Author- Elie Wiesel / Rating - 9/10
Now if you're the type that likes the "feel good, I like to escape to a better place" kind of novel, read no further. This book will definitely not take you there. Where it takes you is into the heart of darkness, madness and the terrifying reality of human suffering.Have you ever watched a movie with a scene that made you wince? That made you actuall...
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BBC’s – The Big Read
Top 100 books chosen by viewers (re-edited and remastered from the BBC site) The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Copy this , Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Btw i think scored about 81 from both list !
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR...
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Book Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Author - Mohsin Hamid , Rating - 2.5/5
The narrative makes you feel like part of a conversation, part of a setting that is highly captivating even while being complex, which you just don't want to peel yourself away from.In a cafe in Lahore, Pakistan, the main character Changez tells an American acquaintance his life story and it is by "overhearing" this second-person telling that we learn it, ...
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What’s your dark alter ego called? (Contest)
Leave a comment with your wacky , creative and original answers and 2 lucky winners will stand a chance to win signed copies of Kieran ( my dark alter ego who writes melancholic poetry )
*Contest ends 1st August , 2010 !
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Book Review: Veronika Decides to Die
Rating 4/5
I love things that move you not because they’re sad but because they’re sweet. In this book a pretty, young woman Veronika decides to kill herself. There’s no tragedy compelling her to do so it’s just the monotony of life…There’s nothing that she feels she can do to change the growing apathy of the world we live in .Her suicide fails and she is instead sent to a mental institution ....
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