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Reviewed Henry V - William Shakespeare

It was set during the Hundred Years War

Sadly it is not an essential source since it was composed 150 years after the occasions portrayed and the exposition was about the English Parliament's impact on the war, which this play has nothing to do with. This is another case of why I would love to about-face and re-try those classes to pe...Read more

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Reviewed Glimpses Of Bengal - Rabindranath Tagore

Amazing selection of letters written by Mr. Tagor

The adaptation I read was around 200 pages. A portion of the letters advanced back to Tagore and are interpreted by him. Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 - the main non-European to do as such. This gathering of delightfully composed letters showcases the melodious and graceful m...Read more

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Reviewed Farewell To Arms, A - Ernest Hemingway

I would have struggled through this one

This book has a considerable measure of exceptionally shifted surveys and suppositions. Heaps of individuals cherished it, loads of individuals despised it. I can see why. It's a book that a few people will like. Manliness, overwhelming drinking, and so forth will actually interest some more tha...Read more

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Reviewed Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

“Et tu, Brute?”

These lines have frequented gatherings of people and perusers for a considerable length of time, since The Bard initially introduced the play, accepted to be in 1599, when Shakespeare would have been 35. Enlivening scenes from Roman history, this catastrophe, more than displaying a life story of...Read more

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Reviewed Chitra - Rabindranath Tagore

Chitra who's got a little problem.

This play was composed in an exquisite, idyllic mold, and the style is unique to the point that it's anything but difficult to prescribe on that premise. It was pleasant to see the message that it's more essential for a lady to be intense, keen, and balanced than excellent in a content mature en...Read more

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Reviewed Gitanjali - Rabindranath Tagore

I am already loving this book of poetry

Since I am done I wish to peruse it again.but, oh, such a large number of books thus little time. What I worship about these sonnets is that he keeps in touch with the divinity, and however many put stock in various gods, his words are all inclusive and totally transferable to one's own particul...Read more

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Reviewed Or Forever Hold Your Peace - Donna Abraham

Let's hold on this one

The story contains a considerable measure of data about the wedding customs in a normal SMRC family. It additionally incorporated a considerable measure of Malayali philosophy encompassing wedding. It was all well known to me and was very my home turf. Be that as it may, the perusing was flat...Read more

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Reviewed Uprooted - Naomi Novik

Conjured up the familiar magic of my childhood

What an extraordinary children's story. This book is a ton like The Wood that overwhelms this story, attracting you close, whispering in your ear, offering you the most enticing allurements, if just you'll be induced into it. The contrast between the two is that where The Wood is a dull, curved ...Read more

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Reviewed Be Careful What You Wish For - Jeffrey Archer

Wait a whole year before we can get the book

That is unsuitable. Like it's antecedents, Be Careful What You Wish For closures with a cliffhanger that shrewdly constrains perusers to purchase the following in the arrangement. I see what you did there Mr. Bowman. What's more, I'm not distraught by any means. Not one tiny bit. Be Careful W...Read more

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Reviewed The Alexandria Link

This book was action packed right from the get go

I had a truly hard time putting it down. I found the idea of the Old Testament being mistranslated from it's unique Hebrew and every one of the issues this would bring about on the planet between the Muslims, Christians and Jews exceptionally fascinating and it made for an incredible story. I ch...Read more

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Reviewed Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield

Absolutely amazing.

Anybody inspired by old history or military fiction basically should read "Doors of Fire." By Zeus, this is one of those books that everybody ought to peruse, paying little respect to what their most loved kind is. Steven Pressfield has a stunning present for transplanting the peruse into his pe...Read more

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Reviewed Agony And The Ecstacy, The - Irving Stone

Shocked to learn of his monumental contributions

I was stunned to learn of his grand commitments to model, paint, design and even legislative issues. In any case, I was significantly more enlivened by the amazing difficulties he overcame all through the majority of his 90 years of life. Nothing came simple. What a motivation! Here is a quote f...Read more

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Reviewed What The Body Remembers - Shauna Singh Baldwin

This may be the best Indian historical novel

For about a week and a half, I was absolutely cleared up in the realm of Roop and Satya, the two spouses of Sardarji Singh, a well off Sikh landowner who likewise acts as a designer for the British Indian government in 1940s Punjab. Through the lives of these ladies, the tale of the urgent battl...Read more

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Reviewed Grimus - Salman Rushdie

Actually a nice read book

There are such a variety of motivation behind why I will feel a book is "great". Once in a while, it's basically the composition. On the off chance that an essayist can transform an expression into something that just touches me somehow, THAT is a decent book for me. Some of the time, it's only ...Read more

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Reviewed Hungry Stones - Rabindranath Tagore

So sad and depressing

I was perusing through this I asked why the vast majority of Tagore's stories are so dismal and discouraging(yet not in an unlikable way). Upbeat endings or bright plotlines were uncommon that I nearly cheered at some that finished wonderfully. I would portray these stories as powerful. They tou...Read more

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Reviewed Gora - Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore’s Gora is a profoundly Indian book

On the off chance that Dickens is the ace of plot then Tagore is the ace of character. In spite of the fact that Gora is moderate initially, plot thickens in the center. The composition is expressive a practically wonderful in nature. Gora speaks to patriotism, Binoy intellectualism, Lalita wome...Read more

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Reviewed Master Of The Game - Sidney Sheldon

I first read this book when I was 12 years old

I don't had anything to peruse one Friday night, so obtained this from my Mum's bookshelf, without asking her. I began perusing and from the introduction onward I was totally snared! I crouched under my duvet, with a light, not able to put it down and had completed it by Sunday. I was totally me...Read more

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Reviewed Naked Face, The - Sidney Sheldon

Sheldon's first novel

The book was elegantly composed. It is basic and simple to-peruse. I should concede that I discovered it very hostile perusing the words "he was a gay person" followed by "he was cured". We ought to all know at this point homosexuality is not an infection, consequently, it's not something one ca...Read more

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Reviewed Twelve Red Herrings - Jeffrey Archer

Is exactly as the title says

A red herring is a false trail, snare that is intended to be taken, prompting to the wrong conclusion. Jeffry Archer is an ace with this style, and composed twelve short stories, each with a red herring dropped some place in it. The book gloats separating plots, and is a watchful gathering of st...Read more

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Reviewed Mahindra Gusto

Effortless machine

Strapped with a 110cc air-cooled petrol motor, the Mahindra Gusto produces 8.2PS of force and 9Nm of torque. It's a refined engine with sensible power on tap for essential city drive. Be that as it may, it's not sufficiently energetic for snappy surpassing moves. What's more, with such a variety...Read more

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