Archive for June 2010
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Treasure - a thriller
Title: Treasue
Author: Clive Cussler
Clive Cussler is good if the not the best when it comes to thriller novels and his book ‘Treasure’ (1988) is a proof for the same. The story moves around the protagonist Dirk Pitt (a major with USAF on loan to NUMA),starting in 391A.D; when groups of Romans lead by Junius Venator […]
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A Chinese story
Title: The Good Earth
Author: Pearl.S.Buck
Publishers: Pocket Books
‘The Good Earth’ written by Pearl.S.Buck is an age-old classic based in China. It is one of the prominent novels of English Literature written by world’s renowned classical author.
Simple story
The story is about a servant girl O-Lan, at the house of Hwang, who gets married to the farmer Wang […]
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Novel for all times
Title: Crime and Punishment
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Over the past decades Russian authors have contributed to literature immensely, and one of those pieces of literature which has attained a cult status over the years is Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
The story is set in St. Petersburg, Russia in the middle of the 19th century, during their […]
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Thrilling series
Those who have read the first three books in the series: Marked, Choosedn and Betrayed, know what I am talking of. Well the next three books in the series are as exciting as the previous one and perhaps even more. However they aren’t worth a buy and it is better to borrow the book from […]
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V for vendetta
Title: SIX GRAVES TO MUNICH
Author: Mario Puzo
Publisher: Maclehose Press, Quercus
World War II. American intelligence agent Michael Rogan and his pregnant wife are being tortured under the custody of seven Gestapo officers. As Germany faces defeat, Rogan is shot; they thought that he is dead. Ten years and a skull-repair surgery later, he returns to […]
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A good read
Title: The Land of Green Plums
Author : Herta Müller
In Herta Müller’s book, behind the back-pains, I read: Nothing.Don’t take me wrong, The Land of Green Plums – recommended to me as the second best of the 2009 Nobel prize winner’s books and the best among those translated into English – is a beautiful book, in […]
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A winsome piece, a soulful journey
Title: The Last Song
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Seventeen year old Ronnie, short for Veronica, after a lot of protests, agrees to visit her father for summer. Ronnie behaves like any other teenager, rebellious, adamant and stubborn. When her dad walked out on them 3 years ago, she decides never to talk to him again and being the […]
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Into the mind of the murderer
Title: The Murder Room
Author: P.D. James
I have read many books on crime fiction. They usually deal with an amazing human brain that uses its extraordinary ingenious grey cells in catching the murderer.
But P.D.James takes us more deeply into the motive and the mind behind a crime. Her novels, especially her Adam Dalgleish mysteries do not […]
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For Jeffrey Archer fans
Title: Jeffrey Archer
Author: A Prisoner of Birth
A Prisoner of Birth, considered as one of the latest and powerful works of JeffreyArcher, begins with an age old trial scene ,where Daniel Arthur Cartwright a fine young man in his 20’s is wrongly charged for the murder of his best friend Bernie Wilson .While the prosecution witnesses […]
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Revelation of life’s meaning, after death
Title: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Author: Mitch Albom
The answer to the eternally lingering question, ‘Why am I here?’ is postulated to be answered in the afterlife saga – set in the backdrop of the hyperspace medium, most famously called Heaven. The perceptively enlightening book, The five people you meet in heaven by the […]
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