I write about two kinds of books - the ones I absolutely fall in love with and the ones I hate. It is very difficult to comment on books which:
1. Leave you awestruck and you walk about with a dazed look on your face once you've finished reading.
2. Are so mediocre you feel miserable afterwards. And not because you wasted money on them but oh, the time you spent on them while there are so many other books to be read.
3. Are written by people you know. Because it is very hard to be objective and sometimes, truthful.
The following books fall in one of the three categories. Feel free to click on the titles and share your thoughts.
1. Thérése Raquin - Emile Zola
2. Theatre - Somerset Maugham
3. The Village of Stepanchikovo - Dostoyevsky
4. The Wayward Bus - Steinbeck
5. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
6. Another Gulmohar Tree - Aamer Hussain
7. Brave new World - Aldous Huxley
8. Gabriel's Gift - Hanif Kureishi
9. Going Solo - Roald Dahl
10. Carry on, Jeeves - P.G.Wodehouse
11. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
12. In the City by the Sea - Kamila Shamsie
13. Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby
14. Gifted - Nikita Lalwani
15. Boy - Roald Dahl
16. A Damsel in Distress - P.G.Wodehouse
17. Dracula - Bram Stoker
18. An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde
19. Switch Bitch - Roald Dahl
20. The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
40. The Mystic Masseur - V.S. Naipaul
41. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - Vladimir Nabakov
42. How Right You Are, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
43. The Case of the Counterfeit Eye - Erle Stanley Gardner
41. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - Vladimir Nabakov
42. How Right You Are, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
43. The Case of the Counterfeit Eye - Erle Stanley Gardner
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