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The fallen angel with burning feathers
Great Gatsby, The - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The great gatsby is certainly one famous cult book. :)

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DIRTY BUT CLEAN Pierre......
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre

@pankajphukan thank you for your rather sketchy description of my literary prowess. ah! the smell of sarcasm in the morning. isn't that refreshing? better than coffee, i presume. much of first person narrative was required reading during my MA days at JNU. though first person narrative isn't a non... creative license to shock and awe, i will concede that this isn't a good review. this was just my first reaction and never went back to edit. yet i am not against using swear words. what the f***, i deft in it perpetually. but the inability to express angst other than swearing is not a creative virtue. haven't read 'how late it was how late'. what the heck, i haven't even heard of it. saw the danny boyle interpretation but never caught the book 'trainspotting'. hated 'the god of small things'. how do i fare in your perception? a dumb bloke. i agree. at least would never be caught as a pseudo- intellectual. ''why, oh why'': really, people write as such? peace.Read More

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Resolution #I-don't-remember-and-I-don't-even-care

a year too many how old are u?? combination and permutation

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The Monk speaks after selling his Ferarri!
Who Will Cry When You Die - Robin Sharma

hahahaha.... one up and many down for it to go.

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Reviewed Daughters of the Twilight - Farida Karodia

The rainbow society and the twilight zone

‘I thought that together we could provide a small oasis of happiness’, Ma remarked, eyes brimming. Nana shook her head. ‘Not here, not in this country. It won’t be long before they’ll be back again with their dogs and their guns.’ Farida Karodia ends the poignant tale with the lines that d...Read more

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Reviewed Coriolanus - William Shakespeare

The world elsewhere: a journey.

A world elsewhere: the journey of a “lonely dragon” from “flower of warriors” to a “boy of tears” I call his life a journey and not a tragedy because Caius Martius is inherently doomed. He creates and lives in an ideal that is not real. The Rome that he serves is not the Rome that he believes...Read more

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Reviewed Great Gatsby, The - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The fallen angel with burning feathers

No work of art can be created in a vacuum. The socio-political and economical factors of the time pervades the work. Evidently “The Great Gatsby” is deeply rooted in the 1920s. Fitzgerald chronicles the age deftly in the novel. Fitzgerald dubbed the 1920s as “the jazz age”. The ban of alcohol wh...Read more

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Commented on sandy06's article

Girl@Logical thinking part-1

the delimma of the pebbles the solution according to cyclical and ofcourse temporal thinking of a insignficant non-farmer and non-woman is>>> if she is a leftist. she would forget the marbles and talk about revolution. if she is a feminist. she would pick out both the marbles and sh...ove it up the money lender's a## if she is a JNUite she would carry a white pebble in her hand and just pull out her hand still clasping the marble. depends... also on my profound stupidity at answering this problem.Read More

Reviewed Discover Your Destiny with the Monk who Sold his Ferrari - Robin Sharma

A didactic tale.

They say every once in a while you come across a book which changes your life forever. Well "The monk who sold his ferrari " is not that book. (Nor have I ever come across such a book.) The good thing about this book is that it is a didactic tale. The worst thing about this book is that it is a ...Read more

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Commented on diver's review

Life is even more beautiful!
Life Is Beautiful -Hollywood Movie

it's hard not to fall in love with roberto... character potrayed n the person too... i mean did u hear his oscar acceptance speech... he sounded like a child in a candy shop... wonderful film ofcourse...

Commented on just-did-it's review

Smirnoff Rules....
Smirnoff Vodka

and this layman used to think that vodka is just a drink. can't describe vodka with all those words that u did with. But all i can describe my lovely vodka as= a very wonderful night. hic hic hurray...

Reviewed Kite Runner, The - Khaled Hosseni

Nang and namoes (honour and pride)

I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I don’t care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran. Thus ends the narration. Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is the tale of Amir whose final act of redemptio...Read more

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Rambling...
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss

All you have is few sentences n u call that an apt review for the book. not done at all. sure it's not a john grisham (don't think i was meant to be!) but the book is good because no other book goes such a way. well the book did teach this graduation student(english) quite something. great book. bad... review.Read More

Reviewed Hitler and the Holocaust - Robert S. Wistrich

HITLER AND THE HOLOCAUST

The missinaries of christianity had said in effect : you have no right to live among us as jews. The secular rulers who followed had proclaimed : you have no right to live among us. The German Nazis had at last decreed : you have no right to live. -raul hilberg(1961) The Holocaust was aimed a...Read more

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Reviewed Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre

DIRTY BUT CLEAN Pierre......

How did it get the Booker??? Don't ask me. Ask ''Dirty But Clean'' Pierre. Every page I read I had to turn to the cover to really find whether I am really reading a Booker winner. And I kept asking myself ''why did Jesus die?''.( Jesus is a character who kills himself and our poor15 years old pr...Read more

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