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SWAMI AND FRIENDS by R.K. Narayan, Book Review

Swami And Friends by R.K. Narayan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The first of the book, which contains the details of the edition, copyright owner and about publishers, I noticed this line:
First Published in 1935 by
Hamish Hamilton, London

1935! That's a very long time ago. In fact, this is the oldest book by an Indian author, I've read so far...

R. K. Narayan... Probably, the best author of all times. A classic Indian author. His imagination created a new city on the map of India - Malgudi. All his stories that place in Malgudi situated in the Madras presidency of South India...

It is story of a boy named Swami and his friends. The story does not follow a particular plot line. Over all, the story is fabulous. Very interesting and intriguing... This is more than a simple narrative of Swami's adventures - charming and entertaining as they are. by the delicate use of detail sympathetically observed, the establishes for us the child's world as the child himself sees it...

Hats off to him...

Swami is the Indian Tom Sawyer...

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TILL THE LAST BREATH by Durjoy Datta, Book Review

Till The Last Breath by Durjoy Datta
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Firstly, it is the best one could from Durjoy Datta. Maturest work by Durjoy Datta, so far...

At first, I was scared at the size of the font. It has got the tiniest font size I have ever read, the spacing was not beyond 1.0, too. To top everything else, it was 237 pages thick.

The story was so captivating that the pages just flew by.

The story deals with five characters - Arman Kashyup, Kajal Khurana, Pihu Malhotra, Dishyant Roy and Zarah Mirza. Though the whole book was of the third-person narration, every chapter is named from either of the five characters and the story is told from his point view with the third person narration - if you know what I mean.

Very exquisitely written... Best book I've read this season..


Best work of Durjoy Datta and many other best-selling Indian authors...

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A TWIST IN THE TALE by Jeffrey Archer, Book Review

A Twist in the Tale by Jeffrey Archer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A twist in the tale.. too apt for the 12 stories in the book...

Very intriguing.. The suspense of the twist at the end of each story keeps you reading..

Very well written...

Above all, Archer's language is what interests me more than anything.. his selection and usage of simple words.. the way he describe things, simply... he is the best at it..

Twist at its limit...

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LOVE, LIFE AND LUST by Pritesh Bhosale, Book Review

Love, Life And Lust by Pritesh Bhosale
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I am in a big dilemma whether to give a 2 or a 3 star rating.

First of all, I want to thrash the author. Seriously. He is such a ****. My three year old nephew speaks the better English than him!

On the very first page - acknowledgement page (i never read this page,by the way) - I was turning the page but stopped when I noticed this word. I guess not even Jesus Christ - or someone, who found the English language - will ever find out the meaning of that word, 'off course'. I ignored as a mere typing mistake. But then, it started and didnt end. There were on a average of 3 mistakes a line till the last page.

I was so outraged that I was ready to shoot the author down, for wasting my bucks.

It was hell trying to complete this book. (And ya, I have this irritating habit of not giving up books in the middle).

In some ways this book reminded me of my childhood days. When I in my second standard, we, everyone in my school, used to mistake bought and brought. The same mistake was repeated throughout the book.

I still wonder, how people like this make into publishing their book. Personally, I aspire to be a write and even send the proposals to many publishers. There isnt a reply till now. I was depressed. My book cant be any worse than this.

And I still wonder, what the editorial staff of the publishers were doing. Come on, editors edit the manuscript before publishing it right?

But at the end, the story seemed good. Maybe it is the narration which ruined everyone. I live it for you people to decide whether to read it or not...

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THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Mark Haddon, Book Review

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book is unlike anything I have read, so far...

It had won many awards like WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR, GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE, BOOK TRUST TEENAGE FICTION AWARD, etc. But the 'children' part troubled me a bit. I was not going to read a children's book. But there something, perhaps the name of the books, which provoked me to read it. So I started it and it was very hard to put the book down...

At first, this book gives the impression of a mystery story. But it is anything but mystery novel.

The novel doesn't follows a particular flow. The story is random and there is nothing particular to point out from the whole story, except for it is very informative. I mean to say it contains a lot of knowledge. The kid in the story is very weird, but the story is very interesting...

Dont mistake it to be a children's book. Entertains everyone, of every age group, equally...

Weird and interesting, at the same time...

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THREE MEN IN A BOAT by Jerome K. Jerome, Book Review

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Extremely humourous...

Like the name of the book suggests - three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - it is the story of three men - or rather, crazy men - with a dog on a boat, in Thames. They flow along the river and there are many interest bits of fact and history of the towns along the river. The travel is only just a part of the story. The best part of the story is the recollections of the funny incident author experienced in his life...

Jerome is the most ridiculous, I've read, so far....

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