November 30, 2007 – 9:41 pm
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins; 1 edition (May 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0007149824
ISBN-13: 978-0007149827
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
One needs alot of patience to read this book. But once you complete this book its worth the slow pace. The first half of the book is very slow but if you get through the first half the next 200 pages is a delight to a reader. Lot of things are being unsolved in my mind but still its a dig that i can survive with. The first half goes on describing a fictional place in detail which could be avoided. The second half moves fastly. Its very interesting.I only would recommend the author could have skipped the canvas for 200 pages and got to the screw digging fast pace fiction. Its a worth read if you just have some patience. Read More »
November 29, 2007 – 10:23 am
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Nilgiri Press; 2nd edition (January 19, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0915132729
ISBN-13: 978-0915132720
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
I’ve read this book lot of times and am planning to read it again. It’s a wonderful book that helps me focus on what’s important in life and how I can make choices to live authentically and deliberately. Reading this book helped me to make lot of decisions and live a more healthy lifestyle. I would recommend this book to anyone who’s asking the question “What’s it all about?”.
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November 28, 2007 – 9:22 am
Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group (June 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1841493317
ISBN-13: 978-1841493312
Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.7 x 1.4 inches
I have really enjoyed Ashok Banker’s Ramayana series. In King of Ayodhya, Ravana commands Varuna to destroy Rama’s armies as a response to Hanuman’s devastation of Lanka. Varuna’s tsunami and the consequential death toll enrages Rama and he uses his brahman shakti against the god. Varuna placates Rama by offering his services to create a natural bridge of greybacks for the armies of vanars and bears to cross the ocean and reach Lanka. But Ravana’s awe-inspiring feats of sorcery- changing the very topography of Lanka as well as creating an entire race of rakshasas- exterminates vanars and bears by the thousands. Vibhisena is banished from Lanka, and joins Rama in the struggle against Ravana’s adharma. Read More »
November 27, 2007 – 4:40 am
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group (December 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1841493309
ISBN-13: 978-1841493305
This is the fifth book in the series of Ramayana by Ashok Banker. Bridge Of Rama picks up the story where we left off; Rama’s wife Sita has been kidnapped by the King of the Ausras Ravana, and taken back to his Kingdom Lanka. Rama and his allies, the vanar, are massing on the shores of the mainland hoping to find a way across the final hurdle of the ocean so they can rescue Sita. Even when the devoted Hanuman, the vanar to first recognise Rama’s inherit greatness, returns at the head of an army of countless number of his own kind, plus an additional army of Read More »
November 26, 2007 – 4:35 am
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group (April 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1841493295
ISBN-13: 978-1841493299
Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 1.2 inches
Another great book by Ashok Banker. The battle ends after 13 years with Rama securing a decisive victory. Ravana is magically revitalised by Surpankha’s return to Lanka and he immediately plants to destroy Rama. Ashok gives in a lot of details and they are really good. The descriptions of Lanka are truly extra ordinary.The character of Hanuman plays a very important role in this book. There are lot of scenes I like if i start describing then I would be letting the story away. Just go grab a copy and reader its a readers delight. Read More »