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Reviewed FountainHead, The - Ayn Rand

Good food for thought and soul

The FountainHead came into my life over 15 years ago and I was not ready for it.  At that time, people had told me that it was all about massive ego, and had a bunch of crazy characters in it that would screw up my mind.  I read the first page and really liked the imagery of Howard Roark standin...Read more

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Too lyrical, too sophisticated, too well written
English Patient, The - Michael Ondaatje

Hi Shuchi, Thanks for the feedback and I agree with you. If you have read the book, I would appreciate if you gave me your feedback on my opinion independent of the quality of writing. Virat

Commented on gunzi's review

Love amid War
The English Patient Movie

Hi Guneeta, I read the book recently and found it brilliant but a little too multilayered and haphazard to relish completely. I have seen the movie in parts and have memories in flashes of the scene. Your review was simple and honest and captured for me the human emotion and the brilliance of... the movie. Nice work :-)Read More

Reviewed English Patient, The - Michael Ondaatje

Too lyrical, too sophisticated, too well written

The setting of the book is a house on top of a hill in a villa in Florence, during the end of the world war II. In this setting, four people a nurse (Hana), a former thief (Caravaggio), a demolition expert (Kirpal Singh a.k.a. Kip, a Sikh from India) and a burnt man lying on a bed (The English P...Read more

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Commented on saaz_ar's review

VAGINA is NOT a Bad word!!
Vagina Monologues

Amith, this was a totally moving review. Will see the play the first chance I get. What part of the world are you in right now? I saw you wrote this review in 2003. Don't even know if my comment will reach you. Anyway, reading this review was like meeting you again. So... good meeting you. :-) ...Hope to hear from you. Love ViratRead More

Reviewed Kite Runner, The - Khaled Hosseni

Scratches the heart with a feather touch

A long time has passed since a book has moved me enough to write a review about it, and the Kite Runner moved me, though gently. This is the story of a little boy, Amir, living in Kabul; about his relation ship with his father, whom he calls Baba and with his best friend Hassan (the family se...Read more

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Commented on shantanudutta's review

Memories of Yesterday
Kite Runner, The - Khaled Hosseni

Hey Shantanu, your review is very well written, intelligent and shows a shade different from mine. It expanded my experience of the book.

Reviewed Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho

A Bold Inquiry

Eleven Minutes is based on the true life story of a former prostitute. It starts with her as an innocent school girl experiencing puppy love and its failure in childhood. This sets the tone for her successive relationships and reinforces her belief that she is doomed to fail at love. With youth,...Read more

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Reviewed Stranger, The - Albert Camus

Dark and Brilliant

(FOR THE SAKE OF THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO READ THE REVIEW AND DECIDE, WITHOUT FIRST KNOWING THE STORY, WHETHER OR NOT TO READ THE BOOK, PLEASE SKIP THIS PARAGRAPH. IF INTERESTED, PLEASE READ IT AFTER THE REST OF THE REVIEW.) The story revolves around a man whose name we never find out, hence the ...Read more

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Reviewed Old Man and the Sea, The - Ernest Hemingway

A Review that does not disclose the story

I read ‘The Old Man and the Sea’, a short book of 100 odd pages, around the year 1992. I still remember. It was in the middle of my 10th boards (I think) and I started reading it as a short break from my studies. I could not put it down. And no exaggeration, at the end of the read, I...Read more

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Reviewed The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

A Difficult But Rewarding Way of Life

The Alchemist is the story of a Spanish shepherd boy who, one night, has a dream where he sees a treasure hidden near the pyramids of Egypt and believes that he is meant to find it. I will spoil the end of the book by saying that “HE FINDS HIS TREASURE!!!” But in this book, like in l...Read more

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