February 27, 2008 – 7:46 am
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (October 17, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060850523
ISBN-13: 978-0060850524
‘Brave New World’, written by Aldous Huxley, was an interesting book that gave me a very strong impression even from the first few chapters. The book starts of in a place where humans are born through machine. Experts explain the process being very efficient since it creates mass numbers of humans and can also distinguish them through different class by teaching them from very young age. Of course, they talk about babies being ‘cloned’ and therefore having multiple people with same faces and appearance as if it was nothing abnormal. Read More »
February 26, 2008 – 12:56 am
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics (March 25, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0142437344
ISBN-13: 978-0142437346
This book is an excellent read if you really have time and patience to read it. t is not a book written for simple perusing, and attempts to just read it as a story tend to be discouraging. I highly recommend it. Another interesting perspective is the mazes that the main character gradually emerges from (religion, family, patriotism, etc). Although autobiographical, the book is much more than a tale of one man’s life. It took me a short time to get into the book, so don’t be turned off right away. Read More »
February 21, 2008 – 12:08 am
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Pub. Date: October 2004
ISBN-13: 9780743273565
Sales Rank: 150
192pp
I never read this book in school and picked it up as a summer read – - so glad that I did! What a delightful nugget. How come writers don’t write like this anymore? I found myself mulling over beautiful sentences and nuanced ideas. The plot was like a steam roller – I was hooked from the start and the characters so crisp in my mind’s eye. I loved how the plot was so carefully weaved. It was fun to imagine the snippet of life in the 1920’s breezy commuter ‘burbs of Long Island.
Synopsis
Many consider The Great Gatsby the closest thing to the Great American Novel ever written. First published in 1925, it is the timeless story of Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby lives in the New York suburb of West Egg, where those with “new money” reside. Gatsby’s mansion is right across the bay from the home of his wartime love, Daisy Buchanan, pictured always in white.
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January 9, 2008 – 11:11 am
Paperback: 351 pages
Publisher: Corgi Books; New Ed edition (9 Nov 1995)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0552142352
ISBN-13: 978-0552142359
Product Dimensions: 17.7 x 10.6 x 2.5 cm
As the Discworld has grown in strength and Pratchett has added more and more characters to his milieu, it’s nice to read a book that harkens back to the series’ origins. Rincewind, the inept wizard, is reluctantly dragged out of retirement to journey to the Counterweight Continent who are asking for The Great Wizzard. Once there, he finds himself dragged into a civil war, a revolution and a theft, led by another old familiar, Cohen the Barbarian…and at the back of all this, the once tourist of Discword, Twoflower. Some people say that this book uses stereotypes too much…but Pratchett has always used those stereotypes, not only because it’s funny, but because it says something about the people we are. Rincewind is still as he should be (running away) and pulling back familiar characters into a terrific story is a sure-fire winner.
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December 5, 2007 – 10:30 pm
Hardcover: 212 pages
Publisher: IndyPublish (December 1, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1588276244
ISBN-13: 978-1588276247
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
This is one of the best book I have ever read. It’s also a fun way to learn geography! From San Fransisco, California to Allahabad, India, follow the adventures of the tranquil, exact, phlegmatic, and laconic Phileas Fogg as, for a bet, he heads around the world in eighty days with his manservant Passapartout. On the way, he rescues the wife of a dead Rajah from an untimely cremation, is pursued by a detective who thinks he is a robber, bribes the crew of the ship Henrietta to mutiny, and still manages never to show emotion! It’s a really fun book with adventure, romance, humor, and much more! A must read! Read More »