Sunday, January 25, 2009

Book review: The Charlemagne Pursuit by Steve Berry

Remember Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code and other labyrinthine novels? No? Good. it's time you read Steve Berry's rollercoster history meets mystery meets finding one's father page turner, The Charlemagne Pursuit (Priced Rs 295 or USD 6)



In the style that makes settles dust fidget on chandlers, the narrative has ex-agent Cotton malone trying to find out what happned to his father who disappeared during world war 2in a submarine. In all this, lies the legend of 8th century Roman Emperor. Then there's something about nazi explorations to Antarctica. Can't get more rollicking.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Dipso Facto - Top 10 books singing the booze

Heres the collection of top ten novels in which Alchohal plays a starring role:

Devdas: 1917 by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhya
Tragic love story of a boy named Devdas. Boy meets girl, looses her then boy meets Bottle. Boy gts another girl but goes after first love. Drops down to death drunk.

Appointment in Sammara: 1931 by John O'Hara
The decline and fall of a cocktail tossing Cadillac dealer in Gibbsville, Pennesylvania

Hangover Square: 1941 by Patrick Hamilton
Borderline alchoolic with a spoilt personality fight fascism in 1930's Britain, only to bring down his own defeat.

The Lost Weekend: 1944 by Charles Jackson
Fialed writer on a 5 day bender in the streets on 1930's Manhatten, according to Amis, "The Best fictional account of alcholism I have read".

Under The Volcano: 1947 by Mlcom Lowry
The last day in the life of an alcholic ex-counsul in Mexico. Should've heeded Amis' words on mescal: "The nastiest drink I've ever drunk in my life"

The Alcoholics: 1953 by Jim Thompson
Raw thriller in which a doctor treating alcholism presides over a rouge's gallery of twisted nurses and patients.

A Fan's Notes: 1968 by Frederick Exley
Thinly disguised memoir of a promosing athelte who veers off track, changing from a drifter to DRUNKARD.

The Power And The Glory: 1969 by Grahan Greene
A 'Whisky priest' stumbles across mexico hoping for salvation, aided by some unholu sririt.

Post Office: 1971 by Charles Bukowski
Misanthropic postman with an eye for woman and horse racing stay alive so that he can stay DRUNK
Paradise: 2004 by A L Kennedy
Alcoholic woman meets alcoholic dentist. Enough to set your teeths on edge.

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