Book Review: ‘Snuff’ by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Paperback Published by: Doubleday Pages: 208 ISBN: 9780385517881 Price: 499 INR Warning: This review broaches vivid pornography, a topic that might not be everyone’s piece of cake. Delicacy on the subject isn’t something you will find here. Drug addiction and alcoholism are topics where one can see a lot of novels and essays written...
Book Review: ‘Guts’ by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: e-Book (short story) (http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts) Warning: This review broaches masturbation, a topic that might not be everyone’s piece of cake. Delicacy on the subject isn’t something you will find here. Masturbating has never been put this horrifyingly. Or disgustingly. Or brilliantly. Yes, this is not for the squeamish, it’s disturbing to read. Rumour has it...
Book Review: ‘The Spectacular Now’ by Tim Tharp
Format: Paperback Published by: Knopf Books ISBN: 9780375851797 Pages: 304 Price: 399 INR How we met: I chanced upon the enchanting trailer for the Sundance entry of last year, and eagerly waited for the movie to release worldwide. After I saw and was bamboozled by the film, I managed to get my hands on the...
Interview: Deepak Kripal, author of ‘The Devil’s Gate’
Q. You see, while largely unheard of, the concept of a dog and cat going on a mission, is generally something you chance upon in a television. Probably on Cartoon Network these days. So, what was the idea behind this debut venture of yours? Well, the story is not about a cat and dog going...
Book Review: ‘Ten Thousand Saints’ by Eleanor Henderson
Published by: Quercus ISBN: 9781780872179 Format: Paperback Pages: 400 Price: 350 INR ‘Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every impulse and desire… fierce, devoted and elegiac.’ – The New York Times Book Review A New York Times Book of the Year is an extremely rare thing to...
Book Review: ‘Hover Car Racer’ by Matthew Reilly
Format: Paperback Published by: Macmillan Pages: 434 ISBN: 9780330440165 Price: 535 INR ‘Quidditch meets Formula One’ – Mirror In his younger years, Matthew Reilly began to develop a writing style of sorts that would thrill audience later on, in ‘Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves’, ‘The Five Greatest Warriors’ and, at times, even ‘Temple’. While...
Book Review: ‘There is no Dog’ by Meg Rosoff
Format: Paperback Published by: Penguin Pages: 243 ISBN: 9780141327174 Price: 350 INR ‘A wild, wise, cartwheeling explanation of life, the universe and everything. Given the glorious, eccentric, spectacular cock-up that is Planet Earth, the Creator can only have been a slack, male adolescent with a short attention span and an unruly sex organ. I don’t...
Book Review: ‘Tales of Freedom’ by Ben Okri
Format: Paperback Pages: 177 ISBN: 9781846041594 Price: 350 INR “Moments of genuine poetry and insight.” – Guardian From the Booker prize-winning author of ‘The Famished Road’ comes a book that both delights and puzzles the readers. Ben Okri, in this book, develops a supposedly new form of writing known as the stokus. He brings together...
Book Review: ‘Desperation’ by Stephen King
Format: Hardcover Published by: Viking Adult Pages: 704 ISBN: 9780451188465 Price: 1770 INR Published in 1996, ‘Desperation’ by Stephen King is an intriguing story about several who, while travelling along the lonely Interstate 50, along the way to Nevada, are abducted and taken to a nearby town. With a deceptive name like Desperation, the town is home...
Book Review: ‘Dragon Rider’ by Cornelia Funke
Publisher: Turtleback Books ISBN: 9781904442486 Format: Hardcover Price: 350 INR Pages: 560 “Marvellous stuff for dreaming adventurers of any age.” – Clive Barker Winner of the Grand Canyon Reader Award for Intermediate Book in 2007, Cornelia Funke has created a beautiful world inside her second novel ‘Dragon Rider’. Remember that warm feeling you acquire upon...
Book Review: ‘Darkhenge’ by Catherine Fisher
Format: Paperback Published by: Definitions Pages: 314 ISBN: 9780099438496 Price: 735 INR “Darkhenge is the finest young adult novel I have read for quite a while: thrilling and subtle, intensely lyrical and psychologically profound.” -Writeaway For quite a many weeks after buying ‘Darkhenge‘ by Catherine Fisher, it offered me no respite in its slow reading....
Book Review: ‘Darkside’ by Tom Becker
Format: Paperback Published by: Scholastic Pages: 242 ISBN: 9780439944366 Price: 250 INR Winner of the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2007, ‘Darkside‘ by Tom Becker holds a special place for me due to the umpteen number of times I’d read it when I was in high school. With a brilliantly illustrated cover and an engaging story right...