Tag: thriller

Let's Read James Patterson

Let's Read James Patterson

Posted July 19, 2016 by @amanhimself in Book List, Books / 0 Comments

James Patterson is  a machine when comes to writing and publishing books. For almost half a year, one or the other from his books is on New York Times Bestseller List. People read him. His books are fast paced and you can manage to read one of them while traveling to your work in day or two (assuming the distance between your work and where you live is nearly 2 hours) or if you want to accomplish reading in shorter period of time frame and some of his books are able to satisfy the demands of voracious readers. I mean the usual: the P/PC balance between the plot and its characters. I haven’t ready of his book in a long time. It has […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Luther- The Calling by Neil Cross

BOOK REVIEW: Luther- The Calling by Neil Cross

Posted July 8, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

The Calling is the first novel featuring DCI John Luther. Yes, the same Luther you saw on telly as I did, played by Idris Elba. There are so many DC’s and DCI’s the modern British Crime Fiction has produced, so why bother about this one? As usually, he is tortured and that is interesting. Aren’t all? DCI John Luther has a clearance rate of cases which is extraordinary as it is portrayed by Neil Cross in the telly series too, in the first few episodes. If you have watched the series or/are planning to, you can still read the book. The consequences of this book are what followed by the television series. It’s a prequel. The plot is simple, John […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Pimp by Shashank Gupta

BOOK REVIEW: Pimp by Shashank Gupta

Posted June 28, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

Shashank Gupta’s debut work Pimp is a psychological thriller, an engaging plot that is full of events. From the first page of this book, it starts to show signs of how a book under the category of a thriller should be developed. The protagonist who at the age of sixty, whose mind with considerable amount of wit is driven by desire and goes on to explore as one might refer to the sin of the flesh. Some might refer this to darkness of the human mind, I completely believe it’s just a part of it not entirely the darkness. The plot revolves around the protagonist and his stepmother, his passion of love and chaos. There is a unique kind of […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

BOOK REVIEW: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Posted June 24, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

This one certainly one of the most famous Agatha Christie’s crime tale. Whomsoever I am talking with about crime fiction, does bring up Agatha Christie (even if they haven’t read her). The queen of crime as they like to call her, but Hercule Poirot certainly not the king of detectives. Murder on the Orient Express is a renowned locked room mystery. A locked room mystery, if elaborated is a crime that sounds impossible to ensue. The plot starts on the famous Orient Express train that promises to take her passengers to a journey across the Europe, but is stuck somewhere in between due to heavy snow. Now this is a real incident, an experience the queen of crime has shared […]

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Crime and Punishment and Redemption

Crime and Punishment and Redemption

Posted May 31, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 8 Comments

Redemption. We all seek redemption. Most of us are seeking it from our past self for an idealistic future self in various forms. Writing Crime and Punishment for Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a creative redemption from his past and some of his brother, originally titled The Drunkards. Dostoyevsky became fond of this project and rewrote a version of it from scratch, that we take in our hands today and proudly read. From the start of the novel, the author accomplishes to decipher that the protagonist, Raskolnikov, is tortured by his own thoughts. A student, as many, poverty-stricken, plans an instantaneous murder of an old pawnbroker, thinking it will delay his poverty for few more weeks, completely ignorant of the aftermath and […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Code of Manavas by Arpit Bakshi

BOOK REVIEW: The Code of Manavas by Arpit Bakshi

Posted April 25, 2016 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, science fiction / 3 Comments

Seldom do I come across a Science Fiction book that is based completely swoops Indian Mythology. The Code of Manavas: Beyond the Realm by Arpit Bakshi is the one I recently came across that talks about Indian Mythology and Science Fiction at the same time. It’s a task that has to be stir considerably for a reader to digest the mix. There are books in which mixing mythology with fantasy/science fiction is not done with considerable amount. A reader might feel something or the other lacks. The amount of lack does create an imbalance in a reader’s mind. However, Arpit Bakshi’s book does not fails to create that imbalance. He does a good job there. The plot follows a young […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Marijuana Project by Brian Laslow

BOOK REVIEW: The Marijuana Project by Brian Laslow

Posted March 8, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 2 Comments

Yes the from title you get a hunch right? The book is about marijuana and no it is not illegal in my country to write about it, consuming might be. I am not here to discuss it, I am here to appreciate Brian Maslow’s The Marijuana Project. This book is altogether something different. Even containing the elements of thriller the because an extremely new breed and considers security(which we all crave for) in-depth. The Marijuana Project is about Sam Burnett, a security expert who has been hired by a firm that produces medical Marijuana. Sam has one simple job, to establish a secure network and an environment for the employees as well as the product to survive the daily or event based breaches. Due his religious […]

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BOOK REVIEW: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

BOOK REVIEW: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Posted January 28, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 6 Comments

When you are in mood of a quick yet not so short looking book, you can pick E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars. It is a different book I have read in a long time. It is not something you usually read neither it is written in that way. I can tell you it is a modern suspense novel. Here is some blurb: The story is about the Sinclair family. Cadence is the eldest granddaughter of the family so rich that they never mention money. Every year, the Sinclairs spend their summer on a private island, where the grandparents have built four houses for themselves and their three daughters, plus a smaller building for their cooks and cleaners. The story is about the ‘liars’,  Cadence, her […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

BOOK REVIEW: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Posted October 13, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Crime & Mystery, Reviews / 26 Comments

Another year, another bestseller. A book that will keep on turning the pages by itself. It’s The Girl on the Train, one of the most successful books of the year, fastest selling adult novel in the history, another psychological thriller, comparable to Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl as the plot is full of lies and unreliable narration. The girl on the train is Rachel, a lonely, alcoholic divorcée who rides the train to and from London each day, hoping to keep her long-suffering roommate from discovering that she’s been fired from her job. The train, cruelly, passes each day by the house where she once lived with her adored ex-husband. Rachel directs her focus a few houses down, where another young […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz

BOOK REVIEW: The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz

Posted September 25, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Crime & Mystery, Reviews / 18 Comments

“NOTE: THE LINK TO THE GIVEAWAY IS BELOW” A few critics are claiming the new addition in Stieg Larsson’s famous Millennium Trilogy, The Girl in the Spider’s Web as controversial. Written by David Lagercrantz who previously had two titles named under him: a non-fiction and a fiction, both translated in English language. Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy is a huge success worldwide and adaptions are already out there. The previous three novels are gripping, rich in thrill, and intelligent. One who has read any of the three, knows very well what I am trying to express here. And he must be excited about this new addition. There were no pre-review copies or excerpts of this novel, The Girl in the Spider’s Web. […]

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