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Just Books: Risqué Robbins
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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you cannot expect an apostle to peer out. ". Tuesday, February 24, 2009. It has been a long time since, and my memory usually waxes dim on such subjects, or I would have whole heartedly wished to convey some notion of the manner in which Harold Robbins finds a place on my book shelf. There are two actually; Goodbye Janette. But, life isn’t celluloid, and therefore there’s hardly a chance of these ragged veterans getting back to their actual owner. Such a readi...
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Just Books: Encore & Other Thoughts
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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you cannot expect an apostle to peer out. ". Saturday, April 25, 2009. Encore and Other Thoughts. Isn’t it true that we ‘perceive’ when a thing is good, rather than ‘feel’ it? Wrote They move on hardly caring or rather ignorant of all those finely writ theories, philosophies and distinctions that have made ‘us’. They are survivors, who care nothing about our scribbling; they are the ones who show there’s life and hope outside of books! Of contemporary literatu...
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Just Books: May 2009
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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you cannot expect an apostle to peer out. ". Tuesday, May 19, 2009. There is no excusing this, and no resisting it either, after all it won the Booker you see! In fact, ‘The Man Booker Prize Winner’. Tag would alone carry this book forward, and record sales, for we Indians are suckers for recognitions and accolades (just look at. Now, the reasons attributed to its success at the Booker were that The White Tiger. And that it is a book about. 8220;Neither you no...
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Just Books: April 2011
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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you cannot expect an apostle to peer out. ". Sunday, April 3, 2011. It irk'd him to be here, he could not rest". So with Hardy and the classics being reserved for quiet summer afternoons I tried some binge reading. de Souza’s. Written on the Body. I got it issued. For two years since then, darling readers, all my expeditions to streets and shops and fairs where books are sold, have always been in the hope of finding an auld neglected edition of. There is prima...
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Just Books: January 2009
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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you cannot expect an apostle to peer out. ". Wednesday, January 28, 2009. The Triad and Other Stories. I believe I was the first person to take it out of the library! And I had a tough time reading it, not because of its theme or manner of presentation but due to the constant feeding to the brain to handle the book “carefully”! Every turning of a leaf seemed like a requiem, almost as if it were accusing me of killing it! Worse luck, Kanthapura. Now, Raja Rao.
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Just Books: My Book list
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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you cannot expect an apostle to peer out. ". 1984 ( George Orwell ). A Clockwork Orange ( Anthony Burgess ). A House for Mr Biswas ( V S Naipaul ). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ( James Joyce ). A Stone for Danny Fisher ( Harold Robbins ). A Tiger for Malgudi ( R K Narayan ). Acts of Faith ( Erich Segal ). Angels and Demons ( Dan Brown ). Animal Farm ( George Orwell ). Arzee the Dwarf ( Chandrahas Choudhury ). Atlas Shrugged ( Ayn Rand ). I Know This...
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Just Books: The Biryani Writer
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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you cannot expect an apostle to peer out. ". Saturday, June 21, 2008. We are Indians and we all like our ghar ki daal. But our predilection for mom-made food does not necessarily make us eschew the ocassional biryani. Infact we prefer having biryani most of the times! Ironically these are the people who also figure among the first buyers of his books! Reading ' first to ' criticise ' first.that sure is a deadly combination! Studying at the IIT. Was planning to...
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Just Books: The French Lieutenant's Woman
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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you cannot expect an apostle to peer out. ". Wednesday, June 1, 2011. The French Lieutenant's Woman. What else could a “helpless”, “hopeless”, and a “desperate” Victorian do? In The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Having made his decision, Charles asks Dr Grogan, “Would you have had me live a lifetime of pretence? Is our age not full enough as it is of a mealy-mouthed hypocrisy, an adulation of all that is false in our natures? Would you have me add to that? I woul...
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Just Books: Amir v/s Roark
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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you cannot expect an apostle to peer out. ". Sunday, November 9, 2008. 8220;For you, a thousand times over.”. Surely there is a great depth of pathos in those unaffected words, and in the mere raising of human love and hatred to such a power that their normal receptacles no longer contain them. Its after a long time, probably since The Strange Case of Billy Biswas. And Tuesdays with Morrie. Is a perfect example of the said category, but then there’s also...
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Just Books: February 2009
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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you cannot expect an apostle to peer out. ". Tuesday, February 24, 2009. It has been a long time since, and my memory usually waxes dim on such subjects, or I would have whole heartedly wished to convey some notion of the manner in which Harold Robbins finds a place on my book shelf. There are two actually; Goodbye Janette. But, life isn’t celluloid, and therefore there’s hardly a chance of these ragged veterans getting back to their actual owner. Such a readi...
