagged to write about books. I could write a hundred analogies like ‘its like asking an Eskimo to talk about ice’ and ‘its like asking Himmesh Reshammiya to talk about caps and nasal singing’ or ‘its like asking Imelda Marcos to talk about shoes’, but I think you guys get the picture, no? Enough [...]

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Confessions of a Book Lover

I’ve been asked by a lot of my friends/family on how and why I read so much, on what I intend to gain from reading those books, be it Agatha Christie or Ayn Rand, Robert Ludlum or, very recently, Haruki Murakami. I never gave a proper answer, ended the conversation with a ‘they just keep [...]

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The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime

A murder has been committed.
The murder weapon? A garden fork.
The victim? Wellington, who just happens to be a dog.
The detective? Boone. Christopher Boone.
Add all these up and what do you get? A very curious incident about a dog in the nighttime!
The book, by Mark Haddon, is a beautiful story about a 15 year old boy, [...]

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Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Jonathan Harker is a real estate agent who has to travel to the mountains of Transylvania to meet Count Dracula to discuss affairs of the latter’s latest acquisition, a rundown castle in England. Harker braves the journey, even though he has his own doubts when the innkeeper (where he stays for a bit) gives him [...]

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The Bartimaeus Trilogy

I’m no good with reviews. But once in a while you come across this amazing book or movie and it’s just very very hard to not talk about it. Very hard, indeed, to not tell people to read it or watch it. Jonathan Stroud’s Bartimaeus Trilogy may not be in the same league as J.K.Rowling’s [...]

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Helluo librorum

I’m officially out of space in my little bookshelf. I don’t find place for my precious Calvin and Hobbes’ books (their size is not quite the standard size) and I don’t like keeping books the way it’s kept above. I like them all neatly arranged, indexed and then ordered by what I read often [...]

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We the living

” Kira Arguonova entered Petrograd on the threshold of a box car. She stood straight, motionless, with the graceful indifference of a traveler on a luxurious ocean liner, with an old blue suit of faded cloth, with slender sunburned legs and no stockings. She had an old piece of plaid silk around her neck and [...]

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HG2G

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this as a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are [...]

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