I bought a Motorola Milestone last week, and haven't stopped playing with it yet! I was dying to get hands on an Android device for ages, but none of the decent devices were availabe in India at first; and when they were available, they were either terribly over-priced or obsolete. I heard last week that [...]
I started reading Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother around 9:30ish last night. Cory gives his books away for free, under a creative commons license. I was reading the HTML version. It was so good that I literally finished the whole book at one go, at around 3am today; a fact that my eyes have been complaining [...]
I’ve been reading a lot of good stuff lately, and haven’t written about it. I have no interest in doing proper reviews right now, just want to note down my thoughts in a couple of lines (or more). So here goes: Iron Dawn, Jericho Moon by Matthew Woodring Stover As soon as I got my [...]
Jellyfish was my favourite movie from Cinefan, and it’s given me reason to believe in serendipity. You see, I had gone there without any expectations last Sunday (July 13th), and picked four movies at random to watch. The first was The Rebirth, and it was being screened in Auditorium II. I went into Auditorium III [...]
Usually, books dont’t live up to their hype; The Name of the Wind1 is a nice exception. It really is as good as people say it is. I really got into reading around 2003-2004… College was really boring, and there were still a couple of years left. Once I started reading, I couldn’t stop. I [...]
I haven’t had time to properly review the books I’ve read in the last month or so. So here I am, doing some instant reviews… Peace, by Gene Wolfe Gene Wolfe is always fun to read, even though you don’t understand what’s going on half of the time. Peace is very open-ended—you are not sure [...]
After reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled, I was prepared for all sorts of weirdness; it turns out that The Remains of the Day is a deceptively simple story. Thankfully, I hadn’t watched the movie before reading it, so could approach the book without any preconceived expectations. Stevens, the narrator, is what in literary terms you’d [...]
Having heard so much about The Lies of Locke Lamora—the most hyped fantasy book of 2006—I was reluctant to give it a try. If people like Matt Stover and George R.R. Martin (highly) recommend a book, it does build up one’s expectations. So I waited until the mass market paperback came out, and then read [...]
Note: You can read this, it’s spoiler free, the few hints at the plot are as vague I can make them. I had ordered the book online this time, so didn’t go to my favorite shop early morning to pick it up. It got delivered at 5pm—I am sure I behaved horribly yesterday till then. [...]
I may be getting a bit over-excited, having post-reading euphoria and all, but Reaper’s Gale is a just mind-blowingly amazing. But I won’t say it is the best tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen— each volume I read (or re-read) seems to be the best, until I start reading (or re-reading) the next. [...]