Friday, May 28, 2010

The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis


The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis is a book you will enjoy reading. Story is set in 1970s. !960 are considered to be the era which launched the sexual revolution, and which affected the lives of each and every person in the west born after the secone world war.

Martin Amis, in the book "The Pregnant Widow", plots the long summer holiday at a a castle in Italy where six young people are vacationing in 1970. Then happen a tragicomedy of events.



All the six persons are trapped in the history of 1960s sexual revolution, where girls are acting as boys and boys continue to act like. The main character Keith Nearing is a 20 years old guy who is a literature student all bunged up with the English novel and is struggling to twist feminism and the rise of women towards his own ends. "The Pregnant Widow" is a brilliant work by Martin Amis

Monday, May 24, 2010

The Immortals Of Meluha by Amish Tripathi

John commented about this book on my World travel information blog, the blog post was to Mani Mahesh Yatra. John's description of the book motivated me and created an interest in the book. The book is on story of Lord Shiva and according to John the prankier and lighter side of Shiva is also pretty evident in the book and entertains us throughout.

Summary:

The legend of Shiva the man is told as a gripping fantasy in which Hindu myths are interpreted from a unique perspective and which explores philosophies such as the many versions of reality, karma, the character of societies, nature of evil and duality. A fast moving action narrative in which we also learn of the origin of the Brahmins, the magical anti-ageing drink Somras (with modern-research backed support of its efficacy), the concepts of Vishnu and others. Somewhere in an attempt to find the right answers, we forget the more important task of asking the right questions. At the end of the first book, Shiva is asking the right question - in fact the most crucial one: "What is evil?" And on his interpretation of the answer and in the very duality of life, hangs the fate of India. The Immortals of Meluha can be classified as a Mythological Fantasy. The Immortals of Meluha is – The Story of Shiva, the simple man, whose Karma recast him as our Mahadev (The God of Gods).

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The Da Vinci Code - Separating Fact from Fiction


The book "The Da Vinci Code - Separating Fact from Fiction " was released in 2003 (March). This book by Dan Brown was a bestseller and it took very less time to make it to The NY Times besteller list. Book was equally popular in different parts of the world and you can realise this from the fact that the book was listed in the bestseller list of more than 150 countries.


In the book author highly claims to have giventhe world a fictional, fact-based conspiracy theory alleging “scientific evidence that theNew Testament is false testimony” (p.341.


I am not sure how many people will ask a question abou the title of the book. The title the Vinci code is takes from the fact that Leonardo Da Vinci , Isaac Newton and Victor Hugo all were member of a secret society whic was entrusted with the truth about Jesus Christ. The secret of this group (The Priory of Sion) is that Jesus had a daughter by Mary Magdalene, who according to the Priory, was the true Holy Grail who bore the royal bloodline of Jesus on earth.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Rabindranath Tagore - Books by Tagore

When Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Nobel Prize in Literature he was the first Asian to achieve that glory. And from that time till now he is the source of inspiration for writers around the wolrd. There is no doubt he will remain a source of inspiration in future also.

Rabindranath Tagore was a great writer. He is more famouse as a poet, playwrighter, essay writer, and stories (eight novels, four novellas and numerous short stories). 'Naivedya' (1901) and 'Kheya' (1906) - culminating with 'Gitanjali: Song Offerings' in 1912 that helped him win the Nobel Prize a year later. Talking about the charm of 'Gitanjali', W.B. Yeats wrote: 'These prose translations have stirred my blood as nothing has for years.'

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Avatar movie script - free ebook Avatar script

I missed to add the novel Avatar in the list of All time best Novels list. Most of you must have watch the popular movie Avatar and if you are fan of the movie then the book Avatar is a must read for you. It contains the script of the movie Avatar.

Avatar is a sci-fi American film written and directed by James Cameron. Star cast of the movie includes: Sam Worthington, Zoe SaldaƱa, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang. The plot of the movies is in the year 2154 and central location is Pandora, an inhabited Earth-sized moon of Polyphemus, one of the three fictional gas giants orbiting Alpha Centauri A. Humans are engaged in mining Pandora's reserves of a precious mineral, while the na'vi the sapient race of humanoids indigenous to the moon resist the colonists' expansion, which threatens the continued existence of the na'vi and the destruction of the Pandoran ecosystem. The film's title refers to the remotely controlled, genetically engineered human-na'vi bodies used by the film's human characters to interact with the natives.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

All time best Novels - Best Seller novels that one must read

Hi All,

In this post I am not giving you any review for a book, novel etc, but posting a list of my all time favorite novels that I enjoyed reading and also recommend them to other people who asked me for whick novel to read. Few of them I've also gifted sometimes.

Thus I hope these novels will serve multiple purposes for all of you .

All time best seller novels:

  1. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  3. 1984 by George Orwell
  4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  5. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
  6. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  7. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  8. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  9. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  10. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  11. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  12. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  13. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
  14. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  15. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  16. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  17. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  18. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  19. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  20. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  21. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde