Category: Fiction

BOOK OF THE WEEK: FATHERS AND SONS

BOOK OF THE WEEK: FATHERS AND SONS

Posted October 12, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments

FATHERS AND SONS BY IVAN SERGEYEVICH TURGENEV Set in Nineteenth Century Russia, Fathers and Sons by I. S. Turgenev takes us  the estates and agricultural fields – among the rural gentry and their peasants. It portrays two different sons and fathers deal with the changes happening around them. The book starts when Arkady returns home from school with his friend Bazarov, who is  a nihilist, to the home of his father, Nicholas. His uncle Pavel also lives there. Nicholas is trying to stay with the times and has set his serfs free, but his estate has fallen into disrepair. He also has been having a relationship with a former servant, Fenichka, and has fathered a child. My experience in Russian Literature is quite […]

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A CLASH OF KINGS: A REVIEW FOR THE KINGS

A CLASH OF KINGS: A REVIEW FOR THE KINGS

Posted August 7, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments

A CLASH OF KINGS by George R. R. Martin As I read George R. R. Martin more I fall in love with his essence of writing more.  I finished A Clash of Kings in four day reading. A Song of Ice and Fire which is an ongoing series. I believe, this series is one of the deepest realms since Tolkien, with a mythology, culture, and history. When you’re reading Martin’s books, you feel you want to quit your job and everything in life, just to be at one place and read all day. I certainly enjoyed the first book, A Game of Thrones more than the second one. The pace of the book is as usual but the plotting suffers. This book really feels like the second of a series of […]

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THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE: A REVIEW

THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE: A REVIEW

Posted June 16, 2013 by @amanhimself in classics, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments

The Devil’s Disciple was written in 1896-97 by G. Bernard Shaw. The play occurs in the town of Websterbridge, New Hampshire, in 1777 during the American Revolution. The play is written in a way in which each act ends in a cliff-hanging affair. The hero acts out of unselfish idealism. Otherwise all other characters are significant and make the play a melodrama with a difference. The court-martial scene is one of the funniest scene of its kind in dramatic literature. It revolves around a General whose witty sarcasm is classy and sophisticatedly pleasing. Shaw never losses an opportunity to attack the needless destruction of war and to make of military pomp and circumstance. As I said earlier, it is a […]

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REVIEW FOR THE JAZZ: THE GREAT GATSBY

REVIEW FOR THE JAZZ: THE GREAT GATSBY

Posted June 3, 2013 by @amanhimself in classics, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments

    Review by Aman Mittal THE GREAT GATSBY by F.Scott Fitzgerald I read the book over the last weekend and spent quite a time as it length would not suggest. Some would say its a tragic love story with crime and corrupted minds. But I say its a very close resemblance to Fitzgerald’s own life, especially his struggle for his own love. That is the main theme. The story starts with Nick Carraway’s narration when he visits his cousin, Daisy. Nick, is an exceptionally mild person to the point of being dull. But through this narration framed in the thoughts of an exceedingly dull person Fitzgerald creates characters and lays out scenes that are vivid and bright and engaging. By coincidence […]

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BOOK REVIEW: DEATH BY CHOCOLATE

BOOK REVIEW: DEATH BY CHOCOLATE

Posted April 27, 2013 by @amanhimself in Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments

Death by Chocolate by Emma Walker How would you describe an angel? Do they have two white wings fastened to their bodies which glow in luminosity and a halo also luminous, over their head? Then there is a supervisor who is called, Archangel. Seriously, who believe in this stuff? Then you will have to believe in stuff about demons too. Mind you ‘demons’, not ‘devils’. Those demons who have two horns with a tail which is in control of them truly, madly and deeply. They also have their supervisor called, Elder Demon. then comesthe stuff about heaven and hell, blah blah blah and so on. Well whether you believe in those stuff or not, you can still read this book called, ‘Death […]

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APRIL BOOK OF MONTH-THE METAMORPHOSIS

APRIL BOOK OF MONTH-THE METAMORPHOSIS

Posted April 26, 2013 by @amanhimself in classics, Fiction, Reviews / 5 Comments

The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a monstrous vermin. Although Kafka wrote many stories on animals but this book is the only one where an animal is an insect.It is a tragedy but it is not an ordinary tragedy. The style and plot are simple and nothing is complex accept the fact that the a human has transformed itself to a bug. Character of Gregor Samsa is a very […]

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F IN EXAMS: A REVIEW FOR THE EXAMS

F IN EXAMS: A REVIEW FOR THE EXAMS

Posted December 14, 2012 by @amanhimself in Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments

F IN EXAMS by Richard Benson     Richard has done a hilarious job by illustrating this book. We all have faced it. THE EXAMS! The big  day for some, the doomsday for others. And we all have got grades varying from A to F though I  believe there would be less A’s and more F’s (atleast it’s there in my case). This book is highly recommended for teenagers of age group 14-17, though I read it yesterday at the   age of twenty but then I believe there is no age to read and write. If you are above the age limit I  recommended, then it will remind the days of your “exam-hood”! The book is a short collection including very real […]

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THE GIRL WHO KICKED HORNET’s NEST: A REVIEW FOR THE HACKER

THE GIRL WHO KICKED HORNET’s NEST: A REVIEW FOR THE HACKER

Posted September 3, 2012 by @amanhimself in Crime & Mystery, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments

THE GIRL WHO KICKED HORNET’s NEST by STIEG LARSSON The third and the final book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest, picks up right where The Girl Who Played With Fire left off. If you haven’t read part two, read it, don’t let spoilers spoil that for you. I loved the trilogy partly because of the “Lisabeth Salander’s” character, partly of Mikael Blomkvist(a.k.a Kalle Bastard Blomkvist) , a middle-aged journalist  who publishes Expo-like magazine called Millennium. Each book in the TRIO is related to her and is titled according to her and the consequences she faces. Salander, for me, is one of the fascinating character in modern day literature. She’s a sullen goth girl who […]

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THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU: A REVIEW FOR THE BALLS ON FIRE

THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU: A REVIEW FOR THE BALLS ON FIRE

Posted August 31, 2012 by @amanhimself in Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments

This is Where I leave You Author:Jonathan Tropper “This is where I leave you”, is a salve for every family. It was just a hitchhiker for me. A hilarious book, no doubt about it, but consist of a bit of snobbery. The novel begins when Judd Foxman is completely down in the dumps, because of the knowledge that his wife, Jen, has been unfaithful to him. Tropper has written a completely sympathetic character going through a very tough time without making him pathetic. Each person in this book, even the secondary characters, leaps off the page. Foxman clan is completely ridiculous. The Foxman siblings and their mother are a selective bunch who grow emotionally as they are brought together physically to sit Shiva […]

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Veronika Decides to Die: A Review for the MADNESS

Veronika Decides to Die: A Review for the MADNESS

Posted July 5, 2012 by @amanhimself in Books, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments

Veronika Decides to Die Author: Paulo Coelho “If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don’t know they’re crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.” The fundamental question that the author puts forth on is what madness actually is. We all seem to have ideas on what madness is, but Coelho’s book provides an answer which we all know but have a kind of fear or hesitation to implement it. But yes, what is madness? Creating our own world and choosing to live in it, without concern about other things that do not matter. That what madness is. […]

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