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Ratings: 4 Stars There are books which are passionately written. This is one of them. I have always been a sucker for (super)heroes, and the thing about passionate books is that – they really crank up the heroic scenes. I was jumping with joy in quite a few of them – you really, really root […]
Read More Book Review: The Name of the WindRatings: 4 Stars Mythology has always been an integral part of my life. Having read many, many reinterpretations of Ramayana and Mahabharata – I somehow have never been tired of reading one more take on it! Percy Jackson introduced me to the Greek Mythology, and since then I have always wondered on the similarity in […]
Read More Book Review: CirceRatings: 1 Star Sam Miller shouldn’t have bothered translating this book in English. It was better if it were left untranslated in some dingy French bookstore not bothering anyone. But the deed was done. All I can glean from this book is that Europeans are brave and Indians are treacherous chickens. It actually wouldn’t have […]
Read More Book Review: Once Upon a Time in India: The Marvellous Adventures of Captain CorcoranRatings: 3 Stars The zombies induced me to pick up this book. But my felicity was short-lived as I read with great dismay that these undead men and women of refined taste, who were in constant habit of mistaking cauliflowers for brains – were thus relegated to mere furniture in the plot of this esteemed […]
Read More Book Review: Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesRatings: 5 Stars This book took me more than a year to finish. It was the damn monologue. I can’t seem to stand monologues and descriptions and references that I don’t understand unless I read the latter part of the story. At a stretch I could only read a couple of chapters before putting it […]
Read More Book Review: Oryx and CrakeRatings: 1 Star ‘Rebel Sultans’ reads like a cricket commentary, voluble but without any depth. A rat-tat-tat of facts thrown your way, a jumbled assortment of characters moving in and out of picture without leaving any mark – Pillai manages to turn an interesting epoch of history into mindless drivel. The principle problem is of […]
Read More Book Review: Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to ShivajiRatings: 5 Stars Easily, one of the best and the most important books that I have read this year. It isn’t just a biography, over its mammoth width – this book is a fine work of investigative journalism. Lobbying, Oil, Labor relations, derivatives-trading, Fracking, Capitalism – more than these ideas, it is a journey of […]
Read More Book review: Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in AmericaRatings: 4 Stars I have often glossed over news headlines like, ‘Apple releases security updates to patch two new zero-days…’ First, because I hardly understood what it meant or what its implications were given my chemical engineering and sales background. Second, it represented a world far, far away and themes far more outlandish – Russia […]
Read More Book review: This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms RaceFor one, ‘Kartikeya, the Destroyer’s son’ by Anuja Chandramouli is an incredibly engaging book, it took me under two days to finish it. The mystique of the eponymous character played its part in keeping me hooked as well as the fluid writing style that is so characteristic of Anuja. Sometimes she reminds me of C. […]
Read More Book Review: ‘Kartikeya, the Destroyer’s son’
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