i Enjoy...

Un-cut Lizard...

2010-09-04T14:59:00.000+05:30

The blurb of the books says something to the effect that a lizard plays villain in the Male leads life.... Ouch, this surely up-ed my expectations about the book.. i bought this book mainly because i had been following Amit for a long time and i liked his style... Sigh, i don't follow him anymore...Coming from an ace writer, i really had high expectations on the book... Guess that played spoil sport...

Story revolves around a journalist Abir, who is looking out for a story to give him a break... that leads him to an on the spot encounter, which is later on reveled as a mishap... in comes a girl Muneeza a victim of the said fake-encounter... Abir takes part responsibility given his involvement in her father's death... What ensues is for you to read..

Seriously, apart from an occasional jib on the Indian police system there is nothing much about the book... even the romantic angle doesn't gel well given Abir's character and Muneeza's innocence. and Amit has gone overboard in promoting his blog through the page.. any instance where internet is mentioned in the book, you can expect the blog to be mentioned somewhere near by.. Amit, Really??

Rat's Rating: 1.5/5
Two Cents: I wouldn't recommend it.. It didn't make the cut needed.

yet another book from CB types...

2010-09-03T20:57:00.000+05:30

I enjoyed Karan Bajaj's first book... umm only because though i don't remember the plot, the book as such has many memories associated with it... For instances, PK Junior and I had dissected the book and the dumbo still has a text message I sent regarding the lead character of "Keep of the grass"...

So it was more of memories associated when i picked Karan's second book "Johnny Gone Down"

Priced at Rs.99, one can say it is worth every 99 rupees you paid for it, NOT... Not a light read but not heavy either...

It is a story of a regular guy, okay not so regular, who falls into one too many wrong turns... Our Lead is Nikhil Arya who falls prey of an unseen revolution during a vacation he takes with his friend... Nikhil is an ideal character prefered by all Indian authors i.e. Chetan Bhagat kinds.. An IIT Graduate doing his post graduation in MIT and holds a job with NASA... SIGH!!! Get over with it guys... This is just way too ideal...

A vacation at Cambodia turns into a disaster and like all Heroes, our Nikhil sacrifices his passport for his friend and gets into foreign miscreants' hands... Trouble has just started baby... after two years under captivity he escapes only to become a Buddhist monk.... A Buddhist monk who falls in love with the first female he comes in contact with... correct me if i am wrong, the last i read was Buddhist monks are taught about abstinence and are taught to forgot all carnal and worldly pleasures... ahem!!

The love makes him mad that he walks out of the Monastery (is Monkery a word??) and joins a drug-gansta (yeah wtf.. don't ask me) Starts as a mere accountant and goes on to partner the drug lord and becomes a drug lord himself... meets his love again gets married and runs away again... why?? at this point i just stopped bothering... he runs away every time so that the other party will be happy, without trouble yabbity-yabbity-yab...

this time he flies to USA and finds a job as a software-game-builder... splutter-splutter-splutter... a mechanical engineer learns software codes and designs a 3D game... oh the Blasphemy!!!! oh so well he gets successful here too, only to give it up and fly down to India (oh, Mother India.. ye jo desh hai mera, swadesh hai mera)

ummm, where was i? oh yeah India... i am not even going to explain what happens in India except at the end of all, he meets his old friend from MIT, gets back his wife and kid and settles down with the huge profit he made with his 3D gaming...

Sigh... now where this ideal life... i am willing to give up my whole career to run around in the forests of Cambodia, slums of Brazil and homeless centers of Boston...

Rat's Rating: 2/5
Two Cent: Duh.. Don't even bother... if you really want to read, order via landmarkonthenet which gives away the book for mere Rs.67/-

No Woman's Land.....

2010-09-02T15:59:00.002+05:30

AS announced at Tantrumzz its gonna be a blog mela, this month here...

I don't know if it is the ideal world, but Escape by Manjula Padmanabhan is set in a world or rather a country of Men... by Men, i mean men, only men, nobody else and not even a single soul of the other gender...

let me digress a bit...

I don't know how this is remotely possible... it beats the only thing on a guys mind "women"... and progeny... ok, agreed that the book is set in future and the process of cloning is more than stabilized but still... but what ho, i am a female...

The main plot of the book is to save a girl, from the clutches of the dictator and transfer her safely to the outside nations where the existence of female gender has not been banned yet.

The three uncles, upbring their niece away from the eyes of the evil dictator and how? the palace they reside in, is beautifully described. Attention has been given to each and every molecule that constitutes the book. The lessons, the way she is brought to sense about her situation, the longing of the youngest uncle for her, and her emotions, brilliant...

the stage is set when the uncles decide to take her to the outer peripheries of the nation where she can be safe till she is deported to another nation. The youngest uncle accompanies her and the travel adventures are brilliantly spun.. the help they get, the people they meet, the drones and the desert dogs, stupendous...

Let me digress again.. the drones are genetically modified humans and have features much akin to a robot. They have one orifice, the mouth but they don't speak or feed. They don't have any other orifice, reason, why need one when they don't eat at all.. Point! They are designed to work and obey whatever is uttered by the master... may sound inhumane but sounded apt to me, especially in such an advanced future community...

The niece safely reaches the outer boundaries of the nation disguised as a guy but her features are already in the bloom... to a casual onlooker, she looks like a eunuch, a common concubine of a landlord in that area.. she experience love, betrayal, trust and mistrust in a matter of 5 days in that place.

The book ends here, leaving as in an uncertainty... What happens after that? Is she safe? Does the uncle return back to his land? What happens?

But oh well, it is left to us readers to decide i guess....

Rat's Rating: 3/5
Two Cents: Must read.. if you are a feminist, you will be frothing in anger by the end of it, for sure... If you are a chauvinist, read it for plain pleasure of what the possibilities may be in the absence of a female..

Either ways, just read... :)

The 100 Book tag...

2009-07-28T23:00:00.001+05:30

Seems BBC did this survey to "search for the nation's best-loved novel"... Lets see how many of them i have read.. a X means read :-P

Took this tag from Rockus but i followed the original here...

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien    - X
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen    - X
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams    - X
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling    - X
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee    - X
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne    - X
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell    - X
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis    - X
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë    - X
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë    - X
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger    - X
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens    - X
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott    - X
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell    - X
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling    - X
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling    - X
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling    - X
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll    - X
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez    - X
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens    - X
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl    - X
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson    - X
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen    - X
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen    - X
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald- X
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell    - X
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens    - X
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck - X
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy    - X
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth    - X
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell    - X
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden    - X
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens    - X
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman    - X
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett    - X
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett    - X
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl    - X
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding    - X
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar    - X
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy    - X
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo    - X
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett    - X
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho    - X
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer    - X
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez - X
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot - X
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie     - X

Final Score # 47 ... Not bad, i say

Love means Never to say sorry!

2009-07-10T01:15:00.000+05:30

actually i have been reading a lot but not just updating, i think...

So as usual i was scourging my collection to re-read one of them, only to get my hands on "The Love story" again (it wasn't intentional, i promise... ok may be not) if u are my friend, may be you know how i love this book... Erich Segal had been a great blessing to this world, literally...

the book is pretty slow and deals with story straight out of a typical bollywood movie... we have the rich-unspoilt(rolls her eyes)-football-jock falling for a go-lucky-not-so-rich-art-student.... the story moves on with the rich parents disapproving the pair and disinheriting our hero... he promptly disowns them too and marries our darling girl.... its a regular story with our girl falling seriously sick, alright...

but what really hooks on you onto this book is this: the jolly flow of the love between Oliver and Jennifer.... the warmth of the book lies in the dialogue between the characters... the pull is the unadulterated affection between Jenni's father and her....

And yes.. i cried, and i cry every time i finish the book.... its not because Oliver will be all alone...its not because Oliver had to leave his pride and ask his father for help... its not even because Jennifer dies.. But its the words that make me cry, every time....

And yes... Love means never to say sorry :-)

Tuesdays with Morrie

2009-02-05T14:32:00.026+05:30

Ufff..... i am finished with "Private life of an Indian prince" by Mulk Raj Anand, "The Glass Palace" by Amitav Ghosh, "The Life of Social Butterfly" by Moni Moshin, "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, "Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom, re-read "The Love Story" by Erich Segal btw the last post and now...

Talking abt "Tuesdays with Morrie".. yup i am quite late in reading this, but i am in complete love with Morrie... some words stuck to my mind

When in bed, you're dead.
Love wins.. love always wins
How can I be envious of where u are -- when I've been there myself?

Man this guy had really something to say... This is one of the books which make u stop and ponder over the point u just read...its not one of those skim-over-the-words-and-understand-it-completely type books....

One to add to ur collection and go back to it again & again..

feel good book...

2009-01-16T17:11:00.001+05:30

its not that i wasn't reading any book for the past month.. i was in a frenzy and actually read much more.. but currently i am stuck with "Private life of an Indian prince" by Mulk Raj Anand that i dont seem to be able to complete the book..

anyways this post is abt a book i read a couple of years ago.. my first ebook that i sincerely read actually...

No.. this is not a Soft Porn book nor a Chick-lit.. This is a touching story of Cannie... her life.. her love - gained and lost...

Cannie is a regular-girl-next-door, with her frame slightly on the heavier side.. she is going thru a break up with her boy friend, wen he slights her with a derogatory newspaper column which he authors... Inflamed, Cannie tried to get back at hm only to face the wall.. he takes up a new girlfriend and keeps on comparing her to Cannie, with Cannie always in d bad light... this further irks C but she finds herself pregnant... going thru a personal and work related stress, C isolates herself and later decides to have her baby without her bf's support... in btw C gets a break at Hollywood thru her script... she befriends her movie's Lead actress, who stands by her thru thick and thin...

the book continues with C getting her Baby, getting back on her ex-BF and shining as a debut script writer at Hollywood..

Call me feminist or anything.. i loved the book... i loved d way C stands up for herself.. the way she decides that she wont need her ex's help... the way she achieves her dreams..its not that C is completely brave... she has her dilemmas and confusions too.. but she overcomes them beautifully.. .

C is a complete woman... C is d epitome of womanhood...

in btw: Good in bed is d title of the column d BF authors... this is replaced by C's column at d end of the book.. a column on C's baby... :-)

Been there done that....

2008-12-04T16:14:00.000+05:30

the book by eM of The Compulsive Confessor... had been trying hard to get hold of this book for a long time.. i have been following her blog for quite some time, even before this was published... so u know my expectations naturally wud have been on the higher side...

WEll.. wat to say.. it lived upto its mark, Partially... its the story of Arshi, single-independent-with-a-sucking-job-living-a-roomy-type-of-girl.... the various guys she meets and the relationship and emotions she goes thru... Arshi trying to find herself... and trying to find a stand...

i can so so so relate myself to the book... (no not the leaving the job part).... and i sort off started liking Arshi eventhough we are polar opposites in opinions.... but towards the end it faltered a bit.. it was as if Ekta kapoor given a short notice to finish her Mega-serial and she finishes of everything in a single episode...

so much for wanting a happily-ever-after ending...

Good Vs Evil...

2008-12-04T15:40:00.000+05:30

yes.. its d story of good Vs evil.. the great battle wr ultimately good has to prevail, NOT.....

d devil enters with a stranger into this small village, Viscos... hardly 3 streets big it has sleepy ppl the youngest being Miss Chantal Prym and the oldest Berta....

the stranger offers a strange deal to the village ppl... it gets more strange when they accept and try to execute it... Chantal, who believes in the goodness of the villagers, is battling btw good and evil herself...

here not the Good but the cowardness of doing anything sinful so as to suffer is wat prevails... the fear, the helplessness, d incompetence is wat wins ultimately...

and of-course Chantal gets her share of Treasure :-)

wats d criteria for Booker Prize selection????

2008-11-17T15:27:00.001+05:30

dunno why i bought this book... i have never, repeat, never liked any of the Booker award winners... Booker nominations -yes, but winners - no... yet i picked up this book... the summary was vague and i knew that i am gonna hate this book...

but lo behold... wat ever be my aversion towards Booker Winners, i just couldn't put this book down.. cant say i loved this book, but yeah its sort of page turner...

This is a story of Balram Halwai aka Munna.. and he transforms himself from a man from Darkness to a Start-up in Blore... Here by Darkness he means his own village...

We can sense the rejection, poverty, untouchability and every other feeling attached to below PL people... i come to have a Love-Hate relationship with Munna.... i like him for his dreams but i hate him for the way he chose to build his dream castle ultimately...

Note to Self: Never! and i mean Never pick a Booker prize winning novel ever again...

of canines,reptiles and shusuks....

2008-11-11T07:40:00.000+05:30

how i would like to discuss this book with someone.... this is one of the books that caught my soul with a deth grip in so many days... not because of the dangers lurking in the mangroves; not because of my love of water and its fauna; not becuase i love adventure but because this book is a complete package....

its a story of two generations, with Kanai being the person present in both... he is a dear friend of Kusum and gets to spend time with her son Fokir too... its the un-expressed love of Nirmal for Kusum and of Fokir for Piya... its d devotion of Neelima towards Nirmal and of Moyona towards Fokir.... its d admiration of Kusum by Fokir and of Fokir by Tutul...

Nirmal show his love by joining the Revolutions of Morichjhapi... Fokir by saving Piya till his last breath against the Storm and water... Moyona how-ever ambitious is concerned about Fokir and interprets his feelings perfectly...

Kanai is a mere spectator saying us the story and sometimes witnessing it himself... we have several Kanai's in real life who are full of themselves and everytime they see a women, they strip them naked in their thoughts...

Its the story of evil and good, Dokkhin Rai and Bon-bibi... Its not who wins over but how they maintain a blalance.. Yin and Yang... Mangroves and Human settlements... Water and Land... Perfect Balance...

Its the love of Piya and Fokir... understanding each other perfectly eventhough they don't have a common language... Its the language of sea that they understand and clearly know what the other person is thinking...

Its the playfulness of river Dolphins and stalking of Tigers... its the perfect aim of the Crocodiles...

it is both revolution and social service...

A Week that was...

2008-11-04T09:27:00.001+05:30

as far as books are concerned, last week was a sort of whirlwind... Read "A Girl like Me" by Swati Kausal, re-read "Ladies Coupe" by Anita Nair, read "Casino Royale" by Ian Fleming, read a couple of MnB (ewwww.. never never again me gonna touch this series... soft porn and nothing less.. i wanna save my hormones for something else..)

A Girl Like Me: Good read... esp when u have nothing else to do and no where to go... it beautifully paints the insecurities of shifting cultures... Ann aka Annie aka Ani is forced to shift from Minnesota to Gurgoan, India.. first she finds it hard and almost decides that she doesn't want to mingle in.. but wen she actually accepts and comes to terms with India, she goes thru an array of events that's too much to handle for her... Clashes with Career-oriented single mother, not able to accept dear Momma's guy friend, a new sort-of-sibling taking her place as a daughter, memories of gone Father and much more... this book doesn't provide u solutions.. this just shows wat kids go thru wen parents are busy seeking their destiny...

i sort of pictured myself as Ani... as a daughter of a ever-transfering-never-settling-bank-staff-father life saw me changing my base every 2-3 yrs.. but i actually used that as an advantage.. i can easily blend, make friends and good-byes are not so hard for me.. i have learnt and absorbed more cultures/tradition that i am complete mish-mash, celebrating every festival in India and mixing up atleast 3 cultures and believes.. i can understand most of the Languages and speak in quite few of them... May be because mom and pop wr always there to assure me.. May be...

Ladies Coupe: re-read this book after almost six months... eventhough i dont accept everything in this Fab book, i still hold this close to my heart... Here we see a single woman, Aki aka Akila aka Akilandeswari discovering herself, hmm atleast trying to discover... 45 yrs old Aki wakes up one morning and suddenly is flooded by the desire to find herself... takes a one-way ticket to Kanyakumari inspite of her younger sister's protests... she had till now sacrificed her happiness for her family, supporting her mother,2 younger brothers and a younger sister... Right from supporting her brothers' education to marrying off her sister to letting her stay with her even after marriage to digesting the sarcastic remarks of her sister, Aki goes thru just too much...
She meets 5 other women in the train and listens to their stories... We have a Janaki, who feels insecure with her husband's Love, a Margaret, who teaches her cruel-paedophilic-arrogant husband by destroying his self esteem, a young girl Sheela, who can see thru people's inner self, a Prabha devi, who oscillates btw being docile, adventourous and ultimately settles for a mix of both after finding her wings..erm fins in water, and then we have a Marikolundhu suffering coz of several twists, turns and innumerable surprises life threw for her...
the book ends with Aki reaching out for her old love...

What disturbed me was not one thing... some how i couldn't bring myself to accept Marikolundhu, first raped by her employer's relative, she later on indulges to please both her employer and her husband in bed... i couldn't accept Janaki's want of a Man to protect her, be it a father, husband or son...

but yeah... i pray for the guts and brains of Margaret.. i want to be like her.. non-violently, teaching a great lesson to her husband and not caring a damn about what others think about her.. thats will be me...

Lets better not talk about the MnB's and u wud have already watched Casino Royale on the Silver screen..

i am presently reading Amitava Ghosh's "The Hunry Tide"... other books lined up are The Last Lecture, the Leadership Techniques of Queen Elizabeth, The White Tiger and another book by an indian author the name of which escapes me now...

Rest in next,
D Rat

With time, I bet you’ll even like it.

2008-10-12T16:34:00.000+05:30

the story revolves around Mariam and Laila.... both separated by atleast a generation but tied to each other due to the marriage to the same Devil Rasheed, who wants a son & nothing else... i cried with every thrashing inflicted upon these two ladies.... I prayed for their safety and sanity throughout the book... and hated all those chauvinistic idiots Mariam and Laila meet at every turn of their life...

Tariq, just saves the failing grace of men.... :P

this was the time i read a contionus stream of books about war ridden countries like afganistan, iran, iraq yday.... dunno why but this made me hate all Men and also the terrorists who have religion up their sleeves for all their notorius activities...

Mariam comes across as d sacrificing mother who is ready to die to save Laila and Tariq, when Laila murders Rasheed.... hated Laila when she marries Rasheed to hide her pregnancy but again who am i to blame her... it was either do or die for her....

i just pray for peace and safety for all those sisters in war ridden countries.. May i never see such a situation... Amen!!!

You’ve always been a tourist here, you just didn’t know it

2008-10-12T15:58:00.000+05:30

"For you over thousand times" - Strangely i was not touched by this statement when Hassan or Aamir said but was moved very much when Farid, the driver, who initially suspects returning home Aamir, says this when he understands Aamir...

many a times i was moved to throwing up reading the many many horrors of Taliban Regime... esp the pedophilic Assef made me close down the books many a times...

the hope in Baba, the loyalty of Hassan and the repent of Aamir is wat this book is abt...

totally loved this one.....

love n luck....

2008-10-05T16:26:00.000+05:30

you can never question the love of Indians for cricket.. even there was a time wen i got confused hockey and cricket, as our National game... Chak de India saved me....

so u have Ministers, Sadhus, Media, Papas, Chachas, Chachis, Bhais, Friends, Dogs, Cats birds in love with Cricket, with a capital C... Not shallow love but so so so much love that they talk cricket, walk cricket, eat cricket , sleep cricket and... ok ok i stop here...

But somehow our Sweet heart Zoya has no clue about the game... Blasphemous... she instead chooses to have more than clues about the cricketers, the skipper to be precise...

this chick not only has no clue about cricket but doents know about her luckiness either... it seems if she snacks with a team its bound for a victory... she roped in by the Indian Cricket team after so many mishaps..

the Skipper, Nikhil Khoda though hates this fact falls in love with Zoya dahlling... wat ensues is misunderstandings, egoes getting hurt, making up and obvious happy ending...

hmph... i am neither getting love or any luck... all d best Zoy and Nik...

of myth, history and good read...???

2008-10-05T16:23:00.001+05:30

i enjoyed reading this no matter sometimes the words went above my head...

loved both the story of Qara Koz and Jodha... yeah i chose the females... Loved the Skeleton for cheekiness and Mattress for devotion... Qara Koz for her selfishness and Jodha for being perfect and a ghost... loved Gulbadan, Khanzada Begum,Maham Anaga & Mariam-uz-Zamani no matter what....

do i sound feminist?? NOT...

the male counterparts choose to play around with these ladies and think of them as a fornicator and entertainment machines... when Akbar gets bored with Jodha,his own creation he fantasizes about Angelica/Qara Koz, even though that's incest... all the guys who come across Qara Koz have an orgasm... GUYZZZZ.... wake up....

Salim makes love to Skeleton 101 times in a single nite.... Disgusting...........

and to crown all this... the book jacket has a courtesan receiving her lover in her femaleness....

(slams her head against the table and doesnt get up again)

Love story or just lust....

2008-10-05T14:56:00.000+05:30

the counter guy at Depot recommended this book to me... this stance "read this thrice..loved the book"...

did i like the book... for once i ll choose not to reply... it was supposed to be a romance... but i digress..
it was just a 4 night stand of two married ppl.. OK one was a divorcee...

Robert meets Francesca.. both fall for the opposite's good looks and lithe body... make love, talk about their lives, separate ways, she sticking to her responsibilities and he accepting her situation.. he writes to her once, to which she never replies... he dies and leaves his precious belongings to her...

ask me and i ll put this down as yet another MnB or a Harlequin... i sensed no love or romance in there... may be to ppl back then, getting ur ashes scattered on the same place, carrying a medallion with the sweet hearts name on it or leaving everything to ur SH may come across as romance.. i DIGRESS....

may be i am just jealous.. who knows...

This is where i rant about the books i read....

2008-10-05T14:38:00.001+05:30

i Buy...
i Read..
i Blog...

in that order....