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C Pindimiriyam's: March 2012
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Sreya said to me, when we were discussing this article. By Maura Kelly, ‘Read the worthy’. I think I agree. Read the worthy, man. Whatever the worthy is, because I’ve spent a lot of fucking time reading the unworthy and I can tell you it comes in all shapes and sizes. The unworthy can look like a classic, it can look like a children’s book, like high-concept sci-fi and fantasy, like poetry. Would a good edit really have gone amiss with Anna Karenina? Ok, perhaps that last was not fair, but I’ve rea...
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C Pindimiriyam's: May 2012
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I made myself a promise that I would at the very least write down a list of what I'm reading, even if I don't actually write about the books. Life has been sortof taken over by revision recently, but I hope to resume this endeavour after June 6th. I suspect this is an incomplete list, but this is what I can remember off the top of my head. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck. The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi. Dragonborn: The Flaxfield Quartet Vol 1, Toby Forward. The Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny.
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C Pindimiriyam's: February 2012
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Recently, as we flew over the length of India on a pair of flights from Delhi to Mangalore, I raced through Amitav Ghosh's classic The Shadow Lines. In January, I discovered Kuvempu's collection of poems- Koneya Tene Mattu Vishwamanava Sandesha-. Heart-wrenching; but, more interestingly, its core idea finds a mirror in The Shadow Lines,. A novel written more than fifty years later. At another level- a less abstract one perhaps- The Shadow Lines. Is a novel about sacrifice. In what is easily the book'...
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C Pindimiriyam's: July 2012
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Today I sat down and read a book. Start to finish, beginning to end, I opened it and then I closed it. Except that that's not exactly how it went. For the first third of the book, I put it down every few pages, and thought. I don't know if anyone else does this. I have no idea how anyone else reads. All I. Know is how I. That is a good thing to talk about. I hate Raymond Chandler. Lastly, I'm also in the middle of a book about London, in which there is possibly the line of my month.
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C Pindimiriyam's: Why?
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In keeping with Sita. I have decided I should also keep track of what I'm reading, so that I don't just sit about only reading fantasy. I also want to read about:. D) Things that are interesting once I start reading them but would not otherwise pick up because Abercrombie rereads are too much fun. I will start putting up lists after the weekend. The name comes from Sharan. I claim no ownership. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Picture Window template. Template images by Deejpilot.
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C Pindimiriyam's: Ocean At The End of the Lane
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Ocean At The End of the Lane. Which is a book by Neil Gaiman. Most good fantasy deals with it in one way or the other: that it exists, and people who don't know this are just not cool enough to be in on it; or that it is so in your face that it's not really magic anymore. Neil Gaiman takes a third route with his latest. Why it's a Neil Gaiman book. About three quarters in, you have no idea what you're dealing with. You don't know what sort of world this is set in, you don't know if you're meant to kn...
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C Pindimiriyam's: August 2012
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A Gardener in the Wasteland. This is extracted directly from an email I wrote to a friend. Some background: "The Phule Book" is a graphic novel titled "A Gardener in the Wasteland" by a young writer/artist pair- Srividya and Aparajita. It is a retake on Phule's classic "Gulamgiri", a radical work denouncing the caste system). So, this Phule book you bought me is brilliant! But, I think the foremost reason I am not singularly drawn to graphic novels is because I am not engaged by the story. Then, today, i...
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C Pindimiriyam's: December 2013
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Factotum – Charles Bukowski. Jesus Just thinking about it makes me want to hide in a hole. Maybe that’s the point? The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz. But throughout the book there’re also meditations on the history of the Dominican Republic itself. The narrator, Oscar’s roommate, wonders whether the long shadow of General Trujillo and his fuku. Might counter the fuku. When it is most needed. Steelheart – Brandon Sanderson. Sanderson is Sanderson. He writes fun things. In this case...8217;...
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C Pindimiriyam's: Writers
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I have some lists. I will put them here when I find them. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Picture Window template. Template images by Deejpilot.
