I absolutely love reading … since I don’t have any particular taste in books so can read anything from first-rate to crap but yes I am more inclined towards fiction and I don’t like anything with economics (cant afford that much brain). I also like collecting books ….hopefully when I’ll be an old granny will at least own a decent library for myself.
So day before yesterday I bought myself four books namely Andre Agassi’s Memoirs, one Daniel steel (yes I love her weepy stories) , The Host by Stephanie Meyer and another book.
I have started off with ‘The Host ‘ as I am a big fan of twilight series. In fact I have not read the first book of this series but had watched the movie and was really curious about Bella Swan and Edward Cullen ..will they won’t they. You can imagine my curiosity by the fact that I had read last one online causing enough torture on my eyes. Although sometimes I doubt if the movie caused the book to be so popular or other way round. Anyways hopefully Miss Meyer will be able to bind her readers through the second series as well J.
Lord of the Rings is one of those few movies who have done justice to the book. Though I admit not reading the book cause it was quite fat and boring. But I liked the movie
Its very difficult to live up to the expectations once the bar has been raised. And its even more difficult to write a book suitable to everyone’s taste. Somehow I feel that writers generally get type casted. There are so many examples…JK Rowling, Dan Brown, Daniel steel, Stephen King…now I cannot imagine Dan brown writing a hard core romantic novel….or Daniel steel writing a crime fiction am not sure if typecasting should be the correct word. So let’s say that generally writers mark their own comfort zone and very rarely venture out. Not that I blame them… after all they would want to sell their books with minimal risks.
Recently I had also read Marley and Me and I absolutely loved the book and according to me anyone who loves dog(who doesn’t) or has every owned one ..it’s a must read for those guys. Now I am looking forward to watch the movie hopefully it has been well turned out.
‘The Class’ by Erich Segal is one book I wish some movie is made. He masters the art of writing about the typical Harvard guys their life’s and woes . I am also a big time fan of all the Judith mcnaught’s books..no one can write those typical mushy love stories better than her. There was also this book my friend suggested ‘Randy’s Last Lecture’ which I found quite absorbing considering that it was actually his last lecture complied in a book.
Lately I have also started reading books by Indian authors and I must say that some of them are really good.. last one that I read was ‘ Everything you desire’ an account of IIM guy about campus life and his life in that campus. Leaving the technicalities aside he book is quite entertaining.
Mark Twain has some very interesting quotes about books
” A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.”
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else”
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
Anyways..that’s all from me as of now….will update soon about my reviews of The Host ………ciao
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